Functions
General and special functions used throughout this book
| Functions | Connotation |
| 2F1 (·, ·; ·; ·) | Gauss hypergeometric function |
| nFm | generalized hypergeometric function |
| δ(·) | Dirac delta function |
| Γ(·) | complete gamma function |
| γ(·, ·) | lower incomplete gamma function |
| ϕ(·) | moment generating function |
| ψ(·) | Doppler (power) spectrum |
| ψ(·, ·; ·) | Tricomi confluent hypergeometric function |
 (·) |
expectation |
| Ei(·) | exponential integral |
| F(·) | cumulative distribution function |
 {·} |
Fourier transform |
| −1 {·} |
inverse Fourier transform |
| G(·|:) | Meijer G function |
| Iν(·) | νth order modified Bessel function of the first kind |
| Jν(·) | νth order Bessel function of the first kind |
| Kν(·) | νth order modified Bessel function of the second kind |
| M(·) | moment generating function |
 −1 (·) |
inverse cumulative von Mises distribution |
| N(·) | level crossing rate |
| p(·) | probability density function |
| p(·, ·) | joint probability density function |
| P(·) | probability |
| Pout(·) | outage probability |
| Q(·) | Q Function |
| Q(·, ·) | Marcum Q Function |
| R(·) | correlation function |
| T(·) | average fade duration |
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