IJACSA Vol. 6 Issue 10 (2015)

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Framework for Assessing Privacy of Internet Applications

Author 1: James PH Coleman

This paper presents a new framework for assessing and documenting the privacy risks associated with developing and managing internet applications. The Framework for Assessing Privacy of Internet Applications (FAPIA) provides a tool to aid the analysis of privacy risks and a structured means of analyzing the risks and documenting a… Read full abstract & cite →

privacy privacy compliance risk data protection privacy impact assessments internet applications

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Towards Network-Aware Composition of Big Data Services in the Cloud

Author 1: Umar SHEHU Author 2: Ghazanfar SAFDAR Author 3: Gregory EPIPHANIOU

Several Big data services have been developed on the cloud to meet increasingly complex needs of users. Most times a single Big data service may not be capable in satisfying user requests. As a result, it has become necessary to aggregate services from different Big data providers together in order… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data Service composition QoS Genetic Algorithm Network latency Cloud

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SOHO: Information Security Awareness in the Aspect of Contingency Planning

Author 1: Jason Maurer Author 2: Brandon Clark Author 3: Young B. Choi

This paper seeks to take general security awareness information for home and small business owners and make it understandable and accessible by looking at practical ways to keep valuable information accessible after an incident or disaster according to current methods. This paper will first review select general security awareness information… Read full abstract & cite →

SOHO Information Security Contingency Planning Small Office Home Office

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An Improved Bees Algorithm for Real Parameter Optimization

Author 1: Wasim A. Hussein Author 2: Shahnorbanun Sahran Author 3: Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah

The Bees Algorithm (BA) is a bee swarm-based search algorithm inspired by the foraging behavior of a swarm of honeybees. BA can be divided into four parts: the parameter tuning part, the initialization part, the local search part, and the global search part. Recently, BA based on Patch-Levy-based Initialization Algorithm… Read full abstract & cite →

Bees algorithm Population initialization Local search Global search Levy flight Patch environment

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Comprehensive Centralized-Data Warehouse for Managing Malaria Cases

Author 1: Nova Eka Diana Author 2: Aan Kardiana

Tanah Bumbu is one of the most endemic areas in Indonesia for patients diagnosed with malaria diseases. Currently, available malaria case data were stored in disparate sources. Hence, it is difficult for the public health department to quickly and easily gather the useful information for determining strategic actions in tackling… Read full abstract & cite →

malaria case centralized data warehouse galaxy scheme ETL timely report

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An Adaptive Approach to Mitigate Ddos Attacks in Cloud

Author 1: Baldev Singh Author 2: S.N. Panda

Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack constitutes one of the prominent cyber threats and among the hardest security problems in modern cyber world. This research work focuses on reviewing DDOS detection techniques and developing a numeric stable theoretical framework used for detecting various DDOS attacks in cloud. Main sections in… Read full abstract & cite →

DDOS attack Intrusion detection Threshold Cloud virtual machine

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061006 PDF

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Common Radio Resource Management Algorithms in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with KPI Analysis

Author 1: Saed Tarapiah Author 2: Kahtan Aziz Author 3: Shadi Atalla

The rapid increase of number of personal wireless communication equipped devices boosts the user service demands on wireless networks. Thus, the spectrum resource management in such networks becomes an important topic in the near future. Notwithstanding, typically, users equipped with multiple wireless interfaces, thus the access operational scenario is no… Read full abstract & cite →

heterogeneous wireless networks Radio Resource Management (RRM) radio access technology (RAT)

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061007 PDF

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Big-Learn: Towards a Tool Based on Big Data to Improve Research in an E-Learning Environment

Author 1: Karim Aoulad Abdelouarit Author 2: Boubker Sbihi Author 3: Noura Aknin

In the area of data management for information system and especially at the level of e-learning platforms, the Big Data phenomenon makes the data difficult to deal with standard database or information management tools. Indeed, for educational purposes and especially in a distance training or online research, the learner that… Read full abstract & cite →

big data e-learning data structuring learning digital pedagogy

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061008 PDF

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Classifying three Communities of Assam Based on Anthropometric Characteristics using R Programming

Author 1: Sadiq Hussain Author 2: Dali Dutta Author 3: Runjun Patir Author 4: Prof. Sarthak Sengupta Author 5: Prof. Jiten Hazarika Author 6: Prof. G.C. Hazarika

The study of anthropometric characteristics of different communities plays an important role in design, ergonomics and architecture. As the change of life style, nutrition and ethnic composition of different communities leads to obesity epidemic etc. The authors performed two experiments. In the first experiment, the authors tried to classify three… Read full abstract & cite →

Data Mining Classification R Programming Logistic Regression Cochran Mantel Haenszel Test

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061009 PDF

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Learners’ Attitudes Towards Extended-Blended Learning Experience Based on the S2P Learning Model

Author 1: Salah Eddine BAHJI Author 2: Jamila EL ALAMI Author 3: Youssef LEFDAOUI

Within the Moroccan context, the Higher Education Institutions have realized the importance of the integration of information technologies into the formal learning curriculum. However, the risks of demotivation remain large in tertiary education, even with the support of these new technologies. It is therefore essential to ensure consistently the maintenance… Read full abstract & cite →

learning model S2P learning model blended learning extended-blended learning learning experience learners’ motivation gamification

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Hybrid Algorithm for the Optimization of Training Convolutional Neural Network

Author 1: Hayder M. Albeahdili Author 2: Tony Han Author 3: Naz E. Islam

The training optimization processes and efficient fast classification are vital elements in the development of a convolution neural network (CNN). Although stochastic gradient descend (SGD) is a Prevalence algorithm used by many researchers for the optimization of training CNNs, it has vast limitations. In this paper, it is endeavor to… Read full abstract & cite →

Convolutional Neural Network Particle Swarm optimization Image Classification

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Cloud Management and Governance: Adapting IT Outsourcing to External Provision of Cloud-Based IT Services

Author 1: Dr. Victoriano Valencia García Author 2: Dr. Eugenio J. Fernández Vicente Author 3: Dr. Luis Usero Aragonés

Outsourcing is a strategic option which complements IT services provided internally in organizations. The maturity model for IT service outsourcing (henceforth MM-2GES) is a new holistic maturity model based on standards ISO/IEC 20000 and ISO/IEC 38500, and the frameworks and best practices of ITIL and COBIT, with a specific focus… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud computing IT governance IT management Outsourcing IT service Maturity model

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Parallel Domain Decomposition for 1-D Active Thermal Control Problem with PVM

Author 1: Simon Uzezi Ewedafe Author 2: Rio Hirowati Shariffudin

this paper describes a 1-D Active Thermal Control Problem (1-D ATCP) with the use of Stationary Iterative Techniques (Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel) on the discretization of the resulted matrices. Parallelization of the problem is carried out using Domain Decomposition (DD) parallel communication approach with Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) to enable better… Read full abstract & cite →

1-D ATCP Stationary Techniques SPMD DD PVM

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Lempel - Ziv Implementation for a Compression System Model with Sliding Window Buffer

Author 1: Ahmad AbdulQadir AlRababah

Proposed compression system architecture based on Lempel-Ziv algorithm with sliding window history buffer, this architecture may be realized on FPGA, and can provide input data streams from multiple sources and context switching. Base requirements to impression system and compression system architecture were proposed. Compression system architecture should provide quick reconstruction… Read full abstract & cite →

Digital signal processing FPGA RAM dual-port RAM token literal

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Design of Socket Based on Intelligent Control and Energy Management

Author 1: Jiang Feng Author 2: Wu Fei Author 3: Dai Jian Author 4: Zou Yan

Smart home is one of the main applications of internet of things, and it will realize the intellectualization of household. Smart socket is part of the smart home, which can be controlled remotely by power supplied, monitor utilization condition, communication network and other functions. This article mainly introduces the intelligent… Read full abstract & cite →

Internet of things Smart home Intelligent electrical outlet Wireless communication Power statistics

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Mobile Arabchat: An Arabic Mobile-Based Conversational Agent

Author 1: Mohammad Hijjawi Author 2: Hazem Qattous Author 3: Omar Alsheiksalem

The conversation automation/simulation between a user and machine evolved during the last years. A number of research-based systems known as conversational agents has been developed to address this challenge. A conversational Agent is a program that attempts to simulate conversations between the human and machine. Few of these programs targeted… Read full abstract & cite →

Conversational Agent Mobile ArabChat Chatterbot and Arabic

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061016 PDF

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Personalized Subject Learning Based on Topic Detection and Canonical Correlation Analysis

Author 1: Zhangzu SHI Author 2: Steve K. SHI Author 3: Lucy L. SHI

To keep pace with the time, learning from printed medium alone is no longer a comprehensive approach. Fresh digital contents can definitely be the complement of printed education medium. Although timely access to fresh contents is becoming increasingly important for education and gaining such access is no longer a problem… Read full abstract & cite →

Topic Detection Canonical Correlation Analysis Personalized Education Subject Learning Multimodality

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Power and Contention Control Scheme: As a Good Candidate for Interference Modeling in Cognitive Radio Network

Author 1: Ireyuwa E. Igbinosa Author 2: Olutayo O. Oyerinde Author 3: Viranjay M. Srivastava Author 4: Stanley H. Mneney

Due to the ever growing need for spectrum, the cognitive radio (CR) has been proposed to improve the radio spectrum utilization. In this scenario, the secondary users (SU) are permitted to share spectrum with the licensed primary users (SU) with a strict condition that they do not cause harmful interference… Read full abstract & cite →

Aggregate interference cognitive radio interference management interference modeling

Abstract doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.061018 PDF

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Design of ANFIS Estimator of Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Position for PV Pumping System

Author 1: TERKI Amel Author 2: MOUSSI Ammar Author 3: TERKI Nadjiba

This paper presents a new scheme for PMBLDC (permanent magnet brushless direct current) rotor position estimation based an ANFIS (adaptive network fuzzy inference system) estimator. The operation of such motor requires accurate rotor position knowledge. However, most of rotor position sensors produce undesirable effects such as mechanical losses and have… Read full abstract & cite →

Photovoltaic system Brushless DC motor ANFIS estimator Speed controller

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Effective Calibration and Evaluation of Multi-Camera Robotic Head

Author 1: Petra Kocmanova Author 2: Ludek Zalud

The paper deals with appropriate calibration of multispectral vision systems and evaluation of the calibration and data-fusion quality in real-world indoor and outdoor conditions. Checkerboard calibration pattern developed by our team for multispectral calibration of intrinsic and extrinsic parameters is described in detail. The circular object for multispectral fusion evaluation… Read full abstract & cite →

calibration camera mobile robot thermal imaging data-fusion

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Optimizing User's Utility from Cloud Computing Services in a Networked Environment

Author 1: Eli WEINTRAUB Author 2: Yuval COHEN

Cloud Computing customers are looking for the best utility for their money. Research shows that functional aspects are considered more important than service prices in customer buying decisions. Choosing the best service provider might be complicated since each provider may sell three kinds of services organized in three layers: SaaS… Read full abstract & cite →

Utility Optimization Cloud Computing Consumer preferences Conjoint Analysis

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Design and Realization of Mongolian Syntactic Retrieval System Based on Dependency Treebank

Author 1: S.Loglo Author 2: Sarula

In the past seven years, Language Research Institute of Inner Mongolia University has constructed a 500,000-word scale Mongolian dependency treebank. The syntactic treebank provides a favorable data platform for language research and information processing. In order to effectively use the treebank, we have designed and implemented a graphical syntactic information… Read full abstract & cite →

Mongolian Language Dependency Grammar Dependency Treebank Syntactic Retrieval Information Retrieval

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Comparison of Burden on Youth in Communicating with Elderly using Images Versus Photographs

Author 1: Miyuki Iwamoto Author 2: Noriaki Kuwahara Author 3: Kazunari Morimoto

Conversation is a good preventative against behavioral problems in the elderly. However, caregivers are usually very busy tending to patients and lack the time to communicate extensively with them. Toward overcoming such problems actively listening volunteers have more opportunities to communicate with the elderly, but the number of skilled volunteers… Read full abstract & cite →

elderly reminiscence videos senior care home photographic image

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Medical Image De-Noising Schemes using Wavelet Transform with Fixed form Thresholding

Author 1: Nadir Mustafa Author 2: Jiang Ping Li Author 3: Saeed Ahmed Khan Author 4: Mohaned Giess

Medical Imaging is currently a hot area of bio-medical engineers, researchers and medical doctors as it is extensively used in diagnosing of human health and by health care institutes. The imaging equipment is the device, which is used for better image processing and highlighting the important features. These images are… Read full abstract & cite →

Image De-noising System GUI De-noised image Code De-noised image Wavelet transform Soft and Hard Threshold

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Automation and Validation of Annotation for Hindi Anaphora Resolution

Author 1: Pardeep Singh Author 2: Kamlesh Dutta

The process of labelling any language genre by which one can extract useful information is called annotation. This provides syntactic information about a word or a word phrase. In this paper, an effort has been made to provide the algorithm for semiautomatic annotation for Hindi text to cater anaphora resolution… Read full abstract & cite →

Annotation natural language processing demonstrative pronoun semantic category indirect anaphora semiautomatic annotation

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An Effective Storage Mechanism for High Performance Computing (HPC)

Author 1: Fatima El Jamiy Author 2: Abderrahmane Daif Author 3: Mohamed Azouazi Author 4: Abdelaziz Marzak

All over the process of treating data on HPC Systems, parallel file systems play a significant role. With more and more applications, the need for high performance Input-Output is rising. Different possibilities exist: General Parallel File System, cluster file systems and virtual parallel file system (PVFS) are the most important… Read full abstract & cite →

Big data High Performance Computing Storage Distributed File System BlobSeer

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SLA for E-Learning System Based on Cloud Computing

Author 1: Doaa Elmatary Author 2: Samy Abd El Hafeez Author 3: Wael Awad Author 4: Fatma Omara

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) becomes an important issue especially over the Cloud Computing and online services that based on the ‘pay-as-you-use’ fashion. Establishing the Service level agreements (SLAs), which can be defined as a negotiation between the service provider and the user, is needed for many types of current… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Service Level Agreement (SLA) E-learning System

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FRoTeMa: Fast and Robust Template Matching

Author 1: Abdullah M. Moussa Author 2: M. I. Habib Author 3: Rawya Y. Rizk

Template matching is one of the most basic techniques in computer vision, where the algorithm should search for a template image T in an image to analyze I. This paper considers the rotation, scale, brightness and contrast invariant grayscale template matching problem. The proposed algorithm uses a sufficient condition for… Read full abstract & cite →

template matching pattern matching brightness-contrast invariance rotation invariance scale invariance sufficient condition

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A Bayesian Approach to Service Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks

Author 1: Elaheh Homayounvala

In cognitive radio networks where secondary users (SUs) use the time-frequency gaps of primary users' (PUs) licensed spectrum opportunistically, the experienced throughput of SUs depend not only on the traffic load of the PUs but also on the PUs' service type. Each service has its own pattern of channel usage… Read full abstract & cite →

Cognitive Radio Service Selection Bayesian Networks

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A Real-Time Face Motion Based Approach towards Modeling Socially Assistive Wireless Robot Control with Voice Recognition

Author 1: Abhinaba Bhattacharjee Author 2: Partha Das Author 3: Debasish Kundu Author 4: Sudipta Ghosh Author 5: Sauvik Das Gupta

The robotics domain has a couple of specific general design requirements which requires the close integration of planning, sensing, control and modeling and for sure the robot must take into account the interactions between itself, its task and its environment surrounding it. Thus considering the fundamental configurations, the main motive… Read full abstract & cite →

Face detection Skin tone segmentation Voice Commands Speech Recognition Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Arduino Wi-Fi Shield iRobot Create Surveillance systems

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The Effect of Feature Selection on Phish Website Detection

Author 1: Hiba Zuhair Author 2: Ali Selmat Author 3: Mazleena Salleh

Recently, limited anti-phishing campaigns have given phishers more possibilities to bypass through their advanced deceptions. Moreover, failure to devise appropriate classification techniques to effectively identify these deceptions has degraded the detection of phishing websites. Consequently, exploiting as new; few; predictive; and effective features as possible has emerged as a key… Read full abstract & cite →

phish website phishing detection feature selection classification model

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Computer Science Approach to Information-Like Artifacts as Exemplified by Memes

Author 1: Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Providing information can be expanded to include systems that deliver information-like artifacts. They provide such “things” as advertisements, propaganda pieces, and meme artifacts. Memes are the subject of extensive intellectual debate in science and popular culture because it is claimed that parallels can be drawn between theories of cultural evolution… Read full abstract & cite →

information cultural evolution mental structures memes memetics conceptual modeling diagrammatic representation

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Prediction of Poor Inhabitant Number Using Least Square and Moving Average Method

Author 1: Ningrum Ekawati

The number of poor inhabitant in South Kalimantan decreased within the last three years compared with the previous years. The numbers of poor inhabitant differs from time to time. This scaled dynamical number has been a problem for the local government to take proper polices to solve this matter. It… Read full abstract & cite →

Poor Inhabitant Prediction Least Square Moving Average

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Study of Automatic Extraction, Classification, and Ranking of Product Aspects Based on Sentiment Analysis of Reviews

Author 1: Muhammad Rafi Author 2: Muhammad Rafay Farooq Author 3: Usama Noman Author 4: Abdul Rehman Farooq Author 5: Umair Ali Khatri

It is very common for a customer to read reviews about the product before making a final decision to buy it. Customers are always eager to get the best and the most objective information about the product theywish to purchase and reviews are the major source to obtain this information… Read full abstract & cite →

Aspect ranking Product Aspect Ranking Sentiment analysis Sentiment lexicon

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Adoption of Biometric Fingerprint Identification as an Accessible, Secured form of ATM Transaction Authentication

Author 1: Michael Mireku Kwakye Author 2: Hanan Yaro Boforo Author 3: Eugene Louis Badzongoly

Security is continuously an important concern for most Information Technology-related industries, especially the banking industry. The banking industry is concerned with protecting and securing the privacy and data of their customers, as well as their transactions. The adoption of biometric technology as a means of identifying and authenticating individuals has… Read full abstract & cite →

Information Technology Automatic Teller Machine Biometrics Fingerprint BioHASH Token

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A New Approach for a Better Load Balancing and a Better Distribution of Resources in Cloud Computing

Author 1: Abdellah IDRISSI Author 2: Faouzia ZEGRARI

Cloud computing is a new paradigm where data and services of Information Technology are provided via the Internet by using remote servers. It represents a new way of delivering computing resources allowing access to the network on demand. Cloud computing consists of several services, each of which can hold several… Read full abstract & cite →

Cloud Computing Constraints QoS Combinatorial Optimization Task Scheduler Exact Method

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Distance and Speed Measurements using FPGA and ASIC on a high data rate system

Author 1: Abdul Rehman Buzdar Author 2: Liguo Sun Author 3: Azhar Latif Author 4: Abdullah Buzdar

This paper deals with the implementation of FPGA and ASIC designs to calculate the distance and speed of a moving remote object using laser source and echo pulses reflected from that remote object. The project proceeded in three phases for the FPGA implementation: All-in-C design using Xilinx Microblaze soft core… Read full abstract & cite →

Distance Speed FPGA MicroBaze Co-Design ASIC

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On the Codes over a Semilocal Finite Ring

Author 1: Abdullah Dertli Author 2: Yasemin Cengellenmis Author 3: Senol Eren

In this paper, we study the structure of cyclic, quasi cyclic, constacyclic codes and their skew codes over the finite ring R. The Gray images of cyclic, quasi cyclic, skew cyclic, skew quasi cyclic and skew constacyclic codes over R are obtained. A necessary and sufficient condition for cyclic (negacyclic)… Read full abstract & cite →

Cyclic codes Skew cyclic codes Quantum codes

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A New Hidden Web Crawling Approach

Author 1: L.Saoudi Author 2: A.Boukerram Author 3: S.Mhamedi

Traditional search engines deal with the Surface Web which is a set of Web pages directly accessible through hyperlinks and ignores a large part of the Web called hidden Web which is a great amount of valuable information of online database which is “hidden” behind the query forms. To access… Read full abstract & cite →

Deep crawler Hidden Web crawler SQLI query form submission searchable forms

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A Simulation Model for Nakagmi-m Fading Channel with m>1

Author 1: Sandeep Sharma Author 2: Rajesh Mishra

In this paper, we propose a model to simulate a wireless fading channel based on Nakagami-m distribution with m>1. The Nakagami-m fading channel is the most generalized distribution as it can generate one-sided Gaussian distribution, Rayleigh distribution and Rician distribution for m equals to 0.5, 1 and >1 respectively. In… Read full abstract & cite →

Nakagami Distribution Fading Channel Wireless Channel Modeling

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