H-fading: Towards H-transform theory for wireless communication

Abstract

In this paper, we put forth H-fading and degree-2 irregular H-fading to model radio propagation under composite, specular, and/or inhomogeneous conditions. The H-fading describes composite effects of multipath fading and shadowing as a single H-variate, including most of typical models such as Rayleigh, Nakagami-m, Weibull, α-μ, N*Nakagami-m, (generalized) K-fading, and Weibull/gamma fading as its special cases. As a new class of H-variates (called the degree-ζ irregular H-variate), the degree-2 irregular H-fading characterizes specular and/or inhomogeneous radio propagation in which the multipath component consists of a strong specularly-reflected or line-of-sight (LOS) wave as well as unequal-power or correlated in-phase and quadrature scattered waves, including again a variety of typical models such as Rician, Nakagami-q, κ-μ, η-μ, Rician/LOS gamma, and κ-μ/LOS gamma fading as its special cases.