Terahertz (THz) frequency bands can be promising for data transmissions between the core network and access points (AP) next-generation wireless systems. In this paper, we analyze performance of a dual-hop THz-RF system where an AP facilitates transmission user equipment (UE). We consider generalized model end-to-end channel with independent not identically distributed (i.ni.d.) fading THz RF l...

Abstract Climate model simulations are inherently biased. It is a notably difficult problem when dealing with climate impact assessments and model-data integration. This especially true looking at derived quantities such as biomes, where not only but also vegetation dynamics biases come into play. To overcome difficulties, we evaluate the performance of an existing methodology to correct output...

The Buckley–Leverett (nonlinear advection) equation is often used to describe twophase flow in porous media. We develop a new probabilistic method to quantify parametric uncertainty in the Buckley–Leverett model. Our approach is based on the concept of a fine-grained cumulative density function (CDF) and provides a full statistical description of the system states. Hence, it enables one to obta...

Generalized t-tests are constructed under weaker than normal conditions. In the first part of this paper we assume only the symmetry (around zero) of the error distribution (i). In the second part we assume that the error distribution is a Gaussian scale mixture (ii). The optimal (smallest) critical values can be computed from generalizations of Student’s cumulative distribution function (cdf),...

Bias correction is a very important pre-processing step in satellite data assimilation analysis, as data assimilation itself cannot circumvent satellite biases. We introduce a retrieval algorithm-specific and spatially heterogeneous Instantaneous Field of View (IFOV) bias correction method for Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) soil moisture. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first...

We consider the problem of evaluating the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum of order statistics, which serves to compute outage probability (OP) values at the output of generalized selection combining receivers. Generally, closed-form expressions of the CDF of the sum of order statistics are unavailable for many practical distributions. Moreover, the naive Monte Carlo (MC) metho...

A new class of distributions recently developed involves the logit of the beta distribution. Among this class of distributions are the beta-normal (Eugene et al. (2002)); beta-Gumbel (Nadarajah and Kotz (2004)); beta-exponential (Nadarajah and Kotz (2006)); beta-Weibull (Famoye et al. (2005)); beta-Rayleigh (Akinsete and Lowe (2008)); beta-Laplace (Kozubowski and Nadarajah (2008)); and beta-Par...

 Abstract—In this paper, we consider the analysis of cooperative relay-based amplify-and-forward system in terms of Shannon capacity, probability of error, and outage probability over fading channels. The relay gain is optimized with the objective of maximizing the received signal-to-noiseratio (SNR) at the destination, given that the fading statistics of the links in the cooperative system ar...

Abstract: In this paper we derive closed-form expressions for the single-user capacity of selection combining diversity (SCD) system, taking into account the effect of imperfect channel estimation at the receiver. The channel considered is a slowly varying spatially independent flat Rayleigh fading channel. The complex channel estimate and the actual channel are modelled as jointly Gaussian ran...