Many different methods have been derived for evaluating the outage probability given fading, shadowing, or a combination of fading and shadowing. However, each of these methods imposes restrictions on the parameters or combination of fading and shadowing distributions. In this paper, we develop a general method to evaluate outage probabilities without restrictions based on Padé approximations (...

The use of air-conditioning systems is expected to increase as a consequence of global-scale and urban-scale climate warming. In order to represent future scenarios of urban climate and building energy consumption, the Town Energy Balance (TEB) scheme must be improved. This paper presents a new building energy model (BEM) that has been integrated in the TEB scheme. BEM-TEB makes it possible to ...

In this letter, we provide an asymptotic error rate performance evaluation of space-time block codes from coordinate interleaved orthogonal designs (STBCs-CIODs), especially in shadowed Rayleigh fading channels. By evaluating a simplified probability density function (PDF) of Rayleigh and Rayleigh-lognormal channels affecting the STBC-CIOD system, we derive an accurate closed-form approximation...

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the statistics of the intercell interference power in the downlink of a multicellular network. We first establish an analytical expression for the probability law of the interference power when only Rayleigh multipath fading is considered. Next, focusing on a propagation environment where small-scale Rayleigh fading as well as large-scale e...

We report the observation of shadowing between two optical transition radiation (OTR) sources from a 205 MeV electron beam. The total optical intensity is measured as a function of the distance d between the sources, covering the range 0<d<4L_{v}, where L_{v} is the formation length of the particles. Data show that the total optical intensity starts decreasing due to shadowing when d approaches...

The Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) propagation channel has significant implications on the design and performance of novel communication protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Extensive research efforts have been made to develop V2V channel models to be implemented in advanced VANET system simulators for performance evaluation. The impact of shadowing caused by other vehicles has, however,...