Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), with its exceptional spectrum efficiency, was thought to be a promising technology for upcoming wireless communications. Physical layer security has also been investigated to improve the security performance of the system. Power-domain NOMA has been considered for this paper, where multiple users can share the same spectrum which bases this sharing on distinct power values. Power allocation is used to allocate different power to the users based on their channel condition. Data signals of different users are superimposed on the transmitter's side, and the receiver uses successive interference cancellation (SIC) to remove the unwanted signals before decoding its own signal. There exist an eavesdropper whose motive is to eavesdrop on the confidential information that is being shared with the users. The network model developed in this way consists of two links, one of which considers the relay transmission path from the source to Near User to Far User and the other of which takes into account the direct transmission path from the source to the destination, both of which experience Nakagami-m fading. To degrade the eavesdropper's channel, the jamming technique is used against the eavesdropper where users are assumed to be in a full-duplex mode which aims to improve the security of the physical layer. Secrecy performance metrics such as secrecy outage probability, secrecy capacity, etc. are evaluated and analyzed for the considered system. Mathematical analysis and simulation using MATLAB are done to assess, analyze and visualize the system's performance in the presence of an eavesdropper when the jamming technique is applied. According to simulation results, the active jamming approach enhances the secrecy performance of the entire system and leads to a positive improvement in the secrecy rate.

Traditional wireless networks are regulated by a fixed spectrum assignment policy. This results in situations where most of the allocated radio spectrum is not utilized. In order to address this spectrum underutilization, cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as a promising solution. Spectrum sensing is an essential component in CR networks to discover spectrum opportunities. The most common spectrum sensing techniques are energy detection, matched filtering or cyclostationary feature detection, which aim to maximize the probability of detection subject to a certain false alarm rate. Besides probability of detection, detection delay is also a crucial criterion in spectrum sensing. In an interweave CR network, quick detection of the absence of primary user (PU), which is the owner of the licensed spectrum, allows good utilization of unused spectrum, while quick detection of PU transmission is important to avoid any harmful interference. This thesis consider quickest spectrum sensing, where the aim is to detect the PU with minimal detection delay subject to a certain false alarm rate. In the earlier chapters of this thesis, a single antenna cognitive user (CU) is considered and we study quickest spectrum sensing performance in Gaussian channel and classical fading channel models, including Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami-m and a long-tailed channel. We prove that the power of the complex received signal is a sufficient statistic and derive the probability density function (pdf) of the received signal amplitude for all of the fading cases. The novel derivation of the pdfs of the amplitude of the received signal for the Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami-m channels uses an approach which avoids numerical integration. We also consider the event of a mis-matched channel, where the cumulative sum (CUSUM) detector is designed for a specific channel, but a different channel is experienced. This scenario could occur in CR network as the channel may not be known and hence the CUSUM detector may be experiencing a different channel. Simulations results illustrate that the average detection delay depends greatly on the channel but very little on the nature of the detector. Hence, the simplest time-invariant detector can be employed with minimal performance loss. Theoretical expressions for the distribution of detection delay for the time-invariant CUSUM detector, with single antenna CU are developed. These are useful for a more detailed analysis of the quickest spectrum sensing performance. We present several techniques to approximate the distribution of detection delay, including deriving a novel closed-form expression for the detection delay distribution when the received signal experiences a Gaussian channel. We also derive novel approximations for the distribution of detection delay for the general case due to the absence of a general framework. Most of the techniques are general and can be applied to any independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) channel. Results show that different signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and detection delay conditions require different methods in order to achieve good approximations of the detection delay distributions. The remarkably simple Brownian motion approach gives the best approximation for longer detection delays. In addition, results show that the type of fading channel has very little impact on long detection delays. In later chapters of this thesis, we employ multiple receive antennas at the CU. In particular, we study the performance of multi-antenna quickest spectrum sensing when the received signal experiences Gaussian, independent and correlated Rayleigh and Rician channels. The pdfs of the received signals required to form the CUSUM detector are derived for each of the scenarios. The extension into multiple antennas allows us to gain some insight into the reduction in detection delay that multiple antennas can provide. Results show that the sensing performance increases with an increasing Rician K-factor. In addition, channel correlation has little impact on the sensing performance at high SNR, whereas at low SNR, increasing correlation between channels improves the quickest spectrum sensing performance. We also consider mis-matched channel conditions and show that the quickest spectrum sensing performance at a particular correlation coefficient or Rician K-factor depends heavily on the true channel irrespective of the number of antennas at the CU and is relatively insensitive to the channel used to design the CUSUM detector. Hence, a simple multi-antenna time-invariant detector can be employed. Based on the results obtained in the earlier chapters, we derive theoretical expressions for the detection delay distribution when multiple receive antennas are employed at the CU. In particular, the approximation of the detection delay distribution is based on the Brownian motion approach.

There has been phenomenal interest in applying space-time coding techniques in wireless communications in the last two decades. In general, the benefit of applying space-time codes in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels is an increase in transmission reliability or system throughput (capacity). However, such a benefit cannot be obtained in some wireless systems where size or other constraints preclude the use of multiple antennas. As such, wireless relay communications has recently been proposed as a means to provide spatial diversity in the face of this limitation. In this approach, some users or relay nodes assist the transmission of other users information. This dissertation contributes to the advancement of wireless relay communications by investigating the performance of various relaying signal processing methods under different practical fading environments. In particular, it examines two main relaying methods, namely decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF).<p> For DF, the focus is on the diversity analysis of relaying systems under various practical protocols when detection error at relays is taken into account. In order to effectively mitigate the phenomenon of error propagation, the smart relaying technique proposed by Wang et al. in [R1] is adopted. First, diversity analysis of a single-relay system under the scenario that only the relay is allowed to transmit in the second time slot (called Protocol II) is carried out. For Nakagami and Hoyt generalized fading channels, analytical and numerical results are provided to demonstrate that the system always obtains the maximal diversity when binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation is used. Second, a novel and low-complexity relaying system is proposed when smart relaying and equal gain combing (EGC) techniques are combined. In the proposed system, the destination requires only the phases of the channel state information in order to detect the transmitted signals. For the single-relay system with M-ary PSK modulation, it is shown that the system can achieve the maximal diversity under Nakagami and Hoyt fading channels. For the K-relay system, simulation results suggest that the maximal diversity can also be achieved. Finally, the diversity analysis for a smart relaying system under the scenario when both the source and relay are permitted to transmit in the second time slot (referred to as Protocol I) is presented. It is shown that Protocol I can achieve the same diversity order as Protocol II for the case of 1 relay. In addition, the diversity is very robust to the quality of the feedback channel as well as the accuracy of the quantization of the power scaling implemented at the relay.<p> For AF, the dissertation considers a fixed-gain multiple-relay system with maximal ratio combining (MRC) detection at the destination under Nakagami fading channels. Different from the smart relaying for DF, all the channel state information is assumed to be available at the destination in order to perform MRC for any number of antennas. Upperbound and lowerbound on the system performance are then derived. Based on the bounds, it is shown that the system can achieve the maximal diversity. Furthermore, the tightness of the upperbound is demonstrated via simulation results. With only the statistics of all the channels available at the destination, a novel power allocation (PA) is then proposed. The proposed PA shows significant performance gain over the conventional equal PA.

There has been phenomenal interest in applying space-time coding techniques in wireless communications in the last two decades. In general, the benefit of applying space-time codes in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels is an increase in transmission reliability or system throughput (capacity). However, such a benefit cannot be obtained in some wireless systems where size or other constraints preclude the use of multiple antennas. As such, wireless relay communications has recently been proposed as a means to provide spatial diversity in the face of this limitation. In this approach, some users or relay nodes assist the transmission of other users information. This dissertation contributes to the advancement of wireless relay communications by investigating the performance of various relaying signal processing methods under different practical fading environments. In particular, it examines two main relaying methods, namely decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF).<p> For DF, the focus is on the diversity analysis of relaying systems under various practical protocols when detection error at relays is taken into account. In order to effectively mitigate the phenomenon of error propagation, the smart relaying technique proposed by Wang et al. in [R1] is adopted. First, diversity analysis of a single-relay system under the scenario that only the relay is allowed to transmit in the second time slot (called Protocol II) is carried out. For Nakagami and Hoyt generalized fading channels, analytical and numerical results are provided to demonstrate that the system always obtains the maximal diversity when binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation is used. Second, a novel and low-complexity relaying system is proposed when smart relaying and equal gain combing (EGC) techniques are combined. In the proposed system, the destination requires only the phases of the channel state information in order to detect the transmitted signals. For the single-relay system with M-ary PSK modulation, it is shown that the system can achieve the maximal diversity under Nakagami and Hoyt fading channels. For the K-relay system, simulation results suggest that the maximal diversity can also be achieved. Finally, the diversity analysis for a smart relaying system under the scenario when both the source and relay are permitted to transmit in the second time slot (referred to as Protocol I) is presented. It is shown that Protocol I can achieve the same diversity order as Protocol II for the case of 1 relay. In addition, the diversity is very robust to the quality of the feedback channel as well as the accuracy of the quantization of the power scaling implemented at the relay.<p> For AF, the dissertation considers a fixed-gain multiple-relay system with maximal ratio combining (MRC) detection at the destination under Nakagami fading channels. Different from the smart relaying for DF, all the channel state information is assumed to be available at the destination in order to perform MRC for any number of antennas. Upperbound and lowerbound on the system performance are then derived. Based on the bounds, it is shown that the system can achieve the maximal diversity. Furthermore, the tightness of the upperbound is demonstrated via simulation results. With only the statistics of all the channels available at the destination, a novel power allocation (PA) is then proposed. The proposed PA shows significant performance gain over the conventional equal PA.

With code division multiple access (CDMA) systems being the prominent multiple access scheme for the air interface for 3G cellular systems, most standardisation bodies have based their terrestrial cellular systems on DS-CDMA (W-CDMA, UMTS, cdma2000). With 4G systems fast approaching, bringing with them improved services and quality of service standards, there is growing interest in further investigating and developing more efficient multiple access techniques such as multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) systems. MC-CDMA combines multicarrier modulation (MCM), namely OFDM, with CDMA profiting from the benefits of both multiplexing techniques; as such, MC-CDMA is emerging as a possible candidate for the air interface multiple access scheme for 4G cellular systems. Multiple access interference (MAI) is a limiting factor of CDMA systems in terms of system capacity as orthogonally designed spreading sequences lose their orthogonality in the presence of timing misalignments amongst mobile subscribers in a cell; such is the case over the uplink channel. Ensuring orthogonal code properties minimises the MAI over synchronous environments, however, it is when the users are allowed to transmit asynchronously, as is the case over the uplink channel, that MAI inflicts significant performance degradation. In CDMA systems, all subscribers are active on the same frequency band simultaneously and signal separation is facilitated upon reception via the properties of the assigned spreading codes. Under asynchronous conditions the code properties alone do not provide the necessary separation and an additive MAI term remains in the detection process. In addition to the separation abilities of the spreading codes, a further method of deciphering the desired subscriber signal from the interfering subscriber signals is sought. In this thesis we propose a statistical model for both the probability density function (pdf) of the total MAI power and the corresponding bit-error rate (BER) observed during asynchronous CDMA transmission. The modelling offers the full statistic the MAI power and resulting BER, not just the first and second order statistics. In addition to statistically quantifying the MAI power, the thesis also proposes a technique for the successful reduction of MAI caused by asynchronous transmission. This interference reduction technique is derived from an ambiguity domain analysis of the asynchronous CDMA detection problem and its application to both the DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA multiplexing techniques is presented and the results show significant MAI reduction, and thus an improved the BER. A methodology for the approximation of the total MAI power pdf and the resulting BER pdf is proposed for the asynchronous DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA techniques. This methodology is derived for the use of Walsh-Hadamard (WH) and Gold spreading sequences, however, it is applicable to any given set of deterministic spreading sequences. The total MAI power pdfs of both systems are statistically modelled as being Nakagamim distributed and the corresponding BER modelling is derived from the Nakagami-m formulation offering the full statistic of both the incurred MAI power and the achievable BER. The proposed pdf acquisition methodology and statistical models can be used as analysis tools to assess the relative performances of the DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA techniques for a variety of communications environments. Here the asynchronous uplink channel is considered in the absence of fading and the results show a clear distinction between the BER performances of the MC-CDMA and DS-CDMA systems, for which the MC-CDMA system offers a superior performance for the purely asynchronous channel considered. The results suggest a higher resistance to MAI in the MC-CDMA technique in comparison to the DS-CDMA system for the considered transmission scenario. Following ambiguity function analysis of the asynchronous CDMA detection problem, the concept of dual-frequency switching is introduced to the existing DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA techniques giving rise to the proposed dual-frequency DS-CDMA (DF/DSCDMA) and dual-frequency MC-CDMA (DF/MC-CDMA) schemes. Periodically switching the carrier frequency between dual frequency bands at consecutive symbol boundaries facilitates partial CDMA signal separation upon asynchronous reception. Such switching of the carrier frequency induces a separation in frequency between offset interference signals and the reference signal; this is equivalent to shifting the energy concentration of the interference signals away form the ambiguity domain origin (representing the decision variable of the matched filter). Further MAI reduction is demonstrated through careful design of the dual carrier frequencies. The newly proposed DF systems clearly outperform the standard DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA systems when adopting equivalent spreading factors. The DF/DS-CDMA technique in particular achieves the most MAI reduction and in doing so, surpasses all other considered techniques to offer the best BER performance for the purely asynchronous channel considered. In terms of bandwidth usage, the DF/DS-CDMA band width is 1.5 times that of the DF/MC-CDMA system and from the BER results presented, one may argue that DF/MC-CDMA offers the better BER given the bandwidth usage. The multicarrier systems presented, MC-CDMA and DF/MC-CDMA, offer attractive BER performances for the bandwidth used and it is concluded that MC-CDMA is a genuine candidate for the uplink air interface multiple access scheme for future mobile cellular technologies.

Orientador: Michel Daoud Yacoub / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T10:47:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dias_UgoSilva_M.pdf: 1177515 bytes, checksum: fe2406aa04941e752532e2773393c0cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta dissertação analisa e valida, através de medidas de campo, estatísticas de ordem superior para canais com desvanecimento Weibull e Nakagarni-m. Considerando canais com desvanecimento Weibull, devido à ausência de um modelo físico, estatísticas conjuntas de duas variáveis Weibull correlacionadas foram obtidas em forma fechada e em função de parâmetros físicos bem conhecidos, se destacando as funções de autocorrelação e espectro de potência. Analisando canais com desvanecimento Nakagami-m, expressões simples e em forma fechada para as funções de autocorrelação e espectro de potência foram derivadas. Medidas de campo indoor e outdoor foram realizadas por meio de um sistema montado e configurado especialmente para investigar as estatísticas em estudo. Foram observados excelentes ajustes entre os dados teóricos e experimentais. Os resultados das medições validam as funções de autocorrelação e espectro de potência para envoltórias Weibull e Nakagarni-m / Abstract: This dissertation analyzes and validates, through field trials, higher order statistics for Weibull and Nakagarni-m fading channels. Conceming Weibull fading channels, due to the absence of a physical model related to such channels, joint statistics for two correlated Weibull variables were obtained in closed-form and in terms of well-known physical parameters, in particular the autocorrelation and power spectrum functions. Conceming Nakagarni-m fading channels, simple and closed-form expressions for autocorrelation and power spectrum functions were derived; Indoor and outdoor field trial measurements were conducted in order to investigate these statistics. The mobile reception equipment was especially assembled for this purpose. Excellent fits between analytical and empirical metrics were observed. The measurements results validate the autocorrelation and power spectrum functions of the Weibull and Nakagami-m fading channels / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientador: Miched Daoud Yacoub / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T17:19:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza_RausleyAdrianoAmaralde_D.pdf: 1070968 bytes, checksum: 289cdc544616610aa8ff990ce2ea0e82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Em comunicações móveis, o desvanecimento por múltiplos percursos é modelado por várias distribuições incluindo Hoyt, Rayleigh, Weibull, Nakagami-m e Rice. Nesta tese, são deduzidas expressões exatas para o modelo de duas variáveis Hoyt (Nakagami-q) com correlação arbitrária em um ambiente não estacionário. De forma específica, as seguintes estatísticas são encontradas: função densidade de probabilidade conjunta, função de distribuição cumulativa conjunta, coeficiente de correlação e algumas estatísticas relacionadas ao parâmetro SNR na saída do combinador de seleção, a saber, probabilidade de indisponibilidade e função densidade de probabilidade. As expressões fazem uso dos polinômios de Laguerre generalizados. Elas são matematicamente tratáveis e possuem flexibilidade suficiente para acomodar um grande número de cenários de correlação, úteis na análise de um ambiente com desvanecimento mais geral. Depois disto, aproveitando os resultados previamente deduzidos, expressões exatas relacionadas a processos Nakagami-m com duas variáveis com correlação arbitrária e parâmetros de desvanecimento igualmente arbitrários são encontradas. De forma mais específica, as seguintes estatísticas são obtidas neste trabalho: função geratriz de momentos, função densidade de probabilidade conjunta, função de distribuição cumulativa conjunta, coeficiente de correlação de potência, e várias estatísticas ligadas à relação sinal-ruído na saída do combinador de seleção, especialmente, probabilidade de indisponibilidade, função densidade de probabilidade e valor médio da relação sinal-ruído. Recentemente, o modelo de desvanecimento ®-µ foi proposto que leva em conta a não linearidade do meio de propagação assim como o fenômeno de cluster de múltiplos percursos das ondas de rádio. A distribuição ®-µ é geral, flexível e matematicamente tratável. Ela inclui importantes distribuições tais como Gamma (e suas versões discretas Erlang e Chi-Quadrada Central), Nakagami-m (e sua versão discreta Chi), Exponencial, Weibull, Gaussiana Unilateral e Rayleigh. Nesta tese, uma formulação através de série infinita para a função densidade de probabilidade multivariável ®-µ com matriz de correlação arbitrária e variáveis não identicamente distribuídas é encontrada. A expressão é exata e geral e inclui todos os resultados anteriormente publicados na literatura relacionados às distribuições compreendidas pela distribuição ®-µ. A expressão geral é então particularizada para uma solução aproximada simples na forma fechada. Adicionalmente, a função distribuição cumulativa conjunta multivariável é obtida, novamente, em uma forma fechada e simples. Os resultados exato e aproximado são muito próximos para valores pequenos e médio de correlação. Nós mantemos, entretanto, que uma relação entre os coeficientes de correlação das correspondentes componentes gaussianas deve ser mantida de forma a atender os critérios de convergência / Abstract: In wireless communications, the multipath fading is modeled by several distributions including Hoyt, Rayleigh, Weibull, Nakagami-m, and Rice. In this thesis, new, exact expressions for the bivariate Hoyt (Nakagami-q) processes with arbitrary correlation in a nonstationary environment are derived. More specifically, the following are obtained: joint probability density function, joint cumulative distribution function, power correlation coefficient, and some statistics related to the signal-tonoise ratio at the output of the selection combiner, namely, outage probability and probability density function. The expressions make use of the well known generalized Laguerre polynomials. They are mathematically tractable and flexible enough to accommodate a myriad of correlation scenarios, useful in the analysis of a more general fading environment. After this, capitalizing on result previously deduced, exact expressions concerning the bivariate Nakagami-mprocesses with arbitrary correlation and fading parameters are derived. More specifically, the following are obtained in the present work: joint moment generating function; joint probability density function; joint cumulative distribution function; power correlation coefficient; and several statistics related to the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of the selection combiner, namely, outage probability, probability density function, and mean SNR. More recently, the ®-µ fading model has been proposed that accounts for the non-linearity of the propagation medium as well as for the multipath clustering of the radio waves. The ®-µ distribution is general, flexible, and mathematically easily tractable. It includes important distributions such as Gamma (and its discrete versions Erlang and Central Chi-Squared), Nakagami-m (and its discrete version Chi), Exponential, Weibull, One-Side Gaussian, and Rayleigh. An infinite series formulation for the multivariate ®-µ joint probability density function with arbitrary correlation matrix and non-identically distributed variates is derived. The expression is exact and general and includes all of the results previously published in the literature concerning the distributions comprised by the ®-µ distribution. The general expression is then particularized to an indeed very simple, approximate closed-form solution. In addition, a multivariate joint cumulative distribution function is obtained, again in simple, closed-form manner. Approximate and exact results are very close to each other for small as well medium values of correlation. We maintain, however, that a relation among the correlation coefficients of the corresponding Gaussian components must be kept so that convergence is attained / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

In our thesis work, we analyze the performance analysis of a power domain NonOrthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) system in which the closer user acts as fullduplex relaying to forward the signal to farther user. Because Nakagami-m distribution is a generalized case including the two common fading distributions as specialcases: Rayleigh distribution (m=1), Rician distribution (m&gt;1). We assume that thesystem experiences Nakagami-m fading. Then, we have to analyze outage probabilityof NOMA system. Numerical results are provided for outage probability to show theeffect of system parameters on the performance of the NOMA system in full duplexrelaying over Nakagami-m fading.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Wide local area networks (WLAN) are increasingly important in meeting the needs of next generation broadband wireless communications systems for both commercial and military applications. Under IEEE 802.11a 5GHz WLAN standard, OFDM was chosen as the modulation scheme for transmission because of its well-known ability to avoid multi-path effects while achieving high data rates. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the performance of the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard receiver over flat fading Nakagami channels in a worst case, pulse-noise jamming environment, for the different combinations of modulation type (binary and non-binary modulation) and code rate specified by the WLAN standard. Receiver performance with Viterbi soft decision decoding (SDD) will be analyzed for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) alone and for AWGN plus pulse-noise jamming. Moreover, the performance of the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard receiver will be examined both in the scenario where perfect side information is considered to be available (optimum receiver) and when it is not (sub-optimum receiver). In the sub-optimum receiver scenario, the receiver performance is examined both when noise-normalization is utilized and when it is not. The receiver performance is severely affected by the pulse-noise jamming environment, especially in the suboptimum receiver scenario. However, the sub-optimum receiver performance is significantly improved when noise-normalization is implemented. / Lieutenant, Hellenic Navy

Orientador: Michel Daoud Yacoub / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T06:51:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Costa_DanielBenevidesda_M.pdf: 1293492 bytes, checksum: 3aa8e540fd57db56b2ee4469c60307be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta dissertação provê uma análise das estatísticas de ordem superior para canais de desvanecimento WeibuII e Nakagami-m. Considerando canais de desvanecimento WeibulI, devido à ausência de um modelo físico para tais canais, estatísticas conjuntas de duas variáveis WeibuII correlacionadas foram obtidas em forma fechada e em função de parâmetros físicos bem conhecidos. Outra estatística encontrada foi a taxa de cruzamento de nível e a duração média de desvanecimento usando diversidade com dois ramos para canais WeibuII correlacionados, desbalanceados e não-idênticos. Além disso, uma caracterização do comportamento do processo de fase e de sua derivada temporal para sinais WeibuII foi realizada. Analisando canais de desvanecimento Nakagami-m, uma expressão simples e em forma fechada para a taxa de cruzamento de fase generalizada foi obtida. Resultados de simulação completamente validaram a formulação proposta. Além disso, novas estatísticas em forma fechada para a envoltória, para as componentes em fase e em quadratura, para a fase e para suas respectivas derivadas temporais foram obtidas / Abstract: This dissertation provides an analysis of the higher order statistics for WeibuII and Nakagami-m fading channels. Conceming WeibuII fading channels, due to the absence of a fading model related of such channels, joint statistics for two correlated WeibuII variates were obtained in cIosed-form and in terms of welI-known physical parameters. Other statistics found were the levei crossing rate and the average fade duration for unbalanced, non-identical, correlated WeibuII channels operating over two branches of diversity. Furthermore, a characterization of the behaviour of the phase process and its time derivative for WeibuII signals was accomplish. Conceming Nakagami-m fading channeIs, a simple and cIosed-form expression for the generalized phase crossing rate was obtained. Results of simulation thoroughly validated the formulation proposed. Moreover, new cIosed-form statistics for the envelope, for the in-phase and quadrature components, for the phase and its respective time derivative were derived. / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica