Abstract: The statistical characterization of a sum of random variables (RVs) is useful for investigating the performance of wireless communication systems. We derive exact closed-form expressions for ...

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Abstract: In this letter, novel approximations for the moment generating function (MGF) and the probability density function (PDF) of the sum of arbitrary nonnegative random variables are proposed in ...