Performance analysis of κ-μ/gamma shadowed fading model over indoor off body communication channel

The κ-µ/gamma distribution has an importance role to model the small scale fading and shadowing over human off body indoor communication channel. This composite fading model has various special cases like κ-µ, Rician, Nakagami-m, Rayleigh, Rayleigh/gamma, Nakagami/gamma and Rice/logormal. In this paper, the expression for bit error rate (BER) using various modulation schemes, average channel capacity (ACC) and outage probability (OP) over κ-µ/gamma shadowed fading channel are derived. All the derived expressions are novel and presented in analytical form. The expression for BER and channel capacity are in form of well-known Meijer G function, whereas the outage probability expression is obtained from cumulative distribution function (CDF) proposed in previous literature. The derived expressions of BER (BPSK), average channel capacity and outage probability reduces to special cases for validation purpose. The study shows that binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation technique has better BER performance as compare to other modulation techniques. Moreover, on increasing α and β while κ and µ kept constant and vice versa, the ACC get increases but below the Additive white Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel capacity as expected. Also, better outage probability performance is obtained at lowest threshold signal to noise ratio (5 dB).