Outage performance of the $α$-Beaulieu-Xie Shadowed Fading Channel Model

Abstract: The research presents the closed-form outage analysis of the newly presented $\alpha$-modification of the shadowed Beaulieu-Xie fading model for wireless communications. For the considered channel, the closed-form analytical expressions for the outage probability (including its upper and lower bounds), raw moments, amount of fading, and channel quality estimation indicator are derived. The carried out thorough numerical simulation and analysis demonstrates strong agreement with the presented closed-form solutions and illustrates the relationship between the outage probability and channel parameters.