First-passage time statistics of Markov gamma processes

Abstract The analysis of the First-Passage Time (FPT) statistics has a relevant importance either in theoretical or practical sense for the signal processing design in communications. This paper introduces a simple approach that allows a rather accurate calculation of an arbitrary number of cumulants of the Probability Density Function (PDF) of the FPT for the relevant case of Markov gamma processes.

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