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pith:2013:5E6OLORVA5XKVXMDALP24JLZIW
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Outage Exponent: A Unified Performance Metric for Parallel Fading Channels

Bo Bai, Khaled B. Letaief, Wei Chen, Zhigang Cao

arxiv:1307.4822 v1 · 2013-07-18 · cs.IT · math.IT

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e93ce5ba35076eaadd8302dfae257945967eeceef5d4230cdb1852b8c242e11d

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arxiv: 1307.4822 · arxiv_version: 1307.4822v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1307.4822 · pith_short_12: 5E6OLORVA5XK · pith_short_16: 5E6OLORVA5XKVXMD · pith_short_8: 5E6OLORV
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5E6OLORVA5XKVXMDALP24JLZIW \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
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