title: Novel formulation of the ℳ model through the Generalized-K distribution for atmospheric optical channels.
abstract: In this paper, a novel and deeper physical interpretation on the recently published Málaga or ℳ statistical distribution is provided. This distribution, which is having a wide acceptance by the scientific community, models the optical irradiance scintillation induced by the atmospheric turbulence. Here, the analytical expressions previously published are modified in order to express them by a mixture of the known Generalized-K and discrete Binomial and Negative Binomial distributions. In particular, the probability density function (pdf) of the ℳ model is now obtained as a linear combination of these Generalized-K pdf, in which the coefficients depend directly on the parameters of the ℳ distribution. In this way, the Málaga model can be physically interpreted as a superposition of different optical sub-channels each of them described by the corresponding Generalized-K fading model and weighted by the ℳ dependent coefficients. The expressions here proposed are simpler than the equations of the original ℳ model and are validated by means of numerical simulations by generating ℳ -distributed random sequences and their associated histogram. This novel interpretation of the Málaga statistical distribution provides a valuable tool for analyzing the performance of atmospheric optical channels for every turbulence condition.
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Garrido-Balsells
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jurado-Navas
authors.forename: José Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Paris
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castillo-Vazquez
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puerta-Notario