BEP/SEP of binary and M-ary signals over k-µ shadowed fading channel

In this paper considering single channel communication over k-μ shadowed fading with arbitrary fading index, closed-form formulas for error probabilities are derived. BER/SER will be evaluated for different modulation/detection types using moment generating function-based approach. The average error probability expressions include Hypergeometric functions of several variables named as Appell hypergeometric function for two variables and Lauricella function for more than two variables. Furthermore, with the help of identities and reduction formulas we reduced our proposed results in the previous published results [3] as special cases of the main result.