[Math] The approximation of first-ordered modified Bessel function of the second kind

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After analysing the outage probability of a single relay selection system, I got to the following form:
$P = 1 + \sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\left( \begin{array}{l}
K\\
k
\end{array} \right){{\left( { – 1} \right)}^k}2\sqrt {\frac{{k{\gamma _o}{c_p}}}{{{\lambda _{SR}}{\lambda _{RD}}}}} {e^{ – \frac{{k{\gamma _o}}}{{{\lambda _{SR}}}}}}{K_1}\left( {2\sqrt {\frac{{k{\gamma _o}{c_p}}}{{{\lambda _{SR}}{\lambda _{RD}}}}} } \right)}$. When $\lambda_{SR}$ and $\lambda_{RD}$ go to infinity we can use the approximation: ${K_1}\left( x \right) \sim \frac{1}{x}$ (where ${K_1}\left( x \right)$ is the first-ordered modified Bessel function of the second kind) to get an asymptotic of the above formula to be:
$P = 1 + \sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\left( \begin{array}{l}
K\\
k
\end{array} \right){{\left( { – 1} \right)}^k}{e^{ – \frac{{k{\gamma _o}}}{{{\lambda _{SR}}}}}}}$. However, the original and the approximation forms are not closed when $\lambda_{SR}$ and $\lambda_{RD}$ go to infinity. Here is the test figure:enter image description here

Can somebody give me some hint how these form behave like that?
Thank you very much.
Best Regards, Binh.

Best Answer

Your asymptotic expansion for the Bessel function $K_1$ is wrong (from which source is it?) and therefore the resulting formula for $P$ too. The correct one is (derived from e.g. Abramowitz and Stegun 9.7.2 or http://dlmf.nist.gov/10.40#i): $$K_1(x) = \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2x}}e^{-x}\left(1 + \frac{3}{8x}+ O(x^{-2})\right)$$

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