Performance of generalized selection combining receivers in K fading channels

Author

Theofilakos, Panagiotis ; Kanatas, Athanasios G. ; Efthymoglou, George P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Digital Syst., Piraeus Univ., Piraeus

Volume

12

Issue

11

fYear

2008

fDate

11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

816

Lastpage

818

Abstract

In this letter, we present a moment generating function (MGF) based performance analysis of generalized selection combining (GSC) receivers operating over independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) K fading channels. Analytical expressions for the marginal MGF of the signal-to-noise ratio of a single diversity branch for integer plus one-half values of the fading parameter are obtained and used to efficiently evaluate the average error probability of GSC receivers.

Keywords

diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; radio receivers; K fading channel; average error probability; diversity combining; generalized selection combining receiver; moment generating function; performance analysis; single diversity branch; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical distributions; K distribution, multipath/shadow fading; generalized selection combining (GSC), diversity methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080779

Filename

4717979