Error probability performance for W-CDMA systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas in correlated Nakagami fading channels

Author

Luo, Jianxia ; Zeidler, James R. ; Proakis, John G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

51

Issue

6

fYear

2002

fDate

11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1502

Lastpage

1516

Abstract

The bit error rate (BER) performance of a two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receiver, in combination with transmit diversity on the downlink of a wide-band CDMA (W-CDMA) system, is presented. The analyses assume correlated fading between receive antenna array elements, and an arbitrary number of independent but nonidentical resolvable multipaths combined by the RAKE receiver in the general Nakagami-m (1960) fading channel framework. The impact of the array configuration (e.g., the number of transmit antennas and receive antennas, the antenna element separation) and the operating environment parameters (such as the fading severity, angular spread and path delay profile) on the overall space-path diversity gain can be directly evaluated. In addition, the exact pairwise error probability of a convolutional coded system is obtained, and the coding gain of a space-path diversity receiver is quantified.

Keywords

MIMO systems; antenna arrays; broadband networks; code division multiple access; convolutional codes; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; land mobile radio; multipath channels; multiuser channels; radio links; radio networks; receiving antennas; spread spectrum communication; transmitting antennas; 2D RAKE receiver; BER; DS-CDMA system; MIMO system; W-CDMA systems; angular spread; antenna element separation; array configuration; coding gain; convolutional coded system; correlated fading; downlink; error probability performance; fading severity; general Nakagami-m fading channel; independent multipaths; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; nonidentical resolvable multipaths; operating environment parameters; pairwise error probability; path delay profile; receive antenna array elements; space-path diversity gain; space-path diversity receiver; transmit diversity; two-dimensional RAKE receiver; wide-band CDMA system; Antenna arrays; Bit error rate; Downlink; Error probability; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Two dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2002.804861

Filename

1175204