Equivalence between Nakagami channels and Rayleigh channels with diversity

Author

Khan, Muhammad Ajmal ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., King Fahd Univ. of Pet.&Miner. (KFUPM), Dhahran

fYear

2008

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

88

Abstract

In this paper, the relationship between MRC diversity and Nakagami-m fading is investigated. The error performances of several modulation schemes with diversity over Rayleigh fading and without diversity over Nakagami-m fading is analyzed and compared. The analysis is further extended to diversity over Nakagami-m fading channel. An attempt has been made to find the physical interpretation of Nakagami-m with MRC diversity over Rayleigh fading channel. A novel equivalence is obtained between diversity orders over Rayleigh fading and Nakagami parameter m. The results are also verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; modulation; MRC diversity reception; Monte Carlo simulation; Nakagami-m fading channel; Rayleigh channel; maximal ratio combining; modulation scheme; Fading; Fluctuations; Minerals; Nakagami distribution; Performance analysis; Petroleum; Propagation losses; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Signals and Coding, 2008. MIC-CSC '08. Proceedings of the Mosharaka International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-9957-486-05-1

Type

conf

Filename

5073927