• DocumentCode
    2472827
  • Title

    Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid selection/equal-gain combining in Nakagami-m fading

  • Author

    Iskander, Cyril-Daniel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    19-22 Sept. 2004
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Lastpage
    114
  • Abstract
    The symbol error rates of several linear M-ary modulations are derived for a coherent receiver employing hybrid selection/equal-gain combining (SC/EGC), in a Nakagami-m fading channel. The L-branch receiver selects the two diversity branches with the strongest signals, and then performs equal-gain combining on these signals. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the symbol error rates and the outage probability for integer values of the Nakagami-m fading parameter.
  • Keywords
    diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; radio receivers; L-branch receiver; Nakagami-m fading channels; SC/EGC; coherent receivers; hybrid selection/equal-gain combining; linear M-ary modulations; outage probability; strongest signal diversity branches; symbol error rates; Amplitude estimation; Closed-form solution; Degradation; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Performance analysis; Phase estimation; Rayleigh channels; Ultra wideband communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio and Wireless Conference, 2004 IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8451-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RAWCON.2004.1389084
  • Filename
    1389084