BER Analysis of the Alamouti Coding Scheme Using Receive Antenna Selection

Author

Jemmali, Ali ; Conan, Jean

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

20-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

159

Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive performance analysis of the 2 × 2 wireless MIMO Alamouti coding scheme using receive antenna selection. Complete knowledge at the receiver of the Channel State Information (CSI), i.e., perfect knowledge of both the symbol synchronisation and the channel gains, and a MIMO model of uncorrelated Rayleigh fading subchannels are assumed. A receive selection algorithm based on the maximizing Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) is used to select two antennas. Under these conditions, we derive the exact average Bit Error Rate (BER) for Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation using the Moment Generating Function (MGF) and the order statistics associated with the instantaneous SNR at the two selected antennas.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Rayleigh channels; error statistics; network coding; receiving antennas; BER; BPSK modulation; MIMO model; Rayleigh fading subchannels; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; channel state information; moment generating function; receive antenna selection; symbol synchronisation; wireless MIMO Alamouti coding scheme; Bit error rate; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication; 2x2 wireless MIMO; Alamouti coding; BER; BPSK; MGF; antennas selection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8021-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4182-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWMC.2010.19

Filename

5629073