Switching Rates of Dual Selection Diversity in kappa-mu and alpha-mu Fading Channels

Switching rate is an important parameter in selection diversity receiver design because the switching transients increase the system outage. An exact closed-form solution for the switching rate of dual selection diversity in kappa-mu and alpha-mu distributed fadings is derived. Independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) kappa-mu and alpha-mu fading channels are considered. The switching rate for dual i.i.d. kappa-mu distributed fading includes the switching rate for dual i.i.d. Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami-m fading channels as special cases. Similarly, the switching rate for dual alpha-mu fading channels also includes special cases such as Rayleigh, Nakagami-m and Weibull fading channels.