Performance analysis of bandwidth efficient coherent modulation schemes with L-fold MRC and SC in Nakagami-m fading channels

Author

Lo, C.M. ; Lam, W.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

572

Abstract

This paper presents the average symbol error rates (SERs) of the 16-ary phase shift keying (16PSK), 16-ary amplitude phase shift keying (16APSK) and 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) with L-fold maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC) space diversity reception over Nakagami-m fading channels. Numerical results manifested error performance improvement when L-fold MRC and SC diversity receptions were employed. Error performance improvement attributed to L=2 MRC diversity reception is comparable with that attributed to L=4 SC diversity reception for the above three 16-ary modulation systems in a Nakagami-m fading channel with m of 5

Keywords

diversity reception; fading channels; land mobile radio; phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-ary amplitude phase shift keying; 16-ary phase shift keying; 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation; 16APSK; 16PSK; 16QAM; L-fold maximal ratio combining; Nakagami-m fading channels; average symbol error rates; bandwidth efficient coherent modulation schemes; error performance; mobile radio; performance analysis; selection combining; space diversity reception; Amplitude modulation; Bandwidth; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Mobile communication; Performance analysis; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2000. PIMRC 2000. The 11th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6463-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2000.881488

Filename

881488