Diversity gains in two-ray fading channels

Author

Bakir, Lu´ay ; Frolik, Jeff

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Volume

8

Issue

2

fYear

2009

Firstpage

968

Lastpage

977

Abstract

A two-ray, small-scale fading model was recently proposed as a worst-case fading scenario for certain wireless sensor applications. Empirical data motivated this development for fading was found to be more severe than predicted by Rayleigh fading statistics, a behavior referred to as hyper-Rayleigh fading. Based on the two-ray model, we study the benefits of M-branch diversity in the context of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit-error rate (BER) performance metrics. While these results are well-known for Rayleigh fading, this work is the first analysis of diversity for the hyper-Rayleigh regime.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; wireless sensor networks; BER performance; Rayleigh fading statistics; bit-error rate; diversity gain; two-ray fading channel; wireless sensor application; Bit error rate; Context modeling; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Frequency; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Wireless sensor networks; Communication channels; Rayleigh channels; diversity methods; fading channels; multipath channels; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2009.080030

Filename

4786459