Diversity combining for coherent and differential M-PSK in fading and class-A impulsive noise

Author

Schober, R. ; Ma, Y. ; Lampe, L. ; Mathiopoulos, P.T.

Author_Institution

Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

4

Issue

4

fYear

2005

fDate

7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1425

Lastpage

1432

Abstract

In this paper, optimum and suboptimum diversity combining schemes for coherent and differential M-ary phase-shift keying (M-PSK) transmission impaired by general Ricean fading and impulsive Class-A noise are derived and analyzed. The proposed suboptimum coherent combining (SCC) and suboptimum noncoherent combining (SNC) schemes yield similar performance as the corresponding optimum combining schemes but require a lower computational complexity. In addition, the novel SCC and SNC strategies achieve large performance gains over conventional maximum ratio combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC), respectively. For MRC and EGC, respectively, we also provide a performance analysis for coherent and differential M-PSK transmissions over general Ricean fading channels with Class-A noise. Furthermore, tight performance upper bounds for the proposed optimum and suboptimum combining schemes are derived.

Keywords

diversity reception; fading channels; impulse noise; phase shift keying; Ricean fading channel; class-A impulsive noise; coherent M-PSK; computational complexity; differential M-PSK; diversity combining scheme; equal gain combining; maximum ratio combining; phase shift keying; suboptimum coherent combining scheme; suboptimum noncoherent combining scheme; AWGN; Additive white noise; Computational complexity; Diversity reception; Fading; Gaussian noise; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Phase noise; Upper bound; Class-A impulsive noise; diversity combining; fading; performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2005.852124

Filename

1512102