A New Formula for the BER of Binary Modulations with Dual-Branch Selection over Generalized-K Composite Fading Channels

Author

Ansari, Imran Shafique ; Al-Ahmadi, Saad ; Yilmaz, Ferkan ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim ; Yanikomeroglu, Halim

Author_Institution

King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Volume

59

Issue

10

fYear

2011

fDate

10/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2654

Lastpage

2658

Abstract

Error performance is one of the main performance measures and the derivation of its closed-form expression has proved to be quite involved for certain communication systems operating over composite fading channels. In this letter, a unified closed-form expression, applicable to different binary modulation schemes, for the bit error rate of dual-branch selection diversity based systems undergoing independent but not necessarily identically distributed generalized-K fading is derived in terms of the extended generalized bivariate Meijer G-function.

Keywords

diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; modulation; BER; binary modulation; bit error rate; bivariate Meijer G-function; composite fading channel; distributed generalized-K fading; dual-branch selection diversity; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; Modulation; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Diversity schemes; and Meijer G-function distribution; binary modulation schemes; bit error rate (BER); composite fading; dual-branch selection diversity; generalized-K (GK) model; selection combining;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2011.063011.100303A

Filename

5957242