Title :
Error probability performance of L-branch diversity reception of MQAM in Rayleigh fading
Author :
Lu, J. ; Tjhung, T.T. ; Chai, C.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
fDate :
2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
New exact expressions involving hypergeometric functions are derived for the symbol-error rate (SER) of M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) for L branch diversity reception in Rayleigh fading and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The diversity combining techniques considered are maximum ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC). MRC with identical channels and dissimilar channels are analyzed
Keywords :
Gaussian channels; Gaussian noise; Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; quadrature amplitude modulation; white noise; L-branch diversity reception; M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation; MQAM; Rayleigh fading; additive white Gaussian noise; dissimilar channels; diversity combining techniques; error probability performance; hypergeometric functions; identical channels; maximum ratio combining; selection combining; symbol-error rate; AWGN; Additive white noise; Aggregates; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Rayleigh channels;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
