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

Volume

46

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

181

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.659476

Filename

659476