MRC performance for M-ary modulation in arbitrarily correlated Nakagami fading channels

Author

Win, Moe Z. ; Chrisikos, George ; Winters, Jack H.

Author_Institution

Wireless Syst. Res. Dept., AT&T Labs.-Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

4

Issue

10

fYear

2000

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

303

Abstract

We derive the symbol error probability for coherent detection of several types of M-ary modulation schemes using maximal ratio combining. We consider Nakagami fading channels, where the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios of the diversity branches are not necessarily independent or identically distributed. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transforming the correlated physical diversity branches into independent virtual branches.

Keywords

diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; modulation; signal detection; M-ary modulation; MRC performance; SNR distributions; coherent detection; correlated Nakagami fading channels; correlated physical diversity branches; independent virtual branches; instantaneous SNR; integer-order fading parameters; maximal ratio combining; signal-to-noise ratio; symbol error probability; Antenna accessories; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Lifting equipment; Nakagami distribution; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4234.880815

Filename

880815