Selection diversity combining diversity reception of DQPSK for indoor millimetre-wave communications

Author

Choo, L.C. ; Tjhung, T.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

32

Issue

21

fYear

1996

fDate

10/10/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1971

Lastpage

1972

Abstract

A new expression for the bit error rate (BER) of DQPSK in slow Rayleigh fading with a space diversity receiver for the indoor MM-wave channel is derived. The space diversity receiver consists of a cascade arrangement of M-selection and L-maximal ratio combiners, allowing the use of a large number of antennas for performance improvement and combiners with a small number of inputs for low complexity. An efficient computation of the derived closed form error probability expression facilitates a judicious selection of M and L, given a required level of performance

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; differential phase shift keying; digital radio; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; indoor radio; microwave links; quadrature phase shift keying; BER; DQPSK; EHF; L-maximal ratio combiners; M-selection combiners; bit error rate; cascade arrangement; closed form error probability; diversity reception; indoor MM-wave communications; millimetre-wave communications; selection diversity; slow Rayleigh fading; space diversity receiver;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19961342

Filename

542872