Performance of MRC diversity in a combined Rician fading channel with correlated cochannel interferers

Author

Abdel-Hafez, Mohammed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., United Arab Emirates Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

550

Abstract

Exact and new formulas are obtained for calculating the bit error rate (BER) performance of digital microcellular radio systems employing maximal ratio combining (MRC) diversity in an environment with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), correlated cochannel interferers, Rician fading and lognormal shadowing using DPSK/NCFSK modulations. The performance gain due to diversity order is shown and compared with the reduction by the presence of correlated shadowing introduced by the desired signal and the cochannel interferers. Effects of bit energy to noise power density E_b/N₀, number of diversity branches, correlation coefficient, shadow spread and Rice factor of the desired signal were investigated

Keywords

AWGN channels; Rician channels; cochannel interference; differential phase shift keying; digital radio; diversity reception; error statistics; frequency shift keying; microcellular radio; AWGN; BER; DPSK; MRC diversity; NCFSK; Rician fading channel; additive white Gaussian noise; bit error rate; correlated cochannel interferers; digital microcellular radio systems; lognormal shadowing; maximal ratio combining diversity; AWGN; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Digital modulation; Diversity reception; Gaussian noise; Performance gain; Rician channels; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7080-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953692

Filename

953692