Analysis of transmit antenna selection/ maximal-ratio combining in Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Chen, Zhuo ; Vuceti, Branka ; Yuan, Jinhong ; Lo, Ka Leong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Elec. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1532

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a scheme for combining transmit-antenna selection (TAS) and maximal-ratio combining (MRC) (TAS/MRC). In this scheme a single antenna is chosen for transmission among all available transmit antennas and MRC is performed at the receiver side. The bit error rate (BER) of the TAS/MRC scheme is derived for binary phase-shift-keying (BPSK) in flat Rayleigh fading channels. The analysis shows that the TAS/MRC scheme can achieve the full diversity as if all the transmit antennas were used. The simulation shows that this scheme significantly outperforms the space-time block codes (STBCs) of the same diversity order with the same spectral efficiency.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; phase shift keying; transmitting antennas; BER; Rayleigh fading channels; binary phase-shift-keying; bit-error-rate; diversity; maximal-ratio combining; single antenna; transmit antenna selection analysis; Australia; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Radio frequency; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology Proceedings, 2003. ICCT 2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0686-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2003.1209820

Filename

1209820