Lossless Selection Combining without Channel State Information

Author

Kim, Young Gil ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1328

Lastpage

1332

Abstract

A signal-plus-noise (S + JV) energy selection combining (S+JV-ESC) scheme for binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signaling is proposed. The S + JV-ESC selects the branch with the maximum S + JV energy for detection. The advantage of the S + JV-ESC is that it requires no channel estimation for diversity branch selection. The bit error rate (BER) performance of the S +JV-ESC is analyzed for BPSK signaling in independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels. We show that the performance of the S + JV-ESC is the same as conventional signal-to-noise ratio selection combining (SNR-SC), which requires estimation of the fading amplitudes for branch selection.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; phase shift keying; telecommunication signalling; BER performance; BPSK signaling; Rayleigh fading channels; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; channel state information; diversity branch selection; lossless selection; signal-plus-noise energy selection; Amplitude estimation; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Channel estimation; Channel state information; Diversity reception; Fading; Performance analysis; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.258

Filename

4533294