Analysis of BER for optimum combining with two co-channel interferers and maximal ratio combining with arbitrary number of interferers

Author

Cui, Jian ; Falconer, David D. ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Northern Telecom, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

15-18 Oct 1996

Firstpage

53

Abstract

Antenna diversity is an important technique to combat fading and reduce co-channel interference (CCI). When evaluating the system performance, such as the BER, Monte Carlo simulation is widely used due to the difficulty of analysis. This paper presents the analysis of BER for optimum combining (OC) with two cochannel interferers and maximal ratio combining (MRC) with arbitrary number of interferers. For a DPSK signal, an exact BER expression is derived. The paper also provides an upper bound for BPSK or QAM signals based on results of Foschini and Salz (1983)

Keywords

array signal processing; cochannel interference; coding errors; differential phase shift keying; direction-of-arrival estimation; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; interference suppression; land mobile radio; quadrature amplitude modulation; radiofrequency interference; BER analysis; BPSK signals; DOA; DPSK signal; Monte Carlo simulation; QAM signals; antenna array; cochannel interference reduction; fading; mobile cellular communications; optimum combining; system performance; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Diversity reception; Fading; Interchannel interference; Performance analysis; Radiofrequency interference; System performance; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1996. PIMRC'96., Seventh IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3692-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1996.567513

Filename

567513