Title :
Order statistics for correlated fading channels
Author :
Elkashlan, Maged ; Khattab, Tamer ; Leung, Cyril ; Schober, Robert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, a simple procedure for computing the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the r-th order statistic for correlated Nakagami fading channels with an arbitrary covariance matrix is proposed. This method, numerical in nature, is useful in assessing the impact of correlation on diversity system performance. The method represents a significant theoretical tool that can be applied to the analysis of diversity systems operating over correlative Nakagami-m fading channels. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the effect of fading correlation and fading severity on the received signal statistics.
Keywords :
Nakagami channels; covariance matrices; diversity reception; statistical analysis; correlated Nakagami fading channels; covariance matrix; cumulative distribution function; order statistics; Distribution functions; Diversity reception; Fading; Nakagami distribution; Performance analysis; Random variables; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2005. PACRIM. 2005 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9195-0
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2005.1517299
