Error Performance of Maximal-Ratio Combining with Transmit Antenna Selection in Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Author

Chen, Zhuo ; Chi, Zhanjiang ; Vucetic, Branka

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, the error performance of an uncoded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) scheme combining single transmit antenna selection and receiver maximal-ratio combining (the TAS/MRC scheme) is investigated for flat Nakagami-m fading channels with binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation. The asymptotic bit error rate (BER) expression is derived, which indicates a diversity order equal to the product of the m parameter, the number of transmit antennas and the number of receive antennas. The exact BER expression is also obtained as an infinite series, which converges for reasonably large signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The theoretic analysis is verified by simulation

Keywords

MIMO communication; Nakagami channels; error statistics; phase shift keying; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; BER; BPSK modulation; MIMO; Nakagami-m fading channels; asymptotic bit error rate; binary phase-shift keying; maximal-ratio combination; signal-to-noise ratios; single transmit antenna selection; uncoded multiple-input-multiple-output scheme; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; MIMO; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0517-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2006.172

Filename

4149349