Error Rate Performance of MC DS-CDMA System With Multiple Receive Antennas in Nakagami-m Fading Channel

Author

Hashem, Abdel-Awal A. ; Elnoubi, Said M. ; Elmikati, Hamdy

Author_Institution

Alcatel-Lucent Egypt, Giza

fYear

2007

fDate

13-15 March 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

This paper studies the error rate performance of multi carrier direct sequence code division multiple access (MC DS-CDMA) system in conjunction with maximum ratio combining (MRC) over Nakagami-m multipath fading channel. Multiple receive antenna structure is employed at the receiver side to provide spatial diversity in addition to the frequency diversity offered by the MC system. A closed form one-fold integration, which could be solved numerically without the need for simulations, is derived for BER performance of the system. Furthermore, numerical analysis is conducted for different MC systems over different Nakagami-m channels. In addition, tradeoff analysis is provided among different types of diversities: space, frequency and path diversities.

Keywords

code division multiple access; error statistics; fading channels; BER performance; Error Rate Performance; MC DS-CDMA System; Multi carrier code division multiple access system; Multiple Receive Antennas; Nakagami-/n Fading Channel; maximum ratio combining; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Frequency diversity; Multiaccess communication; Numerical analysis; RAKE receivers; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 2007. NRSC 2007. National

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

977-5031-86-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.2007.371386

Filename

4234133