Performance analysis for maximal-ratio combining in correlated generalized Rician fading

Author

Cheng, Jay ; Berger, Toby

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

9-12 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

1672

Abstract

In this paper, we perform the analysis of average symbol error probability (SEP) for a diversity system over generalized Rician fading channels with correlated branches. This class of fading subsumes generalized Rayleigh fading, Nakagami-q (Hoyt) fading, generalized gamma fading, Nakagami fading, Rician fading, and Rayleigh fading as special cases, which are among the most popular fading models considered in the published literature. We derive a series expression of the average SEP for a general class of M-ary modulation schemes (including MPSK, MQAM, BFSK, and MSK) with maximal-ratio combining (MRC). The series expression is in canonical form as a weighted sum of elementary closed-form expressions, which are the closed-form expressions for the average SEP of a single-branch system in Nakagami fading environments.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; diversity reception; error statistics; modulation; M-ary modulation scheme; MRC; Nakagami-q fading; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading channel; SEP; diversity system; gamma fading; maximal-ratio combining; symbol error probability; Closed-form solution; Covariance matrix; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Performance analysis; Random variables; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8104-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292269

Filename

1292269