Fading correlation and its effect on the second order statistics of MRC diversity for Hoyt mobile radio channels

Author

Zeribi, Mourad ; Youssef, Neji ; Choubani, Fethi

Author_Institution

Ecole Super. des Commun. de Tunis, Tunis

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper deals with the statistics of diversity signals in the case of a transmission over Hoyt multipath fading environments. Closed form expression for the autocorrelation function (ACF) of Hoyt fading processes is first derived. The second order statistics, in terms of the level crossing rate (LCR) and the average fade duration (AFD) are then presented for the case of dual-branch maximum ratio combining (MRC) diversity. In the derivation, the signals of the diversity branches are assumed to be correlated.

Keywords

fading channels; mobile radio; statistics; Hoyt mobile radio channels; MRC diversity; autocorrelation function; average fade duration; dual-branch maximum ratio combining diversity; fading correlation; level crossing rate; second order statistics; Autocorrelation; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Gaussian processes; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Signal processing; Statistics; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2005. ICECS 2005. 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gammarth

Print_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2005.4633454

Filename

4633454