Canonical expressions for the error probability performance of M-ary modulation with hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining in Rayleigh fading

Author

Win, Moe Z. ; Mallik, Ranjan K. ; Chrisikos, George ; Winters, Jack H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Wireless Syst. Res., Newman Spring Lab., Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

266

Abstract

Hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining (H-S/MRC) is a reduced-complexity diversity combining scheme, where L out of N diversity branches (with the largest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at each instant) are selected and combined using maximal-ratio combining (MRC). We derive closed-form expressions for the symbol error probability (SEP) of a H-S/MRC diversity system with arbitrary L and N. We consider coherent detection of M-ary phase-shift keying (MPSK) for the case of independent Rayleigh fading with equal SNR averaged over the fading

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; phase shift keying; signal detection; M-ary modulation; M-ary phase-shift keying; MPSK; SNR; canonical expressions; closed-form expressions; coherent detection; diversity branches; error probability performance; hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining; independent Rayleigh fading; reduced-complexity diversity combining; signal-to-noise ratio; symbol error probability; Bit error rate; Closed-form solution; Diversity reception; Electronic mail; Error probability; Fading; Lifting equipment; Phase shift keying; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.797828

Filename

797828