Level Crossing Rates and Average Fade Durations for Diversity-Combining of Non-identical Correlated Hoyt Signals

Author

Fraidenraich, Gustavo ; Yacoub, Michel D. ; Mendes, éJos R. ; Filho, José Câindido S Santos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., State Univ. of Campinas

fYear

2006

fDate

28-31 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, exact expressions for the level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) for two-branch selection, equal-gain and maximal-ratio combining systems in a Hoyt fading environment are presented. The expressions apply to unbalanced, non-identical, correlated diversity channels and have been validated by specializing the general results to some particular cases whose solutions are known. In passing, the joint bidimensional envelope-phase Hoyt distribution with arbitrary fading parameters is obtained

Keywords

correlation theory; diversity reception; fading channels; AFD; Hoyt fading environment; LCR; average fade duration; bidimensional envelope-phase Hoyt distribution; correlated diversity channel; equal-gain combining; level crossing rate; maximal-ratio combining system; Covariance matrix; Distributed computing; Diversity reception; Fading; Gaussian processes; Rayleigh channels; Reactive power; Receiving antennas; Signal processing; Spread spectrum communication; Average fade duration; Hoyt fading channels; equal-gain combining; level crossing rate; maximal-ratio combining; selection combining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 2006 IEEE Ninth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Manaus-Amazon

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9779-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9780-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSSTA.2006.311722

Filename

4100511