BER performance comparison of MIMO system with STBC and MRC over different fading channels

Author

Tiwari, Keerti ; Saini, Davinder S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Jaypee Univ. of Inf. Technol., Waknaghat, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In the present wireless scenario, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging technique in wireless communication to achieve reliability and high throughput. Transmit diversity i.e. Alamouti space time block codes (STBC) and receiver diversity i.e. maximal ratio combining (MRC), are used to improve the link performance. In this paper, bit error rate (BER) performance is evaluated using distinct modulation schemes like BPSK, QPSK, and 16-QAM with STBC and MRC diversity techniques over Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami-m fading channels. It is shown by simulated results that improved BER is achieved using MRC. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is considered from 0 to 20 dB.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; channel coding; diversity reception; error statistics; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; radio receivers; space-time block codes; Alamouti STBC; BER performance; BPSK; MIMO system; MRC; Nakagami-m fading channel; QAM; QPSK; Rayleigh fading channel; Rician fading channel; SNR; binary phase shift keying; bit error rate; fading channel; link performance; maximal ratio combining; multiple input multiple output system; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; receiver diversity transmission; signal-to-noise ratio; space time block code; wireless communication reliability; Antennas; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Nonlinear optics; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio; 16-QAM; Alamouti STBC; BPSK; MIMO; MRC; Nakagami-m fading; QPSK; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Applications (ICHPCA), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5957-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHPCA.2014.7045307

Filename

7045307