Effects of imperfect reference signal recovery on SSC receiver over generalized fading channels

This paper presents the analysis of the reception of binary and quaternary phase-shift keying (BPSK and QPSK) signals transmitted over the generalized ?-? fading channel. The switched and stay combining (SSC) and then demodulation and detection of the input signal are performed in the dual branch receiver while the estimation of the received signal phase is imperfect. We determine the bit-error rate (BER) dependence on the simultaneous influences of the imperfect reference signal recovery, fading severity and average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the channel.