The effects of channel correlation on maximal ratio combining performance in the presence of cochannel interferers

Author

Tokgoz, Yeliz ; Rao, Bhaskar D.

Author_Institution

Center for Wireless Commun., Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

6-10 April 2003

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the effects of channel correlation on the performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in receive antenna diversity systems. In the analysis, the channel is modelled as flat Rayleigh fading, slowly varying and an arbitrary number of cochannel interferers are assumed to be present. In an interference limited scenario, an exact closed form expression for signal to interference ratio (SIR) distribution is obtained for a dual antenna system. The degradation in the outage probability as a function of the correlation severity is investigated.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; cochannel interference; diversity reception; probability; receiving antennas; time-varying channels; MRC; SIR distribution; channel correlation; cochannel interferers; correlation severity; diversity systems; dual antenna system; exact closed form expression; flat Rayleigh fading; interference limited scenario; maximal ratio combining; outage probability; performance; receive antenna; signal to interference ratio; slowly varying channel; Degradation; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Interference; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03). 2003 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7663-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2003.1202658

Filename

1202658