Title :
Analysis of transmit antenna selection/maximal-ratio combining in Rayleigh fading channels
Author :
Chen, Zhuo ; Vucetic, Branka ; Yuan, Jinhong ; Lo, Ka Leong
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
fDate :
29 June-4 July 2003
Abstract :
An analytical bit error rate (BER) expression for a transmit antenna selection scheme with maximal-ratio combining at the receiver (TAS/MRC) is derived. The expression shows that this system asymptotically achieves a full diversity order.
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; BER; Rayleigh fading channels; bit error rate; full diversity order; maximal-ratio combining; receive antenna; single antenna; transmit antenna selection; Australia; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Phase shift keying; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7728-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2003.1228108
