Title :
Performance Analysis of Convolutional Codes over Fading Channels with Maximum Ratio Combining Diversity
Author :
Farhadi, Golnaz ; Beaulieu, Norman C.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Email: gfarhadi@ece.ualberta.ca
Abstract :
We study the exact bit error rate (BER) performance of convolutional codes with hard decision Viterbi decoding when used over fading additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels with maximum ratio combining (MRC) diversity. Analytical expressions for the bit error rates in Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami-m fading channels are derived. The accuracy of the analytical results is verified by computer simulation.
Keywords :
AWGN; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Diversity reception; Fading; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Viterbi algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0355-3
Electronic_ISBN :
8164-9547
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2006.255486
