Error rates for Rayleigh fading multichannel reception of MPSK signals

Author

Chennakeshu, S. ; Anderson, J.B.

Author_Institution

Ericsson-GE Mobile Commun. Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Volume

43

Issue

38020

fYear

1995

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

346

Abstract

This paper provides a new closed form expression for calculating the probability that an MPSK signal will lie in a particular decision region when received over N independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. This expression is applied to provide a unified method to derive the exact symbol error rate and bit error rate for MPSK signals considering N channel diversity reception. The N channel diversity reception techniques considered are maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining. MRC with identical channels and dissimilar channels is considered. The results for MRC can be extended to provide an approximation for the error rates of MPSK under equal gain combining.<>

Keywords

Gaussian noise; Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; phase shift keying; probability; radio reception; white noise; MPSK signals; Rayleigh fading; additive white Gaussian noise; bit error rate; decision region; dissimilar channels; diversity reception; equal gain combining; error rates approximation; exact symbol error rate; identical channels; identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels; maximal ratio combining; multichannel reception; probability; selection combining; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Probability; Rayleigh channels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.380052

Filename

380052