Level crossing rate and average fade duration of selection diversity with Rician-faded cochannel interferers

Author

Hadzi-Velkov, Zoran

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Ss. Cyril & Methodius Univ., Skopje

Volume

10

Issue

9

fYear

2006

Firstpage

649

Lastpage

651

Abstract

We determine the closed-form solutions for the average level crossing rate (LCR) and the average fade duration (AFD) of the arbitrary diversity order selection combiner subject to Rayleigh-faded desired transmission and Rician-faded cochannel interference. The average LCR is found by an original analytical approach that circumvents determination of an explicit expression for the joint PDF of the signal-to-interference ratio and its time derivative. Under specialized conditions, the obtained results reduce to previously known expressions

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; cochannel interference; diversity reception; probability; AFD; LCR; Rayleigh-faded desired transmission; Rician-faded cochannel interferer; average fade duration; joint PDF; level crossing rate; probability distribution function; selection diversity; Closed-form solution; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Interchannel interference; Radiofrequency interference; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Signal analysis; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1714533

Filename

1714533