Coherent detection of biorthogonal signals over Rayleigh fading channels

A practical coherent detection scheme for biorthogonal signals over Rayleigh fading channels is proposed. The proposed scheme improves the bit error rate (BER) performance compared to the noncoherent detection schemes for biorthogonal signals. It also outperforms the coherent and noncoherent detection schemes for orthogonal signals with comparable bandwidth efficiency. The BER performance for a Rayleigh fading channel with two path diversity combining is obtained by computer simulation. The results show that the required average signal-to-noise ratio per bit γ_b can be reduced by as much as 1.4 dB when we use this system in the CDMA cellular reverse link