Performance of maximal-ratio diversity systems in a correlated Nakagami-fading environment

Author

Aalo, Valentine A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

Volume

43

Issue

8

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2360

Lastpage

2369

Abstract

The bit error rate (BER) performance of an M-branch maximal-ratio combiner (MRC) for the detection of signals in a correlated Nakagami-fading channel is analyzed. Coherent and incoherent detection of frequency shift-keying (FSK) and phase-shift keying (PSK) signals are considered. It is assumed that the fading parameters in each diversity branch are identical. The effect of correlation is studied by assuming two types of correlation among the quadrature components of the signals in each diversity branch. Outage probabilities are also calculated for the digital radio communication systems via the correlated fading channel

Keywords

correlation methods; digital radio; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; frequency shift keying; land mobile radio; phase shift keying; signal detection; telecommunication network reliability; FSK; M-branch maximal-ratio combiner; PSK; bit error rate performance; coherent detection; correlated Nakagami-fading environment; correlated fading channel; detection; digital radio communication; diversity branch; fading parameters; frequency shift-keying; incoherent detection; maximal-ratio diversity systems; outage probabilities; phase-shift keying; quadrature components; Bit error rate; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Performance analysis; Phase detection; Phase frequency detector; Phase shift keying; Probability; Signal analysis; Signal detection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.403769

Filename

403769