• DocumentCode
    1154782
  • Title

    Performance of M-QAM with coherent equal-gain combining in correlated Nakagami-m fading

  • Author

    Iskander, C.D. ; Mathiopoulos, P.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Canada
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    141
  • Lastpage
    142
  • Abstract
    The exact symbol error rate of M-QAM modulation is derived in closed-form for mobile radio systems using dual-branch equal-gain combining, when the received signals are Nakagami-m distributed and arbitrarily correlated. The method of derivation can be applied to any other coherent modulation scheme.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; fading channels; mobile radio; quadrature amplitude modulation; M-QAM; coherent equal-gain combining; coherent modulation scheme; correlated Nakagami-m fading; dual-branch equal-gain combining; exact symbol error rate; mobile radio systems; quadrature amplitude modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030078
  • Filename
    1182404