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
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030078
