Title : 
Comparison of square-law and majority-count diversity combiners
         
        
            Author : 
Reed, Robert ; Pierce, J.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
DECO Electronics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
12/1/1964 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The purpose of this correspondence is to point out that the performance of a square-law diversity combiner with M branches is the same as that of a majority-count combiner with the same branch SNR and with (2M-1) branches.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bandwidth; Degradation; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Frequency modulation; Interference; Phase modulation; Statistics; White noise;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Communication Technology, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TCOM.1964.1088953