Outage probability of MRC diversity for arbitrary parameters in Nakagami fading

Performance analysis of wireless communication systems is normally based on outage probability. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and investigation of recent results on outage probabilities for maximal ratio combining (MRC) in an additive white Gaussian noise. Desired signal is subject to Nakagami fading with arbitrary fading parameters. Using the moment generating function based method, the probability density function (pdf) is derived in terms of output signal to noise ratio (SNR) for MRC. The approximate analytical results show the accurate way to access the outage probability for MRC with the Nakagami fading parameters are arbitrary.