• DocumentCode
    1237452
  • Title

    Maximum achievable diversity order for cascaded Rayleigh fading channels

  • Author

    Uysal, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    23
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    1289
  • Lastpage
    1290
  • Abstract
    In this Letter, we investigate the error rate performance of coherent M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK) modulation over cascaded Rayleigh fading with receive antenna diversity. Through the derived symbol error rate (SER) expression, we present the maximum diversity order achievable over such channels and demonstrate the performance degradation in comparison to conventional Rayleigh channels.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; mobile radio; multipath channels; phase shift keying; M-ary phase shift keying; Rayleigh channel model; cascaded Rayleigh distribution; cascaded Rayleigh fading channels; coherently detected M-PSK signals; maximum achievable diversity order; mobile-to-mobile communication scenarios; multipath fading; receive antenna diversity; symbol error rate performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20053050
  • Filename
    1541777