Title :
Maximum achievable diversity order for cascaded Rayleigh fading channels
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Ont., Canada
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20053050
