Two-Branch Selection in Wireless Space-Diversity Reception: An Upper Bound for its Output Power

Author

Lin, Liang-Ching ; Guo, Meihui ; Wong, Kainam Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

60

Issue

2

fYear

2012

fDate

2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

537

Lastpage

546

Abstract

This paper analytically derives an upper bound for the output power of two-sensor branch-selection (a.k.a. "antenna selection," "selection diversity," or "selection combining") reception, based on an empirically proven "geometric model" of the wireless propagation channel. The derived upper bound is explicit in terms of the geometric model parameters. The tightness of this upper bound is verified by Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; antennas; wireless channels; Monte Carlo simulations; antenna selection; output power; selection combining; selection diversity; two-sensor branch-selection; wireless propagation channel; wireless space-diversity reception; Diversity reception; Monte Carlo methods; Sensors; Transmitters; Upper bound; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Communication channels; dispersive channels; fading channels; geometric modeling; multipath channels; scatter channels; space division switching; spatial correlation; stochastic geometry;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2011.121211.100535

Filename

6109372