Effect of macrodiversity on average-error probabilities in a Rician fading channel with correlated lognormal shadowing

Author

Zhang, Jingjun ; Aalo, Valentine

Volume

49

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

18

Abstract

The effect of correlated lognormal shadowing on the average probability of error performance of narrow-band mobile communication systems with micro- and macrodiversity reception in a Rician fading channel is studied by considering a constant correlation model for the shadowed signals at the base stations. The performance degradation due to correlated shadowing is illustrated by considering both coherent and differentially coherent binary phase-shift keying schemes. Numerical results presented show that when the base stations in a cellular system are very closely spaced, the effect of correlated shadowing on system performance cannot be ignored

Keywords

Rician channels; cellular radio; correlation methods; differential phase shift keying; diversity reception; error statistics; log normal distribution; BPSK; Rician fading channel; average-error probabilities; base stations; coherent binary phase-shift keying; constant correlation model; correlated lognormal shadowing; differentially coherent binary phase-shift keying; digital cellular systems; macrodiversity reception; microdiversity reception; narrow-band mobile communication systems; performance degradation; shadowed signals; system performance; Base stations; Degradation; Diversity reception; Fading; Mobile communication; Narrowband; Rician channels; Shadow mapping; Signal to noise ratio; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.898244

Filename

898244