An error probability formula for noncoherent orthogonal binary FSK with dual diversity on correlated Rician channels

Author

Vitetta, Giorgio M. ; Mengali, Umberto ; Taylor, Desmond P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Modena Univ., Italy

Volume

3

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

45

Abstract

We derive a novel error probability formula for noncoherent detection of orthogonal binary frequency-shift keying with dual diversity and equal gain combining in the presence of slow, correlated, Rician time-selective fading. Numerical results indicate that: (1) fading correlation may produce a substantial performance loss and (2) the error performance of the noncoherent detector improves uniformly as the intensity of the line-of-sight signal component increases.

Keywords

Rician channels; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; frequency shift keying; signal detection; BER; LOS; Rician time-selective fading; correlated Rician channels; dual diversity; equal gain combining; error performance; error probability formula; fading correlation; frequency-shift keying; line-of-sight signal component; noncoherent detection; noncoherent detector; noncoherent orthogonal binary FSK; slow correlated fading; Bit error rate; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Matched filters; Random variables; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4234.749357

Filename

749357