Performance of antenna diversity and decision feedback equalisers in narrowband digital cellular systems

Performance results are given for the combined use of a decision feedback equaliser with antenna diversity in time dispersive Rayleigh fading channels such as those typically encountered in narrowband digital cellular mobile systems. The results show that the use of dual antenna diversity provides significant gains over nondiversity receivers with decision feedback equalisers, and that this performance is robust in the presence of uncompensated paths and correlation between the diversity ports.