• DocumentCode
    1634287
  • Title

    The Optimal BER Linear Rake Receiver for Alpha-Stable Noise

  • Author

    Niranjayan, S. ; Beaulieu, N.C.

  • Author_Institution
    CORE Wireless Commun. Lab., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    5013
  • Lastpage
    5017
  • Abstract
    The optimal linear Rake receiver for the detection of binary signals contaminated by symmetric alpha-stable noise is derived for 1 < alpha les 2. The bit error rate improvements of the optimal linear Rake receiver over the maximal ratio combiner and the equal gain combiner are also derived in the form of signal-to-noise ratio advantage. The proposed receiver is a very simple form of diversity combiner for signal detection in alpha- stable noise.
  • Keywords
    noise; radio receivers; signal detection; binary signal detection; equal gain combiner; maximal ratio combiner; optimal linear Rake receiver; signal-to-noise ratio; symmetric alpha-stable noise; Additive noise; Bit error rate; Fading; Fingers; Gaussian noise; Multipath channels; Multiple access interference; RAKE receivers; Signal detection; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2075-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2075-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICC.2008.940
  • Filename
    4533976