Probability of symbol error for MPSK, MDPSK and noncoherent MPSK with MRC and SC space diversity in Nakagami-m fading channel

Author

Lo, C.M. ; Lam, W.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1427

Abstract

This paper derives analytically some simple closed form expressions for the average symbol error rate (SER) of M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK), M-ary differential phase shift keying (MDPSK) and noncoherent M-ary frequency shift keying (MFSK) over a Nakagami-m (1960) fading channel with L-fold maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selection combining (SC) space diversity reception. Numerical results demonstrate the error performance improvement by employing MRC and SC diversity reception in the above communications systems and show that MRC improves the error performance more significantly than does simple SC

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; frequency shift keying; land mobile radio; phase shift keying; M-ary differential phase shift keying; M-ary phase shift keying; MDPSK; MFSK; MPSK; MRC; Nakagami-m fading channel; SC space diversity; average symbol error rate; closed form expressions; communications systems; error performance improvement; maximal ratio combining; mobile communications channels; noncoherent M-ary frequency shift keying; noncoherent MPSK; selection combining; space diversity reception; symbol error probability; Differential phase shift keying; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Mobile communication; Nakagami distribution; Performance analysis; Phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6596-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2000.904841

Filename

904841