Average level crossing rate and average fade duration of MRC and EGC diversity

Author

Dong, Xiaofei ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1078

Abstract

The average level crossing rate and average fade duration of the output signal of a maximal ratio combiner and equal gain combiner, operating on independent Ricean (1940) fading input branch signals are derived. Exact, closed-form results are obtained for MRC diversity, while exact expressions for EGC diversity are presented with an infinite series method. The results are valid for an arbitrary number of independent, identically distributed diversity branches

Keywords

Rician channels; approximation theory; diversity reception; multipath channels; series (mathematics); EGC diversity; MRC diversity; average fade duration; average level crossing rate; equal gain combiner; exact closed-form results; exact expressions; i.i.d. diversity branches; independent Ricean fading input branch signals; independent identically distributed diversity branches; infinite series method; maximal ratio combiner; multipath propagation; output signal; precise approximation; Closed-form solution; Digital communication; Diversity reception; Erbium; Fading; Performance gain; Rayleigh channels; Scattering parameters; Signal analysis; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.936816

Filename

936816