Unified Theoretical Expressions for the Average Error Rate of Selection Diversity with Arbitrary Coded and Uncoded Modulation in Slow Rayleigh Fading and Their Application to Analytical, Semi-Analytical and Simulation Performance Evaluation

Author

Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

6-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A unified theory for selection combining diversity in Rayleigh fading channels is derived. It is shown that the performance of arbitrary systems used with selection combining diversity can be expressed in terms of only the performance of the system on a single branch Rayleigh fading channel. The results are valid for coded and uncoded transmission as well as for balanced (equal power) diversity branches and unbalanced (unequal power) diversity branches. The unified theory encompasses both general noise and general interference.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; interference (signal); modulation coding; Rayleigh fading channels; arbitrary coded modulation; average error rate; general interference; general noise; selection combining diversity; uncoded modulation; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Interference; Modulation; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5636-9

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5683406

Filename

5683406