Title : 
Equivalence between Nakagami channels and Rayleigh channels with diversity
         
        
            Author : 
Khan, Muhammad Ajmal ; Sheikh, Asrar U H
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Electr. Eng. Dept., King Fahd Univ. of Pet.&Miner. (KFUPM), Dhahran
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, the relationship between MRC diversity and Nakagami-m fading is investigated. The error performances of several modulation schemes with diversity over Rayleigh fading and without diversity over Nakagami-m fading is analyzed and compared. The analysis is further extended to diversity over Nakagami-m fading channel. An attempt has been made to find the physical interpretation of Nakagami-m with MRC diversity over Rayleigh fading channel. A novel equivalence is obtained between diversity orders over Rayleigh fading and Nakagami parameter m. The results are also verified by Monte Carlo simulations.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Monte Carlo methods; Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; modulation; MRC diversity reception; Monte Carlo simulation; Nakagami-m fading channel; Rayleigh channel; maximal ratio combining; modulation scheme; Fading; Fluctuations; Minerals; Nakagami distribution; Performance analysis; Petroleum; Propagation losses; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical distributions;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications, Signals and Coding, 2008. MIC-CSC '08. Proceedings of the Mosharaka International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Amman
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-9957-486-05-1