Order statistics for correlated fading channels

Author

Elkashlan, Maged ; Khattab, Tamer ; Leung, Cyril ; Schober, Robert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

359

Abstract

In this paper, a simple procedure for computing the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the r-th order statistic for correlated Nakagami fading channels with an arbitrary covariance matrix is proposed. This method, numerical in nature, is useful in assessing the impact of correlation on diversity system performance. The method represents a significant theoretical tool that can be applied to the analysis of diversity systems operating over correlative Nakagami-m fading channels. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the effect of fading correlation and fading severity on the received signal statistics.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; covariance matrices; diversity reception; statistical analysis; correlated Nakagami fading channels; covariance matrix; cumulative distribution function; order statistics; Distribution functions; Diversity reception; Fading; Nakagami distribution; Performance analysis; Random variables; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2005. PACRIM. 2005 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9195-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.2005.1517299

Filename

1517299