Title :
Sensitivity analysis of the performance of a diversity receiver
Author :
Diouris, J.F. ; McLaughlin, S. ; Zeidler, J.
Author_Institution :
Lab. SEI, Nantes Univ., France
Abstract :
This paper investigates the performance of a compact space-time diversity receiver for mobile communication systems. Expressions for the bit error rate and outage mean SNR are derived as a function of the channel covariance matrix. These results define the sensitivity of the performance of such a receiver to the environment (fading characteristics and angular spread) and the antenna array (geometry and coupling)
Keywords :
antenna arrays; covariance matrices; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; land mobile radio; radio receivers; BER; angular spread; antenna array coupling; antenna array geometry; bit error rate; channel covariance matrix; fading characteristics; outage mean SNR; performance; sensitivity analysis; space-time diversity receiver; Antenna arrays; Bit error rate; Covariance matrix; Fading; Fluctuations; Matrix decomposition; Multiaccess communication; Receiving antennas; Sensitivity analysis; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5284-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1999.765496
