BER analysis of QAM with MRC space diversity in Rayleigh fading channel

Author

Chang-Joo Kim ; Young-Su Kim ; Coo-Young Jung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Sci., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

27-29 Sep 1995

Firstpage

482

Abstract

This paper analyzes the bit error rate (BER) for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with L-fold maximal ratio combining (MRC) space diversity in Rayleigh fading channel. The formula is obtained by averaging the bit error probability of M-ary QAM in an additive white Gaussian noise channel over a chi-square distribution with 2L degrees of freedom. This formula overcomes the limitations of the earlier work, which has been limited only to deriving a BER for QAM with two branch MRC space diversity. The BER performance of quadrature phase shift keying with MRC diversity is obtained from the derived formula by setting M=4

Keywords

Gaussian channels; Rayleigh channels; cellular radio; digital radio; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; land mobile radio; probability; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; BER analysis; L-fold maximal ratio combining space diversity; M-ary QAM; MRC space diversity; QAM; Rayleigh fading channel; additive white Gaussian noise channel; bit error probability; bit error rate; chi-square distribution; digital cellular systems; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; AWGN channels; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Frequency; Mobile communication; Quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1995. PIMRC'95. Wireless: Merging onto the Information Superhighway., Sixth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3002-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1995.480915

Filename

480915