Bit Error Rate of Noncoherent MFSK with S+N Selection Combining in Two Wave with Diffuse Power Fading

Author

Haghani, Sasan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The performance of noncoherent M-ary frequency-shift keying (MFSK) with L branch signal-plus-noise (S+N) selection combining (SC) in two wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading is studied. The fading on the diversity branches are assumed to be independent but not necessarily identically distributed. Two S+N SC receiver structures are examined and for each receiver a tractable bit error rate expression is derived. The effects of fading parameters on the relative performances of S+N SC and classical SC receivers are studied. Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to validate the obtained theoretical results.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; frequency shift keying; radio receivers; M-ary frequency shift keying; Monte Carlo simulation; SC receiver; bit error rate; diffuse power fading; diversity combining; noncoherent MFSK; selection combining; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Rayleigh channels; Receivers; Rician channels; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX, USA

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9266-4

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134234

Filename

6134234