Symbol Error Probability Analysis of L-Branch Maximal-Ratio Combiner for Generalized eta-mu Fading

Maximal-Ratio Combiner (MRC) performances in fading channels have been of interest for a long time, which can be seen by a number of papers concerning this topic. Most of these papers treat Rayleigh, Nakagami-m, Hoyt, Rice or Weibull fading. This paper treats symbol error probability (SEP) performances of MRC in presence of generalized eta-mu fading. In this paper, we will present eta-mu fading model, and expressions for SEP of the L-branch MRC output. SEP will be treated for a broad class of modulation types and for non-coherent type of detection. SEP performances of the MRC will be presented via Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical expressions.