Error probability for maximum ratio combining multichannel reception of M-ary coherent systems over flat Ricean fading channels

Author

Zhang, Hao ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

21-25 March 2004

Firstpage

306

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a simple closed-form series expression for the error probability of maximum ratio combining (MRC) multichannel reception of M-ary coherent systems over flat Ricean fading channels. This series expansion provides a simple and numerically efficient mean of calculating the error probability with controlled accuracy. M-ary PAM, PSK and QAM systems are investigated.

Keywords

Rician channels; computational complexity; error statistics; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; M-ary PAM systems; M-ary coherent systems; PSK systems; QAM systems; error probability; flat Ricean fading channels; maximum ratio combining multichannel reception; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; AWGN; Additive white noise; Closed-form solution; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Frequency; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8344-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311562

Filename

1311562