Capacity of maximal ratio combining reception over correlated Nakagami fading channels

Author

Li, Wei ; Zhang, Hao ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1791

Abstract

In this paper, the capacity of maximal ratio combining is considered for different modulation schemes on correlated Nakagami fading channels. Based on an equivalent scalar additive white Gaussian noise channel, we derive the characteristic function (CF) and the probability density function (PDF) of the signal to noise ratio for MRC reception. Using these CF and PDF results, closed form capacity expressions are obtained.

Keywords

AWGN channels; channel capacity; diversity reception; fading channels; phase shift keying; probability; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; MRC reception; PAM; PDF; PSK; QAM; characteristic function; closed form capacity expressions; correlated Nakagami fading channels; maximal ratio combining reception; modulation schemes; probability density function; scalar additive white Gaussian noise channel; signal to noise ratio; AWGN; Capacity planning; Channel capacity; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Phase shift keying; Probability density function; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1400344

Filename

1400344