Title :
Moment based analysis of equal gain combiner in equally correlated Nakagami-m fading channels
Author :
Chen, Yunxia ; Tellambura, Chintha
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
Moments of the equal gain combiner (EGC) output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are only known for independent and exponentially correlated Nakagami-m fading channels. We derive the moments of the EGC output SNR in equally correlated Nakagami-m fading channels. Our moment expressions can be used to evaluate the outage and the average error rate of EGC as well as purely moments-based measures such as the average output SNR and the amount of fading as functions of the fading correlation. Numerical results that illustrate the effect of fading correlation on the distribution of the EGC output SNR are also provided. The average output SNR increases with the fading correlation.
Keywords :
diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; SNR; average error rate; correlated Nakagami-m fading channels; diversity branches; equal gain combiner; fading correlation; moment based analysis; outage; signal-to-noise ratio; Antenna measurements; Bit error rate; Closed-form solution; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Performance analysis; Probability density function; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8966-2
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424621
