BER of Noncoherent MFSK with Postdetection Switch-and-Stay Combining in TWDP Fading

Author

Haghani, Sasan ; Dashtestani, Hadis

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The performance of noncoherent M-ary frequency-shift keying (MFSK) with dual-branch postdetection switch and stay combining (SSC) in two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading is studied. A closed-form expression for the average bit error rate (BER) of noncoherent MFSK with dual-branch postdetection SSC is derived. Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to verify the validity of the obtained analytical expressions. The effects of TWDP fading parameters on the relative performances of postdetection and predetection SSC receivers are studied. It is shown that postdetection SSC has superior performance over predetection SSC.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; error statistics; fading channels; frequency shift keying; BER; Monte Carlo simulation; TWDP fading; bit error rate; dual-branch postdetection SSC; dual-branch postdetection switch and stay combining; noncoherent M-ary frequency-shift keying; noncoherent MFSK; postdetection switch-and-stay combining; two-wave with diffuse power; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Rayleigh channels; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1880-8

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2012.6399242

Filename

6399242