• DocumentCode
    812319
  • Title

    The Second Order Statistics of Maximal Ratio Combining with Unbalanced Branches

  • Author

    Ivanis, Predrag ; Drajic, Dusan ; Vucetic, Branka

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Belgrade, Belgrade
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    508
  • Lastpage
    510
  • Abstract
    In this letter, exact closed form expressions for the level crossing rate and the autocorrelation function are derived for maximum-ratio-combining with independent but unbalanced diversity branches. The novel expressions are given for Rayleigh propagation and an arbitrary number of diversity branches. The derived identities can be applied to isotropic as well as to nonisotropic scattering environment. The analytical results are validated by simulation.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh channels; higher order statistics; telecommunication computing; Rayleigh propagation; autocorrelation function; level crossing rate; second order statistics; Analytical models; Autocorrelation; Diversity reception; Fading; Genetic expression; Rayleigh channels; Rayleigh scattering; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080376
  • Filename
    4570454