Performance of a Predetection EGC Receiver in Hoyt Fading Channels for Arbitrary Number of Branches

Author

Baid, Akash ; Fadnavis, Harsh ; Sahu, P.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Guwahati

Volume

12

Issue

9

fYear

2008

fDate

9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

627

Lastpage

629

Abstract

Simple and accurate expressions for the performance of an L branch equal gain combining receiver in independent Hoyt fading channels are presented. Using an approximate but highly accurate probability density function of the sum of Hoyt random variables, expressions for the average bit error rate for binary, coherent and noncoherent modulations have been obtained. The effect of the number of diversity branches on the normalized average output SNR is examined. The results have been verified against available results.

Keywords

diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; modulation; probability; radio receivers; Hoyt fading channels; Hoyt random variables; L branch equal gain combining receiver; average bit error rate; coherent modulation; diversity branches; noncoherent modulation; predetection EGC receiver; probability density function; Bit error rate; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Phase shift keying; Probability density function; Random variables; ABER; Hoyt fading; Predetection EGC;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080297

Filename

4623760