Error probability for maximal ratio combining on 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

1786

Abstract

In this paper, the error probability of maximal ratio combining (MRC) 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 error probability expressions are obtained.

Keywords

AWGN channels; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; multipath channels; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; M-ary PAM; M-ary linearly modulated systems; MRC multichannel reception; PSK; QAM; SNR characteristic function; SNR probability density function; channel state information; correlated Nakagami fading channels; equivalent scalar additive white Gaussian noise channel; maximal ratio combining error probability; multipath diversity; AWGN; Additive white noise; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; MIMO; 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.2004.1400343

Filename

1400343