Threshold-based hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining in correlated Nakagami fading

Author

Zhang, Xiaodi ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta.

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

1344

Lastpage

1347

Abstract

The average symbol error rate of threshold-based hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining (T-HS/MRC) with correlated Nakagami-m fading channels is obtained for positive integer values of fading parameter m for a special correlation structure. An accurate approximate analysis of T-HS/MRC in arbitrarily correlated Nakagami-m fading channels is presented by using a Green´s matrix approximation. The derivation allows different M-ary linear modulation schemes. We illustrate our methodology using M-ary phase-shift keying as an example

Keywords

Green´s function methods; Nakagami channels; diversity reception; error statistics; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; Green´s matrix approximation; M-ary linear modulation schemes; M-ary phase-shift keying; arbitrarily correlated Nakagami-m fading channels; average symbol error rate; correlation structure; threshold-based hybrid selection-maximal-ratio combining; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Phase shift keying; Random variables; Signal to noise ratio; System performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0269-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2006.1696482

Filename

1696482