Performance analysis of output-threshold generalized selection combining (OT-GSC) over Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Le Yang ; Yang, Hong-Chuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

1348

Lastpage

1353

Abstract

Generalized selection combining (GSC), also known as hybrid selection/maximum ratio combining, is one of the most widely investigated low-complexity diversity techniques. Recently, output-threshold GSC (OT-GSC) was proposed as a power-saving variant of traditional GSC scheme. In this paper, we present an exact performance analysis of OT-GSC over Rayleigh fading channels. In particular, we obtain the cumulative distribution function (CDF), probability density function (PDF) and moment generation function (MGF) of the combined SNR with OT-GSC. Then, we apply these results to study the outage probability and average error rate performance of OT-GSC. These analysis allows for a thorough comparison of OT-GSC with other variants of GSC, such as minimum selection GSC

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; Rayleigh fading channels; SNR; average error rate performance; cumulative distribution function; hybrid selection-maximum ratio combining; low-complexity diversity techniques; moment generation function; outage probability; output-threshold generalized selection combining; performance analysis; power-saving variant; probability density function; Distribution functions; Diversity reception; Energy consumption; Error analysis; Fading; Hardware; Performance analysis; Probability density function; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;

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.2006.1696483

Filename

1696483