General order selection combining for non-identically distributed Nakagami and Weibull fading channels

Author

Kwan, Raymond ; Leung, Cyril

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ.

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

1509

Lastpage

1514

Abstract

In this paper, some analytical results for general order selection (GOS) over independent but not necessarily identically distributed (i.n.d.) Weibull and Nakagami fading channels are presented. The GOS model is important in multiuser scheduling. By transforming the probability density function (pdf) of the selected channel signal to noise ratio (SNR) into an appropriate form, exact closed-form expressions for the corresponding moment generating function (MGF) and general moments are derived for Weibull fading channels. Using the derived results together with those in R. Kwan and C. Leung (2005), exact closed-form expressions for the symbol error rate are obtained for a number of modulation schemes over the i.n.d. Weibull and Nakagami fading channels. Numerical results show that for the same average channel gains, the performance over i.n.d. channels may be better or worse than over i.i.d. channels

Keywords

Nakagami channels; Weibull distribution; error statistics; modulation; multiuser channels; scheduling; Weibull fading channels; general order selection combining; modulation schemes; moment generating function; multiuser scheduling; nonidentically distributed Nakagami channels; probability density function; signal to noise ratio; symbol error rate; Closed-form solution; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Performance gain; Probability density function; Processor scheduling; Signal generators; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Weibull fading channels;

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.2006.1696511

Filename

1696511