Performance analysis of TCM with generalized selection combining on Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Ramesh, A. ; Chockalingam, A. ; Milstein, L.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

7

Issue

7

fYear

2003

fDate

7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

298

Abstract

We derive the computational cutoff rate, R/sub 0/, for coherent trellis-coded modulation (TCM) schemes on independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels with (K, L) generalized selection combining (GSC) diversity, which combines the K paths with the largest instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) among the L available diversity paths. The cutoff rate is shown to be a simple function of the moment generating function (MGF) of the SNR at the output of the (K, L) GSC receiver. We also derive the union bound on the bit error probability of TCM schemes with (K, L) GSC in the form of a simple, finite integral. The effectiveness of this bound is verified through simulations.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; error statistics; integral equations; radio receivers; trellis coded modulation; GSC diversity; GSC receiver; Rayleigh fading channels; SNR; TCM; bit error probability; coherent trellis-coded modulation; computational cutoff rate; finite integral; generalized selection combining; iid channels; independent identically distributed channels; moment generating function; performance analysis; signal-to-noise ratios; union bound; Decoding; Distributed computing; Diversity reception; Error probability; Fading; Integral equations; Modulation coding; Performance analysis; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2003.813813

Filename

1214051