Approximate SER of H-S/MRC in Nakagami fading with arbitrary branch power correlation

Author

Zhang, Xiaodi ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

54

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

60

Abstract

An accurate approximation to the average symbol-error rate of hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining (H-S/MRC) in correlated Nakagami-m fading with positive integer values of m is obtained by using a Green´s matrix approximation. This approach is valid for different M-ary linear modulation schemes. We illustrate our methodology using M-ary phase-shift keying as an example.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; error statistics; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; Greens matrix approximation; M-ary linear modulation schemes; M-ary phase-shift keying; Nakagami-m fading; approximate symbol error rate; arbitrary branch power correlation; hybrid selection-maximal-ratio combining; Diversity reception; Fading; Nakagami distribution; Phase shift keying; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; System performance; Telephone sets; Correlated fading; Nakagami fading; diversity; hybrid selection/maximal-ratio combining (H-S/MRC); signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); symbol-error rate (SER);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2005.861670

Filename

1576949