Error rates of M-ary signals with. Multichannel reception in Nakagami-m fading channels

Author

Efthymoglou, George P. ; Piboongungon, Terawat ; Aalo, Valentine A.

Author_Institution

TOT Corp. Public Co. Ltd., Bangkok

Volume

10

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

102

Abstract

In this letter, we present closed. form expressions for the exact average symbol-error rate (SER) of M-ary modulations with multichannel reception over Nakagami-m fading channels. The derived expressions extend already available results for the nondiversity case, to maximal-ratio combining-(MRC) and postdetection equal-gain combining (EGC) diversity systems. The average SERs are given in terms of Lauricella´s multivariate hypergeometric function F_D ⁽ⁿ⁾. This function exhibits a finite integral representation that can be used for fast and accurate numerical computation of the derived expressions

Keywords

Nakagami channels; diversity reception; integral equations; modulation; multivariable systems; radio reception; signal representation; EGC; Lauricella´s multivariate hypergeometric function; M-ary modulation; MRC; Nakagami-m fading channel; SER; closed form expression; equal-gain combining diversity system; finite integral representation; maximal-ratio combining; multichannel reception; numerical computation; postdetection system; symbol-error rate; AWGN; Additive white noise; Degradation; Digital communication; Digital modulation; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Integral equations; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2006.02022.

Filename

1584379