• DocumentCode
    828037
  • Title

    Second-order statistics of maximal-ratio and equal-gain combining in Weibull fading

  • Author

    Fraidenraich, Gustavo ; Yacoub, Michel D. ; Filho, José Cândido S Santos

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Commun., State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    499
  • Lastpage
    501
  • Abstract
    Exact expressions for the level crossing rate and average fade duration of M-branch equal-gain and maximal-ratio combining systems in a Weibull fading environment are presented. The expressions apply to unbalanced, nonidentical, independent diversity channels. In addition, new closed-form solutions for some special cases are obtained.
  • Keywords
    Weibull distribution; diversity reception; fading channels; M-branch equal-gain combining system; Weibull fading environment; independent diversity channel; level crossing rate expression; maximal-ratio combining system; nonidentical channel; second-order statistics; unbalanced channel; Closed-form solution; Diversity reception; Probability density function; Rayleigh channels; Reliability engineering; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Weibull distribution; Weibull fading channels; Wireless communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2005.06001
  • Filename
    1437350