Asymptotic performance of transmit antenna selection with maximal-ratio combining for generalized selection criterion

Author

Chen, Zhuo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2004

fDate

4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

249

Abstract

In this letter, we investigate the asymptotic error performance of an uncoded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) scheme combining transmit antenna selection and receiver maximal-ratio combining (MRC) with a generalized selection criterion. A single transmit antenna corresponding to a fixed ordinal number of order statistic is selected for uncoded transmission. The order statistics consist of instantaneous channel power gain between each transmit and all the receive antennas. A general asymptotic bit error rate (BER) expression is derived for all values of ordinal number. An interesting conclusion is reached that the system diversity order is proportional to the ordinal number of the selected antenna.

Keywords

MIMO systems; Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; diversity reception; error statistics; higher order statistics; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; BER; MIMO scheme; antenna diversity; asymptotic bit error rate; asymptotic error performance; fading channel; generalized selection criterion; instantaneous channel power gain; order statistics; ordinal number; receive antenna; receiver maximal-ratio combining; single transmit antenna selection; system diversity; uncoded multiple-input-multiple-output; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; MIMO; Random variables; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2004.827978

Filename

1294939