Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid SC/MRC over Nakagami-m fading channels

M.-S. Alouini; M.K. Simon

doi:10.1109/25.775365

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Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid SC/MRC over Nakagami-m fading channels

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Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid SC/MRC over Nakagami-m fading channels

M.-S. Alouini and M.K. Simon

IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, Vol.48(4), pp.1155-1164

01/07/1999

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/25.775365

Abstract

Bit error rate

Degradation

Diversity reception

Fading

Laboratories

Nakagami distribution

Performance analysis

Propulsion

Signal to noise ratio

Wireless communication

A performance analysis of two hybrid selective combining/maximal ratio combining (SC/MRC) diversity receivers over Nakagami-m (1960) fading channels with a flat multipath intensity profile is presented and numerically compared with that of the conventional SC and MRC schemes. Numerical results for particular cases of interest show that the bit error rate (BER) degradation arising from the use of hybrid SC/MRC instead of MRC is independent of the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regardless of the severity of the fading and that MRC provides a higher rate of improvement than the hybrid SC/MRC as the severity of fading decreases.

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Title: Performance of coherent receivers with hybrid SC/MRC over Nakagami-m fading channels
Creators - without role: M.-S. Alouini - University of Minnesota
M.K. Simon - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Publication Details: IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, Vol.48(4), pp.1155-1164
Publisher: IEEE
Identifiers: 9943857908331
Academic Unit: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article