MRC performance for M-ary modulation in arbitrarily correlated Nakagami fading channels

Authors
Win, MZ Chrisikos, G Winters, JH
Citation
Mz. Win et al., MRC performance for M-ary modulation in arbitrarily correlated Nakagami fading channels, IEEE COMM L, 4(10), 2000, pp. 301-303
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Information Tecnology & Communication Systems
Journal title
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
ISSN journal
10897798 → ACNP
Volume
4
Issue
10
Year of publication
2000
Pages
301 - 303
Database
ISI
SICI code
1089-7798(200010)4:10<301:MPFMMI>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We derive the symbol error probability for coherent detection of several ty pes of M-ary modulation schemes using maximal ratio combining. We consider Nakagami fading channels, where the instantaneous signal-to noise ratios of the diversity branches are not necessarily independent or identically dist ributed. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transformin g the correlated physical diversity branches into independent virtual branc hes.