Analysis of transmit antenna selection/orthogonal space-time block coding with receive selection and combining in the presence of feedback errors

Examining the effect of imperfect transmit antenna selection (TAS) caused by the feedback link errors on the performance of hybrid TAS/orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC) with single receive antenna selection (i.e., joint transmit and receive antenna selection (JTRAS)/OSTBC) and TAS/OSTBC (with receive maximal-ratio combining-like combining structure) over slow and frequency-flat Nakagami-m fading channels is the main objective of this paper. Under ideal channel estimation and delay-free feedback assumptions, statistical expressions and several performance metrics related to the post-processing signal-to-noise ratio are derived by defining a unified system model concerning both JTRAS/OSTBC and TAS/OSTBC schemes. Exact analytical expressions for outage probability (OP) and bit/symbol error rates of M-ary modulations are presented in order to provide a detailed examination on the OP and error performances of the unified system that experiences feedback errors. Also, the asymptotic diversity order analysis, which shows that the diversity order of the investigated schemes is equal to the diversity order provided by OSTBC transmission itself, is included in the paper. Moreover, we have validated the theoretical results via Monte Carlo simulations. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.