Closed-form analysis of dual-diversity equal-gain combining over Rayleigh fading channels

被引:12
作者
Qi, XY [1 ]
Alouini, MS
Ko, YC
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Texas Instruments Inc, Wireless Ctr, San Diego, CA 92121 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Diversity combining; equal gain combining; M-ary phase-shift-keying; performance analysis; Rayleigh fading;
D O I
10.1109/TWC.2003.819027
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Starting with a new expression for the probability density function of the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of dual-diversity equal-gain combining (EGC) over Rayleigh channels, we provide closed-form expressions for the average bit and symbol error rate of M-ary phase-shift keying signals. Numerical examples indicate that EGC maintains a good diversity gain as long as the degree of unbalance is not very low but suffers a sharp and significant degradation when the degree of unbalance approaches zero.
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页码:1120 / 1125
页数:6
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