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Performance Analysis of SC/MRC Scheme over Correlated Nakagami Fading Channel

LI Tao1, WANG Bao-yun2,3, TIAN Feng3   

  1. 1. College of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China;
    2. National Mobile Communication Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
    3. College of Automation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China

  • Received:2007-09-17 Revised:2008-03-24 Online:2008-09-27 Published:2008-09-27
  • Contact: LI Tao

Abstract:

In a MIMO system, the transmitter antenna selection technique, which selects one antenna for transmitting, can reduce the number of required RF chains and alleviate system complexity and costs. In this paper, we analyze performance of the system that uses maximal ratio combining(MRC) at the receiver and operates over correlated Nakagami fading channels. The probability distribution density function of the output SNR is derived, and an accurate expression of bit error rate (BER) is obtained, which only includes ordinary function.

Key words: MIMO, transmitter antenna selection, receiver-maximal-ratio-combining, correlated Nakagami fading channels, BER

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