Performance evaluation of triple-branch GSC diversity receivers over generalized-K fading channels

Authors:
Kostas P. Peppas
Affiliations:
Laboratory of Mobile Communications, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research-"Demokritos," Patriarhou Grigoriou and Neapoleos, Athens, Greece
Venue:
IEEE Communications Letters
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this letter, a detailed performance analysis of generalized selection combining GSC(2,3) receivers operating over independent but not necessarily identically distributed (n.i.d.) generalized-K (KG) fading channels is presented. For this class of receivers, a novel closed-form expression for the moments of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived. This result can be afterwards used to evaluate the outage probability and the average symbol error probability of different signal constellations. Various performance evaluation results are also presented and compared to equivalent simulation ones.