Performances of EGC and MRC diversity for UWB PAPM systems in IEEE channel models

Authors:
Yunfei Chen;Norman C. Beaulieu;Faruq Rajwani
Affiliations:
School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Year:
2009

Citing 3
Cited 0

Low Complexity Rake Receivers in Ultra-Wideband Channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Performance of RAKE reception in dense multipath channels: implications of spreading bandwidth and selection diversity order

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance of ultra-wideband communications with suboptimal receivers in multipath channels

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.01

Visualization

Abstract

Accurate approximations to the bit error rates of equal gain combining and maximal ratio combining diversity are obtained for pulse-amplitude-and-position-modulation operating in IEEE ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) channel models. Numerical results are presented to show the accuracy of the approximations for the IEEE CM1 and CM3 UWB channel models. Results for pulse amplitude modulation and pulse position modulation are obtained as special cases of the more general results. Precise estimates of the loss of equal gain combining relative to maximal ratio combining are obtained for both line-of-sight CM1 and non-line-of-sight CM3 channels. Noteworthy, while the performance loss of equal gain combining with respect to maximal ratio combining is less than 0.4 dB for the non-line-of-sight channel, it can be as much as 2 dB for the line-of-sight channel.