Abstract
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 not identically distributed Rayleigh channels, we provide closed-form expressions for the outage probability as well as average bit and symbol error rate of binary and 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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1559-1563 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering