{"title":"Error rate performance analysis of cooperative MRC receivers over generalized fading channels","authors":"R. Alkurd, R. Shubair, I. Abualhaol","doi":"10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815389","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative diversity is widely used in the new emerging wireless communication systems. In this paper, the average error rate performance of Cooperative Maximum Ratio Combing (CO-MRC) receiver is analyzed over generalized statistically-measured fading channels. The diversity links are assumed to be independent but not necessarily identically-faded. The general CO-MRC SNR-PDF is simulated for different values of the average Signal-to-Noise Ratio (γo). Then, the SNR-PDF expression is utilized to derive a closed-form expression for the approximated average error rate using different coherent modulation techniques. Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to validate the SNR-PDFs and the derived average error rate expressions.","PeriodicalId":117453,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815389","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cooperative diversity is widely used in the new emerging wireless communication systems. In this paper, the average error rate performance of Cooperative Maximum Ratio Combing (CO-MRC) receiver is analyzed over generalized statistically-measured fading channels. The diversity links are assumed to be independent but not necessarily identically-faded. The general CO-MRC SNR-PDF is simulated for different values of the average Signal-to-Noise Ratio (γo). Then, the SNR-PDF expression is utilized to derive a closed-form expression for the approximated average error rate using different coherent modulation techniques. Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to validate the SNR-PDFs and the derived average error rate expressions.