A New Formula for the BER of Binary Modulations with Dual-Branch Selection over Generalized-K Composite Fading Channels

Creative Commons License

Ansari I. S., Al-Ahmadi S., Yilmaz F., Alouini M., Yanikomeroglu H.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, vol.59, no.10, pp.2654-2658, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 59 Issue: 10
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/tcomm.2011.063011.100303a
  • Journal Name: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.2654-2658
  • Keywords: Diversity schemes, selection combining, dual-branch selection diversity, binary modulation schemes, generalized-K (GK) model, composite fading, bit error rate (BER), and Meijer G-function distribution, PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, DIVERSITY, RECEIVERS, RECEPTION
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Error performance is one of the main performance measures and the derivation of its closed-form expression has proved to be quite involved for certain communication systems operating over composite fading channels. In this letter, a unified closed-form expression, applicable to different binary modulation schemes, for the bit error rate of dual-branch selection diversity based systems undergoing independent but not necessarily identically distributed generalized-K fading is derived in terms of the extended generalized bivariate Meijer G-function.