Asymptotic Analysis and Tight Performance Bounds of Diversity Receptions Over Beckmann Fading Channels With Arbitrary Correlation

Abstract

Prior results on exact error rates and outage probabilities of diversity receptions over arbitrarily correlated fading channels involve intractable nested integrals, which makes the performance analyses challenging to carry out. In this paper, we derive asymptotic expressions and asymptotically tight bounds for error rates and outage probabilities of diversity receptions (including maximal-ratio combining, selection combining, and equal-gain combining) over arbitrarily correlated Beckmann fading channels. These new asymptotic performance expressions reveal insights into the diversity systems over arbitrarily correlated Beckmann fading channels, and the accuracy of the asymptotic performance expressions is explicitly quantified by the performance bounds. Using these analytical tools, one can assess the performance of the diversity reception systems over arbitrarily correlated Beckmann fading channels without resorting to time-consuming Monte Carlo simulation or numerical multifold integration.