Abstract
In this paper the total bit-error probability using square-law detection of an on-off keyed carrier received through a fading medium is calculated. It is shown that the use of diversity will recover much of the performance loss caused by the fading, provided that an optimum decision threshold is used. Consideration is given to the performance obtained with a fixed optimum threshold (depending only on the mean-square signal strength) and to that obtained with two forms of variable threshold, assumed to follow the instantaneous fading signal strength. Compared to the fixed optimum threshold, the best variable threshold results in a 5- or 2.5-dB reduction in the required rms SNR for a 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-4</sup> error rate with two- or four-branch diversity, respectively; as compared to the no fading case, use of the fixed threshold requires 3 dB more SNR for a 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-4</sup> error rate with four-branch diversity, and requires 32 dB more SNR if only a single branch is used. A calculation of the average fade duration of the diversity-combiner output-signal component shows that diversity reduces the average time that the signal component spends below the threshold according to N <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-1/2</sup> for N branches. This is true for both the fixed or the best variable threshold, but the average duration with the fixed threshold is larger by about [log (1+σ <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ρ</inf> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> )] <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1/2</sup> , where σ <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ρ</inf> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> is the mean-square SNR per branch.
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