Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Indoor Matched Rake Receiver Using Multiple-Combining Techniques

Abstract

This paper discusses the enhancement of the wireless rake receiver for high speed and short distance indoor ultra wideband (UWB) propagation with line-of sight (LOS) and non line-of sight (NLOS) channel models. The proposed matched rake receiver uses three main combining techniques, maximum ratio combining (MRC), equal gain combining (EGC), and selective combining (SC) to capture most of the energy of the multi-path components (MPCs). When the wireless communication systems work with high capacity and high speed in transmission and reception scenarios, there will be a serious challenge defined as inter-symbol interference (ISI) during the reception process. The ISI causes increasing in the bit error rate (BER) when the wireless communication systems work with high bit rate propagation. The matched rake receiver scheme was designed to suppress ISI by maximizing the signal to noise ratio (SNR) before constructing the desired signal in decision circuit and effectively the system enhancement is improved. After adding additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) to the received signal, the improvement is cleared comparing with the theoretical results that has no AWGN. During the comparison of the simulation results, MRC partial rake receiver of less complexity showed better performance than the EGC and SC rake receivers.