Frequency Non-selective Rician Fading Channels Research Articles

INVESTIGATION OF CAPACITY GAINS IN MIMO CORRELATED RICIAN FADING CHANNELS SYSTEMS

This paper investigate the effect of Rician fading and correlation on the capacity and diversity of MIMO channels. The use of antenna arrays at both sides of the wireless communication link (MIMO systems) can increase channel capacity provided the propagation medium is rich scattering or Rayleigh fading and the antenna arrays at both sides are uncorrelated. However, the presence of line-of-sight (LOS) component and correlation of real world wireless channels may affect the system performance. Along with that we also investigate power distribution methods for higher capacity gains and effect of CSI at the transmitter on the capacity for range of SNR. Our investigation follows capacity gain as function of number of antennas and signal-to-noise (SNR) power ratio Block and frequency nonselective Rician fading channel is assumed, and the effect of Rician factor (L) and the correlation parameter (ρ) on the capacity and diversity gains of MIMO channels are found. Index.

Exact symbol and bit error probabilities of linearly modulated signals with maximum ratio combining diversity in frequency non-selective Rician and Rayleigh fading channels

The exact symbol and bit error probabilities of linearly modulated signals in frequency non-selective Rician fading channels with Lth diversity branches are derived, where coherent detection with maximum ratio combining (MRC) is used at the receiver. For performance evaluation, the multiplicative distortion is combined with the additive Gaussian noise and form an additive noise is formed. This method allows computing the exact symbol and bit error probabilities of M-ary phase shift keying (M-PSK), M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM), M-ary amplitude modulation (M-AM) and M-ary amplitude modulation phase modulation (M-AMPM) for any arbitrary bit mappings. The results contain several versions of one simple integral. The error probabilities are also obtained for Rayleigh channel, which is a special case of Rice channel. Further, the results for Nakagami-m channel with the integer parameter are found. The results quite match with the previous ones while having simple forms. Also, for some unsolved cases, the exact error probabilities are presented. Simulations are carried out to verify the analytical evaluations.

Combining PSA fading estimation techniques for TCM and diversity reception in Rician fading channels

AbstractIn this paper, a novel pilot‐symbol‐aided (PSA) technique is proposed for fading estimation in the land mobile satellite fading channels. The proposed technique combines the fading estimates obtained from a bandwidth‐efficient technique and a conventional technique according to the signal‐to‐noise ratios (SNRs) of the fading estimates. To enhance the transmission quality, trellis‐coded modulation (TCM) and diversity reception are employed in the system, and the combined estimates are subsequently used to correct the channel fading effects, to weight the signals from different diversity branches, and to provide channel state information to the Viterbi decoder. Monte Carlo computer simulation has been used to study the bit‐error‐rate (BER) performance of the proposed technique on trellis‐coded 16‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation in the frequency non‐selective Rician fading channels. Results have shown that the proposed PSA technique requires a very low bandwidth redundancy to provide satisfactory BER performance at low SNRs, and thus is suitable for use with TCM and diversity reception to achieve both bandwidth and power‐efficient transmission. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

On the performance of DPSK in Rician fading channels with Class A noise

The performance analysis of a DPSK receiver over frequency nonselective Rician fading channels in Middleton's (1973) Class A noise is presented. With the aid of the characteristic function, the exact bit error rates (BERs) for both selection diversity and equal gain combining are derived. Furthermore, the performance of DPSK together with the (7,4) Hamming code or the (23,12) Golay code is evaluated. The results show that the channel coding technique can provide better performance than the diversity especially in the presence of highly impulsive noise. By using two diversity channels together with a simple channel code (Hamming code), robust performance can be achieved in Rician fading channels with non-Gaussian noise.

Analysis of nonlinear combiner in Rician fading channels with impulse noise

An efficient method for evaluating the performance of the nonlinear combiner in L-branch frequency non-selective Rician fading channels with impulse noise is derived and verified by simulations. Analysis shows that the nonlinear combiner is robust against impulse noise and fading.

Worst-case partial-band noise jamming of Rician fading channels

Analyses of worst-case partial-band noise jamming of binary digital modulation are presented. Both noncoherent detection and differentially coherent detection over slowly varying, frequency-nonselective Rician fading channels are considered. The analysis bridges the gap between earlier works by Viterbi and Jacobs (1975) and by Omura (1981) for the limiting cases of Gaussian and Rayleigh channels, respectively. The results complement those by Crepeau (1990) for noncoherent binary transmission over the Nakagami fading channel. However, the Rician channel model has more physical significance since the parameter k is the ratio of scattered and specular powers. It is shown that a partial-band (partial-time) jamming strategy is optimum for all Rician channels with k<1 if the signal-to-jamming power ratio is sufficiently high. On the other hand, a full-band jamming strategy is the optimal strategy for k/spl ges/1. Results for the Gaussian and Rayleigh channels can be derived from the present analysis in the limit as k=0 and k/spl rarr//spl infin/, respectively.

Performance of sequence estimation scheme of narrowband digital FM signals with limiter-discriminator detection

A communication scheme using binary FM with noncoherent limiter-discriminator detection has been well known. Up to now, the improvement of bit error rate at the receiver side has been carried out through the bandwidth optimization of the IF filter, the decision feedback equalization (DFE), or simple two-state maximum likelihood sequence estimator (MLSE). This channel is inherently the intersymbol interference (ISI) channel due to the premodulation baseband filtering as well as the narrowband IF filtering. So the sequence estimation scheme using the Viterbi algorithm can be applied successfully, although the channel is not additive white Gaussian and maximum likelihood in the strict sense. In this paper, through computer simulations, we examine the actual BER improvement of the sequence estimation scheme with multiple-state trellis especially for MSK and GMSK signals. We mainly consider static AWGN and frequency nonselective Rician fading channels. Consequently, by adjusting the IF filter bandwidth, very large estimation gains are obtained compared to the conventional DFE or MLSE detector for AWGN and Rician fading channels. This scheme does not produce large demodulation delay and is implemented only by adding the signal processing part to the final stage of the receiver. This scheme seems to be very useful for any applications including satellite mobile channels. >