Abstract
In this paper we present a new order statistics based diversity combining scheme (OSDC) for combining a set of independently fading signal amplitudes. The OSDC orders all the received signal amplitudes and uses only the two strongest signals in the combining process. The decision as to whether to use only the strongest or both the strongest and the next strongest is made depending on the relative strengths of these two highest order statistics. Signal-to-noise ratio performance of the new scheme is compared with that of the traditional schemes such as, selection combining, maximal ratio combining, equal gain combining, and a second order selection combining (SC2), for three channels, namely Rayleigh, Nakagami and exponential. The results show that OSDC performs as well as SC2.
Comments
Published in Gollakota, S., & Viswanathan, R. (1998). Order statistics based diversity combining for fading channels. Conference Record of the Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 1998, v. 1, 578-582. doi: 10.1109/ACSSC.1998.750929 ©1998 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.