Postdetection selection diversity reception with correlated, unequal average power Rayleigh fading signals for pi /4-shift QDPSK mobile radio

Abstract

The diversity gain degradations due to fading correlation and unequal average power are investigated for practical, two-branch postdetection selection diversity reception. The average bit error rate (BER) of pi /4-shift QDPSK is theoretically analyzed taking into account additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), cochannel interference, and multipath channel delay spread; exact diversity gain degradations are calculated. Simple and useful approximate expressions for the gain degradations are also presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>