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A new formula for the BER of binary modulations with dual-branch selection over generalized-K

  • Imran Shafique Ansari*
  • , Saad Al-Ahmadi
  • , Ferkan Yilmaz
  • , Mohamed Slim Alouini
  • , Halim Yanikomeroglu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Error performance is one of the main performance measures and the derivation of its closed-form expression has proved to be quite involved for certain communication systems operating over composite fading channels. In this letter, a unified closed-form expression, applicable to different binary modulation schemes, for the bit error rate of dual-branch selection diversity based systems undergoing independent but not necessarily identically distributed generalized-K fading is derived in terms of the extended generalized bivariate Meijer G-function.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5957242
Pages (from-to)2654-2658
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume59
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2011

Keywords

  • Diversity schemes
  • and Meijer G-function distribution
  • binary modulation schemes
  • bit error rate (BER)
  • composite fading
  • dual-branch selection diversity
  • generalized-K (GK) model
  • selection combining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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