Outage Probability of Diversity Combining Receivers in Arbitrarily Fading Channels
Information Theory
2011-05-24 v1 math.IT
Abstract
We propose a simple and accurate method to evaluate the outage probability at the output of arbitrarily fading L-branch diversity combining receiver. The method is based on the saddlepoint approximation, which only requires the knowledge of the moment generating functions of the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of each diversity branch. In addition, we show that the obtained results reduce to closed-form expressions in many particular cases of practical interest. Numerical results illustrate a very high accuracy of the proposed method for practical outage values and for a large mixture of fading and system parameters.
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@article{arxiv.1105.4340,
title = {Outage Probability of Diversity Combining Receivers in Arbitrarily Fading Channels},
author = {Mohammed Jabi and Leszek Szczecinski and Mustapha Benjillali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4340},
year = {2011}
}