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On the Effect of Imperfect Cophasing in MRC and EGC Receivers Over Correlated Weibull Fading

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of dual-branch maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and equal-gain combining (EGC) receivers with coherent modulations over correlated Weibull fading channels. The numerical and simulations results show the influence of imperfect cophasing, branch unbalancing and correlation on the error performance. It is interestingly shown that EGC has lower irreducible error floor than MRC in the presence of incoherent combining, while the higher value of the correlation coefficient results to lower irreducible error floor. Furthermore, the unbalance parameter has practically no influence on the irreducible error floor.

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  1. Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Department of Telecommunications, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000, Nis, Serbia

    Bojana Z. Nikolic & Goran T. Djordjevic

  2. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54 124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    George K. Karagiannidis

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Nikolic, B.Z., Djordjevic, G.T. & Karagiannidis, G.K. On the Effect of Imperfect Cophasing in MRC and EGC Receivers Over Correlated Weibull Fading. Wireless Pers Commun 62, 31–39 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0036-2

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