IEICE Trans - Closed Form Expression of Average Bit Error Rate for TDD Transmit Diversity Employing Maximal Ratio Combining

Closed Form Expression of Average Bit Error Rate for TDD Transmit Diversity Employing Maximal Ratio Combining

Fumiaki MAEHARA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E88-B No.5 pp.2136-2141
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.5.2136
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword:
transmitter diversity, maximal ratio combining (MRC), time-division duplex (TDD), feedback delay, bit error rate,

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Summary:
This paper presents a closed form expression of an exact average bit error rate (BER) for a time-division duplex (TDD) transmit diversity scheme employing maximal ratio combining (MRC) over time selective flat Rayleigh fading channels. In the proposed analysis, the feed back delay which degrades the BER performance is taken into account. The results are generally applicable to an arbitrary modulation scheme, as well as an arbitrary number of transmitting branches. To confirm the validity of the proposed analysis, the theoretical results are compared with the simulated ones.