• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.2A
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• pp.91-98
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• 2009

This paper provides new exact-closed form expressions for average SER and average BER as well as outage probability for M-PSK signaling with selection combining over independent but non-identically distributed Rayleigh fading paths. The validity of these expressions is verified by the Monte-Carlo simulations. All of numerical results are in excellent agreement with simulation results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1A
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

This paper offers performance analysis of selection decode and forward (DF) networks with differential modulation/demodulation for an arbitrary number of relays in independent but not identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels. We have shown that the selection DF protocol with differential modulation can achieve full diversity in both independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) and independent but not identically distributed (i.n.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, and the performance loss due to using non-coherent detection is not substantial. Furthermore, we study the impact of combining techniques on the performance of the system by comparing a system that uses selection combining (SC) to one that uses maximum ratio combining (MRC). Simulations are performed and show that they match exactly with analytic ones in high SNR regime.