Outage Probability of 2-D-RAKE Receivers with Power Control Error in Nakagami Fading Channels

Kai-zhi HUANG  Jing WANG  You-zheng WANG  Guo-an CHEN  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E86-B   No.1   pp.406-412
Publication Date: 2003/01/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technology
Keyword: 
2-D-RAKE receiver,  power control error,  outage probability,  Nakagami fading,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, the closed-form expressions of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and the outage probability are derived for a maximal ratio combining (MRC) two-dimensional (2-D)-RAKE receiver with imperfect power control in a frequency-selective Nakagami fading channel. The impact of power control error (PCE) on the performance of the receiver is analyzed for all kinds of fading environments. The results of numerical derivation and simulation indicate that the performance of 2-D-RAKE receivers degrades due to imperfect power control. But when PCE is not serious, increasing the number of antennae and temporal diversity order can compensate for the performance loss. The exact performance improvement due to space-time processing varies with the PCE and the fading environment.