Performance Analysis of SSC Transmit Diversity with Causal CSI under Time-Correlated Flat Fading Channels

Shuang ZHAO  Hongwen YANG  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E95-B   No.5   pp.1761-1769
Publication Date: 2012/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E95.B.1761
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
diversity techniques,  switch-and-stay combining,  time-varying fading,  causal channel state information,  performance analysis,  

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Summary: 
Switch-and-stay combining (SSC) is a simple diversity technique where a single radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to one of several antenna branches and stays there if the channel quality is satisfied or otherwise switches to a new branch. Compared with Selection Combining (SC), SSC requires less overhead in channel estimation and antenna selection feedback. In this paper, we analyze the performance of SSC in a time-correlated flat fading channel and with causal channel state information. We derive the general expressions for the distribution of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), outage rate and average bit error rate (ABER) and then the analytical results are compared with the simulation results under the Jakes Rayleigh fading channel. Our results show that (1) For slowly varying channels, L branch SSC can achieve the full diversity order and the same outage rate as SC; (2) Increasing the number of antenna branches can improve the performance of SSC, however, the gain from adding antennas diminishes quickly as the channel variation speed increases. Moreover, to avoid the complexity in optimizing the fixed threshold, we also propose a simple adaptive SSC scheme which has almost the same ABER as the SSC with optimized fixed threshold.