This paper analyzes the performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) and compares it
with the performance of optimum combining (OC) in the presence of channel estimation …

This letter provides a comprehensive overview and extension of recent results on outage
probabilities and bit-error rates (BER) for optimal combiners in the presence of multiple …

This paper deals with the performance of predetection equal-gain combining (EGC)
receivers operating over multipath fading plus cochannel interference (CCI) and additive …

This paper presents the comparative analysis of Nth-order diversity combining and
equalization over an interference-limited cellular radio channel. The method of combining …

This paper studies the impact of imperfect estimation of the desired user's channel as well as
the interfering users' channels on the performance of optimum combining for space diversity …

Signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR)-based selection diversity is an efficient technique to
mitigate fading and cochannel interference in wireless communications systems. An …

In this paper an approach to the performance analysis of signal-to-interference (SIR) based
selection combining (SC) operating over the Rayleigh fading channels experiencing an …

In this letter, we study the performance of optimum combining (OC) and maximal ratio
combining (MRC) diversity schemes in wireless digital communication systems with Rice …

This paper presents an exact derivation of the statistical distribution of the signal to
interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for optimum linear combining in wireless systems with …

Equal gain combining (EGC) diversity has performance close to that of maximal ratio
combining but at lower implementation complexity. We present a new outage performance …