Performance of generalized selection combining receivers in K fading channels

In this letter, we present a moment generating function (MGF) based performance analysis of generalized selection combining (GSC) receivers operating over independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) K fading channels. Analytical expressions for the marginal MGF of the signal-to-noise ratio of a single diversity branch for integer plus one-half values of the fading parameter are obtained and used to efficiently evaluate the average error probability of GSC receivers.     

Maximising capacity of MIMO systems with receive antenna subarray formation

Antenna subarray formation is a novel RF pre-processing technique that reduces hardware complexity of multiple-input multiple-output systems while alleviating the performance degradation of conventional antenna selection techniques. With this method, each RF chain is allocated to a linear combination of the responses of a subset of the available antenna elements, which is performed in the radio frequency domain. A novel, analytical, suboptimal algorithm is introduced for receive antenna subarray formation based on instantaneous channel information that maximises the effective channel capacity.