Performance study of MRC systems with multiple cochannel interferers in a non-Gaussian multipath fading environment

摘要

We investigate the performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) systems operating in a non-Gaussian multipath fading environment. Specifically, we model the fading process by a spherically invariant random process (SIRP), which has many Gaussian-like properties and has been shown to be appropriate for modeling the multipath fading phenomenon in some practical fading environments. Closed form expressions are derived for the average error probability of coherent binary modulation in the presence of multiple, equal-power non-Gaussian interferers in a non-Gaussian multipath fading environment.