On the BER and capacity analysis of MIMO MRC systems with channel estimation error

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the effect of channel estimation error on the capacity and bit-error rate (BER) of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmit maximal ratio transmission (MRT) and receive maximal ratio combining (MRC) systems over uncorrelated Rayleigh fading channels. We first derive the ergodic (average) capacity expressions for such systems when power adaptation is applied at the transmitter. The exact capacity expression for the uniform power allocation case is also presented. Furthermore, to investigate the diversity order of MIMO MRT-MRC scheme, we derive the BER performance under a uniform power allocation policy. We also present an asymptotic BER performance analysis for the MIMO MRT-MRC system with multiuser diversity. The numerical results are given to illustrate the sensitivity of the main performance to the channel estimation error and the tightness of the approximate cutoff value. © 2011 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 IEEE 7th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages193-198
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781457720147
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2011

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