naa a22 4500 510795587 CHVBK 20180411083335.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-011-0436-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-011-0436-y Shankar P. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) in Shadowed Fading Channels in Presence of Shadowed Fading Cochannel Interference (CCI) [Elektronische Daten] [P. Shankar] Simultaneous existence of multipath fading and shadowing leads to worsening conditions in wireless channels. This is further compounded by the interference from other base stations operating at the same frequency. The effect of this cochannel interference (CCI) and shadowed fading in error rates is studied when maximal ratio combining is used to mitigate short term fading. The CCI channels were also treated as undergoing shadowed fading. The generalized K distribution was used to model the signal-to-noise ratio of composite shadowed fading channel. The probability density functions of the signal-to-noise ratio taking into account the presence of multipath fading, shadowing and CCI were derived and used for the estimation of error rates. Results demonstrated the existence of degradation in the channel manifested as increased error rates and higher error floors. The improvements in the channel obtained through diversity were also demonstrated. The approach presented here can be easily adapted to the analysis of other diversity schemes in shadowed fading channels. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Shadowed fading nationallicence GK distribution nationallicence Cochannel interference nationallicence Error rates nationallicence Maximal ratio combining nationallicence Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 68/1(2013-01-01), 15-25 0929-6212 68:1<15 2013 68 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0436-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0436-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shankar P. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 68/1(2013-01-01), 15-25 0929-6212 68:1<15 2013 68 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer