The performance of the double-antenna switched diversity combining (SDC) system over N-Nakagami fading channels is investigated in this paper. Based on the method of the probability density function of the signal-to-noise ratio, the exact expressions for the channel capacity and average symbol error probability (ASEP) are derived. Then the channel capacity and ASEP performance under different conditions is evaluated through numerical simulations to verify the analysis. The simulation results showed that the performance of the double-antenna SDC system is improved with the fading coefficient increased, but the level of improvement is declined as the number of cascaded components increased.
['Lingwei Xu', 'Hao Zhang', 'Jingjing Wang', 'T. Aaron Gulliver']
Performance Analysis of the Double-Antenna SDC System Over N-Nakagami Fading Channels