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EE359 - Lecture 12 Outline: Announcements

The document outlines an EE359 lecture on diversity combining techniques. It discusses the announcements for an upcoming midterm exam and homework assignments. It then summarizes selection combining, maximal ratio combining (MRC), and equal gain combining (EGC). MRC provides the highest gain of up to 40 dB but is complex to analyze, while EGC has performance within 1 dB of MRC but is easier to implement. Transmit diversity can also achieve gains without channel knowledge at the transmitter.

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EE359 - Lecture 12 Outline: Announcements

The document outlines an EE359 lecture on diversity combining techniques. It discusses the announcements for an upcoming midterm exam and homework assignments. It then summarizes selection combining, maximal ratio combining (MRC), and equal gain combining (EGC). MRC provides the highest gain of up to 40 dB but is complex to analyze, while EGC has performance within 1 dB of MRC but is easier to implement. Transmit diversity can also achieve gains without channel knowledge at the transmitter.

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EE359 – Lecture 12 Outline

 Announcements
 Midterm announcements
 HW due Friday at 5pm (no late HWs)
 No HW next week (practice MTs)
 2hr bonus lecture wk of 11/30 (no reg. lec. W 12/2)
 Selection Combining and its Performance
 Maximal Ratio Combining
 MGF Approach for Performance of MRC
 EGC
 Transmit Diversity
Midterm Announcements
 Midterm Wed Nov. 4, 8:45-10:45a in this rm.
 Open book/notes (bring textbook/calculators)
 Covers Chapters 1-7 (through today’s lecture)
 Review Session Sunday 4-5:30pm, rm TBD
 Extra OHs
 Me: Friday, Monday, Tuesday 2-3pm,
 Yao: TBD
 Midterms from past 3 MTs posted
 10 bonus points for “taking” a practice exam
 Solns for all exams given when you turn in practice exam
Review of Last Lecture
 Combined average and outage Ps
 Ps due to Doppler and ISI
 Introduction to Diversity
 Send same bits over independent fading paths
 Independent fading paths obtained by time, space,
frequency, or polarization diversity
 Combine paths to mitigate fading effects

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Combining Techniques
 Selection Combining
 Fading path with highest gain used
 Maximal Ratio Combining
 All paths cophased and summed with optimal
weighting to maximize combiner output SNR
 Equal Gain Combining
 All paths cophased and summed with equal weighting

 Array/Diversity gain
 Array gain is from noise averaging (AWGN and fading)
 Diversity gain is change in BER slope (fading)
Selection Combining
 Selects the path with the highest gain
 Combiner SNR is the maximum of the
branch SNRs.
 CDF easy to obtain, pdf found by
differentiating.
 Diminishing returns with number of
antennas.
 Can get up to about 20 dB of gain.
MRC and its Performance
 With MRC, =i for branch SNRs i
 Optimal technique to maximize output SNR
 Yields 20-40 dB performance gains
 Distribution of  hard to obtain
 Standard average BER calculation
Pb   Pb (  ) p(  )d     ... Pb (  ) p( 1 ) * p( 2 ) * ... * p( M )d 1d 2 ...d M

 Hard to obtain in closed form


 Integral often diverges
 MGF Approach .5 M
1  g 
Pb    M i  2 ;  i d
 0 i 1  sin  
EGC and Transmit Diversity

 EGQ simpler than MRC


 Harder to analyze
 Performance about 1 dB worse than MRC

 Transmit diversity
 With channel knowledge, similar to receiver
diversity, same array/diversity gain
 Without channel knowledge, can obtain
diversity gain through Alamouti scheme:
works over 2 consecutive symbols
Main Points
 Diversity typically entails some penalty in terms of
rate, bandwidth, complexity, or size.
 Techniques trade complexity for performance.
 MRC yields 20-40 dB gain, SC around 20 dB.

 Analysis of MRC simplified using MGF approach


 EGC easier to implement than MRC: hard to analyze.
 Performance about 1 dB worse than MRC

 Transmit diversity can obtain diversity gain even


without channel information at transmitter.

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