ISIT 2000, Sorrento, Italy, June 25-30.

2000

An MGF-Based Numerical Technique for the Outage Probability Evaluation of Diversity Systems1
Young-Chai KO Department of ECE University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. ycko@ece.umn.edu Mohamed-Slim Alouini Department of ECE University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. alouini@ece.umn.edu Marvin K. Simon Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. marvin.k.simon0jpl.nasa.gov

Abstract - Relying on a simple algorithm for the Laplace t r a n s f o r m inversion of cumulative dist r i b u t i o n functions, w e develop a m o m e n t generating function-based numerical technique for the outage probability evaluation of maximal-ratio a n d equalgain combining over generalized fading channels.

I. INTRODUCTION
Recently, a unified moment generating function (MGF)-based approach was adopted for the exact average error rate analysis of several modulation schemes in conjunction with maximal..., ... .., , . ... ., ..,... . .... .. ......... .. ... .... .... ratio combining (MRC) and equal-gain combining (EGC) di0 5 10 IS versity reception [I]. In addition to the average error rate, N"W2adA a q . W R d FhtPml@Sl outage probability, P o u t l is another standard performance criterion of communication systems operating over fading chan- Figure 1: Outage probability with MRC or postdetection EGC nels. It is defined as the probability that the combined signal- ( L = 4) versus normalized average SNR of the first path Tl/"(th to-noise ratio (SNR), Y t , falls below a threshold Yth, i.e , over an exponentially decaying P D P and an exponential correlation profile across the mutipaths ((a) p = 0, (b) p = 0.2, and (c) p = 0.4). P o u t = P[O L ~t I Yth] = P , , (rt)dyt, where p7, ( y t ) is the probability density function (PDF) of yt. Since finding the PDF of ~t in closed form is often restricted to some can special cases while the MGF of Y t , M,,(s) = E,t[eS7c], For coherent EGC, the conditional combined SNR per symbe obtained in a simple form for various fading conditions, we fi)'. The outage probabol, "it, is given by yt = present an MGF-based approach for the outage probability bility Pout can hence be rewritten as Pout = P[o 5 qt 5 Tth], evaluation of diversity systems over generalized fading chanA A fi and 7 t h = Since the MGF of nels in which the diversity paths are not necessarily indepen- where Tt = dent, identically distributed nor even distributed according to f i can be found in closed-form for the Nakagami-m case, the outage probability of coherent EGC receivers can also be the same family of distribution. computed using (l),and the corresponding numerical error 11. OUTAGE PROBABILITY EVALUATION can be estimated from (2), where in these two expressions ~t The total conditional SNR per symbol, ~ t a t, the output of an and 7th are replaced by ;Ut and T t h , respectively. L-branch MRC combiner or a postdetection EGC combiner is 111. NUMERICAL EXAMPLE given by yt = 7 1 where , ^(r is the Zth-path instantaneous SNR per symbol. Applying the numerical technique developed As an illustration of the applicability of the approach to cases in [2] and after some manipulation we obtain Pout as [3] where a "classical" PDF-based approach fails to sive an easyto-compute solution, Fig. 1 shows the outage probability of MRC RAKE reception over a Nakagami chanel with an exponentially decaying power delay profile (PDP) (7' = 7 11 where 6 is the power decay factor) and an exponential corre= pl'"'') across the multipaths. (1) lation profile (such as p ~ p
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REFERENCES
[I] M. K . Simon and M. -S. Alouini, "A unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communications over generalized fading channels," Proc. IEEE, vol. 86-9, pp. 1860-1877, September 1998. [2] J. Abate and W. Whitt, "Numerical inversion of Laplace transforms of probability distribution," ORSA Journal on Computing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 36-43, 1995. [3] Y . -C. KO, M. -S. Alouini, and M. K. Simon, "Outage probability o f diversity systems over generalized fading channels," To appear IEEE %ns. Commun.

'This work was supported by the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota and by the National Science Foundation.

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