Maximal-Ratio Based Switch-and-Stay Combining for Dual-Branch Systems
Author(s) -
Xinhai Song,
Chensi Zhang,
Xiyuan Wei,
Hongyi Li
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 127
ISSN - 2169-3536
DOI - 10.1109/access.2017.2721115
Subject(s) - aerospace , bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , engineering profession , fields, waves and electromagnetics , general topics for engineers , geoscience , nuclear engineering , photonics and electrooptics , power, energy and industry applications , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation
A hybrid combining technique is one of the hot topics in the diversity research field because of the excellent overall performance compared with pure combining techniques. A hybrid maximal-ratio-based switch-and-stay combining (M-SSTC) scheme, for dual-branch systems, is proposed in this paper to enhance the existing SSTC-type combining techniques. According to this paper, the problem of the available solutions is that they are valid only when both the branches are poor, leading the performance gain very limited. Thus, we make an attempt to adopt the maximal-ratio combining technique to overcome this disadvantage. By designing reasonable switching logic, M-SSTC can improve the performance of the diversity system as much as possible while keeping its complexity in a low level. Based on the Markovian property of the M-SSTC's output state sequences, the outage probability performance of M-SSTC is analyzed, and the closed-form expression is also presented. Finally, simulation results validate the theoretical results and show the advantages of M-SSTC over the available schemes.
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