IRJET- Simulation and Performance Estimation of BPSK in Rayleigh Channel using SC, MRC and EGC Diversity Techniques

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Simulation and Performance Estimation of BPSK in Rayleigh channel
using SC, MRC and EGC diversity techniques
Hina Khatoon1, R.K. Chidar 2
1Electronics and Communication Department, University Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
2Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication, University Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
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Abstract - Several methods of diversity combining
techniques are used for Rayleigh channel which are
evaluated and compared. The methods considered are, for
coherent reception, maximal ratio combining (MRC),
selection combining (SC), and equal gain combining
(EGC).Performance evolution of these methods have been
used and results are compared for optimum performance.
Key Words: Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN),
fading channels - MRC, EGC, SC, BER, SNR etc.
1. INTRODUCTION
When we deal with wireless communication, then
propagation channel is our main concern. Signals which
are transmitted by the transmitter propagate to the
receiver through multipath propagation. The same signal
propagating through different paths is called multipath
propagation. Due to this multipath propagation each signal
goes through different path and each path severe different
amount of amplitude and phase fluctuations. Hence the
strength of signal weakens down. This is called fading.
Fading is the main problem in wireless communication. To
combat the effect of the fading diversity technique is used.
The multiple copies of same signal are transmitted
through the same transmitter and then each copy goes
through different multiple path. These are called the
diversity branch. Each multiple path serves different
amount of fading. At receiver these signals are combined
skillfully for combating the effect of fading and get the
optimum output. This is called diversity combining.
Basically there are three types of diversity combining
techniques as selection combining (SC), maximal ratio
combining (MRC) and equal gain combining (EGC). SC-
type systems, process only one of the diversity branches.
In SC, the SC combiner continuously monitors the SNR at
each branch and chooses the branch with the highest SNR.
In MRC the signal at the output of the receivers is linearly
combined so as to maximize the instantaneous signal to
noise ratio. This is achieved by combining the co -phased
signal. The SNR of the combined signal is equal to the sum
of the SNRs of all the branch signals. Maximal ratio
combining requires complete knowledge of the gain at
each channel branch. Equal gain combining is similar to
MRC because the diversity branches are co-phased, but
simpler than MRC as the gains are set equal to a constant
value of unity [1].
2. System model
Let be one-sided power spectral density in W/Hz and
is the energy per bit then the instantaneous signal-to-noise
power ratio (SNR) per bit is given by and the
average SNR per bit is given by ̅ . Recall the
instantaneous SNR per bit of the channel (γ) is distributed
according to a Rayleigh distribution given by [2]
̅
( ̅
), γ≥0
Where
For the BPSK communication over AWGN channels given
the fading amplitude α, the conditional BER can be
expressed as
(√ )
In the form of instantaneous signal-to-noise power ratio
(SNR) per bit (
(√ )
The average BER is obtained by invoking the Rayleigh
distribution, which can expressed as,
∫
Put the value from equation (3.10) we get,
∫ (√ )
We know by the definition of Q-function
√
∫ ( )
Put the values of equation
∫
√
∫
( )
√
̅
( ̅)

√ ̅
∫
(
̅
)
∫
( )
√
Upon exchanging the integration order, we obtain
√ ̅
∫
( )
∫
(
̅
)
√
∫
( )
[ ̅]
√
∫
( )
√
∫
(
̅
̅
)
Now we know from theory of calculus,
√
∫
( )
And
√
∫
(
̅
̅
)
√
̅
̅
Then we get,
√
̅
̅
* √
̅
̅
+
Where is the probability of error of BPSK in Rayleigh
channel.
Calculation of probability of error in SC Diversity
Technique
SC type systems can process only one of the diversity
branches. The Combiner chooses output with the highest
SNR that is the output of the SC combiner equal the signal
on only one of the branches this is equivalent to choosing
the i-th branch with the highest SNR out of total N
branches. If the noise power is same on all branches than
for N-branch diversity, the instantaneous symbol energy to
noise ratio at the output of the SC is given by, [4]
, i=1, 2,............N
Where = the instantaneous signal to noise power ratio
(SNR) of i-th branch. Then if denotes the instantaneous
SNR of each branch then the average SNR at the diversity
combiner output is given as,
̅ ∫
Where denotes the PDF of γ.
We can rewrite the equation in terms of the Moment
Generating Function (MGF) associated with γ, namely,
∫
Now taking the derivative of equation with respect to s,
(where s is for Laplace domain)
| ̅
In other words, the ability to evaluate the MGF of the
instantaneous SNR allows immediate evaluation of the
average SNR via a simple mathematical operation
differentiation.
To analyze the bit error rate, let us first find the outage
probability on the i-th receive antenna. Outage probability
is the probability that the bit energy to noise ratio falls
below a threshold. If the branches are independently faded,
then order statistics gives the cumulative distribution
function (CDF) of is given by [15]
For independent and identical distributed (i.i.d) channel,
the PDF of SC is given by,
( )
Rayleigh distribution is commonly used to describe the
statistical time varying nature of the received envelope of a
flat fading signal, or the envelope of an individual multipath
component. The Rayleigh fading distribution has a PDF in
terms of received signal that is,
Where is the instantaneous power in i-th branch, is
mean square signal power per branch.
Then the instantaneous input signal to noise ratio (SNR) of
i-th branch is given by

Where is variance at each branch. Then Average input
signal to noise ratio of each branch is given by
To get the outage probability of i-th receive
antenna
∫
Where is the threshold for signal to noise ratio
(SNR).Then the outage probability of i-th receive antenna
becomes,
∫
After integrating and putting limits we get the outage
probability of i-th receive antenna as,
r N branches is, for N receive antennas which is assumed as
independent. Then the outage probability for N braches is
( )
2.1 Calculation for Probability of Error in SC
To calculate the average probability of error at the
combiner is computed by integrating the probability of
error in AWGN channel over the Rayleigh distribution at
the combiner which is given by [4]
∫ (√ )
∫ √ ( )
Solve the above equation by advanced mathematics we get
the probability of error in SC as [7]
∑ ( ) √
2.2 Calculation for Probability of Error in MRC
To calculate the average probability of error at the
combiner is computed by integrating the probability of
error in AWGN channel over the Rayleigh distribution at
the combiner which is given by [4]
∫ √
∫ √ ( )
( ) ∑ ( ) ( )
Where
√
3. Simulation results and discussion
Here we are presenting numerical as well as simulated
results for SC, MRC and EGC. In computer simulation by
using MATLAB we have modeled the received signals by
generating Rayleigh and Gaussian Random Variables. Then
we have counted the number of bit errors by varying the
SNR and number of receivers for the BER estimation and
then plot the graph between the SNR in db and the BER.
Figure 1: BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with SC for No.
of receiver 1 and 2

Figure 2: SNR in provement for BPSK in Rayleigh channel
with Selection diversity
Figure 3: BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with MRC for
No. of receiver 1, 2, 3 and 4
Figure 4: SNR improvement for BPSK in Rayleigh channel
with MRC Diversity technique
Figure 5: Comparison of SNR improvement for BPSK in
Rayleigh channel with SC and MRC Diversity technique
Figure 6: BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with EGC for
No. of receiver 1 and 2
Figure 7: Comparison of BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel
with SC, MRC and EGC Diversity for No. of receiver=4
When diversity technique is used then the SNR required
transmitting the signal without error decreases. In Figure
1, BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with Selection

diversity for No. of receiver 1 and 2 is shown. From Figure
1, to obtain the BER of order with SC the SNR
required for no. of receiver 1 is 32db and for no. of receiver
2 is 17db..It is clear that SC diversity provides much better
performance than without diversity. In Figure 2, SNR gain
for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with SC is shown. When no. of
receiver is increased from 0 to 25 then the SNR gain also
increased from 0 to 6 db in SC technique. Figure 3, shows
BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with MRC for No. of
receiver 1, 2, 3 and 4.To achieve a BER of order the
SNR required is 34, 16, 10, and 6 db When no. of receiver
1,2,3 and 4 respectively. Figure 4, shows SNR improvement
for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with MRC Diversity
technique. When no. of receiver, increased from 0 to 25
then the SNR gain also increased from 0 to 14 db in MRC
technique. Figure 5, shows a comparison of SNR
improvement for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with SC and
MRC Diversity technique. It is clear from the figure that
when the no. of receiver, increases then the SNR gain of
MRC is much better than the SNR gain of SC. In Figure 6,
BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with EGC for No. of
receiver 1 and 2 is shown. From Figure 6, to obtain the BER
of order with EGC the SNR required for no. of
receiver 1 is 32db and for no. of receiver 2 is 16db.It is
clear that from our result that EGC has much better
performance than SC .It is clear that theoretical and
simulated values of BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel with
EGC are approximately same. When the number of receiver
is 2 then less SNR is required to transmit the signal at
particular BER .Figure 7 shows comparison of BER for
BPSK in Rayleigh channel with SC, MRC and EGC Diversity
for No. of receiver=4. From Figure 7, to obtain the BER of
order the SNR required (when no. of receivers are 4)
is 13db for SC, 11 db for EGC and 10 db for MRC in Rayleigh
channel. It is clear in Rayleigh channel the performance of
BPSK with MRC is better than both EGC and SC. However in
Rayleigh channel the performance of BPSK with EGC is
slightly better than SC.
4. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we simulated the BPSK in Rayleigh fading
channel with SC, MRC, and an EGC and calculated the BER.
Performance of MRC is much better than both the SC and
EGC. It is clear when number of receiver is less then
performance of EGC is same as SC, but when number of
receiver is large then performance of EGC is better than
SC.
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