Performance analysis of noncoherent differential phase shift keying using Post-Detection Selection Combining over a Rayleigh fading channel
By: Tahir Conka
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Description: In this thesis, the performance analysis of a non-coherent Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) receiver using Post-Detection Selection Combining techniques over a Rayleigh fading channel is investigated. Post- Detection Selection Combining (PDSC) is evaluated and compared to Equal Gain Combining (EGC) and Selection      Combining (SC), the two common diversity techniques discussed in the literature. Numerical results obtained for Post- Detection Selection Combining are compared to Selection Combining and Equal Gain Combining. The      Post-Detection Selection Combining method is shown to be superior to the Selection Combining method but  inferior to Equal Gain Combining method for a non-coherent DPSK receiver operating over a Rayleigh fading      channel.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Tri T. Ha, Ralph D. Hippenstiel.

"June 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.

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