Abstract
The two-sided bimodality property of Alternate Rician Shadowed (ARS) fading channels makes it a suitable fading model for body-centric wireless communication. The ARS fading model consists of two fluctuating specular components in which only one is active at a time. To provide excellent spectral efficiency with higher quality of service, system transmitter employs an adaptive transmission scheme. This paper derives the exact closed-form expressions of the ARS fading channels capacity. Various adaptive transmission schemes such as channel inversion with a fixed-rate, truncated channel inversion with a fixed-rate, and optimal rate adaptation are considered. A comparison of these schemes is also highlighted. Performance expressions such as binary bit error rate for various coherent and non-coherent modulation schemes and the outage probability are also derived. The derived results are plotted and analyzed for varying fading parameters of the ARS channel. Finally, the results of all performance metrics are verified with Monte-Carlo simulation results.
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Laishram Mona Devi
Laishram Mona Devi is presently a PhD scholar in the Department of North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India. She completed her BE from Manipur Institute of Technology, Takyel, Manipur, India, in the year 2015 and MTech in NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, in the year 2018. Her areas of interest include wireless communication, fading channels, and image processing.
Aheibam Dinamani Singh
Aheibam Dinamani Singh received BTech in electronics and communication engineering from North Eastern Hills University, Shillong, India, in 2004. He completed MTech and PhD in electronics and communication engineering from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a teaching faculty in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NERIST from 2006 to 2019. He is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Manipur. His research interests include wireless communication, fading channels, image processing, computer vision, biomedical image processing, signal processing, antenna array, and millimeter-wave antennas. He published over 55 papers in research journals, international and national conferences. Email: [email protected]