| Diversity is a well known technique used to reduce the performance degradation in wireless communication systems caused by fading. Recently, much research has been directed to transmit diversity and receiver diversity. In this dissertation, we first study the capacity and error probability of space time block codes over correlated fading channels, and then generalize the results to the performance and capacity of maximal ratio combining (MRC) over correlated Nakagami fading channels. The performance analysis of a RAKE receiver employing MRC is given as a practical case study. |
