Capacity of Correlated Generalized Gamma Fading With Dual-Branch Selection Diversity

The capacity of correlated generalized gamma (GG) fading channels with dual-branch selection diversity (SD) reception and channel side information (CSI) available at both the transmitter and the receiver is studied and analyzed. In particular, the capacity is evaluated under four adaptive transmission policies defined according to the operational CSI: 1) optimal power and rate adaptation (OPRA); 2) constant power with optimal rate adaptation (ORA); 3) channel inversion with fixed rate (CIFR); and 4) truncated CIFR (TIFR). Under these four adaptation policies, fast converging infinite series expressions for the capacity are derived and evaluated. Furthermore, for the simplifying cases of independent GG fading channels and/or single-channel reception (i.e., no diversity), closed-form expressions have been obtained. Previously published expressions are shown to be special cases of the derived expressions. Performance evaluation results obtained by means of numerical analysis clearly demonstrate the usefulness and accuracy of the analysis.

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