Diversity gain

Diversity gain is the increase in signal-to-interference ratio due to some diversity scheme, or how much the transmission power can be reduced when a diversity scheme is introduced, without a performance loss. Diversity gain is usually expressed in decibels, and sometimes as a power ratio. An example is soft handoff gain. For selection combining N signals are received, and the strongest signal is selected. When the N signals are independent and Rayleigh distributed, the expected diversity gain has been shown to be ∑ k = 1 N 1 k {\displaystyle \sum _{k=1}^{N}{\frac {1}{k}}} , expressed as a power ratio.[1]

See also

  • Array gain
  • Diversity combining

References

  1. ^ D.G. Brennan, "Linear diversity combining techniques," Proc. IRE, vol.47, no.1, pp.1075–1102, June 1959


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