Performances of Transmit Antenna Selection, Receive Antenna Selection, and Maximal-Ratio-Combining-Based Hybrid Techniques in the Presence of Feedback Errors

Abstract

In this paper, performances of joint transmit and receive antenna selection (JTRAS), transmit antenna selection/maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC), and transmit antenna selection/receive antenna selection (TAS/RAS) techniques are examined in a unified manner in the presence of feedback errors. Exact and closed-form outage probability, moments, moment-generating function, ergodic capacity, and symbol error probability (SEP) expressions are derived for flat Nakagami-m fading channels. In addition, to obtain diversity order and array gain of the investigated techniques in the presence of feedback errors, asymptotic outage probability and SEP expressions are also derived. Analytical results are validated by Monte Carlo simulations. Results show that the diversity order is significantly reduced in the presence of feedback errors, whereas all the systems provide full diversity order for a perfect feedback channel.