Performance analysis of adaptive path selective decorrelating detector with channel estimation errors

Abstract

The system complexity and noise enhancement due to the use of Multipath Decorrelating Detector (MDD) can be reduced by employing adaptive path selection technique. Adaptive Path Selective Decorrelating Detector (APSDD) requires knowledge of the channel coefficients for path selection. Generally, the channel coefficients are assumed to be known at the receiver. However, this is not realistic and the channel coefficients should be estimated. In this paper, we extend the Bit Error Rate (BER) analysis of the path selective receiver to include channel estimation errors.