Channel estimation error and fading correlation effect on the performance of G/sub 2/ STB and MRRC systems

This paper shows analytically and through bit error rate (BER) simulations that both the G/sub 2/ space-time block (STB) and the maximal ratio receive combining (MRRC) systems suffer a BER performance degradation as a consequence of channel estimation errors, suffering the G/sub 2/ STB system the greatest degradation. Also, it is shown that both systems suffer equal performance degradation due to fading correlation.