Equal gain combining (EGC) SC-FDMA performance over Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) Rice fading channel

The mobile satellite broadcasting field is viewing a constant lift up in the demand for superior transmission quality and elevated number of services in order to stay on balance with analogous terrestrial counterparts. The techniques such as Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) are used in satellite communication to improve spectral efficiency and lower bandwidth requirement. SC-FDMA is precoded version of OFDM. It has lower Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), which is the requirement of Up-Link transmission. SC-FDMA has shown worst performance than OFDM with Rayleigh fading, but when there exist a Line Of Sight (LOS), its performance is improved. In this paper, we have investigated Performance of SIMO SC-FDMA with Equal Gain Combining (EGC) diversity over Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) Rice fading Channel, for different number of antennas at receiver, for different co-relation factor and different allocated subcarriers.