stractThe performance of an M-branch space diversity receiver with finitelength fractionally-spaced digital equalisers, designed to operate in a cellular mobile environment with frequency selective fading channels and co-channel interference (CCI), is investigated. Ideal channel-stateinformation is used to optimise the receiver for minimum mean-squareerror (MMSE) at the output of the branch combiner.Simulation is used to obtain performance curves showing the influence of diversity and equaliser length on outage probability and average biterror-rate. It is found that a receiver with equalisers of length 20 closely approximates the optimum linear receiver. Also, increasing the diversity gives a greater improvement than increasing the number of taps per branch.
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