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Slide Show on Diversity Reception

Pure selection diversity

• Select only the strongest signal
• In practice: select the highest signal + interference + noise power
• Use delay and hysteresis to avoid excessive switching
• Simple implementations: Threshold Diversity
  • - Switch when current power drops below a threshold.
  • - This avoids the necessity of separate receivers for each diversity branch.

Probability of fade versus fade margin in dB. Various degrees of selection diversity

Slide on Diversity from Short Course in Wireless Communication at U.C. Berkeley

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