Reliability Characterization for SIMO Communication Systems with Low-Resolution Phase Quantization under Rayleigh Fading

Abstract

This paper investigates the communication reliability for single-input-multiple-output wireless systems with low-resolution phase quantizers. First, the maximum-likelihood detector with n-bit phase quantization is derived when there are N antennas at the receiver. Then, three low-complexity antenna selection strategies for data detection are proposed and their symbol error probability performance is characterized. It is shown that having 3 or more bits is sufficient to attain the full diversity order N, achievable with infinite-bit quantizers, for quadrature phase shift keying modulation under Rayleigh fading. In particular, it is established that the proposed low-complexity max-distance and..