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The channel capacity and probability of outage results for optimum power and rate adaptation (OPRA) and truncated channel inversion with fixed rate (TIFR) schemes over correlated diversity branch obtained so far in literature are applicable only for m ≥ 1. This paper derived closed-form expressions for the average channel capacity and probability of outage of dual-branch maximal ratio combining (MRC) over correlated Nakagami-0.5 (m < 1) fading channels. This channel capacity and probability of outage are evaluated under OPRA and TIFR schemes. Since, the capacity and probability of outage expressions of dual-branch MRC under OPRA and TIFR schemes contain an infinite series; bounds on the errors resulting from truncating the infinite series have been derived for both average channel capacity and probability of outage. The corresponding expressions for Nakagami-0.5 fading are called expressions under worst fading condition with severe fading. Finally, numerical results are presented, which are then compared to the capacity and probability of outage results that previously published for OPRA and TIFR schemes. It has been observed that OPRA provides improved average channel capacity and probability of outage, as compared to TIFR under worst case of fading. It is also observed that probability of outage under TIFR scheme is not improved adequately than the probability of outage under OPRA even as employing diversity.
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Hasan, M.I., Kumar, S. Average Channel Capacity of Correlated Dual-Branch Maximal Ratio Combining Under Worst Case of Fading Scenario. Wireless Pers Commun 83, 2623–2646 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2559-z
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