access icon free BER analysis of space-time coded RFID system in Nakagami-m fading channels

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Received 07/08/2013, Published 19/02/2014

The exact bit error rate (BER) analysis of a space-time coded radio frequency identification (RFID) system is presented, where the tag has multiple antennas and the reader has a single antenna. In the analysis, the forward and backward channels exhibiting independent but not necessarily identically distributed Nakagami-m fading are considered, and the diversity order that the system can achieve is found to be Nmin(m h, m g), where N is the number of antennas at the tag and m h and m g are the fading parameters corresponding to the forward and backward channels, respectively. The analytical results are verified through comparison with the simulation results.

Inspec keywords: antennas; space-time codes; radiofrequency identification; Nakagami channels; error statistics

Other keywords: space-time coded RFID system; backward channels; BER analysis; Nakagami-m fading channels; radiofrequency identification system; multiple antennas; diversity order; bit-error-rate analysis; forward channels

Subjects: Other topics in statistics; Single antennas; Codes; RFID systems

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