Performance Analysis of $L$-Branch Scan-and-Wait Combining (SWC) over Arbitrarily Correlated Nakagami-$m$ Fading Channels

George C. Alexandropoulos, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Pingzhi Fan

The performance of $L$-branch scan-and-wait combining (SWC) reception systems over arbitrarily correlated and not necessarily identically distributed Nakagami-$m$ fading channels i…