Moments of Macrodiversity SC Receiver with Two Microdiversity EGC Receivers over Gamma Shadowed Rician Multipath Fading Channel

SC macrodiversity system with dual EGC microdiversity receivers operating over shadowed multipath fading environment is considered. Received signal experiences correlated Gamma long term fading and Rician short term fading. SC macrodiversity receiver reduces Gamma large scale fading effects, while EGC microdiversity receivers mitigate short term fading effects on system performance. Closed form expressions for arbitrary order output moments of macrodiversity structure output signal is evaluated. Numerical results, obtained for arbitrary order output moments are presented graphically to show Gamma long term fading severity effect, correlation coefficient effects and Rician factor effect.