ABSTRACT
Recently, the expansion of wireless services has required more spectrally efficient communication to meet the consumer demand. So the primary concern in future wireless communications systems is for conserving, sharing, and using bandwidth efficiently. Therefore, channel capacity is one of the most important concerns in the design of wireless systems, as it determines the maximum attainable throughput of the system [1]. It can be defined as the average transmitted data rate per unit bandwidth, for a specified average transmit power, and specified level of received outage or bit-error rate [2]. A Skilful combination of bandwidth-efficient coding and modulation schemes can be used to achieve higher channel capacities per unit bandwidth. However, mobile radio links are, due to the combination of randomly delayed reflected, scattered, and diffracted signal components, subjected to severe multipath fading, which leads to serious degradation in the link signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). An effective scheme that can be used to overcome fading influence is adaptive transmission. The performance of adaptation schemes is further improved by combining them with space diversity, since diversity combining is a powerful technique that can be used to combat fading in wireless systems resulting in improved link performance [3].
