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When there are multiple candidates of diversity techniques applicable for a system, the diversity order can be used to roughly but quickly compare the techniques for a wide range of operating environments. For a system transmitting over frequency selective fading channels, the diversity order can be defined as the number of multi-paths if multi-paths have all equal energy. However, diversity order may not be adequately defined when the energy values are different. In order to obtain a rough value of diversity order, one may use the number of multi-paths or the reciprocal value of the multi-path energy variance. Such definitions are not very useful for evaluating the performance of diversity techniques since the former is meaningful only when the target outage probability is extremely small, while the latter is reasonable when the target outage probability is very large. In this paper, we propose a new definition of diversity order for frequency selective fading channels. The proposed scheme is based on Renyi entropy, which is widely used in biology and many other fields. We provide various simulation results to show that the diversity order using the proposed definition is tightly correlated with the corresponding outage probability, and thus the proposed scheme can be used for quickly selecting the best diversity technique among multiple candidates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e19040179","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,21]],"date-time":"2017-04-21T04:51:46Z","timestamp":1492750306000},"page":"179","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["On the Definition of Diversity Order Based on Renyi Entropy for Frequency Selective Fading Channels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Seungyeob","family":"Chae","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, 30 Pildong-ro 1 Gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Minjoong","family":"Rim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, 30 Pildong-ro 1 Gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"127","article-title":"A Dual-User Multiplexing Scheme Using Time Diversity over Frequency Nonselective SIMO Fading Channels","volume":"38","author":"Choi","year":"2013","journal-title":"J. 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