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[18] Winters J., Salz J., and Gitlin R., The Impact of Antenna Diversity on the Capacity of Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communication , vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1740-1751, 1994. Mohammed Abdo Saeed received the BSc degree in electrical engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1992 and the MSc degree in communication and network engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia in 2003. Currently, he is pursuing the PhD degree in communication and network engineering at the Computer and Communication Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, UPM, Malaysia. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali received his BSc electrical and electronics engineering from Loughborough University of Technology in 1979, his MSc and PhD in electromagnetics engineering, from the University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1981 and 1985 , respectively. Sabira Khatun received her B.Sc (Hons.), MSc in Applied Mathematics and PhD on hydromagnetic stability from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh in 1988, 1990 and 1994, respectively. She received her second PhD in communications and networking from University Putra Malaysia in 2003. Mahamod Ismail is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He received the BSc degree in electrical and electronics from University of Strathclyde, UK in 1985, the MSc degree in communication engineering and digital electronics from UMIST, Manchester, UK in 1987, and the PhD from University of Bradford, UK in 1996.