  In this paper, a transmit antenna selection scheme, which is based on
shadowing side information, is investigated. In this scheme, the selected
single transmit antenna provides the highest shadowing coefficient between
transmitter and receiver. By the proposed technique, the frequency of the usage
of the feedback channel from the receiver to the transmitter and also channel
estimation complexity at the receiver can be reduced. We study the performance
of our proposed technique and in the analysis, we consider an independent but
not identically distributed Generalized-K composite fading model. More
specifically exact and closed-form expressions for the outage probability, the
moment generating function, the moments of signal-to-noise ratio, and the
average symbol error probability are derived. In addition, asymptotic outage
probability and symbol error probability expressions are also presented in
order to investigate the diversity order and the array gain. Finally, our
theoretical performance results are validated by Monte Carlo simulations.
