Upper bounds on the BER performance of MTCM-STBC schemes over shadowed Rician fading channels Academic Article

abstract

• Space-time block coding (STBC) provides substantial diversity advantages with a low decoding complexity. However, these codes are not designed to achieve coding gains. Outer codes should be concatenated with STBC to provide additional coding gain. In this paper, we analyze the performance of concatenated trellis-coded STBC schemes over shadowed Rician frequency-flat fading channels. We derive an exact pairwise error probability (PEP) expression that reveals the dominant factors affecting performance. Based on the derived PEP, in conjunction with the transfer function technique, we also present upper bounds on the bit error rate (BER), which are further shown to be tight through a Monte-Carlo simulation study.

authors

• Georghiades, Costas

published proceedings

• EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING

author list (cited authors)

• Uysal, M., & Georghiades, C. N.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Uysal, M||Georghiades, CN

publication date

• December 2004

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• n1110-8657ISSN  Journal

keywords

• Pairwise Error Probability
• Rician Fading Channels
• Shadowing
• Space-time Block Coding
• Trellis-coded Modulation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1155/S1110865704311078

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/185550

start page

• 1238

end page

• 1245

volume

• 2004

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/s1110865704311078