On the performance evaluation, selection, and design of unique-words for time-division multiple access systems

Author

Sheen, Wem-Ho ; Shih, Chih-Ta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Volume

44

Issue

1

fYear

1995

fDate

2/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

120

Abstract

The issues of performance evaluation, selection, and design of unique-words for time-division multiple-access systems are addressed for both additive white Gaussian noise and time-varying multipath fading channels. An efficient algorithm is proposed to compute the probability of a missed detection, which serves as the performance index of unique-words. Also, a simple upper bound on the probability of a missed detection is derived. This bound has been shown very tight for a large range of bit error rate. Based on this tight upper bound, a two-step algorithm is proposed for easy selection and design of good unique-words. For time-varying multipath fading channels, the performance of unique-words is evaluated for Rayleigh and Rician fading characteristics, which are suitable models for mobile and personal communication environments. The results show that the degradation caused by the fading effect can be larger than 10 dB for the performance of practical interest

Keywords

Gaussian channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; fading; land mobile radio; personal communication networks; probability; radiowave propagation; time division multiple access; time-varying channels; AWGN channel; Rayleigh fading; Rician fading; TDMA; additive white Gaussian noise channel; algorithm; bit error rate; design; fading effect; missed detection probability; mobile communication; performance evaluation; performance index; personal communication; tight upper bound; time-division multiple access systems; time-varying multipath fading channels; two-step algorithm; unique-word; upper bound; Additive white noise; Algorithm design and analysis; Bit error rate; Degradation; Fading; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Time varying systems; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.350276

Filename

350276