Impact of the combined slow and fast fading channel characteristics on the symbol error probability for multipath dispersionless channel characterized by a small number of dominant paths

Author

Babalis, P.G. ; Capsalis, C.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

47

Issue

5

fYear

1999

fDate

5/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

653

Lastpage

657

Abstract

New analytical expressions for the symbol error probability of coherent M-PSK and noncoherent M-FSK in a nondispersive channel modeled by a combination of POCA and log-normal statistics are derived. The POCA-Ln model is shown to be more general than other known models, such as the Suzuki (1977) model, as it can be applied in any environment with a small number of dominant propagation paths

Keywords

error statistics; fading channels; log normal distribution; mobile satellite communication; multipath channels; personal communication networks; phase shift keying; POCA-Ln model; POCA-log-normal channel; Suzuki model; analytical expressions; coherent M-PSK; customer premises networks; dominant paths; dominant propagation paths; fast fading channel; log-normal statistics; mobile services; multipath dispersionless channel; noncoherent M-FSK; nondispersive channel; personal communications; satellite communications; slow fading channel; symbol error probability; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Helium; Indoor environments; Log-normal distribution; Rayleigh channels; Satellites; Shadow mapping; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.768753

Filename

768753