On the Error and Outage Performance of Coherent UWB Systems over Indoor Wireless Channels

Author

Abou-Rjeily, Chadi ; Bkassiny, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lebanese American Univ. (LAU), Byblos, Lebanon

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an accurate method for evaluating the performance of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) coherent receivers over the IEEE 802.15.3a channel model. Depending on the severeness of fading, the method consists of approximating the distribution of the captured channel energy by either a Coxian, gamma-mixture or lognormal distribution based on a least square fitting criterion. The proposed approximations lend themselves to simple mathematical analysis and turn out to be useful in evaluating the performance, in terms of average bit-error-rate (BER) and outage probability, over the IEEE 802.15.3a channels.

Keywords

error statistics; gamma distribution; indoor communication; least mean squares methods; probability; ultra wideband communication; wireless channels; BER; Coxian distribution; IEEE 802.15.3a channel model; UWB system; bit-error-rate; gamma-mixture distribution; indoor wireless channel; least square fitting; lognormal distribution; outage probability; ultra-wideband coherent receiver; Bit error rate; Fading; Least squares approximation; Multipath channels; Signal to noise ratio; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3573-9

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594458

Filename

5594458