Performance of QAM Signaling over TWDP Fading Channels

Author

Dixit, Dharmendra ; Sahu, P.R.

Author_Institution

Jaypee Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Solan, India

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Firstpage

1794

Lastpage

1799

Abstract

Performance of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) scheme in two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) fading environment is analyzed. Closed-form expressions for the exact average symbol error rate (ASER) of general order rectangular QAM (RQAM) and cross QAM (XQAM) schemes are presented using moment generating function of TWDP fading distribution. Obtained ASER expressions are in the form of Appell´s (Φ₁(·)) and Lauricella´s (Φ₁⁽³⁾ (·)) hypergeometric functions which can be numerically evaluated using either integral or series representation. Further, closed-form expression for the nth order moment of the received signal-to-noise ratio is derived. Numerical results show excellent agreement with simulation results.

Keywords

fading channels; geometry; numerical analysis; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication signalling; ASER; Appell´s (Φ₁(·)) hypergeometric function; Lauricella´s (Φ₁⁽³⁾ (·)) hypergeometric function; RQAM signaling; TWDP fading channel; XQAM scheme; average symbol error rate; closed-form expression; cross QAM scheme; general order rectangular QAM scheme; moment generating function; numerical evaluation; quadrature amplitude modulation; signal-to-noise ratio; two-wave with diffuse power fading channel; Closed-form solutions; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Signal to noise ratio; ASER; RQAM; TWDP fading; XQAM;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2013.030413.120772

Filename

6485034