Title :
A Simple Performance Approximation of General-Order Rectangular QAM With MRC in Nakagami-
Fading Channels
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA
Abstract :
The sampling property of the delta impulse function is applied to various Q-function approximations to obtain the probability of error in Nakagami- m fading channels. It is shown that the sampling bit error probability (BEP) exhibits reliable behavior, regardless of the Q-function approximation form. The result is extended to general-order rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with maximal-ratio combining (MRC) to quantify the average symbol error probability (SEP). The proposed approximation presents the SEP in a simple closed form and eliminates the hypergeometric function in the solution. The proposed sampling SEP is accurate and applicable for an arbitrary real-valued fading parameter.
Keywords :
Nakagami channels; diversity reception; error statistics; quadrature amplitude modulation; MRC; Nakagami-m fading channels; Q-function approximation; arbitrary real-valued fading parameter; average SEP; average symbol error probability; delta impulse function; general-order rectangular QAM; general-order rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation; maximal-ratio combining; sampling BEP; sampling bit error probability; sampling property; Binary phase shift keying; Function approximation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; $Q$-function approximation; Maximal-ratio combining (MRC); Nakagami-$m$ ; rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); sampling property;
Journal_Title :
Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TVT.2013.2253813