BER analysis of OFDM signals on frequency-selective Rician fading channels

Author

Mao, Zhiwei ; Cheng, Julian

Author_Institution

Gildart Haase Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Teaneck, NJ, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Bit-error rate (BER) performance of coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals on frequency-selective Rician fading channels is studied in this paper. The means and the cross-correlations of frequency-selective Rician fading channels seen by OFDM subcarriers are first derived. Then based on a pairwise error probability (PEP) analysis, the mean vector and the cross-correlation matrix are used to obtain an upper bound of the overall BER in a closed-form for coded OFDM signals. Numerical examples are presented to compare the proposed upper bound of the overall BERs and the overall BERs obtained by simulations.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; Rician channels; error statistics; matrix algebra; orthogonal codes; BER analysis; OFDM signals; OFDM subcarriers; PEP analysis; bit-error rate performance; coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals; cross-correlation matrix; frequency-selective Rician fading channels; pairwise error probability analysis; Bit error rate; Fading; Frequency division multiplexing; OFDM; Rician channels; Upper bound; Error performance analysis; cross-correlation; frequency-selective fading channel; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); pairwise error rate (PEP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 2011

Conference_Location

New York City, NY

ISSN

1934-5070

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0162-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WTS.2011.5960843

Filename

5960843