Performance analysis of digital modulations on Weibull fading channels

Author

Cheng, Julian ; Tellambura, Chintha ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

236

Abstract

The Weibull distribution is a flexible statistical model for describing multipath fading channels in both indoor and outdoor radio propagation environments. A new closed-form expression is derived for the moment generating function of the Weibull distribution, valid when its fading parameter assumes integer values. The performance of digital linear modulations operating on Weibull channels is studied. Expressions for the signal outage and average symbol error rate are derived for single-channel reception and multi-channel diversity reception operating on Weibull fading channels.

Keywords

Weibull distribution; diversity reception; error statistics; fading channels; indoor radio; modulation; multipath channels; Weibull distribution moment generating function; Weibull fading channels; digital linear modulation; indoor radio propagation; multi-channel diversity reception; multipath fading channels; outdoor radio propagation; signal outage rate; single-channel reception; symbol error rate; Digital communication; Digital modulation; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Performance analysis; Radio propagation; Rayleigh channels; Signal analysis; Weibull distribution; Weibull fading channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285014

Filename

1285014