Simple Expressions for the Correlation between Fading Channel Error Rates

Author

Clark, Alan ; Taylor, Desmond ; Smith, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch

fYear

2006

fDate

9-14 July 2006

Firstpage

1510

Lastpage

1513

Abstract

Given digital transmission over two correlated Rician fading channels, we present a readily calculable expression for a tight approximation to the correlation between the probabilities of symbol error on each channel. For the Rayleigh fading channel the expression is exact. This correlation expression has applications in error performance analysis of fading systems, particularly multichannel systems and Markov modelling of error events. As an example we use these expressions to bound the block error rate of an OFDM system

Keywords

Markov processes; OFDM modulation; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; digital communication; error statistics; Markov modelling; OFDM system; Rayleigh fading channel; block error rate; correlated Rician fading channels; correlation; digital transmission; fading channel error rates; multichannel systems; Binary phase shift keying; Computer errors; Error analysis; Error correction codes; Error probability; Fading; OFDM; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0505-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0504-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.2006.262120

Filename

4036219