Error performance of vertical-BLAST over Rayleigh and Nakagami fading channels

Author

Khan, Sa Jid Anwar ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1124

Abstract

The study of statistical distribution of errors is a prerequisite in the design of appropriate coding techniques to effectively control errors. An architecture, V-BLAST, that promises very high spectral efficiency is analyzed and compared for two transmitter-receiver arrangements. We analyzed the system performance over Rayleigh and Nakagami channels along with statistical analysis of errors. Average error burst lengths, average error tree lengths and BER are determined. We also evaluate the effects of different interleaver depths. It is shown that increasing the number of transmitters and receivers, and uncorrelated channel paths give improved performance.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; error statistics; radio receivers; radio transmitters; statistical distributions; BER; Bell Labs Layered Space Time Architecture; Nakagami fading channels; Rayleigh fading channels; bit error rate; coding techniques; error burst lengths; error performance; error statistical distribution; error tree lengths; interleaver depths; receivers; spectral efficiency; transmitters; uncorrelated channel paths; vertical-BLAST; Antennas and propagation; Bandwidth; Error analysis; Error correction; Fading; Minerals; Petroleum; Radio transmitters; Statistical distributions; Telecommunication control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003. 14th IEEE Proceedings on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1260286

Filename

1260286