TY - GEN
T1 - A unified approach for calculating error rates of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels
AU - Alouini, Mohamed Slim
AU - Goldsmith, Andrea
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - We present a unified analytical framework to determine the exact average symbol-error-rate (SER) of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels. The results are applicable to systems employing coherent demodulation with maximal-ratio combining multichannel reception. The analyses assume independent fading paths which are not necessarily identically distributed. In all cases the proposed approach leads to an expression of the average SER involving a single finite-range integral which can be easily computed numerically. In addition, as special cases, SER expressions for single channel reception are obtained. These expressions reduce to well-known solutions, give alternate (often simpler) expressions for previous results, or provide new formulas which are either closed-form expressions or simple to compute numerically.
AB - We present a unified analytical framework to determine the exact average symbol-error-rate (SER) of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels. The results are applicable to systems employing coherent demodulation with maximal-ratio combining multichannel reception. The analyses assume independent fading paths which are not necessarily identically distributed. In all cases the proposed approach leads to an expression of the average SER involving a single finite-range integral which can be easily computed numerically. In addition, as special cases, SER expressions for single channel reception are obtained. These expressions reduce to well-known solutions, give alternate (often simpler) expressions for previous results, or provide new formulas which are either closed-form expressions or simple to compute numerically.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.1998.682896
DO - 10.1109/ICC.1998.682896
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0031628330
SN - 0780347889
SN - 9780780347885
T3 - International Conference on Communications - Proceedings
SP - 459
EP - 464
BT - ICC 1998 - 1998 IEEE International Conference on Communications
T2 - 1998 IEEE International Conference on Communications: New Century Communications, ICC 1998 - Affiliated with SUPERCOMM 1998
Y2 - 7 June 1998 through 11 June 1998
ER -