Title :
Asymptotic analysis of space-time codes in generalized fading channels
Author :
Nezampour, Ali ; Schober, Robert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
fDate :
8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Considering the practically important case of two transmit and an arbitrary number of receive antennas, we provide a simple closed-form expression for the asymptotic pairwise error probability (PEP) of space-time codes (STCs) in generalized fading including Rayleigh, Ricean, Nakagami-q, Nakagami-m, Weibull, and generalized-K fading. The presented analysis provides new insights into STC design and can be used to obtain tight asymptotic upper bounds for the bit, symbol, and frame error probabilities of arbitrary STCs.
Keywords :
Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; channel coding; error statistics; receiving antennas; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Weibull fading; frame error probabilities; generalized fading channels; pairwise error probability; receive antennas; space-time codes; transmit antennas; Error probability; Pairwise error probability; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Space time codes; Upper bound; Weibull fading channels; Asymptotic analysis, generalized fading, STC.;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2009.090935
