ASER of Rectangular MQAM in Noise-Limited and Interference-Limited MIMO MRC Systems

Author

Romero-Jerez, Juan M. ; Peña-Martin, Juan P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Technol., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Volume

1

Issue

1

fYear

2012

fDate

2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Novel expressions for the average symbol error rate (ASER) of general rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in Rayleigh fading are derived in this work for MIMO MRC systems. The number of antennas is assumed to be arbitrary at both the transmit and receive ends and, unlike previous related work, expressions are given in terms of finite summations where all the terms are explicitly given. Both noise-limited and interference-limited systems are analyzed. Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out to validate the accuracy of the results.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Monte Carlo methods; diversity reception; error statistics; radiofrequency interference; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; ASER; Monte Carlo simulations; Rayleigh fading; average symbol error rate; finite summation; general rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation; interference-limited MIMO MRC system; noise-limited MIMO MRC system; rectangular MQAM; Fading; Interference; MIMO; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; MIMO MRC; Symbol error rate; rectangular QAM;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2162-2337

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/WCL.2012.120211.110111

Filename

6096325