An Analytical Method for Calculating the Bit Error Rate Performance of Rake Reception in UWB Multipath Fading Channels

Author

Shao, Hua ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

fYear

2008

Firstpage

4855

Lastpage

4860

Abstract

In this paper, the bit error rate performance of the Rake reception of binary signals over the IEEE 802.15.3a ultra- wide bandwidth channel model is evaluated. Instead of using Gaussian approximation for the PDF of the total disturbance, a more accurate method is introduced by using the characteristic function of the interference and the additive white Gaussian noise. A formula for the evaluation of the bit error rate performance of ultra-wide bandwidth systems is thus derived, which can be rapidly calculated by using Gaussian Hermite quadrature with excellent accuracy.

Keywords

AWGN channels; error statistics; fading channels; multipath channels; radiofrequency interference; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.3a UWB multipath fading channel; additive white Gaussian noise; binary signal; bit error rate; interference characteristic function; rake reception; Additive white noise; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Error analysis; Fading; Gaussian approximation; Interference; Multipath channels; Performance analysis; Ultra wideband communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.910

Filename

4533946