A new method of evaluating the matched-filter bound for uncoded and trellis-coded transmission over frequency-selective fading diversity channels

Author

Fechtel, Stefan A. ; Meyr, Heinrich

Author_Institution

ERT, Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany

fYear

1992

Firstpage

905

Abstract

The matched filter bound (MFB), which gives a lower bound, on the bit error rate (BER) under idealized conditions, is a useful means of assessing and comparing the average BER for various receiver and code designs. A method for evaluating the MFB based on an eigenvalue approach is presented for uncoded and trellis-coded transmission over selective diversity channels with arbitrary fading multipath profiles. Some examples (TCM with order of diversity 3 and 5; two-ray Rayleigh, GSM, and flat Rician channels) demonstrate the usefulness of the MFB in quantifying the potential benefits of time and multipath diversity transmission

Keywords

diversity reception; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; fading; matched filters; telecommunication channels; trellis codes; BER; GSM; TCM; bit error rate; eigenvalue; fading multipath profiles; flat Rician channels; frequency-selective fading diversity channels; lower bound; matched-filter bound; multipath diversity transmission; receiver; time diversity transmission; trellis-coded transmission; two-ray Rayleigh channel; uncoded transmission; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Decoding; Delay; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Fading; Frequency diversity; Matched filters; Rayleigh channels; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1992. Conference Record., GLOBECOM '92. Communication for Global Users., IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0608-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1992.276391

Filename

276391