Bit Error Rate Analysis in MIMO Channels with Fading and Interference

Author

Romero-Jerez, Juan M. ; Peña-Martin, Juan P. ; Goldsmith, Andrea J.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This work explores the average bit error rate (BER) of uncoded MIMO systems in Rayleigh fading channels with co-channel interference (CCI) and background noise. We consider that maximal ratio transmission (MRT) is used at the transmit end. At the receiver we consider two different schemes: maximal ratio combining (MRC) and interference cancellation (IC) via null steering of the receive array radiation pattern. We provide analytical expressions of the BER for different modulation techniques and provide a comparison between the two proposed receiver schemes.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Rayleigh channels; cochannel interference; diversity reception; error statistics; MIMO channels; Rayleigh fading channels; background noise; bit error rate analysis; co-channel interference; interference cancellation; maximal ratio combining; maximal ratio transmission; null steering; receive array radiation pattern; Background noise; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Interchannel interference; Interference cancellation; MIMO; Radiofrequency interference; Rayleigh channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2009. VTC Spring 2009. IEEE 69th

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2517-4

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073424

Filename

5073424