DocumentCode
2134217
Title
An upper bound on the BER of block coded hierarchical constellations
Author
Vitthaladevuni, Pavan K. ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., USA
Volume
2
fYear
2003
fDate
28-30 Aug. 2003
Firstpage
950
Abstract
In this paper a simple upper bound for block coded hierarchical modulations is presented. Our new bound gives much tighter results compared to the classical union-Chernoff bound.
Keywords
block codes; error statistics; modulation; BER; block coded hierarchical modulations; upper bound; AWGN; Bit error rate; Block codes; Channel coding; Decoding; Error correction codes; Error probability; Modulation coding; Redundancy; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2003. PACRIM. 2003 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7978-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PACRIM.2003.1235941
Filename
1235941
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