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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2003. PACRIM. 2003 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7978-0
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2003.1235941
