• 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