A new symbol error rate calculation for Rayleigh fading multichannel reception of MPSK signals

Author

Chennakeshu, Sandeep ; Anderson, John B.

Author_Institution

GE Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-20 May 1993

Firstpage

758

Lastpage

761

Abstract

A new closed form expression is provided for calculating the probability that an M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK) signal will lie in a particular decision region when received over N independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading channels corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. This expression is applied to provide a unified method to derive the exact symbol error rate of an MPSK signal, considering N channel diversity reception such as maximal ratio combining, equal gain combining, and selection combining

Keywords

Gaussian noise; Rayleigh channels; digital signals; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; phase shift keying; white noise; M-ary phase shift keying; MPSK; Rayleigh fading channels; additive white Gaussian noise; diversity reception; equal gain combining; maximal ratio combining; multichannel reception; selection combining; symbol error rate calculation; AWGN; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; Genetic expression; Random variables; Rayleigh channels; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1993., 43rd IEEE

Conference_Location

Secaucus, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1267-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1993.508802

Filename

508802