Title :
Simple Expressions for the Correlation between Fading Channel Error Rates
Author :
Clark, Alan ; Taylor, Desmond ; Smith, Peter
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch
Abstract :
Given digital transmission over two correlated Rician fading channels, we present a readily calculable expression for a tight approximation to the correlation between the probabilities of symbol error on each channel. For the Rayleigh fading channel the expression is exact. This correlation expression has applications in error performance analysis of fading systems, particularly multichannel systems and Markov modelling of error events. As an example we use these expressions to bound the block error rate of an OFDM system
Keywords :
Markov processes; OFDM modulation; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; digital communication; error statistics; Markov modelling; OFDM system; Rayleigh fading channel; block error rate; correlated Rician fading channels; correlation; digital transmission; fading channel error rates; multichannel systems; Binary phase shift keying; Computer errors; Error analysis; Error correction codes; Error probability; Fading; OFDM; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0505-X
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0504-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2006.262120
