Performance analysis of error control coding for mobile channels

New upper bounds on the bit error probability are applied to evaluate the error performance of coded systems over noninterleaved and partially interleaved Rician fading mobile channels. The correlation between successive received symbols is exploited to bound the error performance. The bound allows useful evaluation of coding gains on realistic communication systems without going into lengthy computer simulations. By further defining the maximum energy degradation factors, compact upper bounds are expressed in a way similar to the fully interleaved or memoryless channel. The maximum energy degradation factors are computed for a wide variety of mobile channel conditions. These factors give an interesting evaluation of the fading conditions and may be used to design coded communication systems on mobile channels. Independent space or frequency diversity may be taken into account in these bounds, and it is shown that the energy degradation is independent of this added independent diversity