Asymptotic analysis of space-time codes in generalized fading channels

Author

Nezampour, Ali ; Schober, Robert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

13

Issue

8

fYear

2009

fDate

8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

561

Lastpage

563

Abstract

Considering the practically important case of two transmit and an arbitrary number of receive antennas, we provide a simple closed-form expression for the asymptotic pairwise error probability (PEP) of space-time codes (STCs) in generalized fading including Rayleigh, Ricean, Nakagami-q, Nakagami-m, Weibull, and generalized-K fading. The presented analysis provides new insights into STC design and can be used to obtain tight asymptotic upper bounds for the bit, symbol, and frame error probabilities of arbitrary STCs.

Keywords

Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; channel coding; error statistics; receiving antennas; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; Nakagami channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Weibull fading; frame error probabilities; generalized fading channels; pairwise error probability; receive antennas; space-time codes; transmit antennas; Error probability; Pairwise error probability; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Space time codes; Upper bound; Weibull fading channels; Asymptotic analysis, generalized fading, STC.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.090935

Filename

5200885