Title :
Probability of error and outage in a Rice-lognormal channel for terrestrial and satellite personal communications
Author :
Vatalaro, Francesco ; Corazza, Giovanni E.
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Rome Univ., Italy
fDate :
8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This letter addresses performance evaluation in a nonselective fading channel modeled by a combination of Rice and lognormal (RLN) statistics. The RLN model is valid under widely different environmental conditions, both for terrestrial cellular and for satellite personal communication systems. The letter provides semianalytical expressions for the average error probability in the RLN channel for coherent M-ary phase shift keying (PSK) and noncoherent M-ary orthogonal transmissions, then it highlights the relationship between outage probability and cell coverage for macro and microcellular systems, and finally it provides some error probability results for nongeostationary (non-GEO) satellite systems
Keywords :
Rician channels; cellular radio; digital radio; error statistics; fading; log normal distribution; mobile satellite communication; personal communication networks; phase shift keying; M-ary PSK; RLN statistics; Rice statistics; Rice-lognormal channel; average error probability; cell coverage; coherent M-ary phase shift keying; lognormal statistics; macrocellular systems; microcellular systems; noncoherent M-ary orthogonal transmission; nongeostationary satellite systems; nonselective fading channel; outage probability; performance evaluation; satellite personal communications; semianalytical expressions; terrestrial cellular communications; Artificial satellites; Demodulation; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Large-scale systems; Phase shift keying; Rayleigh channels; Satellite broadcasting; Shadow mapping;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
