Semianalytic BER for PSK

Author

Core, Mark T. ; Campbell, Ray ; Quan, Patricia ; Wada, Joan

Author_Institution

Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1644

Lastpage

1648

Abstract

Semianalytic bit error rate (BER) estimation is a well-known method for evaluating the BER of a digital communication system. The main utility of the method is the significant time savings in computation relative to Monte Carlo simulation. Despite this advantage, no known reference defines the procedure for computing exact BER for M-ary phase shift keying (PSK) with ISI and AWGN using the semianalytic method. This letter defines an efficient procedure for computing exact semianalytic BER for modulation formats with circular constellations when the noise component of the decision variable has a circularly symmetric Gaussian distribution. The technique is demonstrated for 8PSK over the Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation (DVB-S2) channel.

Keywords

AWGN channels; Gaussian distribution; Monte Carlo methods; digital communication; error statistics; intersymbol interference; phase shift keying; AWGN; DVB-S2 channel; ISI; M-ary phase shift keying; Monte Carlo simulation; PSK; circular constellation; circularly symmetric Gaussian distribution; decision variable; digital communication system; digital video broadcasting-satellite-second generation channel; modulation format; noise component; semianalytic BER estimation; semianalytic bit error rate; AWGN; Additive white noise; Bit error rate; Digital communication; Digital video broadcasting; Distributed computing; Estimation error; Intersymbol interference; Modulation; Phase shift keying; Computer aided analysis; digital communication; error analysis; phase shift keying; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2009.071412

Filename

4907434