BER Analysis of QAM on Fading Channels with Transmit Diversity

Raju, Surendra M and Annavajjala, Ramesh and Chockalingam, A (2006) BER Analysis of QAM on Fading Channels with Transmit Diversity. In: IEEE Transactions on wireless communication, 5 (3). pp. 481-486.

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Abstract

In this letter, we derive analytical expressions for the bit error rate (BER) of space-time block codes (STBC) from complex orthogonal designs (COD) using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) on Rayleigh fading channels. We take a bit log-likelihood ratio (LLR) based approach to derive the BER expressions. The approach presented here can be used in the BER analysis of any STBC from COD with linear processing for any value of M in an M-QAM system. Here, we present the BER analysis and results for a 16-QAM system with i) (2-Tx, L-Rx) antennas using Alamouti code (rate-1 STBC), ii) (3-Tx, L-Rx) antennas using a rate-1/2 STBC, and iii) (5-Tx, L-Rx) antennas using a rate-7/11 STBC. In addition to being used in the BER analysis, the LLRs derived can also be used as soft inputs to decoders for various coded QAM schemes, including turbo coded QAM with space-time coding as in high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) in 3G.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on wireless communication
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Space-time block codes;Transmit diversity;QAM;bit log-likelihood ratio.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:25
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/6312

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