A gram-charlier series method for calculating general signal constellation error probabilities

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Abstract

We develop a method for calculating the probability of symbol error, via a multivariate Gram-Charlier series, for arbitrary coherent modulation schemes with statistically independent source symbols and subject to intersymbol interference (ISI) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The resulting error probability approximations have closed-form solutions and yield very accurate results with very little computational expense.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6047545
Pages (from-to)300-305
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume60
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2012

Keywords

  • Digital communication
  • Error analysis
  • Gaussian noise
  • Intersymbol interference
  • Quadrature amplitude modulation

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