A closed-form expression for the exact BER of generalized PAM and QAM constellations

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 698-700

  Vitthaladevuni, Pavan Kumar ^a   Alouini, M S ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER) computation; Digital broadcasting; Embedded modulation; Gray mapping; Hierarchical modulations; Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) constellations

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FADING (RADIO); PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

COMPLEMENTARY ERROR FUNCTIONS; FADING CHANNELS;

BROADCASTING;

EID: 2942574458     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.826252     Document Type: Article

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