Closed-form expressions for the exact symbol error probability of 32-cross-QAM in AWGN and in slow Nakagami fading

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 310-312

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Chen, Yunfei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross QAM; Diversity; Fading channels; Nakagami distribution; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Symbol error probability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; FADING CHANNELS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY;

NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI FADING; SYMBOL ERROR PROBABILITY;

QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 34247643098     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOM.2007.348284     Document Type: Article

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