This timesaving reference a unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communication systems over generalized fading channels. Employaing alternative forms of such classical mathematical functions as the Gaussian Q-function, the Marcum Q-function, and the incomplete Gamma function, the book expresses communication system error probability performance in terms of the moment generation function (MGF) of the fading process. This MGF-based approach provides the unifying backbone of the book.
Digital communication over Fading Channels discusses in detail coherent, differentially coherent, and noncoherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in the real world. Coverage also includes single-and multichannel reception and, it the case of the latter, a large variety of diversity types, For each combination of communication type, channel fading model, and diversity type, the average bit error rate and/or symbol error rate is expressed in an easy-to-evaluate form. Special features include:
- Important results previously scattered over many publications--now in a single volume
- Simplified results heretofore available only in complex forms
- Extremely broad coverage of topics
- Explores practical applications, including the problem of optimum combining in the presence of co-channel interference
Part 1 Fundamentals
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Fading Channel Characterization and Modeling
Chapter 3 Types of Communication
Part 2 Mathematical Tools
Chapter 4 Alternative Representations of Classical Functions
Chapter 5 Useful Expressions for Evaluating Average Error Probability Performance
Chapter 6 New Representations of Some PDF's and CDF's for Correlative Fading Applications
Part 3 Optimum Reception And Performance Evaluation
Chapter 7 Optimum Receivers for Feding Channels
Chapter 8 Performance of Single Channel Receivers
Chapter 9 Performance of Multichannel Receivers
Part 4 Application In Practical Communication Systems
Chapter 10 Optimum Combining: A Diversity Technique for Communication Over Feding Channels in the Presence of Interference
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