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A New Union Bound on the Error Probability of Binary Coded OFDM Systems in Wireless Environments

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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems are commonly used to mitigate frequency-selective multipath fading and provide high-speed data transmission. In this paper, we derive new union bounds on the error probability of a coded OFDM system in wireless environments. In particular, we consider convolutionally coded OFDM systems employing single and multiple transmit antennas over correlated block fading (CBF) channels with perfect channel state information (CSI). Results show that the new union bound is tight to simulation results. In addition, the bound accurately captures the effect of the correlation between sub-carriers channels. It is shown that as the channel becomes more frequency-selective, the performance get better due to the increased frequency diversity. Moreover, the bound also captures the effect of multi-antenna as space diversity. The proposed bounds can be applied for coded OFDM systems employing different coding schemes over different channel models.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    Salam A. Zummo & Matasm M. Hassan

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduated Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Rm 248, EE Building, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Ping-Cheng Yeh

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Zummo, S.A., Hassan, M.M. & Yeh, PC. A New Union Bound on the Error Probability of Binary Coded OFDM Systems in Wireless Environments. Wireless Pers Commun 60, 307–320 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-9945-3

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