Effect of Mobility on the Outage and BER Performances of Digital Transmissions over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

The outage probability (OP) and average bit error rate (BER) of wireless digital systems in a Nakagami-m fading environment have been well analyzed in the literature. Most of the analysis considers static wireless terminals in which the received signal power follows a gamma distribution. However, many mobile and ad hoc networks are composed of mobile receiving nodes with random mobility patterns. In this paper, the authors consider 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D wireless network deployment topologies with the random waypoint (RWP) mobility model. In such systems, the received power does not follow the gamma distribution in the presence of Nakagami- m fading. The authors derive the probability density function (pdf) and the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the received signal power for a mobile node. Consequently, the OP and the average BER of general modulation schemes are derived. Moreover, the effect of co-channel interference on the OP is investigated for interference-limited and interference-plus-noise systems. The analysis quantifies the effects of the mobility and propagation environments, which are characterized by the path-loss exponent and Nakagami- m parameter for the desired and interfering signals, on the performance of a mobile receiver.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2015.2421502
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Aalo, Valentine A
  • Mukasa, Constantine
  • Efthymoglou, George P
• Publication Date: 2016-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 2715-2721
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 65
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobile communication systems; Signal to noise ratio; Transmission errors and interference; Wireless communication systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fading channels (Wireless networks)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01597966
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 2016 2:46PM