TY - GEN
T1 - Novel relations between the ergodic capacity and the average bit error rate
AU - Yilmaz, Ferkan
AU - Alouini, Mohamed Slim
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Ergodic capacity and average bit error rate have been widely used to compare the performance of different wireless communication systems. As such recent scientific research and studies revealed strong impact of designing and implementing wireless technologies based on these two performance indicators. However and to the best of our knowledge, the direct links between these two performance indicators have not been explicitly proposed in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose novel relations between the ergodic capacity and the average bit error rate of an overall communication system using binary modulation schemes for signaling with a limited bandwidth and operating over generalized fading channels. More specifically, we show that these two performance measures can be represented in terms of each other, without the need to know the exact end-to-end statistical characterization of the communication channel. We validate the correctness and accuracy of our newly proposed relations and illustrated their usefulness by considering some classical examples.
AB - Ergodic capacity and average bit error rate have been widely used to compare the performance of different wireless communication systems. As such recent scientific research and studies revealed strong impact of designing and implementing wireless technologies based on these two performance indicators. However and to the best of our knowledge, the direct links between these two performance indicators have not been explicitly proposed in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose novel relations between the ergodic capacity and the average bit error rate of an overall communication system using binary modulation schemes for signaling with a limited bandwidth and operating over generalized fading channels. More specifically, we show that these two performance measures can be represented in terms of each other, without the need to know the exact end-to-end statistical characterization of the communication channel. We validate the correctness and accuracy of our newly proposed relations and illustrated their usefulness by considering some classical examples.
KW - binary modulation schemes
KW - bit error rate
KW - Ergodic capacity
KW - generalized fading channels
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857497819&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISWCS.2011.6125270
DO - 10.1109/ISWCS.2011.6125270
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857497819
SN - 9781612844022
T3 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
SP - 789
EP - 793
BT - ISWCS'11 - 2011 8th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Proceedings
T2 - 2011 8th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS'11
Y2 - 6 November 2011 through 9 November 2011
ER -