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Performance Analysis of the Ordered V-BLAST Approach over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Information Theory 2013-02-20 v1 Systems and Control math.IT

Abstract

The performance of the V-BLAST approach, which utilizes successive interference cancellation (SIC) with optimal ordering, over independent Nakagami-m fading channels is studied. Systems with two transmit and n receive antennas are employed whereas the potential erroneous decision of SIC is also considered. In particular, tight closed-form bound expressions are derived in terms of the average symbol error rate (ASER) and the outage probability, in case of binary and rectangular M-ary constellation alphabets. The mathematical analysis is accompanied with selected performance evaluation and numerical results, which demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4705,
  title  = {Performance Analysis of the Ordered V-BLAST Approach over Nakagami-m Fading Channels},
  author = {Nikolaos I. Miridakis and Dimitrios D. Vergados},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4705},
  year   = {2013}
}