Error performance analysis of different modulations over TWDP fading channel

Abstract

Two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) is one of the most promising distribution for description of a small-scale fading in the emerging mmWave band. However, traditional error performance analysis in these channels faces two fundamental issues. It is mostly based on conventional TWDP parameterization which is not in accordance with the model's underlying physical mechanisms and which hinders accurate observation of the impact of a model parameters on a system's performance metrics. In addition, the existing average bit/symbol error probability (ABEP/ASEP) expressions for most modulations and diversity schemes are available as approximations, which are accurate only for specific combinations of TWDP parameters. Accordingly, in this paper, the exact ASEP expressions are derived for M-ary rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation (RQAM) with coherent detection and for M-ary DPSK modulation, and are given in terms of physically justified parameters. Besides, in order to relax computational complexity of proposed exact ASEPs in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region, their asymptotic counterparts are derived as the simple closed-form expressions, matching the exact ones for SNR>30dB.Results are verified by Monte-Carlo simulation.