“… where Γ is the SNR gap between Shannon capacity and the performance obtained by the employed modulation and coding scheme in practical wireless channel. For M‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M‐QAM) and target bit error rate of P e , Γ=−(2/3) l n (5 P e ) . In the first expression, 1/2 is used to compensate the two time‐slot transmission in access link.…”