We develop a belief-propagation-based joint decoding and channel state estimation algorithm for low-density parity check codes on fading channels with memory. The excellent empirical performance of LDPC codes on the AWGN channel and the possibility of arranging the code memory relative to the channel correlation suggests that LDPC codes have the potential to perform well on fading channels with...

Abstract Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been attracting much attention for very high-speed data transmission over a frequency-selective fading channel. To improve the performance in a fading channel, some form of antenna diversity technique is necessary. Recently, Alamouti’s space-time coded transmit diversity (STTD) has been gaining a lot of attention for downlink (base-...

this paper investigates the multi-band ofdm (mb-ofdm) based physical (phy) layer proposal for ieee 802.15.3a working group on short-range high data-rate ultra-wide-band (uwb) communications. an overview of the mb-ofdm phy layer architecture with its various parameters is presented and the optimal choice of critical parameters is discussed. next, we derive the theoretical un-coded bit error rate...

Future wireless communication systems can utilize the spatial properties of the wireless channel to enhance the spectral efficiency and therefore increases its channel capacity. This can be designed by deploying multiple antennas at both the transmitter side and receiver side. The basic measure of performance is the capacity of a channel; the maximum rate of communication for which arbitrarily ...

Low Complexity Channel Models for Approximating Flat Rayleigh Fading in Network Simulations. (August 2003) Jeffrey Michael McDougall, B.S., Texas A&M University; M.S., Johns Hopkins University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Scott L. Miller The intricate dependency of networking protocols upon the performance of the wireless channel motivates the investigation of network channel approximations...

Abstract— The fading wire-tap channel is investigated, where the source-to-destination channel and the source-to-wire-tapper channel are corrupted by multiplicative fading gain coefficients in addition to additive Gaussian noise terms. The channel state information is assumed to be known at both the transmitter and the receiver. The parallel wire-tap channel with independent subchannels is firs...

Recent attention has been given to Nakagami-0.5 fading channel as a special case of Nakagami-m fading channel with m = 0.5 and as a worst-case (severe) fading scenario. This paper presents a study on the performance analysis of a robust multiuser detector for direct sequencecode division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems including maximal ratio combining (MRC) receive diversity. A new M-estimat...

This paper presents a new methodology for realizing a Rice channel in BAN Over-The-Air (OTA) testing using a fading emulator with a dynamic phantom. For the proposed apparatus to be effective, the fading emulator must be provided with an appropriate K-factor that represents the actual propagation environment indoors. Further, an implementation of the Rice channel to the proposed fading emulator...

Future 3G and 4G mobile communication systems will be required to support wide range of data rates and quality of service matrix. For the efficient design of data link and transport protocols system designer needs knowledge of the statistical properties of physical layer. Studies have shown that without proper characterization of the channel, blind application of existing protocols and transmis...