In this paper, we consider the error performance of the regular triangular quadrature amplitude modulation (TQAM). In particular, using an accurate exponential bound of the complementary error function, we derive a simple approximation for the average symbol error rate (SER) of TQAM over Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and fading channels. The accuracy of our approach is verified by some s...

Nonlinear distortion of OFDM signals can significantly increase the receiver symbol error rate (SER). Currently, distortion analyses rely on simulation, not yielding insight into the problem, or apply to specific nonlinearities only. In this letter, general analytic results are presented on the errors resulting from distortion. The results are applicable to smooth nonlinear distortion of an OFD...

The symbol error rate of the minimum distance detector for an arbitrary multi-dimensional constellation impaired by additive white Gaussian noise is characterized as the product of a completely monotone function with a non-negative power of the signal to noise ratio. This representation is also shown to apply to cases when the impairing noise is compound Gaussian. Using this general result, it ...

We propose the adaptive minimum symbol-error rate algorithm, which is a low-complexity technique for adapting the coefficients of a linear equalizer in systems using pulse-amplitude or quadrature-amplitude modulation. The proposed algorithm very nearly minimizes error probability in white Gaussian noise and can significantly outperform the minimum-mean-squared error equalizer (by as much as 16 ...