The Effects of a Multipath Channel and Interference on Coherent M-PSK digital Communication Systems.
Abstract
This report derives expressions for the average probability of symbol error of coherent M-ary phase-shift-keyed (M-PSK) communication system operating under the following nonideal conditions: (1) time-invariant multipath channel consisting of a direct path and a single multipath, (2) intentional/ unintentional interference consisting of either a continuous wave (CW) signal or a bandpass filtered white Gaussian noise signal (bandwidth is variable), and (3) additive white Gaussian noise. Exact solutions are derived for coherent binary phase shift-keyed (BPSK) while both exact and upper bound solutions (shown to be tighter than the Chernoff bound) are derived for coherent M-PSK. One particular example, line-of-sight ultrahigh frequency (LOS UHF) radio, is used extensively to exercise the derived expressions and illustrate typical system performance. These results pertain to receiver with no means of compensation for the nonideal channel conditions. Methods of compensation for multipath and interference, like adaptive equalization, beamforming, spatial diversity, and multichannel adaptive equalization, are presently under investigation by the authors. The results in this report will help determine the performance gain offered by these methods of compensation
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA278158
Entities
People
- D. Bryan
- R. A. Axford
- R. C. North
Organizations
- Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center