The performance of trellis coded q-ary PSK in Rayleigh fading and Nakagami fading with dual diversity reception

Abstract

An analytic technique is presented for computing the performance of trellis coded q-ary PSK in Rayleigh fading. A contour-integral expression for the pairwise error probability (PEP) is used to define a transfer function, enabling the union bound to be evaluated exactly for the ideal CSI (channel state information) case and imperfect-CSI case. The case of TCM in Nakagami fading and dual diversity reception is also analysed.