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Non-Data-Aided Parameter Estimation in an Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel
Non-data-aided (NDA) parameter estimation is considered for
binary-phase-shift-keying transmission in an additive white Gaussian noise
channel. Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLBs) for signal amplitude, noise variance,
channel reliability constant and bit-error rate are derived and it is shown how
these parameters relate to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). An alternative
derivation of the iterative maximum likelihood (ML) SNR estimator is presented
together with a novel, low complexity NDA SNR estimator. The performance of the
proposed estimator is compared to previously suggested estimators and the CRLB.
The results show that the proposed estimator performs close to the iterative ML
estimator at significantly lower computational complexity
A Tight Lower Bound to the Outage Probability of Discrete-Input Block-Fading Channels
In this correspondence, we propose a tight lower bound to the outage
probability of discrete-input Nakagami-m block-fading channels. The approach
permits an efficient method for numerical evaluation of the bound, providing an
additional tool for system design. The optimal rate-diversity trade-off for the
Nakagami-m block-fading channel is also derived and a tight upper bound is
obtained for the optimal coding gain constant.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures. This work has been accepted for IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory and has been presented in part at the 2007
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 200
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