Error probability of bit-interleaved coded modulation

Martinez, Alfonso; Guillén i Fàbregas, Albert; Caire, Giuseppe
IEEE Transactions on information theory, January 2006, Volume 52, N°1

This correspondence presents a simple method to accurately compute the error probability of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM). Thanks to the binary-input output-symmetric (BIOS) nature of the channel, the pairwise error probability (PEP) is equal to the tail probability of a sum of random variables with a particular distribution. This probability is in turn computed with a saddlepoint approximation. Its precision is numerically validated for coded transmission over standard Gaussian noise and fully interleaved fading channels for both convolutional and turbo-like codes.


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Date:
2006-01-01
Department:
Systèmes de Communication
Eurecom Ref:
1863
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