Title
Efficient Bit-Error-Rate estimation of multicarrier transceivers
Abstract
Multicarrier modulation schemes are widely used in several digital telecommunication systems, such as Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSL) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) based on Orthogonal Frequency Domain Multiplexing (OFDM). An estimate of the Bit-Error-Rate (BER) degradation due to non-idealities in the transceiver (e.g. nonlinear distortions in the analog front-ends, digital clipping,...) is much more complicated in a multicarrier system than in a single-carrier system due to the large number of carriers and the huge number of possible transmitted symbols. This paper proposes a method for estimating the BER of such OFDM modulation schemes in a CPU time that is two orders of magnitude smaller than a Monte-Carlo method, as confirmed by simulations on a 5 GHz IEEE 802.11 WLAN receiver front-end.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/DATE.2001.915019
Munich
Keywords
Field
DocType
OFDM modulation,computational complexity,digital subscriber lines,error statistics,nonlinear distortion,telecommunication computing,transceivers,wireless LAN,5 GHz IEEE 802.11 WLAN receiver,BER,Monte-Carlo method,OFDM modulation,analog front-ends,asymmetric digital subscriber lines,bit-error-rate degradation,bit-error-rate estimation,digital clipping,digital telecommunication system,multicarrier transceivers,nonlinear distortions,orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing,wireless local area network
Transceiver,Computer science,Digital subscriber line,Electronic engineering,Modulation,Asymmetric digital subscriber line,Wi-Fi,Multiplexing,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Bit error rate
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1591
0-7695-0993-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vandersteen, G.17217.97
Piet Wambacq252996.10
Yves Rolain334668.97
Schoukens, Johan417131.77