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Average SER Performance of Distributed Antenna Systems Over Shadowed Generalized-Gamma Channels for Different Modulation Schemes

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Recently, much attention has been drawn to distributed antenna systems (DAS), which are proposed to improve the performance of mobile communication systems. This paper focuses on the analysis of the average symbol error rate (SER) of DAS over a generic composite channel. Initially, a new composite channel model is considered for DAS, which is a mixture of path loss, lognormal shadowing and generalized-Gamma fast fading. This composite channel model is a generic model, which includes many well-known composite channel models as special cases. Based on the channel model, the cumulative distribution function of the output signal-to-noise ratio is obtained by employing selective transmission scheme. Moreover, by averaging the channel conditions and the positions of the MS in the cell, an approximate expression of the average SER is derived, which is a unified form of expression for many commonly used modulation schemes. Numerical results show that the derived expression of the average SER can provide sufficient precision for evaluating the SER performance of DAS under different modulation schemes.

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This work is supported by Key Special Project of National Science and Technology (No. 2013ZX03003006), National 863 High Technology Development Project (No. 2013AA013601), National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61372106, 61102068, 61172077 & 61223001), Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University (No. 2013A04), Program Sponsored for Scientific Innovation Research of College Graduate in Jiangsu Province (No. CXZZ13_0098), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20113218120017), Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University (No. 2012D14).

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    Jin-Yuan Wang, Jun-Bo Wang & Ming Chen

  2. School of Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing , 210046, China

    Jianxin Dai

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Wang, JY., Wang, JB., Chen, M. et al. Average SER Performance of Distributed Antenna Systems Over Shadowed Generalized-Gamma Channels for Different Modulation Schemes. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 1099–1114 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1410-7

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