Evaluation of the exact union bound for trellis-coded modulations over fading channels

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An analytical technique is presented for computing the exact union bound on the average bit error probability of trellis coded modulation schemes over Rayleigh, Rician, or shad- owed Rician-fading channels. To this end, an integral expression is derived fior the painvise error event probability (PEP). Existing bounds can be obtained as special cases of this expression. It turns out that a Gauss-Chebysev quadrature rule offers excellent accuracy for this integral. By extension, the exact union bound (Le., the weighted sum of all exact PEP'S of a code) can readily be evaluated. This method has the same complexity as the union- Chernoff hound, and a few examples are given to show its application.

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