Asymptotics and Error Rate Bounds for M-ary DPSK
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Vol. 32 (1) , 93-94
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcom.1984.1095949
Abstract
The symbol error probabilityP_{E}(M)forM-ary DPSK is shown to be bounded in terms of a recent asymptotic approximationP_{asym}(M)by the inequalitiesP_{asym}(M) < P_{E}(M) < 1.03P_{asym}(M);M \geq 4, E_{b}/N_{0} \geq 1whereE_{b}/N_{0}is the bit energy-to-noise spectral density ratio. Aside from the wide range of validity and the closeness of the lower and upper bounds, this result is striking in light of the often held view that such asymptotic approximations are primarily of value only in the limitE_{b}/N_{0} \rightarrow \infty; thus, one of the goals of this note is to demonstrate that asymptotic methods can lead to extremely good error rate approximations in lieu of the more traditional and more widely used bounding techniques. The results are also noted to be applicable in other similar situations which commonly occur.Keywords
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