Error Rate Analysis for Peaky Signaling over Fading Channels

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the error performance of peaky signaling schemes, specifically OOPSK and OOFSK, over fading channels, demonstrating that increased peakedness improves energy efficiency and providing error probability expressions.

Contribution

It provides analytical error probability expressions for OOPSK and OOFSK over fading channels and examines how peakedness affects energy efficiency and coding performance.

Findings

Increased peakedness reduces error rates at fixed power levels.

Analytical expressions for error probabilities are derived for arbitrary constellation sizes.

Peaky signaling improves energy efficiency in fading channels.

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of signaling strategies with high peak-to-average power ratio is analyzed over both coherent and noncoherent fading channels. Two modulation schemes, namely on-off phase-shift keying (OOPSK) and on-off frequency-shift keying (OOFSK), are considered. Initially, uncoded systems are analyzed. For OOPSK and OOFSK, the optimal detector structures are identified and analytical expressions for the error probabilities are obtained for arbitrary constellation sizes. Numerical techniques are employed to compute the error probabilities. It is concluded that increasing the peakedness of the signals results in reduced error rates for a given power level and hence equivalently improves the energy efficiency for fixed error probabilities. The coded performance is also studied by analyzing the random coding error exponents achieved by OOPSK and OOFSK signaling.