EE 670 - Assignment #1

1. Derive the following distributions.

(a) The quantity g where g = a
2
, a being the magnitude of the
Rayleigh fading channel with E
{
a
2
}
= 1 (i.e. as dened in class).
(b) The probability density function of the magnitude |X| of a com-
plex circular symmetric Gaussian random variable X with vari-
ance
2
.
(c) Let X
1
, X
2
, ..., X
n
be n independent random variables each of
which has an exponential density with mean . Let M be the
minimum value of the X
j
. Compute the density f
M
(m).
2. The signal constellation for MPSK has s
i1
= Acos
[
2(i1)
M
]
and s
i2
=
Asin
[
2(i1)
M
]
for i = 1, . . . , M. The symbol energy is E
s
= A
2
, so

s
= A
2
/N
0
. For the received vector x = re
j
represented in polar,
nd the probability of symbol error for this constellation.
3. Consider detecting the transmit vector u equally likely to be u
A
or u
B
(both elements of
n
). The received vector is
y = u +w,
and w N(0, (N
0
/2)I). Derive the probability of error for this system.
4. Using the result y
2
(y x)
2
+x
2
, prove the following inequality for
the Gaussian Q function,
Q(x) < e
x
2
/2
, for x > 0.
5. Modied From Tse (Problem 3.5) Consider the use of the dif-
ferential BPSK scheme proposed in Section 3.1.3 for the Rayleigh at
fading channel.
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(a) Find a natural non-coherent scheme to detect u[m] based on
y[m 1] and y[m], assuming the channel is constant across the
two symbol times. Your scheme does not have to be the ML
detector.
(b) Analyze the performance of your detector at high SNR. You may
need to make some approximations.
(c) What is the ideal coherent detector and how does the high SNR
performance of your detector compare to that of the coherent
detector?
(d) What is the complication that prevents us from practically im-
plementing the coherent detector?
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