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WLAN Formulae

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1. If digital communication error rate is Q( aSN R), SISO Rayleigh error rate is 0.5(1 −
q
aSN R
2+aSN R
)

2. We know that approximate BER for BPSK Rayleigh faded multi antenna system with L1
antennas is  
2L1 − 1 1
( )L1 (1)
L1 2SN R
√
If digital communication error rate is Q( aSN R), error rate for Rayleigh faded multi antenna
system for this modulation scheme is 2LL11−1 ( 2∗aSN
1


R
)L1 . This is done by replacing SNR in (1)
with a*SNR like done in formula 1.
This can be done similarly for exact BER expression too in a multi antenna system
3. For OFDM SISO BPSK Rayleigh system, we know from class that error rate is
s
(L/N )SN R
0.5(1 − ) (2)
2 + (L/N )SN R
4. So approximate error rate for OFDM SIMO BPSK Rayleigh system is
 
2L1 − 1 1
( L )L1 (3)
L1 2 N SN R
L
This is done by replacing SNR in (1) with N
SN R
√
5. If Digital communication error rate for a modulation scheme is Q( aSN R).For OFDM
SISO Rayleigh system, error rate for this modualtion scheme is
s
(L/N )a ∗ SN R
0.5(1 − ) (4)
2 + (L/N )a ∗ SN R
This is obtained by replacing SNR in (2) with a*SNR
√
6. If Digital communication error rate for a modulation scheme is Q( aSN R).For OFDM
SIMO Rayleigh system, approximate error rate for this modulation scheme is

 
2L1 − 1 1
( L )L1 (5)
L1 2 N aSN R
This is obtained by replacing SNR in (3) with a ∗ SN R