Bit Error Rate for Physical-Layer Network Coding With M-QAM-OFDM Signals

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, pp. 153–157

Abstract

In this letter, we derive the closed-form analytical expressions for the exact Bit Error Rate (BER) of Physical Layer Network Coding (PNC) systems considering M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM) schemes in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We validate our results with Monte Carlo simulations.

Authors 4

1. Ehsan Atefat Doost

   University of Aveiro

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   Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

2. Firooz B. Saghezchi Aachen Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

   RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

3. António Navarro

   University of Aveiro

   Affiliation as printed

   Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

4. Jonathan Rodrı́guez

   University of Aveiro

   Affiliation as printed

   Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal