Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 58, Issue 9, Pages 2590-2603Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.09.090565
Keywords
Spatial modulation (SM); space shift keying (SSK) modulation; multiple-input-single-output (MISO) systems; performance analysis; correlated fading channels; Nakagami-m fading
Funding
- EPSRC [EP/G011788/1]
- Scottish Funding Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G011788/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G011788/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In this paper, we offer an accurate framework for analyzing the performance of wireless communication systems adopting the recently proposed Space Shift Keying (SSK) modulation scheme. More specifically, we study the performance of a N-t x 1 MISO (Multiple-Input-Single-Output) system setup with Maximum-Likelihood (ML) detection and full Channel State Information (CSI) at the receiver. The exact Average Bit Error Probability (ABEP) over generically correlated and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels is computed in closed-form when N-t = 2, while very accurate and asymptotically tight upper bounds are proposed to compute the ABEP when N-t > 2. With respect to current literature, our contribution is threefold: i) the ABEP is computed in closed-form without resorting to Monte Carlo numerical simulations, which, besides being computationally intensive, only yield limited insights about the system performance and cannot be exploited for a systematic optimization of it, ii) the framework accounts for arbitrary fading conditions and is not restricted to identically distributed fading channels, thus offering a comprehensive understanding of the performance of SSK modulation over generalized fading channels, and iii) the analytical framework could be readily adapted to study the performance over generalized fading channels with arbitrary fading distributions, since the Nakagami-m distribution is a very flexible fading model, which either includes or can closely approximate several other fading models. Numerical results show that the performance of SSK modulation is significantly affected by the characteristics of fading channels, e. g., channel correlation, fading severity, and power imbalance among the N-t transmit-receive wireless links. Analytical frameworks and theoretical findings are also substantiated via Monte Carlo simulations.
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