Efficient BER simulation of orthogonal space-time block codes in Nakagami-m fading

Abstract

In this contribution, we present a simple but efficient importance sampling technique to speed up Monte Carlo simulations for bit error rate estimation of orthogonal space-time block codes on spatially correlated Nakagami-m fading channels. While maintaining the actual distributions for the channel noise and the data symbols, we derive a convenient biased distribution for the fading channel that is shown to result in impressive efficiency gains up to multiple orders of magnitude.

Publication
International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Proceedings