Precise error-rate analysis of bandwidth-efficient BPSK in Nakagami fading and cochannel interference

The bit-error rate (BER) of bandlimited binary phase-shift keying in a fading and cochannel interference (CCI) environment is derived for the case of perfect coherent detection. The fading-and-interference model assumed is general and of interest for microcellular system studies. The model allows both desired signal and interfering signals to experience arbitrary amounts of fading severity. A precise BER expression is derived using a characteristic function method. Using this accurate analytical result, the impact of the interfering users' fading severity on the desired user-error rate is examined. The BERs obtained under perfect coherent detection are also valid as lower performance bounds for practical realizable receivers where ideal coherent detection is difficult to implement. The error-rate performance of a novel bandwidth-efficient pulse shape is determined for the general fading and CCI environment. Analysis and numerical results show that the new pulse can provide better BER performance than the widely used raised-cosine pulse.

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