Efficient BER Analysis of OFDM System over Nakagami-m Fading Channel

In this paper, we present an efficient technique for the BER of OFDM system over Nakagami–m fading channels, using well known characteristics function based analysis approach. The average BER expressed in terms of the higher transcendental function such as the confluent hyper geometric functions. Our numerical results show that depending on the number of channel taps, the BER performance may degrade with increasing values of Nakagami–m fading parameters.

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