Analytical Framework for Space Shift Keying MIMO Systems With Hardware Impairments and Co-Channel Interference

This letter provides a general analytical framework for multiple-input multiple-output space shift keying systems considering hardware impairments, at the transmitter and receiver sides, and co-channel interference. Specifically, a closed-form expression for the average bit error probability (ABEP) in the case of two transmit antennas and arbitrary number of receive antennas is derived. As well, a tight upper bound ABEP expression in the general case of arbitrary number of transmit and receive antennas is obtained. Besides, an asymptotic simple expression is found over Rayleigh fading channels. Analytical results, which are validated via simulation ones, explicitly demonstrate that non-zero bounds of the ABEP exist in the high power region, which is in contrast to the case of ideal hardware, where the ABEP asymptotically goes to zero.