Performance analysis of trellis coded M-PSK systems over Rician fading channels with phase jitter

In this paper, the performance of trellis coded M-PSK systems in the fading environment is investigated. The combined effects of the fading and the non-ideal coherent receiver on the phase of the received signal are taken into account. Thus, performance analysis results will reflect the degradations both due to the effects of the fading on the amplitude of the received signal and of a noisy carrier reference, each modeled by the Rician and Tikhonov distributions, respectively.