Considering the practically important case of two transmit and an arbitrary number of receive antennas, we provide a simple closed-form expression for the asymptotic pairwise error probability (PEP) of space-time codes (STCs) in generalized fading including Rayleigh, Ricean, Nakagami-q, Nakagami-m, Weibull, and generalized-K fading. The presented analysis provides new insights into STC design and can be used to obtain tight asymptotic upper bounds for the bit, symbol, and frame error probabilities of arbitrary STCs.
Published in:
Communications Letters, IEEE
(Volume:13
,
Issue:
8
)
Date of Publication: August 2009