A general analysis of bit error probability for reference-based BPSK mobile data transmission

Unified analysis of the performance of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) under static and mobile operating conditions is presented for the case in which a separate reference tone is used for channel sounding and subsequent 'coherent' data detection. It is shown that under both Rician and Rayleigh fading conditions, the use of a reference can eliminate the irreducible error rate phenomenon, with minimal sacrifice in bit error rate performance over an ideal BPSK system.<
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