A study of BER Performance of OFDM Modulation in Multi-fading Channel

Abstract

The diversity and complexity of Multipath fading can influence performance of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. The system performance analysis is based on correct design of a channel model. According to system characters of OFDM, a frequency selective slow fading channel model is built up, by combining the Trapped delay line model and the slow fading characters, such as the Rayleigh, Rician or Nakagami distribution. The theoretical Bit Error Rate (BER) of OFDM system under this channel model is deduced based on the BER or Symbol Error Rate of MQAM under Additive White Gauss Noise (AWGN) channel and the Probability Density (PDF) Function of different slow fading channel. The applicability of this channel model and the System BER performance under different slow fading channel is verified by simulation. The results indicate that the simulation result is consistent with the theoretical analysis under MQAM modulation method, which illustrates that the frequency selective slow fading channel model is suitable for the performance analyzing of OFDM system.