A Simple Upper Bound of the Gaussian �-Function with Closed-Form Error Bound

Authors

Won Mee Jang, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2-2011

Citation

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, VOL. 15, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2011.

Comments

Copyright IEEE 2011. Used by permission.

Abstract

We present a simple upper bound of the Gaussian Q-function with its closed-form error bound. The proposed approximation can be applied to the evaluation of the average error probability of digital modulations with its error bound. Our bit error rate (BER) bound can be easily applied to fading channels.