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doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 2 Presentation Outline Background Review of Temporal Collision Model Extension to Model to use BER instead of SER Simplification of Probability Calculations Conclusions

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 3 Background At the September meeting I gave a presentation on estimating PER using analytic techniques –Presentation /0029r0 –Document /0028r0 The probability techniques utilized the symbol error rate (SER) functions However, as was pointed out in the discussion, one often has bit error rate (BER) and not SER This presentation is an update of how to extend the work of the previous presentation to using BER formula instead of SER formula The word document has be revised incorporating these enhancements –Document /0028r2

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 4 Review of Temporal Collision Model

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 5 Packet Structure General packet structure Typically the preamble is short compared to the data Typically the preamble is sent at a more robust modulation and coding rate than the data Generally, the data portion breaks before the preamble breaks Thus under most cases the packet error rate is based predominantly on symbol errors in the data portion

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 6 Packet Structure Typically the data portion consists of a sequence of symbols –The symbols may encode a single bit or multiple bits –Each symbol is of duration T seconds –This can represent the data portion of the packet –If the preamble is sent at a similar modulation and code rate then this could represent both the data and preamble

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 7 Notation A symbol error is signified by the event SE The symbol error rate is the probability of a symbol error. –Since this is used frequently we will call this probability p This SER is a function of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) –Will assume high signal to noise ratio (SNR) since we are interested in the effect of interference not the effect of noise

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 8 Temporal Model This model converts from symbol error rate to packet error rate (PER) It models the temporal aspects of both the packets sent over the affected wireless network and the pulses sent by the interfering wireless network

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 9 Temporal Collision A packet sent over the affected wireless network may or may not collide in time with one or more of the pulses sent by the interfering wireless network When a collision occurs part or all of the packet may collide with the interference pulse

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 10 Temporal Collision The following figure illustrates a typical collision In this example four of the symbols collided with an interference pulse The number of symbol collisions is actually a random variable.

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 11 Probability Calculations Introduce some more notation A packet error event is called PE The packet error rate is the probability of a packet error The number of symbol collisions is a discrete random variable, which we will call M This random variable has a probability mass function,

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 12 Probability Calculations To assist in calculating the PER we use a Total Probability formula Probability of a packet error conditioned on m symbol collisions Probability mass function of the number of symbol collisions

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 13 Probability Calculations The probability of a packet error is one minus the probability of no symbol errors Assuming the symbol error rate is p, then the probability of no symbol errors is (1-p) m So the probability of a packet error if there are m symbol collisions is,

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 14 Probability Calculations Therefore the PER formula is, Given the probability mass function of the number of symbol collisions we can calculate the PER Several examples we given in September

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 15 Extension of Temporal Collision Model to use BER instead of SER

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 16 Probability Calculations Total Probability Formula still applies Where M is the number of symbol collisions Find probability mass function for M just as before Formula for conditional PER is needs to change

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 17 Notation We will assume that forward error correction (FEC) is used in the affected wireless network –If this is not the case then the code rate is one We assume the post-FEC bit error rate is know through a simulation The number of coded bits per symbol is N CBPS The number of information bits per symbol is N BPS The two are related by the code rate The post-FEC bit error rate is,

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 18 Probability Calculations The number of information bit in m symbol is m N BPS The probability of no packet error conditioned on m symbol collisions is the probability that all the information bits in those symbols are correct. Hence, The resulting PER formula is then,

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 19 Simplification of Probability Calculations

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 20 Simplification of Probability Calculations As was done for the case when the SER was used we can simplify the PER calculations in specific cases. Given fixed pulse duration and spacing the probability mass function for the number of symbol collisions is of the form

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 21 Simplification of Probability Calculations Which simplifies to, Then the PER is given by, This is not as simple as the case when we use the SER but still not too difficult to calculate

doc.: IEEE /0044r0 Submission November 2005 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Inc.Slide 22 Conclusions The process described in September has been extended to the case when we have the post- FEC BER and not the SER Like in the pervious case the PER formula can be simplified for fixed pulse durations and spacing. However, the simplification is not quite a simple as the case of using SER This extension is significant since in many cases we will have simulation results that supply post-FEC BER and those results can be utilized to estimate the PER