Wednesday, July 26, 2017

digital communications - Deriving SER & BER for 4QAM, 16QAM and 32QAM


Required to find symbol error rate vs $\dfrac{E_b}{N_0}$ for 4QAM, 16QAM & 32QAM. Thought that SER & BER are the same but did my research to find that BER is $\dfrac{1}{\log_2(M)}$ of SER...(could you please confirm this?)


Also found SER for:


4QAM to be: $\text{erfc}\sqrt{\dfrac{E_b}{2N_0}}$


and that of


16QAM to be: $\dfrac{3}{2} \text{erfc}\sqrt{\dfrac{E_b}{10N_0}}$


Are these values correct? Still have problems to find SER for 32QAM...


Hope you can help.




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