On the performance of trellis coded M-PSK systems over Rician fading channels with phase jitter

In this paper, the performance of trellis coded M-PSK systems is investigat ed operating over Rician fading channels with phase jitter. Thus the result s reflect not only the degradation due to the effect of fading on the ampli tude of the received signal, but also the impairment caused by the noisy ca rrier reference, which is usually neglected by the assumption of perfect ph ase tracking at the receiver. Analytical upper bounds on pairwise error pro bability for Rician fading with phase jitter are derived using Chernoff bou nding technique in both cases where channel state information is available or not. The bit error probability performances are evaluated based on the m odified transfer function approach. The numerical examples clearly demonstr ate the error performance degradation due to both amplitude fading and phas e noise process.