A novel approach for performance evaluation of OFDM with error correction coding and interleaving

A comparably simple method for the performance analysis of error correction coding including interleaving is applied to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). ATM cell oriented data transmission is considered. The method, previously proposed for hybrid simulation schemes (simulation of channel realizations followed by analytical performance prediction for the generated channels), is extended to a completely analytical one. The resulting technique is capable of yielding average bit and frame error rates, as well as outage probabilities. Rayleigh fading channels are investigated. The distribution of the wide-band average power of the frequency-selective channel is derived.