Performance Analysis of Rician Fading Channels using Nonlinear Modulation Methods with Memory Schemes in Simulink environment

Abstract

When a signal travels from transmitter to receiver over multiple reflective paths then the phenomenon is called as multipath propagation. In a wireless mobile communication system, the multipath propagation can cause the degradation in the received signal strength and this process is called as fading. When a strong stationary path such as a line of sight path is introduced into the Rayleigh fading environment, the fading becomes Rice-distributed fading. Ricean fading is utilized for characterizing satellite communications and in some urban environments. In this paper, the performance analysis of Ricean Fading Channels using Non-linear modulation methods with memory Schemes is implemented and the Bit Error Rate is analyzed using Simulink tool. Keywords - Fading, Ricean, Non-linear, Memory, Simulink