EE 252 Spring 2008 Homework # 7

San Jos State University e Due date: Wednesday 5/1/08

1. Prove that the power of a signal with random Rayleigh-distributed amplitude of parameter is exponentially distributed with mean 2 2 . 2. For DPSK modulation, determine the minimum fading margin required to maintain an average BER below 104 . 3. Write a Matlab script to generate random amplitudes An with Rayleigh PDF and parameter = 1/ 2. Use the script to produce two plots of 1000 samples of (a) the amplitudes An , and (b) the instantaneous powers A2 (in dBm). n 4. A communication outage (or an outage) occurs whenever the instantaneous received power Pr is below a given threshold Pt . Assume that the received signal amplitudes are Rayleigh distributed with parameter . (a) Show that the probability of an outage is given by pout = Pr {Pr < Pt } = 1 ePt /P0 , where P0 = 2 2 is the average received power. (b) Determine the minimum received power required for acceptable performance, if the mean received power is 0.5 W and outages can occur no more than 1% of the time.