[CPCC] Seminar by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

[Hamid Jafarkhani]

Title: Novel Generic Formulas and Relations for the Ergodic Capacity and 
Average Bit Error Rate over Generalized Fading Channels

Speaker: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Date: Sept. 9, 2011, Fri.

Time: 11:00 AM

Venue: Bren Hall (DBH) 3011

ABSTRACT

Analysis of the average binary error probabilities (ABEP) and ergodic 
capacity (EC) of wireless communications systems over generalized fading 
channels have been considered separately in the past. This talk 
introduces a novel moment generating function (MGF)-based unified 
approach for the exact computation of the ABEP and EC of single and 
multiple link communication with maximal ratio combining. This approach 
leads to a generic unified performance expression that can be easily 
calculated and that is applicable to a wide variety of fading scenarios. 
The talk introduces also a new analytical connection between the EC and 
the ABEP of binary modulation schemes. In particular formulas to obtain 
the EC from the ABEP and vice versa are proposed. Analytical and 
numerical examples are provided to illustrate the mathematical formalism 
for a variety of fading conditions.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. 
degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of 
Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He was with the 
department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of 
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then with the Electrical and Computer 
Engineering Program at the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education 
City, Doha, Qatar.

Since June 2009, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 
the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering at KAUST, Saudi 
Arabia, where his current research interests include the design and 
performance analysis of wireless communication systems.