The University of British Columbia

Recently proposed, pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM) uses a known pilot sequence to derive amplitude and phase references at the receiver. The authors present convolutional coding for such systems and derive the exact pairwise error probability and the Chernoff upper bound of it. A comparison among PSAM, coherent and differential detected coded systems indicates that, even at 5% Doppler fading rate, coded PSAM requires 3.5 dB more than the ideal coherent case but less than the differential case.