EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 1 Computing time comparison. This table summarizes an experiment comparing the time (in seconds) to obtain bit error probability

From: A semi-analytical performance prediction of a digital communication system using Fourier transform inversion

Computing time (s)
	BEP	Proposed SPP	MC simulation
BPSK	10⁻⁶	2.106	154.179
	10⁻⁵	1.760	14.001
	10⁻⁴	1.013	1.441
QPSK	10⁻⁶	2.554	86.933
	10⁻⁵	1.734	9.013
	10⁻⁴	1.025	2.752
4-PAM	10⁻⁶	5.877	71.864
	10⁻⁵	5.309	8.1315
	10⁻⁴	3.663	4.333
SC-FDMA	10⁻⁶	2.631	54.810
	10⁻⁵	2.048	8.131
	10⁻⁴	1.671	1.453

BPSK bit-phase-shift keying, QPSK quadrature phase-shift keying, 4-PAM four-state pulse amplitude modulation, SC-FDMA single carrier frequency division multiple access, BEP bit error probability, SPP semi-analytical performance prediction, MC Monte Carlo

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