Performance of Wimax Physical Layer with Variations in Channel Coding and Digital Modulation under Realistic Channel Conditions

The aim of this paper is to analyze the bit error rate (BER) performance of WiMAX physical layer with the implementation of different concatenated channel coding schemes under QAM and 16QAM digital modulations over realistic channel conditions (i.e. noise and multipath fading). In concatenated channel coding, the WiMAX system incorporates CRC-CC (Cyclic Redundancy Check and Convolutional) or RSCC (Reed-Solomon and Convolutional) encoder over an additative white gaussian noise (AWGN) and other multipath fading (Raleigh and Rician) channels. A segment of synthetic data is used for the analysis. Computer simulation results based on BER and signal to noise ratio (SNR) demonstrate that the performance of concatenated CRC-CC coded WiMAX system under QAM modulation is better as compared to RS-CC coded system over noisy and fading environments.