Some simple bounds on the symmetric capacity and outage probability for QAM wireless channels with Rice and Nakagami fadings

In this article, quickly computable upper and lower bounds are presented on the symmetric capacity of flat-faded Rice and Nakagami channels with side information (SI) for data-transmissions via finite-size quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations. The proposed bounds exhibit the appealing feature to be tight and asymptotically exact both for high and low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Furthermore, exponentially tight Chernoff-like formulas are also presented for an analytical evaluation of the resulting system outage probabilities when interleaved packet transmissions are carried out.