Patent ID: 8412119

Claim:
An evaluation device adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof, the transceiver system including a transmitter and a receiver and modeling a channel between the transmitter and the receiver using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter, the transmitter having a plurality of transmit antennas, the receiver having a plurality of receive antennas, said evaluation device comprising: a threshold value computing module operable to compute a threshold value based upon a given capacity; a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) setting module operable to set an average SNR for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver of the transceiver system; a probability computing module operable, based upon the fading parameter, a number of the transmit antennas, a number of the receive antennas, the average SNR and the threshold value, to compute an outage probability of the transceiver system corresponding to the given capacity; and an output module operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the outage probability as the performance information of the transceiver system.