Khalid, AhmadQuazi, TahmidXu, HongjunPatel, Sulaiman Saleem2022-06-272022-06-272020-09-25Khalid, A., Quazi, T., Xu, H. and Patel, S.S. 2020. Performance analysis of M-APSK generalised spatial modulation with constellation reassignment International Journal of Communication Systems. 33(14): e4497-e4497. doi:10.1002/dac.44971074-5351https://hdl.handle.net/10321/4097Generalised spatial modulation (GSM) is a recently developed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique aimed at improving data rates over conventional spatial modulation (SM) systems. However, for identical antenna array size and configurations (AASC), the bit error rate (BER) of GSM systems in comparison with SM systems is degraded. Recently, a GSM system with constellation reassignment (GSM-CR) was proposed in order to improve the BER of traditional GSM systems. However, this study focused on M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) schemes. The focus of this paper is the application of a circular constellations scheme, in particular, amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) modulation, to GSM and GSM-CR systems. An analytical bound for the average BER of the proposed M-APSK GSM and M-APSK GSMCR systems over fading channels is derived. The accuracy of this bound is verified using Monte Carlo simulation results. A 4 × 4 16-APSK GSM-CR system achieves a gain of 2.5 dB at BER of 10−5 over the traditional 16-APSK GSM system with similar AASC. Similarly, a 6 × 4 32-APSK GSM-CR system achieves a gain of 2 dB at BER of 10−5 over equivalent 32-APSK GSM system.15 p.en0805 Distributed Computing0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering1005 Communications TechnologiesNetworking & TelecommunicationsAmplitude phase shift keyingConstellation reassignmentGeneralised spatial modulationGenetic algorithmsMIMO communicationRayleigh fadingArticle2022-06-0710.1002/dac.4497