RT Journal Article T1 Link abstraction models for multicarrier systems: A logistic regression approach A1 Carreras Mesa, Alberto A1 Aguayo-Torres, María del Carmen A1 Martín-Vega, Francisco-Javier A1 Gómez-Paredes, Gerardo A1 Blánquez-Casado, Francisco A1 Delgado-Luque, Isabel-María A1 Entrambasaguas-Muñoz, José Tomás K1 Comunicación inalámbrica AB Evaluation of complex wireless systems through simulations is commonly tackled with an abstraction of physical link behavior. This procedure is performed in 2 phases: Firstly, training is performed at the link level, resulting in a mapping function from signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) to block error rate (BLER); and secondly, physical layer signal processing is replaced by the resulting link-level mapping function. Several methods have been proposed in the literature for link abstraction. The well-known exponential effective SINR mapping (EESM) is likely to be the most extensively used procedure for multicarrier transmission. In short, EESM estimates an effective SINR from the whole set of SINRs of useful subcarriers by means of a single parameter mapping function, which must be previously optimized through training. Later on, BLER is assumed as that of the effective SINR over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. In this paper, we propose a novel method for BLER prediction named as logistic regression-based link method (LRLM). Mean and standard deviation of the SINR set can accurately capture BLER behavior for wideband multicarrier systems through a simpler function, thus reducing the amount of information to be stored compared to EESM. Moreover, LRLM is very flexible and may include extra predictors to reduce the number of different models to be stored. Performance results show that LRLM is able to predict accurately the BLER for all modulation and coding schemes and transport block sizes defined for Long-Term Evolution technology PB Wiley YR 2017 FD 2017-09 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33190 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33190 LA spa NO Carreras Mesa, A, Aguayo-Torres MC, Martin-Vega FJ, et al. Link abstraction models for multicarrier systems: A logistic regression approach. Int J Commun Syst. 2018; 31:e3436. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.3436 DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026