Error Rate Lower Bounds for Digital Communication with Multiple Interferences

This paper presents simple and general lower bounds for error rates in digital communication systems. The information bearing signal is taken to be impaired by additive interference and carrier phase jitter. The former is taken to be composed of two components; one component is peak-limited while the other is not. Intersymbol and cochannel interference are examples of peak-limited interference while additive thermal noise is an example of a nonpeak-limited interference. The novelty of the paper is in the generality of the results and in obtaining a simple error bound for transmission in the presence of cochannel interference and carrier phase jitter.