• DocumentCode
    1219613
  • Title

    PCM Data Reliability Monitoring Through Estimation of Signal-to-Noise Ratio

  • Author

    Gagliardi, Robert M. ; Thomas, C. Melvil

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1968
  • fDate
    6/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    479
  • Lastpage
    486
  • Abstract
    Reliability monitoring of digital pulse-code modulation (PCM) data in coherent transmission systems can be based upon online estimation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver. Maximum likelihood SNR estimation is analyzed to determine the structure of the estimator and its ability to monitor error rates with a given degree of confidence. In particular, relationships between estimation confidence intervals, observation time, word error rates, and PCM word structure are developed.
  • Keywords
    Communications technology; Digital modulation; Error analysis; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monitoring; Phase change materials; Pulse modulation; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communication Technology, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9332
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1968.1089851
  • Filename
    1089851