Title :
Is there life after bit error rate or before?
Author :
Lawrance, Anthony J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Stat., Warwick Univ., Coventry
Abstract :
This paper considers some little discussed basic aspects of bit error probability and bit error rate in the context of spread spectrum shift keying binary communication systems. It points out that bit error rate is an average of bit error probability and suggests further ways of using the distribution of bit error probability to give alternative and complementary measures of performance of binary communication systems. One of these is a probability interval measure and two others capture the idea of outage. Illustrations are given using the extremes of spreading choices, namely independent Gaussian random variables and chaotic dependent random variables
Keywords :
error statistics; spread spectrum communication; statistical distributions; Gaussian random variables; binary communication systems; bit error probability; bit error rate; chaotic dependent random variables; probability interval measure; spread spectrum shift keying; AWGN channels; Bit error rate; Chaotic communication; Context; Decoding; Energy measurement; Error probability; Performance analysis; Random variables; Spread spectrum communication;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Island of Kos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9389-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1692553
