• DocumentCode
    450786
  • Title

    BER estimation of a MLSE using the union bound

  • Author

    Xie, C. ; Mai, P. ; Hauske, F.N. ; Lankl, Berthold ; Schmidt, E.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Commun. Eng., Fed. Armed Forces Univ., Neubiberg
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    15-15 Dec. 2005
  • Lastpage
    42617
  • Abstract
    A lower bound and the union upper bound of the bit error rate (BER) of the maximum-likelihood (ML) receiver of an optical on/off-keying (OOK) system is derived in this paper. Combining the two bounds, the BER of the ML receiver can be estimated
  • Keywords
    error statistics; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; optical modulation; optical receivers; BER estimation; MLSE; OOK; bit error rate; maximum-likelihood receiver; optical on/off-keying; union bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Communications and Electronic Signal Processing, 2005. The IEE Seminar on (Ref. No. 2005-11310)
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-598-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1588586