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
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