Fast Error Rate Evaluation in the Presence of Intersymbol Interference

In this paper, we present a general framework which describes a class of fast methods of error rate evaluation in the presence of additive noise and intersymbol interference. An analysis of this framework led us to propose a new method based on a Fourier series expansion which does not make use of the moments of the intersymbol interference. Its computing cost is low and it handles various kinds of noise as well as current coherent amplitude or phase modulation techniques.