• DocumentCode
    1090049
  • Title

    Quantization of signals in additive noise: Efficiency and linearity of the equal step-size quantizer

  • Author

    Broman, Holger

  • Author_Institution
    Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    12/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    572
  • Lastpage
    574
  • Abstract
    The influence of an equal step-size quantizer on the sum of signal and noise is determined for general one-dimensional noise density functions. The efficiency and the nonlinearity of the quantized signal are studied in detail. It is shown that in many cases of practical importance even a very crude quantization yields sufficiently linear and surprisingly efficient signal estimates.
  • Keywords
    Additive noise; Density functional theory; Distribution functions; Equations; Gaussian noise; Linearity; Probability density function; Quantization; Signal to noise ratio; Yield estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-3518
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASSP.1977.1163015
  • Filename
    1163015