DocumentCode
1518718
Title
Asymptotic error rate behavior for noncoherent on-off keying
Author
Geist, John M.
Author_Institution
Harris Corp., Melbourne, FL, USA
Volume
42
Issue
234
fYear
1994
Firstpage
225
Abstract
This article corrects a minor error in a venerable contribution by Stein (1966) to the statistical theory of communication. The author shows that at high SNR, with optimum decision threshold, mark and space errors contribute equally to the average error probability
Keywords
error statistics; modulation; probability; signal detection; statistical analysis; asymptotic error rate; average error probability; communication theory; high SNR; mark errors; noncoherent on-off keying; optimum decision threshold; signal detection; space errors; statistical theory; Communications Society; Equations; Error analysis; Error correction; Error probability; Signal analysis; Signal design; Signal to noise ratio;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0090-6778
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCOMM.1994.577018
Filename
577018
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