Title :
Asymptotic error rate behavior for noncoherent on-off keying
Author_Institution :
Harris Corp., Melbourne, FL, USA
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;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOMM.1994.577018
