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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Communications and Electronic Signal Processing, 2005. The IEE Seminar on (Ref. No. 2005-11310)
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-598-9
