The Chernoff bound applied to error rate measurements
Abstract
A simple expression has been derived from the Chernoff bound, which enables a rapid determination of the number of errors which are required to be observed in a data transmission system to ensure, with a given statistical certainty, that the true mean error rate lies within a specified confidence interval.
- Publication:
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ATR Australian Telecommunication Research
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981ATR....15...13H
- Keywords:
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- Confidence Limits;
- Data Transmission;
- Error Analysis;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Transmission Efficiency;
- Extremum Values;
- Modems;
- Performance Prediction;
- Random Variables;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Communications and Radar