Bit Error Rate - Mathematical Draft

Mathematical Draft

The BER is the likelihood of a bit misinterpretation due to electrical noise . Considering a bipolar NRZ transmission, we have

for a "1" and for a "0". Each of and has a period of .

Knowing that the noise has a bilateral spectral density ,

is

and is .

Returning to BER, we have the likelihood of a bit misinterpretation .

and

where is the threshold of decision, set to 0 when .

We can use the average energy of the signal to find the final expression :

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