Performance of Optimum and Suboptimum Receivers in the Presence of Impulsive Noise Modeled as an Alpha-Stable Process

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 43, Issue 234, 1995, Pages 904-914

  Tsihrintzis, George A ^a   Nikias, Chrysostomos L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulsive noise; optimum receiver; suboptimum receivers; stable distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ALPHA STABLE PROCESS; OPTIMUM RECEIVERS; PROBABILITY OF ERROR; SUBOPTIMUM RECEIVERS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0029253262     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.380123     Document Type: Article

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