Measurement of maximum time interval error for telecommunications clock stability characterization

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 900-906

  Bregni, Stefano ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CEFRIEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TIMING DEVICES;

MAXIMUM TIME INTERVAL ERROR; PEAK TO PEAK PHASE NOISE; PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS CLOCK STABILITY;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030269730     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.536708     Document Type: Article

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