A Random Walk Procedure for Evaluating Probability Distribution Functions in Communication Systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-110

  Yevick, David ^a   Bardyszewski, Witold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Optical communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Probability; Systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VECTORS;

OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0346076683     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818895     Document Type: Article

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