On Monte Carlo Simulation of the Bit Error Rate

Simulation, point estimation, and interval estimation of the bit error rate are rigorously examined. Exact confidence intervals based on the F-distribution approximation for the binomial and negative binomial distributions are derived. Simulations demonstrate 1) that the analysis gives accurate conf...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mazzeo, B., Rice, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Approximation methods
Bit error rate
Equations
Error probability
IEEE Communications Society
Maximum likelihood estimation
Random variables
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Simulation, point estimation, and interval estimation of the bit error rate are rigorously examined. Exact confidence intervals based on the F-distribution approximation for the binomial and negative binomial distributions are derived. Simulations demonstrate 1) that the analysis gives accurate confidence intervals for bit error rate estimators and 2) that the performance of the binomial and negative binomial estimators give similar performance. The negative binomial estimator has the advantage that an a priori estimate or guess of the true bit error probability is not required.
ISSN:1550-3607
1938-1883
DOI:10.1109/icc.2011.5963099