WIDE-BAND CARRIER COMMUNICATIONS. VOLUME IV. RANDOM SIGNAL CODING FOR FINITE MESSAGE SETS

Abstract

The divergence between statistical hypotheses is used as a criterion for selection of a finite transmitter alphabet in a communication system. The members of the transmitter alphabet are sample functions from one of a finite set of normally distributed random processes. The receiver uses a maximum-likelihood decoding procedure, and the probability of error is evaluated for this receiver for a class of codes having orthogonal covariance functions. The codes with maximum divergence between alternate hypotheses are shown to be a special case of the codes with orthogonal covariance functions. The error probabilities of the maximum-divergence codes are then compared with the other codes having orthogonal covariance functions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0264328

Entities

People

  • T.l. Grettenberg

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alphabets
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Decoding
  • Hypotheses
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Message Decoding
  • Notation
  • Probability
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Statistical inference.