Standard Bit Error Rate (BER) Versus Received Signal Level Testing

Abstract

Bit error rate (BER) bench testing of digital radios in a back-to- back mode essentially determine hardware characteristics independent of external anomalies such as impulse noise, fading, and interfering signals. This method employs the statistic of a characteristic theoretical curve of a long term BER versus received signal level (RSL). The attenuation is initially set to produce a BER of approximately .0001 at a corresponding RSL. When this point on the curve is statistically valid long term BERs can be predicted to correspond with the RSL.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104573

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attenuation
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Reduction
  • Detectors
  • Digital Communications
  • Impulse Noise
  • Instrumentation
  • Noise
  • Performance Tests
  • Probability
  • Radio Equipment
  • Radio Transmitters
  • Sampling
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Transmitters

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.