Modified chernoff bound for binary optical communication

5 August 1982

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 18 (16) , 708-710
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19820482

Abstract

A modified Chernoff bound on error probability for binary optical communication is derived, following Prabhu, by using principles of analytic continuation and contour integration. The bound is shown to be markedly tighter than the standard Chernoff bound for many cases of practical importance.

Keywords

ANALYTIC CONTINUATION
ERROR PROBABILITY
CONTOUR INTEGRATION
BINARY OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
MODIFIED CHERNOFF BOUND
DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

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