Applying compound Poisson process to error performance analysis in cascaded digital transmission systems

The authors propose a compound Poisson process model for representing the error characteristics in a digital transmission system. Only two parameters are needed to analyze the error performance of a digital transmission system. Three types of probability distributions to represent the distribution of cluster mass are illustrated. An analysis of the three-state error model, which is derived from the original Gilbert error model, is presented using the compound Poisson process approach.<
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