BER performance of Reed-Solomon coded baseband data transmission in impulse noise channels

Abstract

An expression is derived for estimating the bit error rate (BER) performance of a Reed-Solomon (RS) coded baseband data system with ideal interleaving in an impulse noise channel. The derivation is based on the probability density functions (pdf) of the amplitude, duration and inter-arrival time of impulse noise obtained in a recent study carried out in the German telephone network. The new BER expression consists of only a two-fold summation whereas an earlier BER expression consisted of a four-fold summation.