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Sub-optimum Receivers

A binary communication system employs the following signals to communicate two equally likely messages over an additive white Gaussian noise channel with spectral height $\frac{N_0}{2}$:

\begin{displaymath}
\begin{array}
{l}
s_0(t) = \left\{
\begin{array}
{cl}
A & \m...
 ...$0 \leq t < T$}\\ 0 & \mbox{else}\end{array}\right. \end{array}\end{displaymath}

1.
Draw a block diagram of the optimum receiver.
2.
Compute the probability of error achieved by your receiver from part (a).
3.
Consider now the following sub-optimum receiver:


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where g(t) is given by

\begin{displaymath}
g(t) = \sin(\pi t/T) \quad \mbox{for $0 \leq t < T$.}\end{displaymath}

Find the distribution of R for both cases, s0(t) was transmitted and s1(t) was transmitted.

4.
Find the probability of error of the suboptimum receiver and compare with that of the optimum receiver.


Prof. Bernd-Peter Paris
3/3/1998