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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1995
Kinichiro Ogawa, Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, PA (US);
Yong-Kwan Park, Wescosville, PA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of determining Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) in transmission systems first measures, for each of a plurality of received signal having different Signal-to-Noise (S/N) ratio, the minimum Bit-Error Rate (BER) as a function of the threshold level of a decision circuit at the system receiver. The measurements are then repeated on the system or on a simulated system where one or more segments of the transmission facility has been replaced with one or more non-ISI producing attenuators. The ISI levels for a given BER value is determined from the first and second sets of measurements. An alternate method measures minimum BER values of the system and the simulated system, as a function of the received signal power, for received signals having different S/N ratios. The ISI levels for a given BER value is then determined from these two sets of measurements.