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Chapter 2: Introduction to Digital Communication Systems <strong>and</strong> <strong>Network</strong>s 9<br />

2.2.2 Binary Symmetric Channel (BSC)<br />

This model only allows received symbols to contain errors, but not to be erased. However,<br />

the physical phenomena behind the transmission errors are not included in the model.<br />

Therefore, this model is suitable for the data link level of abstraction. It can be illustrated<br />

by Fig. 2.4, in which X is the transmitted symbol <strong>and</strong> Y is the received one. If the error<br />

probability is p s , the capacity C of the channel is given by [73]<br />

C = 1 − H(p s ), (2.2)<br />

where<br />

H(p s ) = p s log 2<br />

1<br />

p s<br />

+ (1 − p s ) log 2<br />

1<br />

1 − p s<br />

, (2.3)<br />

0<br />

1<br />

X<br />

1−p s<br />

p s<br />

1−p s<br />

p s<br />

Y<br />

0<br />

1<br />

Figure 2.4: Binary Symmetric Channel<br />

2.2.3 Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Channel<br />

This channel model, belonging to the physical level of abstraction, explains the transmitted<br />

signal distortion as an adding effect of some noise n(t), as follows.<br />

r(t) = s(t) + n(t), (2.4)<br />

where r(t) is the received signal at time t, s(t) is the transmitted signal, <strong>and</strong> n(t) is the<br />

noise which obeys the following Gaussian distribution.<br />

p n (x) = 1 √<br />

2πσ<br />

exp {−(x − m x ) 2 /2σ 2 }, (2.5)

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