CONTENTS

 

Annex 1
 
1     General, history, definitions, parameters and objectives relating to ITU-T Recommendation G.826
        1.1     Definitions from ITU-T Recommendation G.826
                  1.1.1     Error performance events for paths
                  1.1.2     Error performance events for connections
 
     Errored second (ES)
 
     Severely errored second (SES)
        1.2     Parameters
        1.3     Monitoring blocks
        1.4     Performance objectives
        1.5     Apportionment of the end-to-end objectives to portions of the path
        1.6     Allocations for satellites
 
2     Bit error probability (BEP) mask derivation
        2.1     Probability of the basic events
        2.2     Calculation of the ITU-T Recommendation G.826 parameters for a given mask of BEP cumulative distribution
 
3     Relationship between BER and error-event ratio
        3.1     Derivation of the average number of errored bits in a cluster
        3.2     Factors for binary BCH codes
        3.3     Factors for convolutional codes
        3.4     Factors for concatenated codes
        3.5     Factors for turbo codes
        3.6     Factors for block turbo codes
        3.7     Other measurement results and summary
 4     Conclusions
 5     List of acronyms/abbreviations