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    
        1.2     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   
 4     Conclusions