CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
Annex 1
 1 General
        1.1 Definitions
                  1.1.1 A block
                  1.1.2 Error events
                  1.1.3 Error performance parameters
                  1.1.4 Block based measurements
 2 Error performance objectives
        2.1 End-to-end objectives
        2.2 Apportionment of end-to-end objectives
                  2.2.1 Allocation to the national portion
                  2.2.2 Allocation to the international portion
 3 Satellite HRDP performance objectives
Annex 2  BEP mask derivation
 1 Introduction
 2 Probability of the basic events
        2.1 Generation of masks
 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