November 2008 | NTIA Technical Report TR-09-458
Statistical Considerations for Noise and Interference Measurements
Roger A. Dalke
Abstract: The study of noise and interference in the radio environment is essential to the development of efficacious communications systems. Many of the characteristics of radio noise and interference of interest to radio system designers can be expressed in terms of first- and second-order statistics. These statistics are necessarily calculated using measured data. In this report, we discuss uncertainties that arise when measured data sets are used to calculate statistics of radio noise and interference.
Keywords: average power; radio interference; amplitude probability distribution; measurement uncertainties; power spectrum; radio noise
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Roger A. Dalke
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
(303) 497-3109
rdalke@ntia.doc.gov
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