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The technique described in Performance Results via Simulation works well for a large variety of communication systems, but can be prohibitively time-consuming if the system's error rate is very small (for example, 10-6 or smaller). This section describes how to use the semianalytic technique as an alternative way to compute error rates. For certain types of systems, the semianalytic technique can produce results much more quickly than a nonanalytic method that uses only simulated data.
The semianalytic technique uses a combination of simulation and analysis to determine the error rate of a communication system. The semianalytic function in the Communications Toolbox helps you implement the semianalytic technique by performing some of the analysis.
The topics in this section are
For more background information on the semianalytic technique, refer to [3] .
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