Upper bound on the performance of an order statistics-based decoder

Abstract : In modern telecommunication systems severe interference cased by various factors can affect the performance of the system drastically. In this case robust reception techniques are to be applied in order to mitigate the performance degradation. In this paper a single user order statistics-based receiver is considered. For the system employing the receiver in question a vector channel model and a decoder are introduced. For the proposed decoder an upper bound on the probability of incorrect decision (i.e. the probability of the fact that decoding will result in erroneous or denial decision) is given.