Empirical investigation of the error correcting performance of a binary

convolutional code-a scr ipt which performs Monte Carlo simulations to obtain BER

curves in a noisy channel (AWGN).Assume the encoded signal is modulated by BPSK and is subjected to additive white

Gaussian noise (AWGN), which can be simulated by adding Gaussian noise with a variance:

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2 0 σ =

Note that this assumes that symbols are transmitted as ±1 (BPSK).