/* CHANNEL.H - Declarations regarding channels. */

/* Copyright (c) 2001 by Radford M. Neal 
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/* TYPES OF CHANNEL, AND CHANNEL PARAMETERS.  The global variables declared
   here are located in channel.c. */

typedef enum { BSC, AWGN, AWLN } channel_type;

extern channel_type channel;	/* Type of channel */

extern double error_prob;	/* Error probability for BSC */
extern double std_dev;		/* Noise standard deviation for AWGN */
extern double lwidth;		/* Width of noise distributoin for AWLN */


/* PROCEDURES TO DO WITH CHANNELS. */

int  channel_parse (char **, int);
void channel_usage (void);