Figure 1 Usually, the received signal can no longer be modeled as a determinis noise (WGN). Instead, it ic signal in white Gaussian should be considered as a function of either the state of a Markov chain or of its state transition probabili observed in the WGN. Mar stochastic process where t depends only on the prese y with known parameters kov chain is a special kind of he outcome of an experiment nt state not on the preceding states. Markov chain is defined as the process with Figure 1: Channel adaptive error control scheme As shown in the figure 1, channel condition is estimated and the derived BER is divided into three ranges: lower, middle and higher. Depending on the BER range, error control scheme uses three modes to handle the erors. All the three modes are detailed in the figure. We have assumed low range of BER is from 10-9 to 10-12, mid range from 10-6 to 10-8 and high range from 10-3 to 10—5. For the low range, simple error control scheme without retransmission is used. For the middle range, error control scheme with retransmission is employed and for the high range, the error control is left to the upper layer. As BER depends on the SNR, its requirement is different for different services and systems. For instance, wireless link BER is less than 10—6 while optical BER is less than 10—12. On optical fiber link, the average BER is approximately 10—9 where as on a coaxial cable, the probability of bit errors is around 10—6. For a switched telephone line, these numbers are even higher between 10—4 and 10—5. Digitized voice can tolerate bit errors as high as 1 bit per thousand bits sent i.e 10-3. Computer data requires a BER of 10—6 to 10-12 (i.e. 1 per million to 1 per trillion) depending on the content.