Consider a channel over which either symbol x_A or symbol x_B is transmitted. Let the output of the channel Y be the input to a maximum likelihood (ML) detector at the receiver. The conditional probability density functions for y given x_A and x_B are :

$${f_{\left. Y \right|{x_A}}}(y) = {e^{ - (y + 1)}}u(y + 1)$$,

$${f_{\left. Y \right|{x_B}}}(y) = {e^{(y - 1)}}(1 - u(y - 1))$$,

where, u( . ) is the standard unit step function. The probability of symbol error for this system is _________ (rounded off to two decimal places).

In a digital communication system, a symbol $S$ randomly chosen from the set $\left\{s_1, s_2, s_3, s_4\right\}$ is transmitted. It is given that $s_1=-3, s_2=-1, s_3=+1$ and $s_4=+2$. The received symbol is $Y=S+W . W$ is a zero mean unit - variance Gaussian random variable and is independent of $S . P_i$ is the conditional probability of symbol error for the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding when the transmitted symbol $S=s_i$. The index $i$ for which the conditional symbol error probability $P_i$ is the highest is $\_\_\_\_$ .

where T is the bit-duration interval and t is in seconds. Both $${u_o}(t)$$ and $${u_1}(t)$$ are zero output the interval $$0 \le \,\,t\, \le \,T$$. With a matched filter (correlator ) based receiver, the smallest positive value of T (in milliseconds) required to have $${u_o}(t)$$ and $${u_1}(t)$$ uncorrelated is