“…For the estimation of error probability, an asynchronous TS‐OCDMA communication system is similar to an asynchronous DS‐CDMA (direct‐sequence code division multiple access) wireless communication system with a BPSK (binary phase shift keying) modulation. For both communication systems, the average error probability P e is approximately equal to [26–28] where E b is the bit energy, N 0 /2 is the two‐sided spectral density of an AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel noise process, ϕ is the normalised (i.e. zero mean, unit variance) Gaussian cumulative distribution function, K is the number of simultaneous users and r k , i is a function of the aperiodic autocorrelation functions C k , k ( l ) = C k ( l ) and C i , i ( l ) = C i ( l ) of the codes k and i [29] An alternative expression for r k , i is a function of the aperiodic cross‐correlation function C k , i ( l ) [26]…”