Performance of Optimum Detector Structures for Noisy Intersymbol Interference Channels,

Abstract

When transmitting digital information by radio or wireline systems, errors may arise from additive noise and from successively transmitted signals interfering with one another. This report presents new results on evaluating the probability of error, i.e. performance, of optimum detector structures which are obtained when compound statistical decision theory is used to unravel noisy intersymbol interference patterns in the received signal. It includes a comparative study of the performance of certain detector structures and approximations to them, and the performance of a transversal equalizer. The report also shows that the optimum compound statistical decision procedure is not equivalent, either to subtracting out the interfering energy from the received signal, or to gathering together the energy which is dispersed throughout the received signal. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0732949

Entities

People

  • B. D. Fritchman
  • J. D. Womer
  • L. N. Kanal

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Cooperation
  • Decision Theory
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Information
  • Intersymbol Interference
  • Probability
  • Statistical Decision Theory
  • Transmitting

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Regression Analysis.