Performance Degradation Due To Specular Multipath Intersymbol Interference

Abstract

Plots of performance degradation are used to compare the effects of fading and intersymbol interference in a two-component specular multipath digital communications channel. Similar plots are then used to compare two practical receivers designed to combat the interference. Degradation plots are shown to allow easy identification of each receiver\u27s range of usefulness, as well as identification of variance bounds demanded of channel parameter estimates which the receivers require. Copyright © 1973 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc