| Author | Pitukpong Kinawong |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. TC-96-1 |
| Subject(s) | Cellular radio
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of
Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | In the conventional Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimator (MLSE), the delayed
decision is used as an input to a channel estimator for channel tracking. The delayed decision
can cause the degradation of tracking capability of a channel estimator if the channel change
rapidly. The MLSE using multiple channel estimators has been reported to be effective in the
fast time-varying mobile radio channel. In this case, each channel estimator updates its own
channel estimate by using the zero-delay tentative decision derived from its corresponding
survivor path in the Viterbi Algorithm (VA).
The convolutional coding is exploited in IS-54 standard for F01ward Error Correction
(FEC) and generally the Viterbi decoder is used at the receiver for convolutional decoding. If
the MLSE is employed in the receiver of the IS-54 system, the system can be modeled as the
cascade of two V As. The MLSE represents the inner VA and the Viterbi decoder represents
the outer VA. And it is well known that the overall performance of the system could be
significantly improved if the inner VA is able to deliver the soft outputs to be used by the outer
VA.
In this thesis, the soft-output MLSE with multiple channel estimators is developed. Its
performance will be evaluated in term of Bit Error Rate (BER) as a function of Et/No and
compare to those of the MLSE with single channel estimator by computer simulation. The IS54 parameters are used in the simulation model.
From the simulation, the soft-output MLSE with multiple channel estimator results in a
significant BER performance improvement over the soft-output MLSE with single channel
estimator in the fast time-varying mobile radio channel. Its performance in the slowly and
moderately time-varying channel are also satisfactory. However, the improvement m
performance must be traded with the expense of higher computational complexity. |
| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Telecommunications (TC) |
| Chairperson(s) | Makelainen, Kimmo |
| Examination Committee(s) | Ahmed, Kazi Mohiuddin;Zhang, Jian-Guo |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Partial Scholarship
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| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1996 |