Equalization for Multipulse Modulation
M. K. Varanasi, Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC'97),
Mumbai (Bombay), India, December 1997
Equalization for inter-symbol interference (ISI) channels for single-pulse modulation
schemes such as pulse- and quadrature amplitude modulation (PAM, QAM) is a mature branch
of communication theory. However, multipulse modulation, a simple example of which is FSK,
is seen as a nonlinear modulation technique, so that equalization of ISI channels for such
modulation is described as being difficult (cf. Lee & Messerschmitt, Digital
Communications, Kluwer Academic Publ 1994). It is demonstrated here that that is not the
case. In particular, we obtain linear and decision feedback zero-forcing equalizers for
multipulse modulation. These equalizers are multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) filters and
they are the natural counterparts of the single-input, single-output (SISO) linear and
decision feedback zero-forcing equalizers for single-pulse modulation.
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