Comparison of Viterbi and Sequential Decoding with a Noisy Carrier Reference
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Performance of convolutionally encoded telemetry systems with Viterbi decoding or sequential decoding is well understood for the additive white Gaussian noise channel with coherent detection of bi-phase-shift-keyed signals. Significant degradation from ideal performance can occur due to correlated noise resulting from low signal-to-noise ratios in the receiver carrier tracking phase-locked loop. Performance at the lower telemetry data rates on the two Pioneer Jupiter deep space probes provides examples of the effect of correlated noise on a sequential decoding system. Performance degradation needs to be quantified as a function of carrier signal-to-noise ratio (P(c)/N(o)2B(lo)) and carrier-tracking- loop-bandwidth-to-symbol-rate ratio (B(l)/R(s)) in order to provide design and analysis information on such effects. Analytical modeling is extremely difficult, particularly where B(l)/R(s) is neither very large nor very small.Sponsors
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