BROWSE
Detail
Journal Article
Robust Decision-Feedback Equalization with a Noncausal Filter for ATSC DTV Receivers
Cited 2 time in 
Share 
Share
- Authors
- Hyoung Nam Kim, You Seok Lee, Sung Ik Park
- Issue Date
- 2006-02
- Citation
- IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, v.52, no.1, pp.68-74
- ISSN
- 0098-3063
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- A robust decision-feedback equalization method for ATSC DTV receivers is presented. Under severe channels, such as 0-dB ghost or a distributed transmission environment, decision-feedback equalizers (DFEs), which have been commonly used in ATSC DTV receivers, suffer from error propagation. To improve the robustness to the error propagation, we incorporate a channel-matched filter (CMF) and an intelligent slicer (IS). The use of the CMF prior to the DFE makes severe channels manageable in the DFE. The IS, a trellis decoder with a trace-back depth of 1, enhances a correct-decision probability in the DFE, especially under low SNR conditions. Adoption of the CMF and the IS clearly enhances the robustness of the DFE but may degrade the output SNR due to unwanted pre-ghosts caused by hannelmatched filtering. We employ a noncausal all-pass filter operating in reversed time to preserve the robustness acquired by the CMF and the IS without the degradation of the output SNR. The noncausal filter changes an input channel with preghosts into an approximately minimum-phase channel without pre-ghosts. Simulation results show that the proposed equalization scheme achieves the more stable convergence and the higher SNRs than the existing DFEs. © 2006 IEEE.
- KSP Keywords
- All-pass Filter, DTV receivers, Low SNR, Minimum phase, Output SNR, Trace-back, decision feedback equalization(DFE), decision feedback equalizer, distributed transmission, equalization scheme, error propagation