Constrained coding for binary channels with high intersymbol interference

Partial-response (PR) signaling is used to model communications channels with intersymbol interference (ISI) such as the magnetic recording channel and the copper-wire channel for digital subscriber lines. Coding for improving noise immunity in higher order partial-response channels, such as the &qu...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on information theory 1999-09, Vol.45 (6), p.1777-1797
Main Authors: Karabed, R., Siegel, P.H., Soljanin, E.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Channel coding
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Communication channels
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Summary:Partial-response (PR) signaling is used to model communications channels with intersymbol interference (ISI) such as the magnetic recording channel and the copper-wire channel for digital subscriber lines. Coding for improving noise immunity in higher order partial-response channels, such as the "extended" class-4 channels denoted EPR4, E/sup 2/PR4, E/sup 3/PR4, has become an important subject as the linear densities in magnetic recording approach those at which these partial-response channels are the best models of real channels. In this paper, we consider partial-response channels for which ISI is so severe that the channels fail to achieve the matched-filter bound (MFB) for symbol error rate, assuming maximum-likelihood decoding. We show that their performance can be improved to the MFB by high-rate codes based on constrained systems, some of which may even simplify the Viterbi (1979) detectors relative to the uncoded channels. We present several examples of high-rate constrained codes for E/sup 2/PR4 and E/sup 3/PR4 channels and evaluate their performance by simulation.
ISSN:0018-9448
1557-9654
DOI:10.1109/18.782099