Limitations of MLSE-Viterbi receivers due to clocking errors

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Louchet, Hadrien; Richter, Andr (VPIsystems, Carnotstr. 6, 10587 Germany)

Abstract:
Imperfections of clock recovery from highly distorted signals limit the utilization of electronic dispersion mitigation. We investigate the impact of clocking errors on the performance of MLSE-Viterbi equalization using static and adaptive channel estimation.