ON THE SYNCHRONIZABILITY AND DETECTABILITY OF RANDOM PPM SEQUENCES Academic Article

abstract

• The problem of synchronization and detection of random pulse-position modulation (PPM) sequences is investigated under the assumption of perfect slot synchronization. Maximum likelihood PPM symbol synchronization and receiver algorithms are derived that make decisions based on both soft and hard data; these algorithms are seen to be easily implementable. We derive bounds on the symbol error probability as well as the probability of false synchronization that indicate the existence of a severe performance floor, which can be the limiting factor in the overall system performance. The performance floor is inherent in the PPM format and random data and becomes more serious as the PPM alphabet size Q is increased. A way to eliminate the performance floor is suggested by inserting special PPM symbols in the random data stream. 1989 IEEE

authors

• Georghiades, Costas

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• GEORGHIADES, C. N.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• GEORGHIADES, CN

publication date

• January 1989

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/18.42201

start page

• 146

end page

• 156

volume

• 35

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/18.42201