Agence Spatiale Europeenne

Andrea Modenini

Giulio Colavolpe

Nader Alagha

Amina Piemontese

A data detection method, having the steps of: a. receiving a signal transmitted over a communication channel, the signal being representative of at least a stream of interfering symbols x, each representing one or more bits of a transmitted message; b. filtering the received signal through at least a filter bank having at least a first filter representative of a linear response of the channel and a second filter representative of a non-linear response of the channel, and sampling the filtered signals at the symbol rate, thus obtaining respective sequences of filtered samples rr; and c. jointly computing the a posteriori probabilities of N&#x3e;1 consecutive symbols x. A data detector for carrying out such a method, and a method of transmitting data over a nonlinear channel, optimizing spectral efficiency when data detection is performed using such a method is also provided.

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Parma, Italy

Andrea Modenini