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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Agence Spatiale Europeenne, Paris, FR;
Giulio Colavolpe, Parma, IT;
Andrea Modenini, Parma, IT;
Amina Piemontese, Monte Sant'Angelo-Foggia, IT;
Nader Alagha, Wassenaar, NL;
Agence Spatiale Europeenne, Paris, FR;
Abstract
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>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.