Comments on "A noncoherent tracking loop with diversity and multipath interference cancellation for direct-sequence spread-spectrum systems"

Abstract

For original paper see IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.46, p.1516-24 (1998 November). In the original paper, the authors presented a noncoherent tracking loop with diversity and multipath interference cancellation to improve the loop performance on frequency-selective fading channels. However, the effects of imperfections in multipath interference cancellation have been dropped out in the statistical analyses, and only evaluated by using computer simulations. The present authors show that such effects can change the error characteristic, at least in the mean sense, and thus make the analyses of jitter performance improper.