Literature Review on BER Improvement of Adaptive Equalizer

Abstract

Channel equalization is an important aspect in high speed digital communication required for efficient and reliable data recovery and reception when the data is transmitted over band-limited channel subjected to noise and interference. We investigate channel equalization and introduce hierarchical and adaptive nonlinear channel equalization algorithms that are highly efficient and provide significantly improved bit error rate (BER) performance. Due to the high complexity of nonlinear equalizers and poor performance of linear ones, to equalize highly difficult channels, we employ piecewise linear equalizers.