Simultaneous Adaptive Estimation of Carrier Phase, Symbol Timing, and Data for a 49-QPRS DFE Radio Receiver

Abstract

The use of adaptive decision feedback techniques in the joint estimation of data, carrier phase, and symbol timing is investigated for a 49-QPRS 90 Mbit/s digital radio. The performance of the carrier and timing recovery loops are analyzed, first in a multipathfree environment and then for the case of a multipath distorted signal and a fixed decision feedback equalizer. Finally, the joint problem of data recovery, estimation of carrier phase, and symbol timing for a