COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL SYMBOL RECOVERY BY COMBINING OUTPUTS AT DIFFERENT DECISION DELAYS

摘要

A method and apparatus for communications channel symbol recovery that improves equalizer performance adds together the log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) of different decision delays rather than using LLRs corresponding only to a single decision delay. A low complexity method comprises, determining an initial coarse delay and a set of fine delays (1003), estimating a training sequence and filter taps set for each fine delay (1007), determining an error function for each fine delay (1009), and linearly combining the filter taps (1013) for determining the symbol estimates (1017).