Performance bounds for block transmission system

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the Block Transmission System (BTS) that has recently been proposed for mobile channels. Decision boundaries and decision regions have been obtained for the block linear equalizer and the optimum detector for the system. These provide the lower and upper bounds to the performance of the BTS in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise. It is shown that despite of the reduced transmission efficiency the performance of the block linear equalizer is comparable with that of the transversal equalizer and makes it suitable for use in mobile systems