摘要 |
A decoder also includes a channel estimator to estimate coefficients describing a channel through which the signal has propagated, a signal predictor that combines the channel estimates with corresponding samples of the signal to obtain a metric, and a metric accumulator to accumulate the metrics for hypothesized symbol sequences to determine the likelihood indications. The hypothesized symbol sequences include partial symbols that select a subgroup of the symbol alphabet. This allows those parts of a symbol that are most important for predicting signal samples to be retained in a hypothesized state while the remaining parts can pass to a path history memory, thereby reducing the number of possible states that must be considered. |