Franco Guglielmi

Design of transmit and receive digital filters for data communications

This paper describes a design method for the synthesis of digital filters in data communication systems. The coefficients in the transmit and receive filters are optimized to meet specified requirements on (i) out-of-band emission, (ii) intersymbol interference, (iii) adjacent channel interference and (iv) thermal noise immunity. >

Joint clock recovery and baseband combining for the diversity radio channel

Multipath fading is one of the major impairments encountered in terrestrial digital radio. A common countermeasure to limit the outage time due to multipath is the space diversity technique, which takes its effectiveness from the low correlation between the field samples of two well separated antennas. A very simple and effective blind receiver is proposed for the diversity radio channel. The novelty of the present study is the application of the constant modulus algorithm to joint clock recovery and baseband combining. The effectiveness of our proposal relies upon the synergic action of clock recovery and adaptive baseband combining, which allows optimal equalization of the two-ray diversity channel.