Comments on "Pulse shape, excess bandwidth, and timing error sensitivity in PRS systems

Several non-minimum-bandwidth partial-response-signaling (PRS) techniques were compared in the above paper (ibid., vol.COM-35, p.475-80, April 1987). One of the criteria used for the comparison was the robustness to the timing jitter. The commenter shows that according to this criterion the duobinary signaling technique is superior to the dicode scheme at low values of the roll-off factor, in contradiction to the conclusion in the original study. In reply the author agrees that the comment is correct and that unnormalized and normalized figure-of-merit plots show different aspects of timing jitter sensitivity as a function of excess bandwidth.<>