Statistical properties of timing jitter due to data echo in digital modem receivers

Consideration is given to the influence of the noise and data sequences present in the received data signal on a nondecision-aided timing recovery scheme in digital modem receivers, It is known that white noise is not particularly disturbing for timing recovery, whereas data signals such as local echo (or residual echo) introduce a bias, called jitter, into the sampling recovered phase. It is shown that when the disturbing data signal has power P less than the power S of the useful signal (whose timing must be recovered), the jitter is sinusoidal with amplitude proportional to the ratio P/S. In the opposite situation, the bias increases indefinitely with time