Efficient implementation of parallel decision feedback decoders for broadband applications

Parallel Decision-Feedback Decoders (PDFD) use a joint equalization and channel decoding scheme that performs decision-feedback equalization based on each survivor path in the channel decoder. In this paper, we propose novel efficient computation methods to implement the PDFD. We show that, contrary to the belief that PDFD is too complex to implement, standard Viterbi decoders can be modified to implement the PDFD and achieve very high bit-rates