Clipped Diversity Combining for Channels with Partial-Band Interference--Part I: Clipped-Linear Combining

Clipped-linear diversity combining is analyzed for receivers without side information. Communication systems with noncoherent demodulation, binary and -ary orthogonal signaling, and diversity transmission are considered. The main source of interference is additive Gaussian partial-band interference, but a nonzero quiescent noise level is also included in the analysis to account for wide-band noise sources. Some of the results apply to general (non-Gaussian) interference. The numerical results demonstrate that clipped-linear combining can perform well in terms of both narrow-band interference rejection capability and maximum signal-to-interference ratio requirement. A practical disadvantage of clipped-linear combining is that it relies on measurements of the signal output voltage.