Performance evaluation of an adaptive Volterra/hybrid equalizer for nonlinear ISI in a magneto-optic storage channel

Author

Gupta, Sunil

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

317

Abstract

This paper presents performance analysis of an adaptive Volterra/hybrid equalizer in a nonlinear magneto-optic data storage channel. In a storage system, nonlinear intersymbol interference (ISI) is one of the limiting factors for high storage density. Volterra and hybrid (combination of linear and Volterra) equalizers are proposed and developed for compensation of it. The use of Volterra/hybrid equalizers provided an extra 1.3-1.5 dB SNR gain over linear equalizers. Performance and complexity of these equalizers are compared. Convergence issues are also investigated by examining the eigenvalue spread of the covariance matrix. The techniques proposed here are applicable to other communication systems (e.g., wireless, optical) exhibiting nonlinear ISI characteristics.

Keywords

computational complexity; convergence; covariance matrices; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; equalisers; filters; intersymbol interference; magneto-optical recording; 1.3 to 1.5 dB; Volterra filter; adaptive Volterra/hybrid equalizer; convergence ratio; covariance matrix; eigenvalue; intersymbol interference; magneto-optic storage channel; nonlinear ISI; storage density; Convergence; Covariance matrix; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Equalizers; Gain; Intersymbol interference; Memory; Nonlinear optics; Performance analysis; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2004. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Southeastern Symposium on

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8281-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2004.1295671

Filename

1295671