Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Maximum likelihood sequence estimation in optical fibre communication systems
- Patent Title (中): 光纤通信系统中的最大似然序列估计
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Application No.: US12295310Application Date: 2006-11-30
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Publication No.: US08218978B2Publication Date: 2012-07-10
- Inventor: Tommaso Foggi , Giulio Colavolpe , Enrico Forestieri , Giancarlo Prati
- Applicant: Tommaso Foggi , Giulio Colavolpe , Enrico Forestieri , Giancarlo Prati
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Priority: GB0606745.8 20060404
- International Application: PCT/EP2006/069168 WO 20061130
- International Announcement: WO2007/112790 WO 20071011
- Main IPC: H04B10/06
- IPC: H04B10/06

Abstract:
A method of and a receiver(20) for detection of a received signal in an optical fiber communication system using Viterbi algorithm methodology in which branch metrics are obtained using approximated expressions to calculate the branch metrics. Use of the expressions results in practically the same performance as a receiver based on exact metrics.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090317094A1 Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation in Optical Fibre Communication Systems Public/Granted day:2009-12-24
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