Performance Analysis of BPSK with Errors and Erasures Decoding to Mitigate the Effects of Pulse-Noise Interference
Robertson,Clark
Naval Postgraduate School
Zouros,Georgios
Naval Postgraduate School
The performance of a system utilizing a binary phase-shift keyed (BPSK) waveform transmitted over a frequency-selective, slowly fading, Nakagami channel with pulse-noise interference in addition to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is examined. The underlying information bits are assumed to be convolutionally encoded prior to transmission over the channel, and the receiver is assumed to use errors and erasures Viterbi decoding. The performance obtained with errors and erasures decoding is compared with the performance obtained with errors-only hard decision Viterbi decoding as well as maximum-likelihood soft decision Viterbi decoding.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF Lt Georgios Zouros HELLENIC NAVY
Lt Georgios Zouros was born in Lesvos Island, Greece, in 1973. He earned his commission through the Hellenic Naval Academy in 1994 where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree. From September 1997 through June 1998 he attended the Hellenic Navy General Education School and the Hellenic Naval Communications School.
From June 1994 through June 2002, he served in different types of ships, mostly frigates, as Communications and Electronic Warfare Officer and as Operations Officer. From June 2002 through August 2004 he served in First Frigates Squadron and in Frigates Command as staff officer in the Operations Department.
From September 2004 to present he has been a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Combat Systems and he is pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.