Improved Receivers for Digital High Frequency Communications: Iterative Channel Estimation, Equalization, and Decoding (Adaptive Turbo Equalization)

We address the problem of improving the throughput and the availability of digital communications in the High Frequency (HF, 3-30 MHz) band. In standardized military waveforms, the data is protecte ...

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