Per-survivor iterative timing recovery for coded partial response channels

We propose a new iterative timing recovery scheme based on per-survivor processing that jointly performs timing recovery and turbo equalization on partial response channels with error-correction codes. The scheme embeds the timing recovery process inside the Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek, and Raviv (BCJR) equalizer, using per-survivor processing. This per-survivor BCJR equalizer then iteratively exchanges soft information with an error-correction decoder. Results indicate that the proposed scheme yields a better performance than a conventional receiver that performs timing recovery and turbo equalization separately, especially when the channel encounters severe timing jitter noise. We also present evidence that suggests that the proposed scheme can correct a cycle slip much more efficiently than the others.