Soft-decision MLSE data receiver for GSM system

The great success of GSM as a second generation digital cellular standard is largely due to the advances in integrated solutions for the GSM terminals, in particularly handsets. With the user population constantly growing and the price of handsets plummeting, focus of the design effort has moved to efficient implementations of GSM data receiver. In this paper we will give a brief overview of the operating modes of GSM handset, present the framework for the development of the data receiver and propose a new soft-decision based MLSE receiver which allows efficient hardware/software partitioning for the implementation.

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