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What is the cause of intersymbol interference ISI in the digital transmission?
ISI is usually caused by multipath propagation or the inherent linear or non-linear frequency response of a communication channel causing successive symbols to blur together. The presence of ISI in the system introduces errors in the decision device at the receiver output.
What is interchannel interference?
A strong digital communication transmitter located in close physical proximity to a receiver of a weak signal can noticeably interfere with the latter even when the respective channels are tens or hundreds of megahertz apart. Understanding the mechanism of this interference is important for its effective mitigation.
What causes intersymbol interference ( ISI ) in a signal?
ISI is usually caused by multipath propagation or the inherent linear or non-linear frequency response of a communication channel causing successive symbols to blur together. The presence of ISI in the system introduces errors in the decision device at the receiver output.
How is intersymbol interference caused by multipath propagation?
Intersymbol interference. The spreading of the pulse beyond its allotted time interval causes it to interfere with neighboring pulses. ISI is usually caused by multipath propagation or the inherent linear or non-linear frequency response of a communication channel causing successive symbols to “blur” together.
How are filters designed to avoid intersymbol interference?
Therefore, in the design of the transmitting and receiving filters, the objective is to minimize the effects of ISI, and thereby deliver the digital data to its destination with the smallest error rate possible. Ways to alleviate intersymbol interference include adaptive equalization and error correcting codes.
Limited bandwidth induced ISI is easily understood in the time domain: A relatively tight filter in the frequency domain MUST have a long impulse response in the time domain (consider filtering as a low pass filter, and in order to really smooth the signal, you must average for a long time).