Abstract: Described is a transmission system for transmitting a multicarrier signal from a transmitter (10) to a receiver (20). The multicarrier signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The receiver (20) comprises a channel estimator (28) for estimating amplitudes of the subcarriers and for estimating time derivatives of the amplitudes. The receiver (20) further comprises an equalizer (24) for canceling intercarrier interference included in the received multicarrier signal in dependence on the estimated amplitudes and derivatives (29). The channel estimator (28) and/or the equalizer (24) are arranged for exploiting an amplitude correlation between the amplitudes of different subcarriers and/or for exploiting a derivative correlation between the derivatives of different subcarriers By making use of this correlation the complexity of the receiver (20) can be substantially reduced.

Abstract: A device is described for reconstructing a runlength constrained sequence of n-ary digits from an analog input signal (Si) representing said sequence, the device comprises an input (1) for receiving said signal (Si) coupled to a sampling unit (2) for taking time-discrete samples of the input signal (Si). The device further comprises a branch metric calculation unit (3) for calculating a set of branch metric values (BMs,n) for subsequent samples (Ssn) of the sampled input signal (Ss). Each of the set of branch metric values is an indication for the likelihood that an amplitude value of a sample (Ssn) corresponds to a particular state (s), a state being defined as a sequence of n-ary digits. The device further comprises a delay unit (4i) which forms part of a delay chain (4) of delay units. A first delay unit (4a) of the delay chain is coupled to the branch metric calculation unit (3).

Abstract: A detector (30) is described for detecting a digital signal (Bio) out of an input information signal (Ai) which represents a runlength limited sequence, the runlength having a minimal value m.

Abstract: A receiver for restoring a data signal from a data input signal, comprises a data detector and a control signal generator coupled to the data detector for controlling one or more loops in the data detector, such as an automatic gain control, an equalizer adaptation and/or a timing recovery loop. The receiver also comprises erasure means for generating an instantaneous erasure information signal in case the data input signal to be restored falls within an erasure zone, which erasure means are coupled to the control signal generator for essentially instantaneous use of the instantaneous erasure information for accurate loop control. Preferably the respective control signals are kept constant in time during periods of erasure.