Abstract

Digital communication systems are characterized by having a filter at the transmitter and receiver sides. The optimum parametric linear combination pulse (PLCP) is evaluated at the transmitter and receiver sides from different practical perspectives of interest. The proposed pulse exhibits the largest eye opening, and possesses the minimum maximum distortion compared to the other evaluated Nyquist filters with known explicit-time domain expressions. The optimum PLCP offers an improved error performance compared to the other evaluated pulses, for various roll-off factors and timing jitter.