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value within a chip interval, the contribution of an interfering pulse can be assumed
to have a strength of one half of a hit on average. For unipolar codes with a maxi-
mum cross-correlation function of
λ
c
and weight w,thew pulse positions are here
divided into 2w sub-positions and such a one-half-hit may now occur in one of these
2w sub-positions after hard-limiting. Let i = {0,1/2, 1,3/2,...,w −1/2,w} repre-
sent the states in the Markov chain of Figure 1.9 such that i of the w pulse positions
of the address codeword of the hard-limiting receiver are hitbyinterferingcode-
words. Then, the transition probability p
i, j
of transferring from state i to state j in
the Markov chain is given by [37]
p
i, j
=
∑
λ
c
s=k
∑
λ
c
t=k
(
2i
s+t−2k
)(
2w−2i
2k
)
(
2w
s+t
)
q
s,t
if j = i + k
0otherwise
where k = {0,1/2,1,3/ 2,...,
λ
c
−1/2,
λ
c
},andq
s,t
denotes the (chip-asynchronous)
hit probability defined in Section 1.8.5. Because p
i, j
= 0foralli > j,thetransition
probabilities can be collected into an upper triangular matrix as
P =
p
0,0
p
0,1/2
p
0,1
··· p
0,w
0 p
1/2,1/2
p
1/2,1
··· p
1/2,w
00p
1,1
··· p
1,w
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
00 0··· p
w,w
and the main-diagon al elements, p
i,i
for i = {0,1/2, 1,3/2,...,w −1/2, w},arethe
eigenvalues of P.Withthese2w +1eigenvalues,P is diagonalizable and P = ABA
−1
for some (2w + 1) ×(2 w + 1) matrices B, A,andA
−1
,accordingtoTheorem1.6,
where A
−1
is the inverse of A. B is a diagonal matrix with its main-diagonal elements
equal to the eigenvalues of P.ThecolumnsofA contain the associated eigenvectors
of P.
Following the derivation in Section 1.8.4, and given K −1interferers,
B
K−1
=
p
K−1
0,0
00··· 0
0 p
K−1
1/2,1/2
0 ··· 0
00p
K−1
1,1
··· 0
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
000··· p
K−1
w,w
A =
1
-
2w
1
.-
2w
2
.
···
-
2w
2w
.
01
-
2w−1
1
.
···
-
2w−1
2w−1
.
00 1 ···
-
2w−2
2w−2
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
00 0 ··· 1