On the Performance of Digital Communication Systems with Bandpass Limiters - Part I: One-Link System

This paper examines the performance of a digital communication system operating in the presence of additive Gaussian noise when a bandpass hard limiter is inserted into the system. In contrast with earlier published work for large time-bandwidth product systems, small signal-time-duration-noise-bandwidth products at large SNR's are considered. It is found that the degradation introduced by the limiter is more severe under these conditions.