Patent ID: 8675782

Claim:
A system comprising: circuitry for use in an electronic receiver, said circuitry being operable to: receive an inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal having the following characteristics: said ISC signal is distorted by a particular non-linear distortion; said ISC signal was generated using a forward error correction (FEC) code rate of approximately 0.94; said ISC signal has a bandwidth of 28 MHz; said ISC signal comprises 5% pilot symbols and has a net spectral efficiency of 9 bits per second per Hertz; said ISC signal was transmitted in compliance with a spectral mask having an attenuation characteristic that: is +2 dB from 0 MHz to 12 MHz; decreases linearly from +2 dB at 12 MHz from a channel center frequency to −10 dB at 14.5 MHz from the channel center frequency; decreases linearly from −10 dB at 14.5 MHz from the channel center frequency to −32 dB at 15.5 MHz from the channel center frequency; decreases linearly from −32 dB at 15.5 MHz from the channel center frequency to −36 dB at 17 MHz from the channel center frequency; decreases linearly from −36 dB at 17 MHz from the channel center frequency to −45 dB at 40 MHz from the channel center frequency; and decreases linearly from −45 dB at 40 MHz from the channel center frequency to −55 dB at 50 MHz from the channel center frequency; said ISC signal is received with a signal to noise ratio of 32 dB; and decode and demodulate said received ISC signal using a model of said particular non-linear distortion to achieve a symbol error rate (SER) of less than 10-2 and/or a bit error rate of less than 10 −6 .