Reply by qasimilyas October 25, 20162016-10-25
Matched filter is a filter derived starting from the concept of
correlation. However, when we use the word correlator, we refer to a
device that resets itself every symbol time. Due to this reason, operating
at N samples/symbol, both the matched filter and the correlator give the
same output at Nth sample but different outputs for the remaining N-1
samples. See this article:
http://wirelesspi.com/convoluted-correlation-between-matched-filter-and-correlator
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Reply by April 12, 20062006-04-12
"Andreas Schwarz" <usenet@andreas-s.net> wrote in message 
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> As far as I know the correlation receiver is a generalization of the > matched filter receiver. The basic difference is that in a matched > filter receiver you have one filter for each orthogonal basis function > of the signal, whereas in a correlation receiver you have one filter for > each possible combination of basis functions.
I don't think that either of the two statements above is correct. In particular, one can correlate the received signal with each basis function and then create any desired weighted combination of the sampled outputs; different filters for different combinations of basis functions are not needed.
Reply by Andreas Schwarz April 12, 20062006-04-12
Randy Yates schrieb:
> Proakis seems to want to differentiate between these two > architectures. What's the difference?
As far as I know the correlation receiver is a generalization of the matched filter receiver. The basic difference is that in a matched filter receiver you have one filter for each orthogonal basis function of the signal, whereas in a correlation receiver you have one filter for each possible combination of basis functions.
Reply by April 12, 20062006-04-12
If only the value at the sampling instant is of
interest, then the matched filter and correlator
give the same result, as has been already noted.
But, intermediate results are quite different as
illustrated in
http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece461/spring01/homework/HW04.pdf

--Dilip Sarwate

Reply by Randy Yates April 12, 20062006-04-12
Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote: > >> Proakis seems to want to differentiate between these two >> architectures. What's the difference? Whether you integrate the >> output of f(t)r(t), or input r(t) into a >> filter with impulse response f(-t+T), it's all the same. No? > > Assuming you mean a data receiver the big difference that I see is > that the filtering solution implies that you're doing the convolution > (correlation) each input sample, while the correlation method does the > correlation (convolution) once for each bit decision. > > I see no fundamental mathematical difference, though.
Yes, in both cases only the output at time T (symbol period) is relevent. In that case, they're identical. (I posted a little prematurely - I need to do some more reading.) -- % Randy Yates % "Rollin' and riding and slippin' and %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % sliding, it's magic." %%% 919-577-9882 % %%%% <yates@ieee.org> % 'Living' Thing', *A New World Record*, ELO http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr
Reply by Tim Wescott April 12, 20062006-04-12
Randy Yates wrote:

> Proakis seems to want to differentiate between these two > architectures. What's the difference? > > Whether you integrate the output of f(t)r(t), or input r(t) into a > filter with impulse response f(-t+T), it's all the same. No?
Assuming you mean a data receiver the big difference that I see is that the filtering solution implies that you're doing the convolution (correlation) each input sample, while the correlation method does the correlation (convolution) once for each bit decision. I see no fundamental mathematical difference, though. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
Reply by Randy Yates April 11, 20062006-04-11
Proakis seems to want to differentiate between these two
architectures.  What's the difference? 

Whether you integrate the output of f(t)r(t), or input r(t) into a
filter with impulse response f(-t+T), it's all the same. No?
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