Peer-Review Record
Effective Generalized Partial Response Target and Serial Detector for Two-Dimensional Bit-Patterned Media Recording Channel Including Track Mis-Registration
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(17), 5738; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10175738
Reviewer 1:
Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Anonymous
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(17), 5738; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10175738
Submission received: 23 July 2020
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Revised: 7 August 2020
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Accepted: 14 August 2020
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Published: 19 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The presented work has a solid baseline and it is properly structured and presented. The subject is timely.
Conclusions do support the hypothesis,
I would, however, suggest some minor revisions of English.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
This paper presents a method for mitigating inter-track and intersymbol interference in a bit-pattern media recording system for increased data storage.
Strength:
- The paper is written in a clear and conscise manner with relevant background information provided.
- The idea of introducing soft decision to traditional signal detectors for the same system is promising.
Weaknesses/suggestions:
- The novel contribution of the paper is rather limited as most of the applied algorithms are well known especially in the wireless communications literature.
- In the abstract, the authors claimed that a new form of generalized partial response target is proposed, from my reading of the manuscript, it is unclear which of the investigated schemes is referred to as generalized partial response?
- The simulations were performed using fixed channel and interference matrices. I wonder how the specific choices of channel gains were made and how changing these would affect the results. The authors should at least comment on this aspect.
In general, this a an interesting paper worthy of eventual publication.
Author Response
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