PARTIAL CORRELATIONS OF SEQUENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Abstract

We present an overview of results concerning partial periodic correlation of pseudorandom sequences, ranging from classical results on binary m-sequences to recent results on the first two partial period correlation moments of the sequences belonging to families A, B and C defined over Galois Rings. The use of Association Schemes provides us with a new uniform technique for analyzing the sequence families A, B and C. These correlation moments have applications in synchronisation performance of CDMA communication systems using phase shift keying.