Drawbacks
Differential coding has one significant drawback: it leads to error multiplication. That is, if one symbol such as was received incorrectly, two incorrect symbols and would be at the differential decoder's output, see: and . This approximately doubles the BER at signal-to-noise ratios for which errors rarely occur in consecutive symbols.
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