Blind channel equalization using expectation maximization of auxiliary objective function for complex constellations

Authors:
Dongxin Xu;Kun Yan;Hsiao-Chun Wu
Affiliations:
Infoture Inc., Boulder, CO;Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA;Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Venue:
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithms have been widely adopted in a variety of areas such as clustering, hidden Markov modeling, channel estimation and equalization, etc. The EM-based approaches to resolve the likelihood maximization involving latent variables are usually very complicated for signal processing and communication applications. To combat this problem, we construct an alternative metric for likelihood or log-likelihood, namely auxiliary function, which results in a novel EM hill-climbing (EM-HC) optimization procedure. We extend our previous efforts along this line of the auxiliary function research to generalize the EM-HC scheme and solve the blind equalization for the complex-valued signals. In this paper, our new EM-HC method, namely efficient Iterative Weighted Least-Mean Squared (IWLMS) algorithm is extended for QPSK and QAM signals. The new version of the IWLMS algorithm greatly outperforms the prevalent blind equalization algorithms based on the constant-modulus and kurtosis criteria according to Monte Carlo simulations.