Semi-blind adaptive beamforming for high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation systems

  • Authors:
  • Sheng Chen;Wang Yao;Lajos Hanzo

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK SO17 1BJ;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK SO17 1BJ;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK SO17 1BJ

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Automation and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is proposed for wireless systems that employ high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signalling. A minimum number of training symbols, equal to the number of receiver antenna array's elements, are first utilised to provide a rough initial least squares estimate of the beamformer's weight vector. A concurrent constant modulus algorithm and soft decision-directed scheme is then applied to adapt the beamformer. This semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is capable of converging fast to the minimum mean-square-error beamforming solution, as demonstrated in our simulation study.