Blind fractionally spaced equalization of noisy FIR channels: direct and adaptive solutions

  • Authors:
  • G.B. Giannakis;S.D. Halford

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Blind fractionally spaced equalizers reduce intersymbol interference using second-order statistics without the need for training sequences. Methods for finding FIR zero-forcing blind equalizers directly from the observations are described, and adaptive versions are developed. In contrast, most current methods require channel estimation as a first step to estimating the equalizer. The direct methods can be zero-forcing, minimum mean-square error, or even minimum mean square error (MMSE) within the class of zero-forcing equalizers. Performance of the proposed methods and comparisons with existing approaches are shown for a variety of channels, including an empirically measured digital microwave channel