A multidelay whitening approach to blind identification and equalization of SIMO channels

  • Authors:
  • J. K. Tugnait

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auburn Univ., AL

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Blind channel estimation and blind equalization of single-input multiple-output communications channels is considered using only the second-order statistics of the data. Estimation of (partial) channel impulse response and design of finite-length minimum mean-square error blind equalizers is investigated. The basis of the approach is the design of multiple zero-forcing equalizers that whiten the noise-free data at multiple delays. In the past such an approach has been considered using just one zero-forcing equalizer at zero-delay. Infinite-impulse response channels are allowed. The proposed approach also works when the "subchannel" transfer functions have common zeros so long as the common zeros are minimum-phase zeros. The channel length or model orders need not be known. Three illustrative simulation examples using 4-QAM and 16-QAM signals are provided where the proposed approach is compared with several existing approaches