Blind ZF equalization with controlled delay robust to order over estimation

  • Authors:
  • Houcem Gazzah;Karim Abed-Meraim

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (LSS), Supélec, Plateau de Moulon, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;Département Traitement du Signal et des Images, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), 46, Rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - From signal processing theory to implementation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Blind channel identification and equalization aim at suppressing the need for training sequences and hence respond to the growing demand on bandwidth of modern and future communication systems. Techniques based on second order statistics show good performance but require accurate (but improbable) estimation of the channel order. An algorithm recently proposed by Gazzah et al. corrects this drawback while providing with only those zero-forcing (ZF) equalizers with minimum and maximum delays. However, in the presence of noise, these are not known to have the best performances. Inspired by this approach that processes shifted correlation matrices, we propose a new algorithm that computes ZF equalizers with any desired delay (as well as estimates of the channel response) while, at the same time, can handle over estimated values of the channel order, as justified theoretically and through simulations.