Blind Channel Equalization Using Fourth-Order Cumulants(Wireless Communication Technologies)

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In this study, a fourth-order cumulants based iterative algorithm for blind channel equalization is introduced, which is robust with respect to the existence of heavy Gaussian noise in a channel and does notrequire the minimum phase characteristic of the channel. The transmitted signals at the receiver are over-sampled to ensure the channel described by a full-column rank matrix. It changes a single-input/single-output (SISO) finite-impulse response (FIR) channel to a single-input/multi-output (SIMO) channel. Based on the properties of the fourth-order cumulants of the over-sampled channel inputs, the iterative algorithm is derived to estimate the deconvolution matrix which makes the overall transfer matrix transparent, i.e., it can be reduced to the identity matrix by simple reordering and scaling. In simulation studies, both a closed-form and a stochastic version of the proposed algorithm are tested with three-ray multi-path channels, and their performances are compared with the methods based on conventional second-order statistics and higher-order statistics (HOS) as well. Relatively good results with fast convergence speed are achieved, even when the transmitted symbols are significantly corrupted with Gaussian noise.
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2004-10-01