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Fast Adaptive Blind MMSE Equalizer for Multichannel FIR Systems

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2006, Article number: 014827 (2006) Cite this article

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We propose a new blind minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalization algorithm of noisy multichannel finite impulse response (FIR) systems, that relies only on second-order statistics. The proposed algorithm offers two important advantages: a low computational complexity and a relative robustness against channel order overestimation errors. Exploiting the fact that the columns of the equalizer matrix filter belong both to the signal subspace and to the kernel of truncated data covariance matrix, the proposed algorithm achieves blindly a direct estimation of the zero-delay MMSE equalizer parameters. We develop a two-step procedure to further improve the performance gain and control the equalization delay. An efficient fast adaptive implementation of our equalizer, based on the projection approximation and the shift invariance property of temporal data covariance matrix, is proposed for reducing the computational complexity from to, where is the number of emitted signals, the data vector length, and the dimension of the signal subspace. We then derive a statistical performance analysis to compare the equalization performance with that of the optimal MMSE equalizer. Finally, simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed blind equalization algorithm.

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    Ibrahim Kacha & Adel Belouchrani

  2. Département Traitement du Signal et de l'Image, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), 37–39 rue Dareau, Paris, 75014, France

    Ibrahim Kacha & Karim Abed-Meraim

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Kacha, I., Abed-Meraim, K. & Belouchrani, A. Fast Adaptive Blind MMSE Equalizer for Multichannel FIR Systems. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2006, 014827 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/14827

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