Joint MF combining and turbo equalization for wireless communications over ISI channels with diversity reception

A new method called joint Matched Filter (MF) combining and turbo equalization is proposed for wireless communications over Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) channels with diversity reception. This method takes diversity combining and equalization as integrity and need just one turbo equalizer for all diversity branches. Computer simulations prove that our method can take advantage of turbo equalization and diversity reception to combat fading of wireless channels.     

Blind adaptive spatial-temporal equalization algorithms forwireless communications using antenna arrays

Antenna arrays are used for diversity reception so as to improve the quality of wireless communication systems. To make full use of the information contained in each sensor, a spatial-temporal equalizer is used to remove intersymbol interference and mitigate the additive channel noise. This equalizer can be used in the wireless communication systems to improve the performance. This article introduces two blind adaptive algorithms for spatial-temporal equalization. Computer simulation demonstrates that the new algorithms converge faster than fractionally spaced constant-modulus algorithm (FS-CMA)     

基于自适应步长LMS算法的判决反馈均衡器研究

本文研究了一种基于自适应步长LMS算法的自适应判决反馈均衡器算法，此算法通过对前向滤波器、后向滤波器和锁相环参数分别进行实时的、自适应步长的调整，在均衡时变多径的同时高精度地锁定接收信号相位，因此适用于相干通信系统。仿真结果表明在相同多径条件下，该方法比基于固定步长LMS算法的判决反馈均衡器输出误码率低1-7倍。     

Outage Performance of QAM Digital Radio Using Adaptive Equalization and Switched Space Diversity Reception

Recently, the ability of anti-fading measures to reduce the outage which occurs on digital microwave radio links has been the subject of considerable study. Ideal and nonideal adaptive equalization in both the time and frequency domain have been evaluated for nondiversity reception using various performance criteria. Ideal adaptive equalization and space diversity reception have been considered using a recently published model of multipath fading on space diversity radio channels. In this paper, we determine the outage of 16-QAM and 64-QAM digital radio systems using adaptive slope equalization, finite-tap decision feedback equalization, and switched space diversity reception. The outage is evaluated by computing the probability of occurrence of those channel realizations which cause the bit error rate to exceed a critical value. The dependence of the outage prediction on the equalization method and the outage defining criterion is investigated by also considering ideal adaptive equalization and a signal-to-distortion ratio, respectively.     

基于FPGA的自适应均衡器的研究与设计

近年来,自适应均衡技术在通信系统中的应用日益广泛,利用自适应均衡技术在多径环境中可以有效地提高数字接收机的性能.为了适应宽带数字接收机的高速率特点,本文阐述了自适应均衡器的原理并对其进行改进.最后使用FPGA芯片和Verilog HDL设计实现了自适应均衡器并仿真验证了新方法的有效性.     

Functional link neural network cascaded with Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial for nonlinear channel equalization

Nonlinear intersymbol interference (ISI) leads to significant error rate in nonlinear communication and digital storage channel. In this paper, therefore, a novel computationally efficient functional link neural network cascaded with Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial is proposed to combat nonlinear ISI. The equalizer has a simple structure in which the nonlinearity is introduced by functional expansion of the input pattern by trigonometric polynomial and Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial. Due to the input pattern and nonlinear approximation enhancement, the proposed structure can approximate arbitrarily nonlinear decision boundaries. It has been utilized for nonlinear channel equalization. The performance of the proposed adaptive nonlinear equalizer is compared with functional link neural network (FLNN) equalizer, multilayer perceptron (MLP) network and radial basis function (RBF) along with conventional normalized least-mean-square algorithms (NLMS) for different linear and nonlinear channel models. The comparison of convergence rate, bit error rate (BER) and steady state error performance, and computational complexity involved for neural network equalizers is provided.     

Equalization of a hard-limited slowly-fading multipath signal usinga phase equalizer with time-reversal structure

Describes a low-complexity equalization technique for improving the reliability of portable radio links in the presence of multipath time delay spread. A technique that operates on hard-limited received signals, with only the phase information available, is presented. Suboptimum receivers based on a maximum likelihood estimation criterion are discussed, including a sequence estimator and a decision feedback phase detector. A low-complexity adaptive phase equalizer structure using decision-directed phase tracking is proposed. The equalizer does not require the multiplication operations required in most conventional equalization algorithms. The author also proposes a receiver that includes a time-reversal structure and a joint estimator for optimum timing recovery and equalizer training. The time-reversal structure plays a crucial role in maximizing the compensation capability of the phase equalizer. The combined use of phase equalization and diversity reception is also considered     

MMSE Equalization of Interference on Fading Diversity Channels

Adaptive equalization is used in digital transmission systems with parallel fading channels. The equalization combines the diversity channels and reduces intersymbol interference due to multipath returns. When interference is present and correlated from channel to channel, the equalizer can also reduce its effect on the quality of information transfer, important applications for interference cancellation occur in diversity troposcatter systems in the presence of jamming, diversity high frequency (HF) systems which must cope with interfering skywaves, and space diversity line-of-sight (LOS) radio systems where adjacent channel interference is a problem. In this paper we develop the general formulation for minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalization of interference in digital transmission diversity systems. The problem formulation includes the use of available receiver decisions to assist in MMSE processing. The effects of intersymhol interference are included in the analysis through a critical approximation which assumes sufficient processor capability to reduce ISI effects to levels small enough for satisfactory communication. The analysis also develops he concept of additional implicit or intrinsic diversity which results from channel multipath dispersion. It shows how the MMSE processor sacrifices diversity to suppress interference even when the interference arrives in the main beams of the receiver antenna patterns. The condition of near synchronous same-path interference is also addressed. Because the spatial angle of arrival of the interference may result in delay differences between interference signals in different antenna channels, interference delay compensation may be required. We show that this effect is compensated for with a small number of appropriately spaced equalizer taps.     

自适应复信道均衡的一种新的神经网络方法

近年来,神经网络已经广泛地应用到许多信号处理问题中.自适应信道均衡是数字通信系统中的一个重要问题.在本文中我们提出一种基于复数赫布类型算法的自适应信道均衡器.计算机模拟表明,无论在线性还是非线性信道中,所提出的均衡器均表现出良好的性能,这为自适应复信道均衡提供了一种新的方法.     

MAP selection-diversity DFE for indoor wireless data communications

Indoor high-speed wireless data networks encounter signal fading and delay-spread multipath propagation. Hence, the realization of low error rate transmission requires measures to combat the performance degradation due to both signal fading and intersymbol interference (ISI). Receiver diversity has been known to be an efficient way of coping with the former problem, while adaptive equalization could be used to mitigate the effects of the latter. Incorporation of receiver diversity with adaptive equalization is therefore desirable. We propose a novel selection-diversity approach with an adaptive decision-feedback equalizer (DFE). In this method, selection is done on a symbol-by-symbol basis such that the output of the branch with the lowest estimated a posteriori probability of error is used as the final decision. This final (and hence more reliable) decision is used to adapt the DFE for all diversity branches. It is shown in this paper that the proposed selection rule is optimal for selection-diversity in the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) sense. A very simple selection metric can be derived from this selection rule and practical ways of computing the selection metric are also presented. Simulation results show that the proposed method is very efficient. It is capable of achieving almost the same performance as an optimal [least squares (LS)], but computationally intensive, combining diversity approach. Furthermore, at an average bit error rate (BER) of 10^-4, a gain of approximately 1.25 dB can be achieved over a previously proposed selection-diversity equalization approach     

Adaptive Bayesian equalizer with decision feedback

A Bayesian solution is derived for digital communication channel equalization with decision feedback. This is an extension of the maximum a posteriori probability symbol-decision equalizer to include decision feedback. A novel scheme utilizing decision feedback that not only improves equalization performance but also reduces computational complexity greatly is proposed. It is shown that the Bayesian equalizer has a structure equivalent to that of the radial basis function network, the latter being a one-hidden-layer artificial neural network widely used in pattern classification and many other areas of signal processing. Two adaptive approaches are developed to realize the Bayesian solution. The maximum-likelihood Viterbi algorithm and the conventional decision feedback equalizer are used as two benchmarks to asses the performance of the Bayesian decision feedback equalizer     

Trellis-coded CPFSK and soft-decision feedback equalization for micro-cellular wireless applications

In this paper, trellis-codedM-ary CPFSK with noncoherent envelope detection and adaptive channel equalization are investigated to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance of microcellular digital wireless communications systems. For the same spectral efficiency, the trellis-coded modulation (TCM) schemes studied outperform minimum shift keying (MSK) with noncoherent or differentially coherent detection in Rayleigh fading channels. For the case of frequency-selective fading channels, adaptive channel equalization is applied to mitigate the time-variant intersymbol interference (ISI). A new equalizer structure is proposed which, in its feedback path, makes use of fractionally spaced signal samples instead of symbol-spaced hard decisions on transmitted symbols. Computer simulation results indicate that the soft-decision feedback equalizer (SDFE) can significantly improve the system's performance.     

应用粒子滤波器实现混沌通信系统的盲信道均衡

粒子滤波器(Particle filter,PF)是一种结合重要性权重抽样的序贯蒙特卡罗方法,能够应用到任意状态空间模型,并且能较好地估计经过非线性变化后的随机变量的统计特性.本文应用粒子滤波器和信号建模技术研究混沌通信系统的盲信道均衡问题,发展基于混沌的通信系统的盲均衡技术.仿真结果证实了,当Logistic映射作为混沌发生器和通信场景为固定参数与时变衰落信道时,该盲信道均衡器与基于扩展卡尔曼滤波算法的盲均衡器和基于无先导变换的自适应盲均衡器相比,有较好的均衡实现.此外,利用本文的盲均衡算法,实现了一种混沌调制通信系统的解调.     

Turbo Equalization with Prediction and Iterative Estimation of Time-Varying Frequency-Selective Channels

Turbo equalization that cooperates with channel prediction and iterative channel estimation is investigated for mobile wireless communications. Frames of information bits are encoded, interleaved, and mapped to symbols for transmission over time-varying frequency-selective fading channels. At the receiver, the Turbo equalizer consists of a maximum a posteriori probability equalizer/demapper and a soft-input soft-output maximum a posteriori probability decoder. With initial channel estimates and sparse pilot insertion across a number of frames, the receiver predicts the channel of the current frame. The effect of error propagation of channel prediction is mitigated by the de-interleaver that is embedded in the Turbo equalizer. The predicted and interpolated channel is refined through a channel estimator that uses the soft estimates of data symbols at each Turbo iteration. Due to the bandlimiting feature of channel variation, the channel estimation error can be smoothed by low-pass filters that follow the channel estimator. Simulation results show that incorporating Turbo equalization with channel prediction and iterative channel estimation can combat time- and frequency-selective fading and improve reception performance.     

一种水声通信中的多阵元Turbo均衡算法

Turbo均衡应用在水声通信中的问题主要在于水声信道时间扩展长,多接收阵元处理复杂度较高。该文研究了将时间反转与马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)均衡联合优化算法用于实现Turbo均衡。首先进行时间反转实现多接收阵元较长多径时延的压缩,再利用白化滤波器解决时间反转造成的噪声模型失配问题,最后利用复杂度较低的MCMC均衡器结合软迭代信道估计对时间反转合并后得到的信号进行均衡。结合真实实验信道条件对信道响应估计的误差建立模型,通过仿真比较得出, 该算法在相同条件下相对于多阵元直接自适应Turbo均衡算法复杂度降低67%,且有1.6 dB的误码率性能增益。通过对湖上试验数据进行处理,进一步验证了该算法的优势。     

Self-Recovering Equalization and Carrier Tracking in Two-Dimensional Data Communication Systems

Conventional equalization and carrier recovery algorithms for minimizing mean-square error in digital communication systems generally require an initial training period during which a known data sequence is transmitted and properly synchronized at the receiver. This paper solves the general problem of adaptive channel equalization without resorting to a known training sequence or to conditions of limited distortion. The criterion for equalizer adaptation is the minimization of a new class of nonconvex cost functions which are shown to characterize intersymbol interference independently of carrier phase and of the data symbol constellation used in the transmission system. Equalizer convergence does not require carrier recovery, so that carrier phase tracking can be carried out at the equalizer output in a decision-directed mode. The convergence properties of the self-recovering algorithms are analyzed mathematically and confirmed by computer simulation.     

非线性信道均衡不动点算法

针对PSK调制方式下的非线性信道提出一种新的非线性均衡算法。采用Volterra级数序列来建立非线性信道模型,对于这样的信道,均衡问题就可看作一个截短映射的不动点问题,它利用迭代的方式来消除信道中的非线性畸变。这种算法易于实现,只需要增加额外的处理单元而不改变信道模型的结构。用计算机仿真来实现采用该算法的均衡器可以有效地消除线性和非线性码间串扰。     

单载波通信系统的迭代频域合成均衡算法

为提高符号间干扰(ISI)信道条件下信号接收的可靠性,该文研究单载波通信系统的多天线空间分集接收问题,提出一种迭代频域合成均衡算法。该算法推导先验信息条件下合成均衡器的频域传输函数,并借助快速傅里叶变换(FFT)实现合成均衡器系数和均衡滤波的高效计算。仿真结果表明,相比时域算法,该算法能够在不损失性能的前提下,大幅降低运算复杂度。与单载波频域均衡(SC-FDE)算法相比,该算法不需要在数据传输的结构中插入循环前缀(CP),提高频谱利用率,能够直接应用于现有单载波通信系统。     

卫星移动通信抗衰落技术研究

卫星移动通信信道是典型的衰落信道,信道的衰落会降低信号的接收质量,严重时可能导致通信中断。该文针对卫星移动通信在复杂信道条件下的衰落特性,简要介绍了分集接收抗衰落技术、自适应均衡抗衰落技术、编码抗衰落技术等方法,通过分析衰落产生的原理并结合抗衰落技术研究的现状,总结了相应的抗衰落性能。