Fractionally spaced blind equalization with low‐complexity concurrent constant modulus algorithm and soft decision‐directed scheme

The paper proposes a low‐complexity concurrent constant modulus algorithm (CMA) and soft decision‐directed (SDD) scheme for fractionally spaced blind equalization of high‐order quadrature amplitude modulation channels. We compare our proposed blind equalizer with the recently introduced state‐of‐art concurrent CMA and decision‐directed (DD) scheme. The proposed CMA+SDD blind equalizer is shown to have simpler computational complexity per weight update, faster convergence speed, and slightly improved steady‐state equalization performance, compared with the existing CMA+DD blind equalizer. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.