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Blind equalization in a single carrier wideband channel

US9559875B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 9, 2012
Grant dateJan 31, 2017
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Expiry dateJul 22, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2025/03636
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A blind equalizer apparatus includes a decision-directed (DD) least mean squares (LMS) blind equalizer. A blind equalizer apparatus includes: a DD LMS blind equalizer, wherein: the blind equalizer uses a finite impulse response filter with tap weights that are adaptively updated using a filter tap update algorithm, wherein blind equalization of one of an in-phase (I) channel and a quadrature (Q) channel is carried out by maximizing the Euclidean distance of binary modulated waveforms, wherein the blind equalizer averages a block to compute an independent phase estimate for a block, wherein the blind equalizer computes an error variable for a block from the phase estimate for the block, wherein the blind equalizer uses the phase estimate and alternating I/Q one dimensional/binary slicing to make a hard decision, and wherein the blind equalizer uses the hard decision to derive an error variable that is used to update the filter tap weights.

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