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36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 3-6 November, 2002

Blind, Adaptive Channel Shortening by Sum-squared Auto-correlation Minimization (SAM)

J. Balakrishnan, R.K. Martin, and C.R. Johnson, Jr.

Abstract

We propose a new blind, adaptive channel shortening algorithm for updating a time-domain equalizer (TEQ) in a system employing multicarrier modulation. The technique attempts to minimize the sum-squared auto-correlation of the combined channel-TEQ impulse response outside a window of desired length. The proposed algorithm, ``Sum-squared Auto-correlation Minimization" (SAM), assumes the source sequence to be white and wide-sense stationary, and it is implemented as a stochastic gradient descent algorithm. Simulation results demonstrating the success of the SAM algorithm are provided.