A novel blind unconditional maximum likelihood algorithm for fractionally-spaced nonminimum phase FIR channel identification and equalisation is presented. The algorithm results from using a low signal to noise approximation to the average of the likelihood function with respect to the transmitted data sequence. The channel estimation equation is derived in a closed form, and the resulting algorithm is computationally efficient since it only requires the calculation of one eigenvector. Simulation results are presented to show the performance of the proposed algorithm.
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Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, First IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on
Date of Conference: 16-18 April 1997