Adaptive Step-size Iterative Equalization for Underwater Communication

This paper presents a fully adaptive Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) iterative equalization with a joint phase estimation, using various adaptive step-sizes scheme. To meet the requirement of fast convergence and low MSE over time-varying channels, we propose an original self-optimized algorithm whose step-sizes are updated adaptively and assisted by soft-information provided by the channel decoder in an iterative manner. Simulation results show that our proposal achieves better performance over various multipath time-varying channels, compared to the conventional equalizer using a fixed step-size.