Tap-selectable decision-feedback equalization

This paper presents an adaptive tap assignment technique for improving the performance of a previously reported reduced-complexity decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) for broadband band wireless systems. The spacings of individual feedforward taps of the DFE are made selectable so that, when the chann...

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Published inIEEE transactions on communications Vol. 45; no. 12; pp. 1497 - 1500
Main Authors Ariyavisitakul, S., Sollenberger, N.R., Greenstein, L.J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.1997
Subjects
Decision feedback equalizers
Delay estimation
Fading
Filters
Intersymbol interference
Performance gain
Robustness
Signal to noise ratio
Timing
Wireless communication
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Summary:This paper presents an adaptive tap assignment technique for improving the performance of a previously reported reduced-complexity decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) for broadband band wireless systems. The spacings of individual feedforward taps of the DFE are made selectable so that, when the channel consists of a sparsely distributed multipath with a large delay spread (e.g. "hilly terrain" (HT) delay profiles), the equalizer span can be increased without increasing the total number of taps. We propose simple tap selection algorithms and show that they provide: (1) performance gains over a contiguous-tap approach in various outdoor delay profiles and (2) improved robustness against fast fading.
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ISSN:0090-6778
1558-0857
DOI:10.1109/26.650219