Signal Space Whitening MLSE with a Multibeam Adaptive Array

Akihito HANAKI  Takeo OHGANE  Yasutaka OGAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E86-B    No.9    pp.2592-2599
Publication Date: 2003/09/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technology
Keyword: 
adaptive array,  interference suppression,  maximum likelihood sequence estimation,  spatial-temporal equalization,  

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Summary: 
Cochannel interference and multipath propagation reduce the performance of mobile communication systems. Multi-input MLSE with whitening processing can mitigate the influence of the interference and provide path diversity gain. In conventional considerations, however, the required complexity rapidly rises with the number of array elements. In this paper, we propose multi-input MLSE that whitens error signals in the signal space by using a multibeam adaptive array. This scheme can reduce the computational load of multi-input MLSE than the conventional type when using a large-element array. The results of an analysis show that the proposed type is equivalent to conventional one in the sense of the metric and provides less computational complexity.