一种新的应用于水声信道的空间分集均衡器_英文_.pdfVIP

Journal of Nanchang Institute of Technology ISSN 1674 － 0076 05 /14 pp 25 － 29 February 2015 Voloume 34 ，Number 1 ， New Spatial Diversity Equalizer applied to underwater acoustic channels DUAN Meiyi ，ＲAO Wei (School of Information Engineering ，Nanchang Institute of Technology ，Nanchang 330099 ，China) Abstract :Underwater acoustic communication is difficult because the fading multipath channels have high-order QAM sig- nals． A new Spatial Diversity Equalizer (SDE)is proposed to overcome the inter-symbol interference (ISI)in underwater a- coustic channel． The algorithm in the proposed SDE consists of constant modulus algorithm (CMA)part and multi-modulus blind equalization algorithm part． The second part of the proposed SDE can use the different modulus nature of the high-order QAM signals to improve the equalization performance． Compared with the traditional SDE based on CMA ，the proposed SDE can obtain the lower steady-state mean square error and faster convergence rate． The performance of the proposed SDE is shown in underwater acoustic channels by computer simulations． Key words :Spatial Diversity Equalizer ;underwater acoustic channel ;constant modulus algorithm 1 Introduction Inter-symbol interference (ISI)is a serious problem in high-speed digital transmission over wireless channels especially underwater acoustic channels． Equalization without any explicit training sequence is called as the blind channel equalization which can effectively overcome the ISI． And the constant modulus algorithm (CMA)，pioneered by Godard ［1］，is the most popular blind equalization algorithm because it can be easily implemented and has good convergence properties