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Journal of Nanchang Institute of Technology ISSN 1674-0076 05/ 14 pp25-29 Voloume34，Number 1，February2015 New Spatial iversity Equalizer applied to underwater acoustic channels DUAN Meiyi，RAO Wei （SchooI of Information Engineering，Nanchang Institute of TechnoIogy，Nanchang330099，China） Abstract：Underwater acoustic communication is difficuIt because the fading muItipath channeIs have high-order QAM sig- naIs.A new SpatiaI Diversity EquaIizer（SDE）is proposedto overcomethe inter-symboI interference（ISI）inunderwater a- coustic channeI.The aIgorithm in the proposed SDE consists of constant moduIus aIgorithm（CMA）part and muIti-moduIus bIind equaIization aIgorithm part.The secondpart of theproposedSDEcanusethedifferent moduIusnatureof thehigh-order QAM signaIs to improve the equaIization performance.Comparedwith the traditionaI SDE based on CMA，the proposed SDE can obtain the Iower steady-state mean square error and faster convergence rate.The performance of the proposed SDE is shown in underwater acoustic channeIs by computer simuIations. Key words：SpatiaI Diversity EquaIizer；underwater acoustic channeI；constant moduIus aIgorithm 1 Introduction Inter-symboI interference（ISI）is a serious probIem in high-speed digitaI transmission over wireIess channeIs especiaIIy underwater acoustic channeIs.EquaIization without any expIicit training sequence is caIIed as the bIind channeI equaIizationwhichcaneffectiveIyovercometheISI.AndtheconstantmoduIusaIgorithm（CMA），pioneered by Godard［1］，is the most popuIar bIind equaIization aIgorithm because it can be easiIy impIemented and has good convergence properties［2］.To improve the performance of the bIind equaIization，recentIy，Xie and his coIIeagues［3］ proposed aconcurrentditheredsigned-error CMA（DSE-CMA）andSDDaIgorithmwhichcancompensatethephase shift andprovide