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Design Considerations of Adaptive Trellis-Based Blind Sequence Estimators Xiao-Ming Chen y and Peter A. Hoeher Information and Coding Theory Lab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kiel, Kaiserstr. 2, D-24143 Kiel, Germany, e-mail: fxc,phg@tf.uni-kiel.de Abstract— In this paper, we consider design aspects of adaptive trellis- acquisition and bit error rate (BER) can be expected at the expense of based blind sequence estimators, which are derived from the joint ML an increased computational complexity. Due to the phase ambiguity data/channel estimation problem. The number of states in the trellis is associated with TABSEs, differential encoding or generalizations considered as a design parameter, which provides a trade-off between the performance and complexity. It is shown that for uncoded data thereof are necessary [14]. The combination of differential encoder the data sequence can only be determined up to an unknown shift and ISI channel results in a recursive DPSK/ISI super-trellis [9], [10]. index. This shift ambiguity can be resolved by taking an outer channel It is demonstrated, how the symmetry in the evaluation of branch/path encoder into account. The average magnitude of the soft outputs from metrics due to the phase ambiguity can be exploited to obtain a the corresponding channel decoder is exploited to identify the shift index. For frequency-hopping systems over fading channels, a double serially reduced-complexity structure without performance loss. concatenated scheme is proposed, where the inner code is applied to In