Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (7): 1605-1613.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2020.07.24

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Noise robust variable step-size LMS algorithm and its application in OFDM underwater channel equalization

Zeping SUI1,2(), Shefeng YAN1,2,*()   

  1. 1. Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2019-12-27 Online:2020-06-30 Published:2020-06-30
  • Contact: Shefeng YAN E-mail:suizeping@mail.ioa.ac.cn;sfyan@ieee.org
  • Supported by:
    国家自然科学基金(61725106);国家自然科学基金(61901467)

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem of poor performance in least mean square (LMS) algorithm under low signal to noise ratio (SNR) environments, a noise robust variable step-size LMS (NRVSLMS) algorithm is proposed. By combining the improved double sigmoid function and the error signal autocorrelation function, the NRVSLMS algorithm dynamically adjusts its step-size during the iteration process to solve the problem that the convergence speed, the tracking performance and the steady-state performance are contradictory in the traditional LMS algorithm. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the NRVSLMS algorithm has stronger anti-noise ability, faster tracking speed and better steady state performance compared with other variable step-size algorithms. The proposed algorithm is applied to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) underwater acoustic communications, the proposed equalization method base on the NRVSLMS algorithm improves the performance in terms of the bit error rate (BER) and mean square error (MSE) sufficiently in comparison with the existing ones.

Key words: adaptive channel equalization, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), least mean square (LMS), underwater acoustic communication

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