An Improved Multipath Channel Identification Algorithm Using Mulichannel Linear Prediction

Abstract

Blind channel identification exploits the measurable channel output signal and some a priori knowledge of the statistics of the channel input signal. However, in many scenarios, more side information is available. In digital communication systems, the pulseshaping filter in the transmitter and the antialiasing filter in the receiver are often known to the receiver. Exploitation of this prior knowledge can simplify the channel identification problem. In this paper, we provide a thorough theoretical analysis on the linear prediction (LP)-based multipath identification approach. The analysis shows that the order overdetermination greatly deteriorates the performance of the LP multipath identification approach. This article, then, proposes an effective approach to detect the order of the multipath channel and alleviate the performance degradation attributed to the channel overmodeling. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed approach offers substantial performance gain.