Joint data and channel estimation for TDMA mobile channels
Jingdong Lin, Fuyun Ling, John G. Proakis · 2003
One of the main problems in the proposed Northern American digital cellular system (IS-54) is the poor performance of the receiver for fast fading channels. The authors propose to use a novel joint data and channel estimation technique to improve performance. The basic idea of this method was described by N. Seshadri (1990) in the context of blind equalization. Simulation results indicate that this approach solves the problems of decision delay and divergence caused by error decision feedback in conventional maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE). The specified IS-54 requirement of 19 dB at a BER of 3% and a speed of 100 km/h can be met with a margin of 8 dB. This result is 4.5 dB better than the conventional maximum likelihood receiver.>