Synchronized per survivor MLSD receiver using a differential Kalman filter

Abstract

A synchronized per survivor processing (PSP) maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) receiver is presented for a fast frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel and large carrier frequency offset. It is shown that, by incorporating the synchronization parameters (the timing error, carrier frequency and phase offsets) into the channel-impulse response (CIR) and modifying the resulting state-space model by a differential approach, the time-varying carrier frequency offset can be effectively tracked using a simple least mean square (LMS) estimator. New criteria are proposed based on the smoothness of the estimated channel derivatives. New criteria are proposed based on this fact that, for smoothly time-varying CIR and frequency offset, the magnitude of the CIR time derivative compared with the magnitude of CIR should be very small. It is illustrated that the new criteria and the conventional mean square error (MSE) are complementary.