This paper advances a new “quasi-blind” calibration algorithm to calibrate a multi-array network (MAN) of acoustic-vector-sensors, whose component-sensors may have non-ideal gain/phase responses, incorrect orientations, and imprecise locations. This proposed calibration is “quasi-blind” in not requiring any prior knowledge/estimation of any training signal’s arrival-angle. This proposed algorit...

The main objective of this paper, is to review the work already done related to channel estimation technique in OFDM system. Pilot base channel estimation algorithm i.e. block type, comb type etc. are discussed and also compared in terms of their simplicity, computational cost and suitability conditions. After comparison with known techniques i.e. decision directed-Kalmanbased estimation, Maxim...

This paper investigates the application of linear reinforcement learning stochastic approximation to the blind adaptive energy estimation for a decorrelating decision-feedback (DDF) multiuser detector over synchronous code-division multiple-access (CDMA) radio channels in the presence of multiple-access interference (MAI) and additive Gaussian noise. The decision feedback incorporated into the ...

In this thesis, a number of semi-blind structures are proposed for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication systems, with Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) estimation and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) based equalization. In the first contribution, a semi-blind non-redundant single-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) OFDM system is proposed, with ...

This paper introduces an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm within a wavelet domain Bayesian framework for semi-blind channel estimation of multiband OFDM based UWB communications. A prior distribution is chosen for the wavelet coefficients of the unknown channel impulse response in order to model a sparseness property of the wavelet representation. This prior yields, in maximum a posterio...

This paper addresses hardware design issues of a mobile receiver for future generation direct sequence CDMA wireless communication systems. In the design of a mobile unit, xed-point hardware is an attractive alternative because of increased speed, reduced power consumption, and reduced hardware costs. In this paper, we focus on the xed-point implementation of `blind' detection and channel estim...

Estimating time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) remains a challenging task when acoustic environments are reverberant and noisy. Blind channel identification approaches for TDOA estimation explicitly model multipath reflections and have been demonstrated to be effective in dealing with reverberation. Unfortunately, existing blind channel identification algorithms are sensitive to ambient noise. Th...

In this study, a blind carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation method is proposed using the time-frequency symmetry of transmitted signals weighted Fourier transform (WFrFT) communication system. Blind CFO achieved by focusing on property that results in matching signal waveforms before and after when WFrFT parameter set to certain value. Numerical simulations confirm more resistant Rayleigh ...