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2009

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Karakütük, Serkan

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Channel order estimation is an important problem in many fields including signal processing, communications, acoustics, and more. In this thesis, blind channel order estimation problem is considered for single-input, multi-output (SIMO) FIR systems. The problem is to estimate the effective channel order for the SIMO system given only the output samples corrupted by noise. Two new methods for channel order estimation are presented. These methods have several useful features compared to the currently known techniques. They are guaranteed to find the true channel order for noise free case and they perform significantly better for noisy observations. These algorithms show a consistent performance when the number of observations, channels and channel order are changed. The proposed algorithms are integrated with the least squares smoothing (LSS) algorithm for blind identification of the channel coefficients. LSS algorithm is selected since it is a deterministic algorithm and has some additional features suitable for order estimation. The proposed algorithms are compared with a variety of di erent algorithms including linear prediction (LP) based methods. LP approaches are known to be robust to channel order overestimation. In this thesis, it is shown that significant gain can be obtained compared to LP based approaches when the proposed techniques are used. The proposed algorithms are also compared with the oversampled single-input, single-output (SISO) system with a generic decision feedback equalizer, and better mean-square error performance is observed for the blind setting. Channel order estimation problem is also investigated for semi-blind systems where a pilot signal is used which is known at the receiver. In this case, two new methods are proposed which exploit the pilot signal in di erent ways. When both unknown and pilot symbols are used, a better estimation performance can be achieved compared to the proposed blind methods. The semi-blind approach is especially effective in terms of bit error rate (BER) evaluation thanks to the use of pilot symbols in better estimation of channel coe cients. This approach is also more robust to ill-conditioned channels. The constraints for these approaches, such as synchronization, and the decrease in throughput still make the blind approaches a good alternative for channel order estimation. True and effective channel order estimation topics are discussed in detail and several simulations are done in order to show the significant performance gain achieved by the proposed methods.

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Electrical engineering., Linear and Multilinear Algebra., Matrices

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611107/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18968

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis