Equalization Techniques for Wireless Communications
Equalization techniques which can combat and/or exploit the frequency selectivity of the wireless channel are of enormous importance in the design of high data rate wireless systems. Although such techniques have been studied for over 40 years, recent developments in signal processing, coding and wireless communications suggest the need for paradigm shifts in this area. On one hand, the demonstrated efficiency of soft-input soft-output signal processing algorithms and iterative (turbo) techniques have fuelled interest in the design and development of nearly optimal joint equalization and decoding techniques. On the other hand, the popularity of MIMO communication channels, rapidly time varying channels due to high mobility, multi-user channels, multi-carrier based systems and the availability of partial or no channel state information at the transmitter and/or receiver bring new problems which require novel equalization techniques. Hence, there is a need for the development of novel practical, low complexity equalization techniques and for understanding their potentials and limitations when used in wireless communication systems characterized by very high data rates, high mobility and the presence of multiple antennas.