Blind PSP-Based Turbo Equalisation

A plethora of approaches have been proposed for blind equalization to date. In this contribution a new blind equalizer is proposed, extending the concept of trained turbo equalizers to the blind scenario by using Per-Survivor Processing (PSP). This equalizer exploits the enhanced data protection offered by channel coding and exhibits good performance in terms of its output Bit Error Rate (BER). Explicitly, a BER comparable to that of a trained turbo equalizer is attained at the cost of a modest complexity increase