Blind LPTV joint equalization and interference suppression

The problem of jointly equalizing a digital communication signal distorted by a linear time-invariant channel and rejecting co-channel or adjacent-channel digital interference is tackled. Owing to the presence of the interfering signal, the proposed optimum linear MMSE equalizer turns out to be periodically time-varying (LPTV). Moreover, new simple and effective blind channel identification procedures are presented, which can be applied as long as the desired and interfering signal exhibit different circularity and/or cyclo-stationarity properties. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.