Tracking characteristics of the LMS adaptive line enhancer-response to a linear chirp signal in noise

The transient behavior of the LMS adaptive filter is studied when configured as an adaptive line enhancer operating in the presence of a fixed or variable complex frequency sine-wave signal buried in white noise. For a fixed frequency signal, the mean weights are shown to respond to signal more rapidly than to noise alone. For a chirped signal, a fixed parameter matrix first-order difference equation is derived for the mean weights and a closed-form steady-state solution obtained. The transient response is obtained as a function of the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the input covariance matrix. Sufficient conditions for the stability of the transient response are derived and an upper bound on the eigenvalues obtained. Finally, the mean-square error is evaluated when responding to a chirped signal. A gain coefficient of the LMS algorithm is determined which minimizes the mean-square error for chirped signals as a function of chirp rate and signal and noise powers.