An Adaptive Multi-Antenna Transceiver for Slowly Flat Fading Channels

Ada S. Y. Poon, David N. C. Tse and Robert W. Brodersen,
submitted to IEEE Transmissions and Communication, 2002.

This paper proposes an adaptive multi-antenna transceiver for narrowband reception. Blind channel tracking algorithms are developed to track the eigen-directions of the channel directly instead of the channel itself. Two algorithms are proposed to track the column space of the channel at the receiver based on the received data. One of the algorithms is free of any division operation, which is more favorable in practice. For the row space of the channel, two approaches are proposed as well. The first approach requires periodic feedback of the demodulated signal from the receiver back to the transmitter where it can make use of its knowledge on the prior transmitted symbols to estimate the row space. In the second approach, the estimation is done at the receiver based on the detected symbols and the estimated row space is sending back to the transmitter. Adaptive resource allocation is also incorporated into the design.