A Blind Adaptive QR-Based Lattice Multi-Channel Filter for Cellular Base-Station TDMA Transceivers with Antenna Arrays

A new adaptive algorithm for blind interference rejection and multipath mitigation is studied and applied to antenna array processing in TDMA cellular communication systems. It is shown how the estimation of multiple signals from different sources by means of a multi-sensor receiver can be formulated as a multi-channel deconvolution problem. The proposed method is based on High-Order Statistics (HOS) processing of the baseband vector samples at the antenna array output. The similarity between the cumulant-based solution and the standard multi-variable Least Squares solution is exploited to derive an efficient adaptive algorithm based on the vector lattice architecture. The algorithm is numerically stable, considerably less complex than other existing multi-channel methods using HOS processing and exhibits rapid convergence with respect to blind array processing algorithms using simple gradient-based minimization procedures.