Polynomial ambiguity resistant precoders: Theory and applications in ISI/multipath cancellation (Q1586505)

One main goal of the paper is to generalize the concept of ambiguity resistance, previously introduced by the authors, to the concept of polynomial ambiguity resistance, with the purpose of resisting not only to constant matrices but to any FIR (finite impulse response) polynomial matrices. The new type of precoders introduced, called (strong) polynomial ambiguity resistant (PAR) pre-orders, are proved to resist the ambiguity not only in the input signals but also in the FIR channel inverse, whereas PAR pre-orders only resist the ambiguity in the input signal. In particular, the new PAR precoder allows a receiver to identify an input signal without knowing the channel characteristics, at the expense of a minimum amount of bandwidth increase. In practice, the strong PAR precoders can be used in a transmitter so that the message signals can be determined directly from the received signals by regarding the unknown channels as a polynomial matrix ambiguity. On the basis of simple blocking operations, the authors show that baud-rate sampled single-receiver systems and undersampled antenna array systems can be blindly resolved without output diversities. A family of the proposed precoders is shown to provide important features: it is linear (no modulo operation is needed), channel independent, and modulation pattern preserving (except for some occasional 0 symbols). From the proposed theory, an algebraic closed-form algorithm for blind identification is derived, and numerical examples illustrate promising results when the proposed PAR precoders are applied in practical communication systems.