Channel State Information Based Equalizer Design for Frequency Selective Channels

Equalizer design is an extremely critical aspect for wireless networks. This paper presents an approach combining the decision feedback mechanism and successive signal detection to equalize frequency selective channel effects for signals traversing different run-lengths. In this approach, the errors on comparison between the transmitted signal and received signal are fed to the equalizer to adjust the tap weights. Still the irreversible nature of inter symbol interference is a huge challenge due to multi path propagation mechanisms in wireless channels. It is a common observation that signals traversing a smaller path reach the receiver earlier compared to the multi-path component traversing a longer path. Assuming similar shadowing effects, it is seen that fading effects make it difficult to accurately receive long distance MPCs, thereby degrading the BER performance. It has been shown that the proposed system attains almost similar BER performance irrespective of the shadowing effect or run length of the MPCs.