Joint estimation and detection method based on turbo equalization framework and VAMP

Abstract

In this letter, we consider the single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) system, and propose a low-complexity joint symbol detection and channel estimation algorithm based on the recently proposed vector approximate message passing (VAMP). Specifically, we leverage VAMP twice to estimate symbols and channels, respectively, in a turbo-like way. Moreover, this algorithm organically combines the gaussian mixture model (GMM), which can accurately simulate the sparse aggregation characteristics of the channel and effectively suppress inter symbol interference (ISI). The simulation results show that compared with the traditional linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimation receiving algorithm and the existing generalized approximate message passing algorithm (GAMP), the designed receiving algorithm has significant advantages in channel estimation normalized mean square error (NMSE) and bit error ratio (BER) performance, where sharing the same order of complexity.