An affine projection algorithm based DFE with set-membership filtering

A channel equalization technique based on the affine projection algorithms (APA) with set-membership (SM) filtering for updating filters of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is proposed for time-varying wireless channels. The performance of the proposed approach is analyzed through simulations. It is shown in the results that this scheme offers advantages of having substantial fewer number of weight updating operations at moderate SNR with almost similar convergence as normal APA based equalizer. The introduced equalizer converges faster with a marginal increase in complexity than the set-membership normalized least mean square (NLMS) algorithm based equalizer.