Blind phase noise estimation and data detection based on SMC technique and unscented filtering

In this paper, a computationally efficient algorithm is presented for tracing phase noise with linear drift and blind data detection jointly, based on a sequential Monte Carlo(SMC) method. Tracing of phase noise is achieved by Kalman filter and the nonlinearity of the observation process is taken care of by unscented filter rather that using extended Kalman technique. On the other hand, SMC method treats the transmitted symbols as “missing data” and draw samples sequentially of them based on the observed signal samples up to time t. This way, the Bayesian estimates of the phase noise and the incoming data are obtained through these samples, sequentially drawn, together with their importance weights. The proposed receiver structure is seen to be ideally suited for high-speed parallel implementation using VLSI technology.