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M. Stojanovic and J.G. Proakis Northeastern University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 tel: (781) 373-4429 fax: (781) 373-8970 Abstract This paper treats the problem of signal demodulation in a digital communication system that employs a large receiver array in the transmission of data through a time-dispersive channel, such as an underwater acoustic channel. In general, severely time-spread communication channels require long equalizers to combat intersymbol interference. With spatial diversity, the receiver performance may be limited by its complexity due to factors such as noise enhancement, slower tracking of time variations in the channel characteristics, and increased sensitivity to numerical errors. To alleviate these problems, a beamforming interpretation of the optimal diversity combining method is exploited. The resulting receiver consists of a many-to-few coherent spatial pre-combiner followed by a reduced complexity multichannel equalizer. Its performance is studied on experimental underwater acoustic data demonstrating capability to fully exploit spatial variability of multipath channels while keeping the complexity at minimum, thus allowing efficient use of large receiver arrays. |
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