Class: 10/29/2010

• Practical matters with equalizer implementation
• Introduction to adaptive blind equalizers

Class: 10/27/2010

• Tomlinson-Harashima precoding
• Adaptive minimum bit error rate adaptive linear equalizers

Class: 10/25/2010

• Designing fixed decision feedback equalizers (DFE)
• Looked at DFE performance relative to linear equalizers and the Viterbi algorithm
• Considered adaptive DFE

Class: 10/22/2010

• Decision feedback equalizer

Class: 10/20/2010

• Adaptive RLS equalizer.

Class: 10/18/2010

• Adaptive zero forcing and LMS equalizers

Class: 10/14/2010

• Minimum mean squared error (MMSE) equalization
• ZF and MMSE equalizer examples

Class: 10/11/2010

• Developed time-domain model for fractionally spaced equalizers.

Class: 10/13/2010

• Zero forcing equalization
• Fractionally spaced and symbol spaced cases
• Noise amplification

Class: 10/08/2010

• Scaling for the BCJR algorithm.
• Started discussion of filter based equalization techniques.
• Discussed the differences between symbol rate and fractional spaced equalizers.

Class: 10/06/2010

• Developed forward-backward recursions for the BCJR algorithm.

Class: 10/04/2010

• Development of the BCJR algorithm.