A symbol-based multi-layer iterative successive interference cancellation (MLISIC) algorithm is proposed to eliminate the inter-symbol interference (ISI) for faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling. The computational complexity of the proposed MLISIC algorithm is much lower than most existing block-based estimation algorithms. By comparison with existing symbol-based algorithms, the proposed MLISIC algorithm has higher estimation accuracy. Furthermore, by means of utilizing more accurate symbols and elaborate length of successive interference cancellation, an improved MLISIC (IMLISIC) algorithm is presented to further promote the estimation accuracy. Simulation results show in mild ISI cases, the proposed MLISIC and IMLISIC algorithms can approximate the theoretical performance even using 256amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) which is adopted in digital video broadcasting-satellite-second generation extension (DVB-S2X), i.e., bit error rate (BER) performance degradation is about 0.03 dB when the signal-to-noise ratio is high. In other words, using the proposed MLISIC and IMLISIC algorithms in mild ISI cases, the spectrum efficiency can be improved with negligible BER performance degradation. In moderate ISI cases, BER performance degradation of our proposed IMLISIC algorithm is no more than 0.13 dB when adopting 64/128/256-APSK, which is still satisfying. Besides, compared with existing symbol-based algorithms, the greater BER performance improvement can be achieved under severer ISI circumstances.Index Terms-Successive interference cancellation, intersymbol interference (ISI), faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling, amplitude phase shift keying (APSK), digital video broadcastingsatellite-second generation extension (DVB-S2X).
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