Design and Application of an Improved Least Mean Square Algorithm for Adaptive Filtering

Abstract

This paper enumerates the strengths and defects of the traditional least mean square (LMS) algorithm for adaptive filtering, and then designs a novel LMS algorithm with variable step size and verifies its performance through simulation. In our algorithm, the step size is no longer adjusted by the square of the error (e2(n)), but by the correlation between the current error and the error of a previous moment e(n-D). In this way, the algorithm becomes less sensitive to the noise with weak autocorrelation, and manages to achieve fast convergence, high time-varying tracking accuracy, and small steady-state error. The simulation results show that our algorithm outperformed the traditional LMS algorithm with fixed step size in convergence speed, tracking accuracy and noise suppression. The research findings provide a new tool for many other fields of adaptive filtering, such as adaptive system identification and adaptive signal separation.

Research on Distributed Optical Fiber Pipeline Micro Leakage Detection Technology Based on Recursive Least Square

“…At present, the widely applied adaptive filtering algorithms mainly consist of Least Mean Square algorithm [17] and Recursive Least Square algorithm [18]. Compared with the Least Mean Square algorithm, the Recursive Least Squares algorithm has the advantages of fast convergence speed and high stability, and is more attention in practical applications.…”