Abstract-This paper presents a turbo equalization (TEQ) scheme, which employs a radial basis function (RBF)-based equalizer instead of the conventional trellis-based equalizer of Douillard et al. Structural, computational complexity, and performance comparisons of the RBF-based and trellis-based TEQs are provided. The decision feedback-assisted RBF TEQ is capable of attaining a similar performance to the logarithmic maximum a posteriori scheme in the context of both binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) and quaternary phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulation, while achieving a factor 2.5 and 3 lower computational complexity, respectively. However, there is a 2.5-dB performance loss in the context of 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), which suffers more dramatically from the phenomenon of erroneous decision-feedback effects. A novel element of our design, in order to further reduce the computational complexity of the RBF TEQ, is that symbol equalizations are invoked at current iterations only if the decoded symbol has a high error probability. This techniques provides 37% and 54% computational complexity reduction compared to the full-complexity RBF TEQ for the BPSK RBF TEQ and 16QAM RBF TEQ, respectively, with little performance degradation, when communicating over dispersive Rayleigh fading channels. [4]. In this paper, we employ a radial basis function (RBF)-assisted equalizer as the soft-in/soft-out (SISO) equalizer in the context of TEQ. In Sections I-A and I-B, we will introduce the RBF equalizer and the TEQ scheme, followed by the implementation details of the RBF TEQ in Section II. Section III is dedicated to the comparison of the RBF and MAP equalizers, while Section IV entails our discussions related to the complexity reduction issues of the RBF TEQ when using the Jacobian logarithm known from the field of turbo-channel coding. In Section V, the proposed scheme's performance is benchmarked against that of the optimal MAP TEQ scheme of [1]. Finally, in Section VI, we proposed a further computational complexity-reduction technique for the RBF TEQ, and in Section VII, we conclude our investigations.
Index Terms-Decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), Jacobian logarithm, neural network, radial basis function (RBF), turbo coding, turbo equalization (TEQ).
I. BACKGROUNDPaper approved by M. Chiani, the Editor for Wireless Communication of the IEEE Communications Society. Manuscript