Blind channel equalization based on Complex-valued neural network and probability density fitting

In this paper, we study blind equalization techniques to reduce the intersymbol interference (ISI) and we are particularly interested in equalizers based on probability density fitting (PDF). The PDF criterion was used with conventional linear equalizers. So we try in this paper to use this criterion in a nonlinear context using a neural network architecture. The network weights are updated by minimizing, at first, the stochastic quadratic distance, then the Multimodulus quadratic distance between the equalized PDF and some target distribution. Our approach shows a better performance in terms of mean square error (MSE) and symbol error rate (SER).