Blind carrier phase tracking with guaranteed global convergence

Conventional blind carrier recovery algorithms have been observed to show unstable behaviors for large constellation modulation schemes such as 64-QAM or 256-QAM. We propose a new carrier tracking approach that has guaranteed global convergence. First, we show that the carrier tracking problem is equivalent to a blind source separation problem, which involves the separation of a linear unitary mixture of two independent components that are the real and imaginary parts of the emitted signal. Then, by using a blind source separation procedure, we derive a new and robust carrier tracking algorithm with guaranteed global convergence. Some numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method