Nonlinear equalization for Rician multipath fading channel

We present a nonlinear equalization scheme for a Rician multipath fading channel - a fuzzy logic-based approach. We show that each channel state of a multipath Rician channel follows a Gaussian distribution, which means a Bayesian equalization can be implemented. The parameters of the Bayesian equalization are determined using an unsupervised clustering method - fuzzy c-means (FCM) method. An extremely small number of training symbols (about 1% of a burst) are used to determine the category of each channel state with the aid of data mining. Simulation results show that our Bayesian equalizer performs much better than the recently proposed nearest neighbor classifier-based equalizer at moderate to high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).