Parameter Estimation Of Impulsive Noise For Channel Coded Communication Systems

In this paper, an impulsive noise estimation algorithm for generating bit log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for channel coded systems in impulsive noise environments is proposed. This approach is to design the LLR detector in the maximum-likelihood (ML) sense, which requires the parameters of the impulsive noise. The expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm is utilised to estimate the parameters of the Bernoulli-Gaussian (B-G) impulsive noise model. The estimated parameters is then used to generate the bit LLRs for the soft-input channel decoder. Simulation results show that over a wide range of impulsive noise power, the proposed algorithm approaches the optimal performance (with ideal estimation) even under Middleton class-A (M-CA) impulsive noise models.