BLIND CARRIER PHASE TRACKING WITH GUARANTEED GLOBAL CONVERGENCE

Conventional blind carrier recovery algorithms have been observed to s how unstable behaviors for large constellation modulation schemes such as 64-QAM or 256-QAM, In this paper, we propose a new carrier trackin g approach that has guaranteed global convergence, First, we show that the carrier tracking problem is equivalent to a blind source separati on 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 procedur e, we derive a new and robust carrier tracking algorithm with guarante ed global convergence. Some numerical simulations are provided to illu strate the effectiveness of the proposed method.