MMSE Equalizer Proof

Dr. Sarmad Sohaib, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UET Taxila, Pakistan
Let us assume a symbol X transmitted through a frequency selective faded channel H. An additive white Gaussian noise N is added at the receiver and the received signal Y is given by Y = HX + N. (1)

The received signal is input to the minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer W given by W = arg min E |W Y X|2 .
W

(2)

Substituting the value of Y into the objective function of (2) J = E |W (HX + N ) X|2 = E W (HX + N ) (W (HX + N ))H + XX H W (HX + N ) X H X (W (HX + N ))H = E W (HX + N ) X H H H + N H W H + XX H W HXX H W N X H X X H H H + N H W H ] = E W HXX H W
H H H

(3)

(4) (5)
H H

+ W HXN W

+ W NX H W + (6) (7)

W N N N W H + XX H W HXX H W N X H XX H H H W H XN H W H

Now, using the identity E [AB] = E [A] + E [B] 1 (8)

and the fact that noise N and the transmitted symbols X are independent we get J = E W HXX H H H W H + E W N N H W H + E XX H E W HXX H E XX H H H W H = W HE XX
H H

(9)
H

H W
H

+ W E NN
H

+ E XX

(10)
H

W HE XX H E XX H H H W H = Ex W HH W + N0 W W + Ex Ex W H Ex H W
H

(11)

where Ex = E XX H is the energy of X. Minimizing the J with respect to W by taking the rst derivative and set it to be zero dJ = Ex HH H W H + N0 W H Ex H = 0 (12) dW Rearranging (12) we get Ex HH H W H + N0 W H = Ex H Writing (13) as an objective function of W H Ex HH H + N0 W H = Ex H W H = Ex HH H + N0 Taking Hermitian transpose on both side W = Ex H H Ex HH H + N0
1 H 1 1

(13)

(14) (15)

Ex H

(16) (17)

= E x H H E x H H H + N0 Hence proved!