Blind equalization algorithms for dual-mode CAP-QAM reception

We propose a dual-mode receiver capable of blindly demodulating both carrierless amplitude modulation/phase modulation (CAP) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) line codes. Our work is motivated by some emerging broad-band access standards which require a receiver that can first blindly start up, then blindly distinguish between CAP and QAM, and finally decode the signal. The ``brute force{''} solution to this problem would be to implement CAP and QAM receivers in parallel. However, we propose a single novel receiver based on a single equalizer that accommodates both line codes, yielding significant computational savings. We describe the receiver architecture, blind start-up methods, and line code identification algorithms, as well as computer simulations and a laboratory experiment to verify the theoretical receiver behavior.