A turbo equalizer is modified to allow its operation in a blind manner, i.e., without resorting to training sequences or to channel identification steps. It exploits a recent variant of the constant modulus algorithm, in collaboration with differential encoding, for which the decoder is linked in an iterative scheme with a conventional error correction coder. A characterization of stationary points is obtained, and conditions for proximity to a maximum likelihood decoding rule are identified.
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