Renato Candido, Magno T. M. Silva, Vítor H. Nascimento. Affine combinations of adaptive filters. In: 42nd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2008, Pacific Grove, CA. Proceedings of Asilomar-2008, 2008, pp.236–240.

Abstract

We extend the analysis presented in [1] for the affine combination of two least mean-square (LMS) filters to allow for colored inputs and nonstationary environments. Our theoretical model deals, in a unified way, with any combinations based on the following algorithms: LMS, normalized LMS (NLMS), and recursive-least squares (RLS). Through the analysis, we observe that the affine combination of two algorithms of the same family with close adaptation parameters (step-sizes or forgetting factors) provides a 3 dB gain in relation to its best component filter. We study this behavior in stationary and nonstationary environments. Good agreement between analytical and simulation results is always observed. Furthermore, a simple geometrical interpretation of the affine combination is investigated. A model for the transient and steady-state behavior of two possible algorithms for estimation of the mixing parameter is proposed. The model explains situations in which adaptive combination algorithms may achieve good performance.

[1] N. J. Bershad, J. C. M. Bermudez, and J.-Y. Tourneret, “An affine combination of two LMS adaptive filters – transient mean-square analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, pp. 1853–1864, May 2008.

Keywords

Adaptive filters, Affine combination, Steady-state analysis, Transient analysis, LMS algorithm.

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