A unique low complexity parameter independent adaptive design for echo reduction

Abstract

Acoustic echo is one of the most important issues in full duplex communication. The original speech signal is distorted due to echo. For this adaptive filtering is used for echo suppression. In this paper our objective is to cancel out the acoustic echo in a sparse transmission channel. For this purpose many algorithms have been developed over the period of time, such as Least Mean Square (LMS), Normalized LMS (NLMS), Proportionate NLMS (PNLMS) and Improved PNLMS (IPNLMS) algorithm. Of all these algorithms we carry out a comparative analysis based on various performance parameters such as Echo Return Loss Enhancement, Mean Square Error and Normalized Projection Misalignment and find that for the sparse transmission channel all these algorithm are inefficient. Hence we propose a new algorithm modified-?-PNLMS, which has the fastest steady state convergence and is the most stable among all the existing algorithms, this we show based on the simulation results obtained. � Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.