Variable Step-Size Sparsity-Induced Augmented Complex-Valued NLMS Algorithm

The widely linear model has attracted much attention due to its good features for non-circular adaptive signal processing in recent years. In this paper, a sparsity-induced augmented complex-valued NLMS algorithm is proposed to promote the performance of the adaptive filter for estimating sparse systems, which is established by incorporating the $$l_0$$ -norm regularization into the squared error normalized by the input vector. To address the problem of trade-off between fast convergence rate and low steady-state misalignment, we minimize the variance of the a posteriori error to derive an optimal step-size and then some practical problems are considered. Simulation results are provided to verify the superior performance of the proposed algorithm.