QR-Based TLS and mixed LS-TLS algorithms with applications to adaptive IIR filtering

The least squares (LS), total least squares (TLS), and mixed LS-TLS approaches are compared as to their properties and performance on several classical filtering problems. Mixed LS-TLS is introduced as a QR-decomposition-based algorithm for unbiased, equation error adaptive infinite impulse response (IR) filtering. The algorithm is based on casting adaptive IIR filtering into a mixed LS-TLS framework. This formulation is shown to be equivalent to the minimization of the mean-square equation error subject to a unit norm constraint on the denominator parameter vector. An efficient implementation of the mixed LS-TLS solution is achieved through the use of back substitution and inverse iteration. Unbiasedness of the system parameter estimates is established for the mixed LS-TLS solution in the case of uncorrelated output noise, and the algorithm is shown to converge to this solution. LS, TLS, and mixed LS-TLS performance is then compared for the problems of echo cancellation, noise reduction, and frequency equalization.