Conditions on Blind Source Separability of Linear FIR-MIMO Systems with Binary Inputs

In this note, we investigate the blind source separability of linear FIR-MIMO systems. The concept of semi-reversibility of a system is presented. It is shown that for a semi-reversible system, if the input signals belong to a binary alphabet, then the source data can be blindly separated. One sufficient condition for a system to be semi-reversible is obtained. It is also shown that the proposed criteria is weaker than that in the literature which requires that the channel matrix is irreducible/invertible or reversible.

• Jiashan Tang

• Blind source separable
• FIR-MIMO system
• Binary input
• Bezout equality.

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