A blind adaptive scheme is proposed for joint maximum likelihood (ML) channel estimation and data detection of single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems. The joint ML optimization of the channel and data estimation is decomposed into an iterative optimization loop. An efficient global optimization algorithm termed as the repeated weighted boosting aided search is employed first to identify the unknown SIMO channel model, and then the Viterbi algorithm is used for the maximum likelihood sequence estimation of the unknown data sequence. A simulation example is used for demonstrating the efficiency of this joint ML optimization scheme designed for blind adaptive SIMO systems
