Some system identification problems impose nonnegativity constraints on the
parameters to estimate due to inherent physical characteristics of the unknown
system. The nonnegative least-mean-square (NNLMS) algorithm and its variants
allow to address this problem in an online manner. A nonnegative least mean
fourth (NNLMF) algorithm has been recently proposed to improve the performance
of these algorithms in cases where the measurement noise is not Gaussian. This
paper provides a first theoretical analysis of the stochastic behavior of the
NNLMF algorithm for stationary Gaussian inputs and slow learning. Simulation
results illustrate the accuracy of the proposed analysis.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted for publicatio