One-parameter fractional linear prediction

The one-parameter fractional linear prediction (FLP) is presented and the closed-form expressions for the evaluation of FLP coefficients are derived. Contrary to the classical first-order linear prediction (LP) that uses one previous sample and one predictor coefficient, the one-parameter FLP model is derived using the memory of two, three or four samples, while not increasing the number of predictor coefficients. The first-order LP is only a special case of the proposed one-parameter FLP when the order of fractional derivative tends to zero. Based on the numerical experiments using test signals (sine test waves), and real-data signals (speech and electrocardiogram), the hypothesis for estimating the fractional derivative order used in the model is given. The one-parameter FLP outperforms the classical first-order LP in terms of the prediction gain, having comparable performance with the second-order LP, although using one predictor coefficient less.