The problem of adaptive decoding of space-time trellis code (STTC) on the mobile wireless channels is considered in this paper.After analyzing the maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) of STTC transmission burst with no periodically inserted pilot symbols
we show that per-survivor processing (PSP) can be used to obtain a practical approximated MLSD in this situation.Based on this
a PSP decoder with self-tuning Least-Mean-Square channel tracking is proposed with the advantage that there are only fading rate independent parameters to be pre-determined.Computer simulation results are included to support our development.