Time-varying interference suppression in communication systems using time-frequency signal transforms

Author(s):  
S. Chetwani ◽  
A. Papandreou-Suppappola
Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 2378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Li ◽  
Liang Ye ◽  
Xuejun Sha

As the number of mobile users and video traffics grow explosively, the data rate demands increase tremendously. To improve the spectral efficiency, the spectrum are reused inter cell or intra cell, such as the ultra dense network with multi-cell or the cellular network with Device-to-Device communications, where the co-channel interferences are brought and needs to be suppressed. According to the time-frequency energy sensing to the communication signals, the desired signal and the interference signal have different energy concentration areas on the time frequency plane, which provide opportunities to suppress the co-channel interference with time varying filter. This paper analyzes the time-frequency distributions of the Gaussian pulse shaping signals, discusses the effect of the analyzing window length on the time-frequency resolution, exploits the equivalence between the time frequency analysis at the baseband and at the radio front end, and finally reveals the advantages of the proposed masking threshold constrained time varying filter based co-channel interference mitigation method. The pass region for the linear time varying filter is generated according to the time-varying energy characteristics of the I/Q separated 4-QAM pulse shaping signals, where the optimum masking threshold is obtained by the optimum-BER criterion. The proposed co-channel interference suppression method is evaluated in aspect of BER performance, and simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods with low-pass or band-pass filters.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Weiheng Jiang ◽  
Xiaogang Wu ◽  
Yimou Wang ◽  
Bolin Chen ◽  
Wenjiang Feng ◽  
...  

Blind modulation classification is an important step in implementing cognitive radio networks. The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique is widely used in military and civil communication systems. Due to the lack of prior information about channel parameters and the overlapping of signals in MIMO systems, the traditional likelihood-based and feature-based approaches cannot be applied in these scenarios directly. Hence, in this paper, to resolve the problem of blind modulation classification in MIMO systems, the time–frequency analysis method based on the windowed short-time Fourier transform was used to analyze the time–frequency characteristics of time-domain modulated signals. Then, the extracted time–frequency characteristics are converted into red–green–blue (RGB) spectrogram images, and the convolutional neural network based on transfer learning was applied to classify the modulation types according to the RGB spectrogram images. Finally, a decision fusion module was used to fuse the classification results of all the receiving antennas. Through simulations, we analyzed the classification performance at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs); the results indicate that, for the single-input single-output (SISO) network, our proposed scheme can achieve 92.37% and 99.12% average classification accuracy at SNRs of −4 and 10 dB, respectively. For the MIMO network, our scheme achieves 80.42% and 87.92% average classification accuracy at −4 and 10 dB, respectively. The proposed method greatly improves the accuracy of modulation classification in MIMO networks.


Network ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Divyanshu Pandey ◽  
Adithya Venugopal ◽  
Harry Leib

Most modern communication systems, such as those intended for deployment in IoT applications or 5G and beyond networks, utilize multiple domains for transmission and reception at the physical layer. Depending on the application, these domains can include space, time, frequency, users, code sequences, and transmission media, to name a few. As such, the design criteria of future communication systems must be cognizant of the opportunities and the challenges that exist in exploiting the multi-domain nature of the signals and systems involved for information transmission. Focussing on the Physical Layer, this paper presents a novel mathematical framework using tensors, to represent, design, and analyze multi-domain systems. Various domains can be integrated into the transceiver design scheme using tensors. Tools from multi-linear algebra can be used to develop simultaneous signal processing techniques across all the domains. In particular, we present tensor partial response signaling (TPRS) which allows the introduction of controlled interference within elements of a domain and also across domains. We develop the TPRS system using the tensor contracted convolution to generate a multi-domain signal with desired spectral and cross-spectral properties across domains. In addition, by studying the information theoretic properties of the multi-domain tensor channel, we present the trade-off between different domains that can be harnessed using this framework. Numerical examples for capacity and mean square error are presented to highlight the domain trade-off revealed by the tensor formulation. Furthermore, an application of the tensor framework to MIMO Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM) is also presented.


Author(s):  
LuisF Chaparro (EURASIP Member) ◽  
Aydın Akan (EURASIP Member) ◽  
SyedIsmail Shah ◽  
Lutfiye Durak-Ata

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