Title :
A new approach to interference suppression in spread-spectrum systems
Author :
Garth, Lee ; Vijayan, Rajiv ; Poor, H. Vincent
Author_Institution :
Coord. Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., IL, USA
Abstract :
The nonlinear filter derived by H.V. Poor and R. Vijayan (1988, 1990) is generalized to the case of channels corrupted by impulsive noise. The class of impulsive channels considered includes the Gaussian channel as a special case. The authors exploit the binary nature of the direct-sequence signals to obtain performance using nonlinear filters. A nonlinear modification of the transversal filter, with the coefficients being updated using the least mean square algorithm, is seen to perform significantly better than the standard adaptive linear filter. Further nonlinear modifications of the prediction filters are found for a variety of impulsive channel distribution shapes. It was found that the filters designed for the Gaussian channel perform as well as those tailored to the specific impulsive channels. As a result, the impulsive channels can be approximated by a Gaussian one with no loss in performance
Keywords :
filtering and prediction theory; interference suppression; noise; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication channels; Gaussian channel; impulsive channel distribution shapes; impulsive noise; interference suppression; least mean square algorithm; nonlinear filter; prediction filters; spread-spectrum systems; transversal filter; Adaptive filters; Gaussian channels; Interference suppression; Least mean square algorithms; Least squares approximation; Nonlinear filters; Performance loss; Shape; Spread spectrum communication; Transversal filters;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1991. MILCOM '91, Conference Record, Military Communications in a Changing World., IEEE
Conference_Location :
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-691-8
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1991.258277