BROADBAND INTERFERENCE EXCISION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS BASED ON SHORT-TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMATION
Sultan Aldırmaz, Lütfiye Durak-Ata · Progress In Electromagnetics Research B · 2008
An interference excision algorithm in direct-sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) communication systems is introduced. The proposed excision algorithm is developed for linear frequency modu- lated (LFM) signals that have broadband frequency characteristics. It is based on the time-frequency analysis of received signals employing short-time Fourier transformation (STFT). To analyze the interfer- ence, STFT of the received signal block is evaluated and thresholded. The interference detection is followed by an inverse-STFT computation to estimate the high-power jamming signal. The estimated jammer is then mitigated before demodulation. Simulations present adequate interference estimation results with mean estimation errors less than 0.01%. Various scenarios with different jammer-to-signal ratios (JSRs) and signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) vs. bit error rates (BERs) are pre- sented for single and multi-component LFM signals. Interference exci- sion algorithms improve the system performance more than an order of magnitude.