For direct sequence spread spectrum （DSSS） receivers, the capability of rejecting narrow-band interference can be significantly improved by a process of frequency-domain interference suppression （FDIS）. The key is...For direct sequence spread spectrum （DSSS） receivers, the capability of rejecting narrow-band interference can be significantly improved by a process of frequency-domain interference suppression （FDIS）. The key issue of this process is how to determine a threshold to eliminate interference in the frequency domain, which has been extensively studied. However, these previous methods are tedious or very complex. A simple and ef- ficient algorithm based on medians is proposed. The elimination threshold is only related to the median by a scale factor, which can be obtained by the numerical analysis. Simulation results show that the algorithm provides excellent narrow-band interfer- ence suppression while only slightly degrading the signal-to-noise ratio （SNR）. A one-pass algorithm using logarithmic segmentation is further derived to estimate medians with low computational complexity. Finally, the FDIS is implemented in a field programmable gate array （FPGA） of Xilinx. Experiments are carried out by connecting the FDIS FPGA to a DSSS receiver, and the results show that the receiver has an effective countermeasure for a 60 dB interference-to-signal ratio （ISR）.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60904090)
文摘For direct sequence spread spectrum （DSSS） receivers, the capability of rejecting narrow-band interference can be significantly improved by a process of frequency-domain interference suppression （FDIS）. The key issue of this process is how to determine a threshold to eliminate interference in the frequency domain, which has been extensively studied. However, these previous methods are tedious or very complex. A simple and ef- ficient algorithm based on medians is proposed. The elimination threshold is only related to the median by a scale factor, which can be obtained by the numerical analysis. Simulation results show that the algorithm provides excellent narrow-band interfer- ence suppression while only slightly degrading the signal-to-noise ratio （SNR）. A one-pass algorithm using logarithmic segmentation is further derived to estimate medians with low computational complexity. Finally, the FDIS is implemented in a field programmable gate array （FPGA） of Xilinx. Experiments are carried out by connecting the FDIS FPGA to a DSSS receiver, and the results show that the receiver has an effective countermeasure for a 60 dB interference-to-signal ratio （ISR）.
