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The Korean Institute of Commucations and Information Sciences (한국통신학회)
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Adaptive Mitigation of Narrowband Interference in Impulse Radio UWB Systems Using Time-Hopping Sequence Design

  • Khedr, Mohamed E. (Department of electronics and communications Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport) ;
  • El-Helw, Amr (Department of electronics and communications Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport) ;
  • Afifi, Mohamed Hossam (Department of electronics and communications Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport)
  • Received : 2013.06.21
  • Published : 2015.12.31
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Abstract

The coexistence among different systems is a major problem in communications. Mutual interference between different systems should be analyzed and mitigated before their deployment. The paper focuses on two aspects that have an impact on the system performance. First, the coexistence analysis, i.e. evaluating the mutual interference. Second aspect is the coexistence techniques, i.e. appropriate system modifications that guarantee the simultaneous use of the spectrum by different technologies. In particular, the coexistence problem is analyzed between ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) and narrow bandwidth (NB) systems emphasizing the role of spectrum sensing to identify and classify the NB interferers that mostly affect the performance of UWB system. A direct sequence (DS)-time hopping (TH) code design technique is used to mitigate the identified NB interference. Due to the severe effect of Narrowband Interference on UWB communications, we propose an UWB transceiver that utilizes spectrum-sensing techniques together with mitigation techniques. The proposed transceiver improves both the UWB and NB systems performance by adaptively reducing the mutual interference. Detection and avoidance method is used where spectrum is sensed every time duration to detect the NB interferer's frequency location and power avoiding it's effect by using the appropriate mitigation technique. Two scenarios are presented to identify, classify, and mitigate NB interferers.

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