Co-channel Interference Mitigation for Robust Coexistence of Frequency Hopped Networks; Final rept. 15 Aug 2005-30 Sep 2006

摘要

To meet the military's increased need for rapidly deployable communication solutions, wireless networks are becoming increasingly common within tactical environments. Frequency hopping (FH) is widely used for radio transmission in such networks due to its low probability of detection/interception. With the increasing deployment, multiple networks occupying overlapping frequency bands are likely to coexist in a physical environment, especially in tactical operations, emergency situations, or dense-populated areas. Consequently co-channel interference due to frequency collisions can become a major performance limiting factor. In this project, we developed a novel interference mitigation technique based on multidimensional frequency estimation coupled with the expectation-maximization principle, which effectively resolves collisions among non-collaborative networks, thus enabling robust coexistence of multiple FH networks. To deal with possible receiver-transmitter mismatch, we also designed a low-complexity model order variation detection method. Novel multidimensional frequency estimation algorithms are also investigated.