Multiple carrier adaptive notch filter
First Claim
1. A method of detecting narrowband interference in a first wideband communication signal having a frequency bandwidth with narrowband channels disposed therein, the method comprising:
- scanning at least some of the narrowband channels to determine signal strengths in at least some of the narrowband channels;
weighting a signal strength of at least one of the narrowband channels by a first weight to get a first weighted signal strength;
determining a threshold based on a statistical combination of the signal strengths of more than one of the narrowband channels including the first weighted signal strength; and
identifying the narrowband channels having signal strengths exceeding the threshold.
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Abstract
A multiple carrier adaptive notch filter (ANF) module selectively filters a received wideband communication signal to eliminate narrowband interference that lies within the frequency spectrum of the wideband communication signal. To determine the presence of narrowband interference, the multiple carrier ANF module scans various known narrowband channels that lie within the frequency spectrum of the wideband communication signal and determines signal strengths for each of the narrowband channels. The signal strengths from the narrowband channels are compared to a threshold that is derived from a statistical combination of the narrowband signal strengths. Narrowband channels having signal strengths that are greater than the threshold are determined to have interference.
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53 Claims
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1. A method of detecting narrowband interference in a first wideband communication signal having a frequency bandwidth with narrowband channels disposed therein, the method comprising:
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scanning at least some of the narrowband channels to determine signal strengths in at least some of the narrowband channels;
weighting a signal strength of at least one of the narrowband channels by a first weight to get a first weighted signal strength;
determining a threshold based on a statistical combination of the signal strengths of more than one of the narrowband channels including the first weighted signal strength; and
identifying the narrowband channels having signal strengths exceeding the threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system adapted to detect narrowband interference in a first wideband communication signal having a frequency bandwidth with narrowband channels disposed therein, the system comprising:
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a scanner adapted to scan at least some of the narrowband channels to determine signal strengths in at least some of the narrowband channels;
a controller coupled to the scanner, and adapted to control the scanner to scan at least some of the narrowband channels to determine signal strengths in at least some of the narrowband channels, to weight signal strength of at least one of the narrowband channels by a first weight to get a first weighted signal strength, to determine a threshold based on a statistical combination of the signal strengths of more than one of the narrowband channels including the first weighted signal strength, and to identify the narrowband channels having signal strengths exceeding the threshold. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method for detecting narrowband interference in a multicarrier communication signal including a plurality of carriers, wherein each carrier has a plurality of narrowband channels disposed therein, the method comprising:
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scanning a number of narrowband channels associated with a selected carrier of the plurality of carriers to determine signal strengths for the number of scanned narrowband channels within the selected carrier;
identifying a number of narrowband channels having the largest signal strengths within a bandwidth of the multicarrier communication signal;
determining a number of narrowband channels identified as having the largest signal strengths within the bandwidth of the multicarrier communication signal that lie within a bandwidth of the selected carrier;
determining a weighted sum of the signal strengths of the narrowband channels associated with the selected carrier, the weighted sum not including the signal strengths of the number of narrowband channels having the largest signal strengths that lie with the bandwidth of the selected carrier;
determining a threshold for the selected carrier by dividing the weighted sum by a difference between the number of narrowband channels scanned within the selected carrier and the number of narrowband channels having the largest signal strengths that lie within the bandwidth of the selected carrier and adding an offset thereto;
comparing to the threshold the signal strengths for each narrowband channel scanned within the selected carrier; and
indicating that narrowband channels having signal strengths exceeding the threshold include interference. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A method for detecting narrowband interference in a multicarrier communication signal including a plurality of carriers, wherein each carrier has a plurality of narrowband channels disposed therein, the method comprising:
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scanning a number of narrowband channels associated with a selected carrier of the plurality of carriers to determine signal strengths for the number of scanned narrowband channels associated with the selected carrier;
identifying a number of narrowband channels having the largest signal strengths within a bandwidth of the selected carrier;
determining a weighted sum of the signal strengths of the number of narrowband channels associated with the selected carrier;
determining a threshold for the selected carrier by dividing the weighted sum by the difference between the number of narrowband channels associated with the selected carrier signal and the number of narrowband channels having the largest signal strength within a bandwidth of the selected carrier;
comparing to the threshold the signal strengths for the number of narrowband channel scanned within the selected carrier; and
indicating that narrowband channels having signal strengths exceeding the threshold include interference. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53)
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