System and method for mitigating co-channel interference in white space modems using interference aware techniques

• US 9,949,277 B1
• Filed: 09/11/2017
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd.
• Inventors: Anand, Sudeep Mirpadi, Bhat, Shrinivas Subramania, Saha, Anindya
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzales, April G
• Application Number:
  US15/700,357
• Time in Patent Office: 218 Days
• Field of Search: 455 631
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0023 Interference mitigation or co-ordination direct sequence spread spectrum [DSSS] systems H04B1/7097; frequency hopping H04B1/713; allocation criteria for ingress interference avoidance H04L5/0062; frequency allocation criteria for requirements on out-of-channel emissions H04L5/0066; arrangements for removing intersymbol interference or baseband equalisers H04L25/03006; peak power aspects in multicarrier modulation H04L27/2614; power management H04W52/00; traffic scheduling H04W72/54, H04W72/541
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for mitigating co-channel interference (CCI) in white space (WS) modems. The system includes a base-station that includes a base-station transmitter and a base-station receiver. The base-station receiver receives an OFDM signal from one or more CPE transmitters. An interference detection module detects presence of co-channel interference in carriers of the OFDM signal and determines co-channel interference affected carriers. A dynamic notch filter module (i) receives central interference carriers from interference detection module and (ii) mitigates the co-channel interference of co-channel interference affected carriers without affecting frame detection capability of the system. An interference aware signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation module determines an average signal to noise ratio (SNR) of (i) interference unaffected carriers and (ii) co-channel interference affected carriers. An interference aware de-mapper module processes average signal to noise ratio of (i) interference unaffected carriers and (ii) co-channel interference affected carriers.

Claims

1. A system for mitigating co-channel interference (CCI) caused due to narrow multiband signal in white space (WS) modems, comprising:

a base-station that comprises;

a base-station receiver that receives an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal from one or more customer premises equipment (CPE) transmitters, wherein said base-station receiver comprises;

an interference detection module that detects a presence of said co-channel interference (CCI) in carriers of said OFDM signal and determines co-channel interference affected carriers by identifying central interference carriers corresponding to said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said co-channel interference is represented in said carriers using at least one of (i) a position, (ii) a spread or (iii) an interference power, of said co-channel interference affected carriers; and

a dynamic notch filter module that (i) receives said central interference carriers from said interference detection module and (ii) mitigates said co-channel interference of said co-channel interference affected carriers without affecting frame detection capability of said system by suppressing said interference power of said co-channel interference affected carriers;

an interference aware signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation module that determines an average signal to noise ratio (SNR) of (i) interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers; and

an interference aware de-mapper module that processes said average signal to noise ratio of (i) said interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers to perform optimal interference aware de-mapping of said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said optimal interference aware de-mapping is performed to overcome saturation of data affected by the co-channel interference while using a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) based de-mapping and thus minimizing the possibility of errors in a channel decoding processor module; and

a base-station transmitter that comprises an interference aware mapper module that performs interference aware allocation at higher layers of said base-station transmitter to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers from data allocation to achieve required bit error rate (BER) in said WS modems.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said dynamic notch filter module

converts said position of said co-channel interference affected carriers into baseband frequency values to calculate notch frequencies;

calculates notch filter co-efficient based on said notch frequencies; and

filters said co-channel interference of said co-channel interference affected carriers from an output of analog to digital (A/D) converter based on said notch filter co-efficient.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said interference aware signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation module

receives a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein said plurality of sub-carriers are divided into (i) a plurality of null carriers and (ii) a plurality of sub-channels, wherein each of said plurality of sub-channels comprise (i) a plurality of data carriers and (ii) a plurality of pilot carriers;

calculates (i) a signal power and (ii) a noise power from said plurality of pilot carriers; and

calculates said average signal to noise ratio by dividing difference between said signal power and noise power by said noise power.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said co-channel interference in said OFDM signal is suppressed to provide entire dynamic range of fast fourier transform (FFT) to be available for said OFDM signal.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said interference detection module detects said presence of said co-channel interference in said carriers of said OFDM signal by performing the steps of:

obtaining 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples where 2^N represents FFT block size in said interference detection module;

multiplying said 2^N FFT samples with a complex conjugate of a previous block of said 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples;

normalizing output samples by dividing absolute value of said 2^N FFT samples using a norm of a vector;

accumulating and adding said vector across M blocks of said 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples using a first equation

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said co-channel interference is detected in said carriers when said interference_carrier_positions is not a null set and an interference flag is set to 1, wherein said threshold1 value is determined based on simulations in different channel conditions and is selected such that probability of false detection of said co-channel interference is minimal.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said interference aware de-mapper module

determines said LLR value of bit b[i] using a first equation

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said interference aware mapper module

receives said central interference carriers from said interference detection module to determine said co-channel interference affected carriers;

maps said co-channel interference affected carriers with random values to maintain power spectral density across said OFDM signal, wherein said co-channel interference affected carriers are rejected from data allocation; and

communicates to one or more CPE receivers to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers by setting 1 to said data omission success flag when said interference aware mapping is performed.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein said interference aware mapper module in said base-station

receives said data omission flag from said one or more CPE when an interference amplitude of said co-channel interference affected carriers is greater than a predefined threshold, wherein said data omission flag associated with said OFDM signal comprises an information to indicate said base-station transmitter to hold allocation of said carriers to said one or more CPE;

and

transmits said data omission success flag to said one or more CPE when said data omission flag associated with said OFDM signal is high, wherein said data omission success flag comprises an information that indicates said one or more CPE about holding of allocation of said carriers to said one or more CPE.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said dynamic notch filter module comprises an infinite impulse response (IIR) dynamic notch filter module.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said system further detects and mitigates said co-channel interference of said narrow multiband signal in at least one of (i) frequency division duplex modems or (ii) time division duplex modems.

12. A system for mitigating co-channel interference (CCI) caused due to narrow multiband signal in white space (WS) modems, comprising:

a customer premises equipment (CPE) that comprises;

one or more CPE receivers that receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal from a base-station transmitter, wherein said one or more CPE receivers comprise;

an interference detection module that detects a presence of said co-channel interference (CCI) in carriers of said OFDM signal and determines co-channel interference affected carriers by identifying central interference carriers corresponding to said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said co-channel interference is represented in said carriers using at least one of (i) a position, (ii) a spread or (iii) an interference power, of said co-channel interference affected carriers; and

a dynamic notch filter module that (i) receives said central interference carriers from said interference detection module and (ii) mitigates said co-channel interference of said co-channel interference affected carriers without affecting frame detection capability of said system by suppressing said interference power of said co-channel interference affected carriers;

an interference aware signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation module that determines an average signal to noise ratio (SNR) of (i) interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers;

an interference aware de-mapper module that processes said average signal to noise ratio of (i) said interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers to perform optimal interference aware de-mapping of said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said optimal interference aware de-mapping is performed to overcome saturation of data affected by the co-channel interference while using a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) based de-mapping and thus minimizing the possibility of errors in a channel decoding processor module; and

one or more CPE transmitters that comprise an interference aware mapper module that performs interference aware allocation at higher layers of said one or more CPE transmitters to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers from data allocation to achieve required bit error rate (BER) in said WS modems.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said dynamic notch filter module converts said position of said co-channel interference affected carriers into baseband frequency values to calculate notch frequencies;

calculates notch filter co-efficient based on said notch frequencies; and

filters said co-channel interference of said co-channel interference affected carriers from an output of analog to digital (A/D) converter based on said notch filter co-efficient.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein said interference aware signal to noise (SNR) estimation module

determines (i) said interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference between said carriers of a frame preamble;

determines (i) a first set of long term support (LTS) sequence carriers and a first set of null carriers which are not affected by said co-channel interference and (ii) a second set of long term support (LTS) sequence carriers and a second set of null carriers which are affected by said co-channel interference;

calculates (i) a signal power from at least one of (a) said first set of long training sequence (LTS) sequence carriers or (b) said second set of long training sequence (LTS) sequence carriers and (ii) a noise power from at least one of (a) said first set of null carriers or (b) said second set of null carriers; and

calculates said average signal to noise ratio of at least one of (a) said interference unaffected carriers or (b) said co-channel interference affected carriers by dividing difference between said signal power and said noise power by said noise power.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein said co-channel interference in said OFDM signal is suppressed to provide entire dynamic range of fast fourier transform (FFT) to be available for said OFDM signal.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein said interference detection module detects said presence of said co-channel interference (CCI) in said carriers of said OFDM signal by performing the steps of:

obtaining 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples where 2^N represents FFT block size in said interference detection module;

multiplying said 2^N FFT samples with a complex conjugate of a previous block of said 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples;

normalizing output samples by dividing absolute value of said 2^NFFT samples using a norm of a vector;

accumulating and adding said vector across blocks of said 2^N fast fourier transform (FFT) samples using a first equation

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said co-channel interference is detected in said carriers when said interference_carrier_positions is not a null set and an interference flag is set to 1, wherein said threshold1 value is determined based on simulations in different channel conditions and is selected such that probability of false detection of said co-channel interference is minimal.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein said interference aware de-mapper module

determines said LLR value of bit b[i] using a first equation

19. The system of claim 12, wherein said interference aware mapper module

receives said central interference carriers from said interference detection module to determine said co-channel interference affected carriers;

maps said co-channel interference affected carriers with random values to maintain power spectral density across said OFDM signal, wherein said co-channel interference affected carriers are rejected from data allocation; and

communicates said base-station receiver to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers by setting 1 to said data omission success flag when said interference aware mapping is performed.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein said interference aware mapper module in said one or more CPE

receives said data omission flag at said one or more CPE from a base-station so any interference at base-station affects said data received from said one or more CPE;

and

transmits said data omission success flag from said one or more CPE to said base-station, wherein a value of said data omission success flag is same for said one or more CPE.

21. A method for mitigating co-channel interference (CCI) caused due to narrow multiband signal in white space (WS) modems, comprising:

receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal from at least one of (a) one or more customer premises equipment (CPE) uplink transmitters or (b) a base-station downlink transmitter;

detecting, using an interference detection module, a presence of said co-channel interference (CCI) in carriers of said OFDM signal and determining co-channel interference affected carriers, comprising;

identifying central interference carriers corresponding to said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said co-channel interference is represented in said carriers using at least one of (i) a position, (ii) a spread or (iii) an interference power, of said co-channel interference affected carriers;

receiving, using a dynamic notch filter module, said central interference carriers from said interference detection module;

mitigating, using said dynamic notch filter module, said co-channel interference of said co-channel interference affected carriers without affecting frame detection capability of a system, wherein said mitigating comprises suppressing said interference power of said co-channel interference affected carriers;

determining, using an interference aware signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation module, an average signal to noise ratio (SNR) of (i) interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers;

processing, using an interference aware de-mapper module, said average signal to noise ratio of (i) said interference unaffected carriers and (ii) said co-channel interference affected carriers to perform optimal interference aware de-mapping of said co-channel interference affected carriers, wherein said optimal interference aware de-mapping is performed to overcome saturation of data affected by the co-channel interference while using a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) based de-mapping and thus minimizing the possibility of errors in a channel decoding processor module; and

performing, using an interference aware mapper module, interference aware allocation at higher layers of at least one of (a) said one or more CPE uplink transmitters or (b) said base-station downlink transmitter to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers from data allocation to achieve required bit error rate (BER) in said WS modems.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said determining said average SNR comprising steps of:

receiving a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein said plurality of sub-carriers are divided into (i) a plurality of null carriers and (ii) a plurality of sub-channels, wherein each of said plurality of sub-channels comprise (i) a plurality of data carriers and (ii) a plurality of pilot carriers;

calculating (i) a signal power and (ii) a noise power from said plurality of pilot carriers; and

calculating said average signal to noise ratio by dividing difference between said signal power and noise power by said noise power.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said rejecting said co-channel interference affected carriers comprising steps of:

receiving, using said interference aware mapper module, said central interference carriers from said interference detection module to determine said co-channel interference affected carriers;

mapping, using said interference aware mapper module, said co-central interference affected carriers with random values to maintain power spectral density across said OFDM signal, wherein said co-channel interference affected carriers are rejected from data allocation; and

communicating to anyone of (a) one or more CPE downlink receivers or (b) a base-station uplink receiver to reject said co-channel interference affected carriers by setting 1 to a data omission success flag when said interference aware mapping is performed.