Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (8): 2841-2849.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2024.08.31

• Communications and Networks • Previous Articles    

Iterative impulsive noise mitigation and channel estimation method for OFDM system

Gang TAN1,2, Shefeng YAN1,2,*, Zihao YE1,2, Jirui YANG1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Information Technology for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2. School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2023-08-24 Online:2024-07-25 Published:2024-08-07
  • Contact: Shefeng YAN

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem that impulsive noise deteriorates the bit error rate performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) underwater acoustic communication system, an iterative impulsive noise mitigation and channel estimation method is proposed. Firstly, the symmetric alpha stable (SαS) distribution is introduced to model underwater noise and validated by fitting the measured noise data. Secondly, based on the large amplitude property of the impulsive noise, impulsive noise detection and mitigation are respectively performed on the real and imaginary parts of the received baseband signal by Chebyshev inequality. And through analyzing the statistical characteristics of estimation error of the least squares (LS) channel estimation algorithm, an adaptive threshold LS channel estimation algorithm is proposed to reduce the impact of residual noise. Finally, combining the estimated channel and decoding results to reconstruct noise and estimate impulsive noise, the impulsive noise mitigation and channel estimation are iteratively performed. Simulation results demonstrate that under different levels of impulsive noise and measured noise, the proposed method can effectively suppress impulsive noise and significantly reduce the bit error rate of OFDM system.

Key words: underwater acoustic communication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), impulsive noise, channel estimation, iterative estimation

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