IMPROVING INTERFERENCE IMMUNITY OF SPATIAL
EVENT DETECTION SYSTEMUSING ARRAY ANTENNA
Hiroyuki TSUJI, Miho KOSHIKAWA and Mikio SUZUKI
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 4-2-1 Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
{tsuji, miho-koshikawa, suzuki.mikio}@nict.go.jp
Keywords: Event detection: Array antenna: Cyclostationarity: Signal subspace: MAC: Career sense.
Abstract: This paper proposes new techniques for improving the co-channel interference immunity of the event
detection system which realizes indoor event detection scheme. Similar to the conventional methods the
signal subspace-based approach sometimes suffers from interference in the same frequency band because
the interference signals with different incident angles affect the signal subspace of the received signals at the
receiving array antenna. Two types of new event detection methods are proposed to realize immunity
against noise and interference in this paper. The first method proposed in this paper exploits the
cyclostationarity of communication signals to distinguish the desired signal from the interference and
suppresses noise and interfering signals without major hardware design changes. Another approach that
improves immunity against co-channel interference is to utilize the transmission control scheme used for
personal area network systems. In the proposed method of the study, carrier sense multiple access with
collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) technique is utilized to distinguish the desired signal from the other
transmitted signals. As a result of the detection of the presence of signals from other stations, the proposed
system can avoid the transmitted interference signals from other systems. We are also developing an
evaluation equipment to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
1 INTRODUCTION
We have been developing a new indoor event
detection system which can detect events such as
home or office intrusion by using signal subspace
spanned by an eigenvector obtained by an array
antenna, and delivers superior performance
compared with conventional event detection
methods based on received signal strengths (RSS)
(Ikeda, Tsuji, and Ohtsuki, 2009)(Tsuji, Koshikawa,
and Suzuki, 2011). Similar to the conventional
methods, however, the signal subspace-based
approach sometimes suffers from interference in the
same frequency band because the interference
signals with different incident angles affect the
signal subspace of the received signals at the
receiving array antenna. In this paper two types of
new event detection methods are proposed to realize
immunity against noise and interference of the event
detection system, which realizes indoor event
detection scheme by exploiting the cyclostationarity
of the desired signal or the medium access control
scheme defined in IEEE standard 802.15.4. The first
method proposed in this paper exploits the
cyclostationarity of communication signals to
distinguish the desired signal from the interference
that impinges on an array antenna and suppresses
noise and interfering signals without major hardware
design changes (Gardner, 1994)(Gardner, 1988).
Another approach that improves immunity against
co-channel interference is to utilize the transmission
control scheme based on an IEEE 802 standard for
personal area networks. Generally in the personal
area networks the medium access control (MAC)
enables the transmission of MAC frames through the
use of the physical channel which is shared with
other wireless systems. In the proposed method of
the study, carrier sense multiple access with
collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) technique, which
realizes a wireless network multiple access method,
is utilized to distinguish the desired signal from the
other transmitted signals. As a result of the detection
of the presence of signals from other stations, the
proposed system can avoid the transmitted signals
(interference) from other systems. We are also
developing an evaluation equipment to confirm the
effectiveness of MAC - based approach. In this
paper, we first introduce the basic idea of the event.