학술논문

Joint Interference Cancellation and Signal Detection Using Latent Space Representations in VAE
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron. Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 70(1):197-208 Feb, 2024
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Interference
Receivers
Signal detection
Interference cancellation
Symbols
Frequency shift keying
Radio frequency
Two-way consumer radio communication system
signal detection
radio frequency interference cancellation
variational autoencoder (VAE)
Gumbel-softmax distribution
unsupervised deep learning
Language
ISSN
0098-3063
1558-4127
Abstract
Land Mobile Radios (LMRs) are a two-way consumer radio communication system, popularly used for public safety operations. An unintentional strong far-out interfering signal causes the LMR receiver to be overloaded and reduces the gain of the weak desired signal. The conventional non-learning based methods to mitigate the effects of interference require prior knowledge of the interferer or additional filtering components at the RF front-end of the receiver. In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven unsupervised Deep Learning-based approach for joint interference detection, interference cancellation and signal detection of narrowband LMR signals that we refer to as DeepLMR. The DeepLMR uses a Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based framework known as Recovery VAE (Re-VAE), with a Gumbel-Softmax distribution that encodes the input to a lower dimensional representation as the latent space representations. The latent space representations are sampled from a categorical distribution and classified to the corresponding symbols of the transmitted signal. Experimental results with real-world signals distorted by a strong far-out interfering signal showed that our proposed DeepLMR architecture has bit error rate (BER) performance improvements as compared to the conventional frequency discriminator and other state-of-the-art Deep Learning-based architectures.