A novel M-ary modulation technique based on optimal chirp signal design

A novel M-ary chirp modulation technique based on an optimal chirp signal design is proposed in this paper to offer higher data rate for an indoor wireless chirp spread spectrum communication system. Both linear chirp signals and combined chirp signals are used in this system to reduce the effect of the cross correlation, and simplify the complexity of the system. The optimal scheme of de- signing both linear chirp signals and combined chirp signals is discussed to minimize the value of the cross correlation and obtain a better system performance. Simulation results show that, compared with the binary orthogonal chirp modulation technique, the M-ary chirp modulation technique based on an optimal chirp signal set has a higher data rate with a reasonable bit-error rate （BER） perform- ance under both additive white gaussian noise （AWGN） channel and indoor wireless channel.

Identification of the Hammerstein nonlinear system with noisy output measurements

In this research, we present a methodology to identify the Hammerstein nonlinear system with noisy output measurements. The Hammerstein system presented is comprised of neural fuzzy model (NFM) as its static nonlinear block and auto-regressive with extra input (ARX) model as its dynamic linear block, and a two-step procedure is accomplished using signal combination. In the first step, in the case of input–output of Gaussian signals, the correlation function-based least squares (CF-LS) technique is utilized to identify the linear block, solving the problem that the intermediate variable connecting nonlinear and linear blocks cannot be measured. In the second step, to improve the identification accuracy of the nonlinear block parameters, an improved particle swarm optimization technique is developed under input–output of random signals. The validity and accuracy of the presented scheme are verified by a numerical simulation and a practical nonlinear process, and the results illustrate that the proposed methodology can identify well the Hammerstein nonlinear system with noisy output measurements.

An approach for parameter estimation of combined CPPM and LFM radar signal

In this paper, the problem of parameter estimation of the combined radar signal adopting chaotic pulse position modulation （CPPM） and linear frequency modulation （LFM）, which can be widely used in electronic countermeasures, is addressed. An approach is proposed to estimate the initial frequency and chirp rate of the combined signal by exploiting the second-order cyclostationarity of the intra-pulse signal. In addition, under the condition of the equal pulse width, the pulse repetition interval （PRI） of the combined signal is predicted using the low-order Volterra adaptive filter. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed cyclic autocorrelation Hough transform （CHT） algorithm is theoretically tolerant to additive white Gaussian noise. When the value of signal noise to ratio （SNR） is less than 4 dB, it can still estimate the intra-pulse parameters well. When SNR = 3 dB, a good prediction of the PRI sequence can be achieved by the Volterra adaptive filter algorithm, even only 100 training samples.

A combined signal processing approach against coherent interference with pressure and particle velocity

Comparing with traditional underwater acoustic system which only utilizes pressure information, combine sensor system processes pressure together with particle velocity information of sound field. More information certainly brings nicer processing result. By using spatial directional information collected by combine sensor, the Coherent Interference Energy Suppress (CIES) technology, which can effectively suppress coherent interference and detect linear spectrum signal and wide-band continuous-spectrum signal as well, is presented. Current research has shown favorite result, and further research is going on.