Advanced Synthesis Techniques for Microwave Filters

With the advent of the ‘digital revolution’ that has made possible services such as the world wide web, satellite broadcasting and mobile and trunk telephony, the finite RF spectrum allocated for terrestrial and satellite telecommunication systems is becoming increasingly crowded. This has impacted significantly upon the performance required from the microwave equipment that comprises these systems. In the case of microwave filters, greater in-band linearity to avoid signal distortion and out-of-band isolation to suppress interference are routinely specified, which can only be satisfied by advanced filtering characteristics. This article presents the coupling matrix approach to the synthesis of prototype filter networks, enabling the realization of the hardware embodying the enhanced performance needed by today’s high capacity systems.

Synthesis and Design of 5G Duplexer Based on Optimization Method

A new optimization method is proposed to realize the synthesis of duplexers.The traditional optimization method takes all the variables of the duplexer into account,resulting in too many variables to be optimized when the order of the duplexer is too high,so it is not easy to fall into the local solution.In order to solve this problem,a new optimization strategy is proposed in this paper,that is,two-channel filters are optimized separately,which can reduce the number of optimization variables and greatly reduce the probability of results falling into local solutions.The optimization method combines the self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm(SADE)with the Levenberg-Marquardt(LM)algorithm to get a global solution more easily and accelerate the optimization speed.To verify its practical value,we design a 5 G duplexer based on the proposed method.The duplexer has a large external coupling,and how to achieve a feed structure with a large coupling bandwidth at the source is also discussed.The experimental results show that the proposed optimization method can realize the synthesis of higher-order duplexers compared with the traditional methods.

A subband excitation substitute based scheme for narrowband speech watermarking

We propose a new narrowband speech watermarking scheme by replacing part of the speech with a scaled and spectrally shaped hidden signal. Theoretically, it is proved that if a small amount of host speech is modified, then not only an ideal channel model for hidden communication can be established, but also high imperceptibility and good intelligibility can be achieved. Furthermore, a practical system implementation is proposed. At the embedder, the power normalization criterion is first imposed on a passband watermark signal by forcing its power level to be the same as the original passband excitation of the cover speech, and a synthesis filter is then used to spectrally shape the scaled watermark signal. At the extractor, a bandpass filter is first used to get rid of the out-of-band signal, and an analysis filter is then employed to compensate for the distortion introduced by the synthesis filter. Experimental results show that the data rate is as high as 400 bits/s with better bandwidth efficiency, and good imperceptibility is achieved. Moreover, this method is robust against various attacks existing in real applications.