AbsfracfThis paper presents the results of average and impulsive noise measurements inside several office buildings and retail stores. The noise measurement system operated at 918 MHz, 2.44 GHz, and 4 GHz with a nominal 40 MHz 3 dB RF bandwidth. Omnidirectional and directional antennas were used to investigate the characteristics and sources of RF noise in indoor channels. Statistical analyses ...

Broadband frequency-selective fading channels usually have the inherent sparse nature. By exploiting the sparsity, adaptive sparse channel estimation (ASCE) methods, e.g., reweighted L1-norm least mean square (RL1-LMS), could bring a performance gain if additive noise satisfying Gaussian assumption. In real communication environments, however, channel estimation performance is often deteriorate...

Robust time delay estimation is necessary for many microphone array applications. Reverberant echoes and background noise can corrupt the estimates. Typically the signals and noise are modeled as Gaussian random processes and second moment information is used for time delay estimation. However, many signals are impulsive and should be modeledusing alpha-stable distributions. Because ofthis impu...

The use of frequency-shift (FRESH) filtering for the rejection of adjacent channel interference (ACI) in GMSK modulated VLF communications is investigated in the presence of impulsive noise. The effects of such filtering in conjunction with a simple “hole-punching” technique for removing impulses from the signal are characterised. A range of realistic scenarios based on a high powered GMSK inte...

In this paper, experimental results on impulsive synchronization of two kinds of chaotic circuits; namely, Chua’s oscillator and a hyperchaotic circuit, are presented. To impulsively synchronize two Chua’s oscillators, synchronization impulses sampled from one state variable of the driving circuit are transmitted to the driven circuit. To impulsively synchronize two hyperchaotic circuits, synch...

In this paper we address the problem of sound source localization in the presence of impulsive noise for application in immersive telepresence and teleconferencing. Traditional Gaussian modeling of noise signals fails when the signals exhibit impulsive behavior. A new model is used, namely the Symmetric a-Stable (SaS), which can better account for the outliers that exist in real-world signals. ...