Signal processing method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9813092-B2
Application number	US-201615261289-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2016
Priority date	Mar 11, 2014
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

A signal processing method and apparatus are disclosed. The signal processing method includes: receiving, by a first signal processing apparatus, a mixed signal; acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, an energy strength ratio of the mixed signal, where the energy strength ratio includes a ratio of energy strength of a signal sent by a first signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus to energy strength of a signal sent by a second signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus; and if the energy strength ratio is less than a first preset threshold, using, by the first signal processing apparatus, the signal sent by the second signal source in the mixed signal as an interference signal and separating the interference signal, and determining that a mixed signal obtained after the separation processing is the desired signal sent by the first signal source.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal processing method, comprising:
receiving, by a first signal processing apparatus, a mixed signal;
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, an energy strength ratio according to the mixed signal, wherein the energy strength ratio comprises a ratio of energy strength of a signal sent by a first signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus to energy strength of a signal sent by a second signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus;
in response to determining that the energy strength ratio is less than a first preset threshold, using, by the first signal processing apparatus, the signal sent by the second signal source as an interference signal, and separating the interference signal from the mixed signal; and
determining that a signal obtained after separating the interference signal from the mixed signal is a desired signal sent by the first signal source;
wherein the acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, the energy strength ratio according to the mixed signal comprises:
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, energy strength of the mixed signal;
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, an isolation of the first signal processing apparatus relative to a second signal processing apparatus, wherein the second signal processing apparatus is a processing apparatus that acquires a desired signal sent by the second signal source;
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, energy strength of a desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, wherein the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source is a signal obtained after coding and modulation processing is performed on the desired signal sent by the second signal source;
calculating, by the first signal processing apparatus according to the energy strength of the mixed signal, the isolation, and the energy strength of the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, the energy strength of the signal sent by the first signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus and the energy strength of the signal sent by the second signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus; and
calculating, by the first signal processing apparatus, the ratio of the energy strength of the signal sent by the first signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus to the energy strength of the signal sent by the second signal source and received by the first signal processing apparatus.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the using, by the first signal processing apparatus, the signal sent by the second signal source in the mixed signal as the interference signal and separating the interference signal from the mixed signal comprises:
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, a desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source;
performing, by the first signal processing apparatus, interference reconstruction on the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, to obtain the interference signal sent by the second signal source; and
recognizing, by the first signal processing apparatus, a signal that is the same as the interference signal sent by the second signal source and that is in the mixed signal as the signal sent by the second signal source, and using the signal sent by the second signal source in the mixed signal as the interference signal and separating the interference signal.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the performing, by the first signal processing apparatus, the interference reconstruction on the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, to obtain the interference signal sent by the second signal source comprises:
processing, by the first signal processing apparatus by using a preset interference channel reconstruction algorithm, the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, to obtain a reconstructed interference signal; and
processing, by the first signal processing apparatus, the reconstructed interference signal by using a preset phase tracking algorithm, so as to remove phase noise from the reconstructed interference signal and obtain the interference signal sent by the second signal source.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein before the acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source, the method further comprises:
acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, a bit error rate of a desired signal sent by the second signal source; and
in response to determining that the bit error rate is less than a second preset threshold, acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the acquiring, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired reference signal corresponding to the second signal source comprises:
receiving, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired reference signal sent by a second signal processing apparatus and corresponding to the second signal source.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein after the determining, by the first signal processing apparatus, that the mixed signal obtained after separating the interference signal from the mixed signal is the desired signal sent by the first signal source, the method further comprises:
performing, by the first signal processing apparatus, coding and modulation on the desired signal sent by the first signal source, to obtain a desired reference signal corresponding to the first signal source; and
sending, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired reference signal corresponding to the first signal source to the second signal processing apparatus, so that the second signal processing apparatus performs interference reconstruction on the desired reference signal corresponding to the first signal source, to obtain an interference signal sent by the first signal source, and the second signal processing apparatus separates, from a mixed signal received by the second signal processing apparatus, a signal the same as the interference signal sent by the first signal source.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
performing, by the first signal processing apparatus, channel equalization processing on the desired signal sent by the first signal source, so as to cancel intersymbol interference in the desired signal sent by the first signal source;
adjusting, by the first signal processing apparatus, a phase deviation of the desired signal obtained after the channel equalization processing and sent by the first signal source, to obtain a desired signal after phase adjustment;
comparing, by the first signal processing apparatus, the desired signal obtained after the phase adjustment with a signal of a standard constellation diagram, converting the desired signal obtained after the phase adjustment into preset multi-level modulation data, and outputting an error signal between the desired signal obtained after the phase adjustment and the signal of the standard constellation diagram;
updating, by the first signal processing apparatus, a channel equalization coefficient according to the error signal, and performing, according to the updated channel equalization coefficient, channel equalization processing on the desired signal sent by the first signal source, to reduce an error between the desired signal obtained after the phase adjustment and the signal of the standard constellation diagram; and
determining, by the first signal processing app

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cai Meng
• Li Kun
• Jiang Hongli
• Liu Yu

Classifications

• H04B7/04

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  assessing signal quality or detecting noise/interference for the received signal · CPC title

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