Spectrum prediction and interference detection for satellite communications
2020 (English)In: ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEMS 2 / [ed] Otung, I Butash, T Ikegami, T, INST ENGINEERING TECH-IET , 2020, Vol. 95, p. 803-820Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Spectrum monitoring and interference detection are crucial for the satellite service performance and the revenue of SatCom operators. Interference is one of the major causes of service degradation and deficient operational efficiency. Moreover, the satellite spectrum is becoming more crowded, as more satellites are being launched for different applications. This increases the risk of interference, which causes anomalies in the received signal, and mandates the adoption of techniques that can enable the automatic and real-time detection of such anomalies as a first step toward interference mitigation and suppression. In this chapter, we present a machine learning (ML)-based approach which is able to guarantee a real-time and automatic detection of both short-term and long-term interference in the spectrum of the received signal at the base station. The proposed approach can localize the interference both in time and in frequency and is universally applicable across a discrete set of different signal spectra. We present experimental results obtained by applying our method to real spectrum data from the Swedish Space Corporation. We also compare our ML-based approach to a model-based approach applied to the same spectrum data and used as a realistic baseline. Experimental results show that our method is a more reliable interference detector.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
INST ENGINEERING TECH-IET , 2020. Vol. 95, p. 803-820
Series
IET Telecommunications Series
Keywords [en]
long short-term memory, interference detection, spectrum prediction, machine learning, satellite communications
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-336916ISI: 000850516900064OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-336916DiVA, id: diva2:1799227
Conference
37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), OCT 30-NOV 01, 2019, Okinawa, JAPAN
Note
Part of ISBN 978-1-83953-146-0, 978-1-83953-145-3
QC 20230921
2023-09-212023-09-212023-09-21Bibliographically approved