Primary user detection
View Patent ↗A low complexity primary user detection system is disclosed. Signals are filtered to reduce the number of signals that must be processed. Width and PRI of the signals are used to match a constellation associated with a primary user. If the constellation is matched, communication parameters are adjusted to make way for the primary user.
1. A system comprising:
an information gathering engine;
a filtering engine coupled to the information gathering engine;
a constellation matching engine coupled to the information gathering engine;
wherein, in operation,
the information gathering engine receives wireless input and obtains information from the wireless input that facilitates low complexity identification of primary user signals;
the filtering engine uses the information to eliminate some pulses from further processing to identify primary user signals, leaving filtered pulses for further processing;
the constellation matching engine processes filtered pulses by mapping width and pulse repetition interval (PRI) associated with the filtered pulses to a constellation, wherein when the width and PRI are within constellation parameters attributable to primary user signals, a communication parameter adjustment control signal is sent to a radio frequency (RF) controller to change the communication parameters of a radio associated with the RF controller.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: an interrupt generation engine coupled to the filtering engine and the constellation mapping engine, wherein, in operation, when a number of filtered pulses reaches a filtered pulse number threshold, the interrupt generation engine generates an interrupt to trigger the constellation matching engine to process the filtered pulses.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information gathering engine can detect pulses.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the information gathering engine is frequency variation sensitive.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the filtering engine includes an energy filter.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the energy filter includes a CIC filter.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the filtering engine includes a duration filter.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the filtering engine includes a packet filter.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a pulse datastore coupled to the filtering engine, wherein, in operation, the filtering engine stores filtered pulses in the pulse datastore for use by the constellation matching engine.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
an antenna;
an RF chain coupled to the antenna;
an A/D converter coupled to the RF chain and the information gathering engine;
a signal processing subsystem coupled to the A/D converter;
wherein, in operation:
the antenna receives wireless input;
the RF chain downconverts the wireless input;
the A/D converter converts the downconverted wireless input to wireless digital input;
the information gathering obtains information from the wireless digital input;
the signal processing subsystem processes at least some of the wireless digital input to obtain data bits.
11. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a candidate channel identification engine, wherein, in operation, the candidate channel identification engine identifies a channel to which the radio can switch in accordance with the communication parameter control signal.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the radio is capable of dynamic frequency selection (DFS), and wherein, in operation, the communication parameter control signal is associated with DFS.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the radio is capable of transmit power control (TPC), and wherein, in operation, the communication parameter control signal is associated with TPC.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the primary user signals include radar signals.