Spectral Comb Shaping for Single Carrier Communication Signals by Polar Codes
This work addresses interference mitigation in single carrier communication systems, representing an incremental improvement in polar code design for specific spectral shaping.
The paper tackles the problem of separating communication signals from periodic interference by proposing a method to shape the spectrum of polar-coded signals into a comb pattern with periodic nulls, achieving a considerable SNR gain compared to conventional polar codes under AWGN noise.
An approach to selecting information indices for polar codes is proposed to form signals with spectral comb shapes under BPSK modulation, whereby the signal could be separated from periodic interference in spectrum. By confining information indices to an index set termed comb-shaping index set (CIS) proposed in this paper, a spectral comb shape signal is formed, which has periodic nulls and notch bands in its spectrum. Furthermore, we propose a novel construction for polar coding under the CIS constraint. Numerical results are given under periodic interference and AWGN noise, indicating that a considerable signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) gain is accomplished in comparison with conventional polar codes.