Suppression of adjacent-channel and cochannel FM interference via extended Kalman filtering

Abstract

A method is discussed for the problem of demodulating an FM signal in the presence of an adjacent-channel or cochannel interferer. State-space descriptions of the underlying message processes and the measurement process are presented which are then incorporated in an extended Kalman filter framework. The extended filter was necessary due to the nonlinearity of the measurement equation. The results of computer simulations are presented which demonstrate the system performance for various selections of the modulation index and signal separation. The derived system is contrasted to the previous state of the art in this area which involved maximum likelihood estimation. 5 refs.