Update December 2024: The likely date for this course at GTRI is February 4-5, 2025.
Update September 2024: This course is postponed until Spring 2025. I’ll post further updates here as they become available.
I’ll be part of a team of researchers and practicing engineers, led by the estimable Dr. Ryan Westafer, that will be teaching a class on radio-frequency interference mitigation in September. The class is hosted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and will be held on the Georgia Tech campus on September 10-11, 2024.
The course will cover a wide variety of technical topics relating to interference mitigation, including sources of interference, antenna design, filter design, interference sensing, signal separation, and overall interference-mitigation system design.
I’ll be talking about–of course–interference sensing with CSP. If you’ve got cochannel interference, you can employ highly sophisticated signal-processing algorithms to remove the interference and preserve the signal, but those algorithms have to be initialized with the basic parameters of the involved signals. In other words, how many cochannel signals are present and what are their parameters and types? So that’s a modulation-recognition application. Unlike some other such applications of CSP, here our work is a prelude to a more difficult task rather than an end in itself. So I’ll be talking about things like the scenario in Figure 1.
There are some restrictions on who can attend, and it costs a bit of money to take the course, but you’ll learn a lot! For full information, see the GTRI PE link.
Also, if you can’t take the course, but you’re nearby George Tech those days, maybe we can meet for a coffee.
