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Spread spectrum communication systems have many advantages, including interference rejection, multiple accessing, multipath suppression, and low probability of intercept. Among all the potential applications, the ability for a spread spectrum system to withstand interferences, both intentional and unintentional, is fairly important. Any practical spread spectrum receiver can only suppress a given amount of interference. If the interference level exceeds some threshold, the system will not function properly. In this case, the interference immunity can be improved significantly by using signal processing techniques which complement the spread spectrum modulation. The goal of this study is to find an effective method to reject various narrowband interferences in direct-sequence spread spectrum systems, including a single-tone interference, an AR model interference, and multiple narrowband interferences. This thesis is aimed at both linear and nonlinear least mean squares adaptive algorithms to reject the narrowband interferences. The simulation results show that the nonlinear LMS filter performs better than linear one in terms of the SNR improvement for both AR model and single-tone interferers. However, the former has slower convergence rate and worse convergence behavior than the latter. Furthermore, both adaptive filters have some limitation on multiple-interference rejection. Therefore, this thesis also presents a wavelet packet analysis to reject multiple interferences located in close frequency bands. Finally, this thesis proposes a time-frequency framework to enhance the interference rejection capability in a direct-sequence spread spectrum system. The principle of the framework is to detect both time and frequence localization characteristics of the interferences before an appropriate time or transform domain processing technique is performed. Incidently, it can overcome a drawback inherented in an adaptive filter to track a weakly correlated spread spectrum signal when there is no interference. This scheme is thus well suited for handing stationary as well as nonstationary interferences.
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