Model-Driven Deep Learning Method for Jammer Suppression in Massive Connectivity Systems

We present a method for separating collided signals from multiple users in the presence of strong and wideband interference/jamming signal. More specifically, we consider a massive connectivity setup where few, out of a large number of users, equipped with spreading codes, synchronously transmit symbols. The received signal is a noisy mixture of symbols transmitted through users' flat fading channels, impaired by fast frequency hopping jamming signal of relatively large power. In the absence of any conventional technique suitable for the considered setup, we propose a "model-driven" deep learning method, based on convolution neural network, to suppress jamming signal from the received signal, and detect active users together with their transmitted symbols. A numerical study of the proposed method confirms its effectiveness in scenarios where classical techniques fail. As such, in a two user scenario with wideband jamming signal of power $20$ dB above the power any active user, the proposed algorithm achieves error rates $10^{-2}$ for a wide range of AWGN variances.