Extension of the impulsiveness correction factor for several modulation schemes and various interfering signals for interference control in dynamic wireless applications

The impulsiveness correction factor (ICF) has earlier been proposed as a simple measure for estimating the effect from pulsed interference on binary phase shift keying modulated digital radio systems. The advantage is that with the ICF, large errors introduced by the additive white Gaussian noise interference approximation can be reduced significantly, whereas the simplicity in interference analyses can be maintained. In this study, the ICF is further developed for other modulation schemes, such as M-phase shift keying and M-quadrature amplitude modulation and for a larger set of interference types. The results show that for one pulsed interference signal the ICF is suitable for all investigated modulation schemes. If the interference is a mixture of modulated and pulsed signals or several pulsed signals the authors suggest and evaluate ways to extend the ICF.