A Novel Sub-Nyquist Sampling of Sparse Wideband Signals

Abstract

We propose a Sub-Nyquist sampling scheme using only one mixer, one filter bank with M subfilters and M low rate ADCs. Compared to the MWC (Modulated Wideband Converter) system in [1], the proposed sampling system has several complexity advantages. First, due to the use of only one mixer, the hardware complexity for analog circuits is significantly reduced. Moreover, the system only needs one PN sequence and thus the search complexity for the best sequence is greatly reduced. The use of the best sequence enables the proposed system to achieve a smaller mean square error (MSE) between the original and the reconstructed signals than that of the MWC system. Simulation results are provided to show the performance superiority of the proposed system in terms of MSE and recovery percentage.