Distributed Active Noise Control Based on an Augmented Diffusion FxLMS Algorithm

Multichannel active noise control (ANC) systems have been widely investigated for low-frequency noise attenuation over a spatial region. Using a conventional centralized control strategy based on the multichannel filtered-x least mean square (FxLMS) algorithm has been demonstrated to be effective for multichannel ANC systems, but the high computational burden restricts its practical applications. Meanwhile, a decentralized control strategy suffers from stability problems although it has been successful in reducing the computational load. Recently, distributed control strategies, such as the multitask diffusion adaptation scheme, have been introduced to ANC systems and shown to mitigate the stability problems in decentralized systems. However, distributed ANC systems using the diffusion FxLMS algorithm require strong symmetry of acoustic paths because of the dependence on node-based adaptation and neighborhood-based combination. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes an Augmented Diffusion FxLMS algorithm with neighborhood-based adaptation and node-based combination. A theoretical formulation and convergence analysis are presented and simulations are performed to compare the proposed algorithm with existing ones under different system configurations for tonal, multi-tonal, narrowband and broadband signals. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has the same noise reduction performance as centralized method even if the acoustic paths are strongly asymmetrical, which is superior over existing distributed multitask diffusion strategy.

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This study proposes an Augmented Diffusion FxLMS algorithm, which can effectively reduce noise under different system configurations. Compared to existing distributed multitask diffusion strategies, the proposed algorithm has better noise suppression performance.