A Diffusion Strategy for the Multichannel Active Noise Control System in Distributed Network

This paper introduces a diffusion strategy for the multichannel active noise control. The diffusion strategy is designed to reduce the computational complexity by distributes computations to all nodes of multichannel active noise control system. Thus, the multichannel filtered-x normalized least mean square algorithm, which is the simplest way for real active noise control environments is used as a base algorithm for the diffusion strategy. From the structure of the multichannel active noise control system, the optimal weight vector at a node of the proposed strategy is calculated by considering the weight vector of neighbor nodes. With the proposed strategy, the computational complexity is distributed from one main processor to all nodes. With some simulation results, the performance of the proposed strategy is shown with the reduced computational complexity for one processor.