A method and system of canceling radio frequency interference (RFI)
sourced from a narrow-band radio frequency transmitter to interfere with
the operation of a multi-carrier modulation system. The spectral
components of the RFI can be represented as a Taylor series of 1/(m-1/2)
where m is an integer and (m-1/2) is a normalized approximate distance
between the frequency of interest and the center frequency of the RFI.
The coefficients of the Taylor series are obtained by solving a set of
linear equations using the Fourier output at several properly chosen
frequencies where the REI components dominate. The coefficients for the
Taylor series are formulated as linear combinations of the FFT output at
the chosen frequencies and are computed and stored beforehand. Simple
multiplications and additions are needed for obtaining the Taylor series
coefficients from the FFT output at the chosen frequencies. The
coefficients of the Taylor series can be obtained for any frequency, and
the spectral component of the RFI can be estimated and removed from the
MCM signals.