Distributed combined acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction using GEVD-based distributed adaptive node specific signal estimation with prior knowledge

Distributed combined acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and noise reduction (NR) in a wireless acoustic sensor network (WASN) is tackled by using a specific version of the PK-GEVD-DANSE algorithm (cfr. [1]). Although this algorithm was initially developed for distributed NR with partial prior knowledge of the desired speech steering vector, it is shown that it can also be used for AEC combined with NR. Simulations have been carried out using centralized and distributed batch-mode implementations to verify the performance of the algorithm in terms of AEC quantified with the echo return loss enhancement (ERLE), as well as in terms of the NR quantified with the signal- to-noise ratio (SNR).