Compound Interference Recognition for LR-FHSS Satellite IoT Uplinks via Multi-Domain Instance Fusion

H. Xu, B. He, S. Wang, Y. Jiang

Long range-frequency hopping spread spectrum (LR-FHSS) is a promising uplink physical layer for massive low Earth orbit satellite Internet of Things, where low power terminals report short packets from wide area regions with limited terrestrial infrastructure. However, satellite IoT links are exposed to external interference, and the coexistence of multiple interference components can severely degrade receiver reliability and complicate interference mitigation. Existing recognition methods either focus on single interference scenarios or treat each compound interference combination as an independent class, leading to limited generalization or poor scalability. To address this problem, this paper formulates LR-FHSS uplink compound interference recognition as a multi-instance multi-label learning problem and proposes a multi-domain instance fusion method. The proposed method fuses local instances from the time-frequency and frequency domains and aggregates their predictions for bag-level multi-label recognition. A dataset construction pipeline is developed based on the US915 LR-FHSS configuration and incorporates shadowed-Rician fading and time-varying Doppler to emulate practical satellite communication conditions. Considering the difficulty of obtaining labeled compound interference samples in practice, single-to-compound generalization and few-shot compound interference adaptation are investigated as two practical receiver deployment scenarios. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the overall exact accuracy over the strongest baseline by 14.71 percentage points in single-to-compound generalization and by 14.81 percentage points in few-shot compound interference adaptation for $r=1$.