International audienceNoise control and source design require the measurement of sound radiation at lowfrequencies. Anechoic rooms, which are designed for this purpose, allowe cho-free measurements at medium or high frequencyb ut passive wall treatment is less effective at lowf requencya nd in practice no facility provides anechoicity below5 0Hz. This paper discusses the applicability of an active control algorithm which has been previously introduced to minimize the echoes from ascattering object to the cancellation of the lowfrequencywall echoes in an anechoic room including wall-embedded secondary sources. At first the paper discusses, in the general case then for afree half-space as amodel case, the algorithm keywhich consists in estimating the scattered acoustic pressure from total pressure measurements. Boundary Element Method computations are secondly used to simulate estimation and active control of error signals accounting for the low-frequencyscattered pressure in an anechoic room. The simulations showt hat control with af ew dozen microphones and noise sources allows al arge reduction of the noise scattered from the walls at low-frequency
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