The Future Generations of Mobile Communications Based on Broadband Access Methods

The forthcoming mobile communication systems are expected to provide much variety of services from high quality voice to high definition videos through high data rate wireless channels at anywhere in the world. High data rate requires broad frequency bands, and sufficient broadband can be achieved in higher frequency bands such as microwave, Ka-band and millimeter-wave. Broadband wireless channels have to be connected to broadband fixed networks such as the Internet and local area networks. The future generation systems will include not only cellular phones, but also many new types of communication systems such as broadband wireless access systems, millimeter-wave LAN, intelligent transport systems (ITS) and high altitude stratospheric platform station (HAPS) systems. The key words in the future generations of mobile communications are multimedia communications, wireless access to broadband fixed networks and seamless roaming among different systems. This article discusses the future generations mobile communication systems.     

Broadband wireless access

This article reviews the technologies and potential markets, applications, and architectures for broadband wireless access. The emergence of wireless communications for cellular systems is presented, together with its projected future evolution to mobile wideband systems. The field of broadband access systems, services, and network architectures is also covered, and then systems for broadband wireless communications for indoor local area networks and outdoor public fixed access networks are discussed. Broadband wireless access systems are emerging as a new and growing area of telecommunications, since the ability to provide access without extensive installation of copper or fiber infrastructures make wireless technology well suited for broadband services. Finally, some of the key enabling technologies, such as adaptive antennas and video compression, and the future architectural directions of broadband wireless networks are presented     

Broadband fixed wireless access as a key component of the futureintegrated communications environment

It is an exciting time for broadband fixed wireless with key developments in frequency bands from 1 to 60 GHz and a range of new technologies being developed. While working on these new technologies, it is easy to forget that fixed wireless access will form part of an integrated communications environment of the future where users will have one communications device working in the home, at the office, and outdoors. This article predicts the communications environment of the next 20 years and looks at the role of fixed access within that environment. This involves assessing how fixed access systems will interface and integrate with in-home wireless networks, how their architecture will enable multiservice operators to utilize the same core network across a range of different access technologies, and how they will act as a channel to carry mobile traffic originating within the building. Based on the requirements this vision and architecture implies, this article critically assesses the different fixed wireless technologies available to date and compares their capabilities to provide future-proof broadband fixed wireless platforms     

Development of Ka-band 100-W peak power MMPM

Various types of millimeter-wave radio systems are being developed for strong broadband service demands such as fixed wireless access, local multipoint distribution service, as well as satellite communications. In each system, the higher data rate transmission requires more powerful amplification devices. This paper describes the development of a Ka-band 100-W peak power millimeter-wave power module, traveling wave tube-based millimeter-wave amplification module, used for millimeter-wave fixed wireless access base stations and Ka-band satellite Internet terminals.     

OFDMA系统技术实现

在众多的宽带技术中,无线技术尤其是移动通信技术成为近年来通信技术市场的最大亮点,是构成未来通信技术的重要组成部分,当前支持宽带无线接入的WIMAX技术受到了业界的普遍关注,WIMAX技术是基于无线城域网IEEE 802.16标准的宽带无线技术,可以在固定和移动的环境提供高速的数据,语音和视频等业务,具有广阔的应用前景.本文首先介绍OFDMA中的载波分配,然后介绍OFDMA系统的帧格式,最后阐述OFDMA系统的实现方案.     

Editorial - Advanced signal processing for wireless and mobile communications

Wireless and mobile communications have developed rapidly in recent years due to the endless demand for broadband multimedia Internet access and wireless connection anywhere and any time. Several 4G standards have been proposed such as WiMax, LTE and IEEE 802.11n. Signal processing plays a key role in the evolution of wireless and mobile communications. With the emergence of various 4G enabling technologies, advanced signal processing has become ever increasingly important for low complexity, low power and efficient physical implementations of future multimedia communication systems. Multi-antenna, multi-frequency, multi-user and cooperative technologies have emerged as powerful enablers for high date rate and highly reliable broadband communications. To harvest the benefits of these technologies maximally, both excellent opportunities and significant challenges are present in the research of signal processing. The aim of this special issue was to publish some most recent advances in the signal processing aspects of these wireless and mobile communication technologies. Five papers have been selected for the special issue. These papers cover various multi-antenna topics including MIMO detection, spacetime equalization, MIMO channel prediction and estimation, and space-time coding. Some papers also consider cooperative relay communications, OFDM, and multiuser systems.     

WiMAX关键技术及网络结构探讨

WiMAX支持非视距传播条件下的无线宽带接入,它致力于为无线网络提供低时延、高质量的语音和数据服务,正迅速发展并将在无线城域网中扮演重要角色。WiMAX技术因其定位于城域级的无线宽带接入,具有覆盖范围广、传输距离远、传输速率快等优势,在未来的无线宽带移动通信领域将会占有相当重要的主导地位。文中从WiMAX的基本特征、关键技术和网络结构及应用3个维度对WiMAX进行了分析与探讨。     

未来毫米波移动宽带通信系统探析

无线数据业务的爆炸式增长,对无线通信系统的网络容量提出了更高的要求,增加可用频谱资源是满足未来无线通信系统中网络容量需求的重要手段。本文分析对毫米波频带的信道特性、关键技术、链路预算、应用场景等方面进行分析,说明了毫米波频段在移动宽带通信系统中具有广阔的使用前景。     

未来中国4G开放移动通信终端和网络接入架构

This paper relates to an advanced open mobile communication system and method of integrating the mobile communications, wireless access systems and wired communications into one common platform architecture for China＇s 4th generation mobile communications, supporting costeffective broadband voice, data and video services in wireless, mobile and wired environment with one single integrated mobile terminal device. The paper includes new architecture in the integrated mobile device and converged network access, and minimum modification in the existing mobile telecommunication infrastructures. This paper introduces the long-term evolution strategy for China＇s TDD system platform towards China＇s future 4G mobile communications.     

WiMAX应用潜力分析

文章分析了WiMAX在固定宽带无线接入场合和便携、移动通信场合的应用前景.文章认为:在固定宽带无线通信中,WiMAX会广泛应用于家庭用户、IP语音用户、传输承载用户和集团客户,为他们提供宽带无线接入;在便携、移动通信中,IEEE802.16即将集成到笔记本电脑和个人数字助理(PDA)等便携式电子设备中,实现在城域网范围内的可移动的宽带无线数据服务;用户需求加上WiMAX设备的批量上市及终端成本的下降,WiMAX的应用潜力巨大,市场将呈几何级增长.     

Flexible optical wireless links and networks

The worldwide demand for broadband communications is being met in many places by installed single-mode fiber networks. However, there is still a significant "first-mile" problem, which seriously limits the availability of broadband Internet access. Free-space optical wireless communications has emerged as a viable technology for bridging gaps in existing high-data-rate communications networks, and as a temporary backbone for rapidly deployable mobile wireless communication infrastructure. In this article we describe research designed to improve the performance of such networks along terrestrial paths, including the effects of atmospheric turbulence, obscuration, transmitter and receiver design, and topology control.     

Advanced Wireless Access System

The key words for the future telecommunications are personalization, multi-media services and high accessibility to the network. These trends naturally lead to radio media application to access links. In this sense, this paper proposes an advanced wireless access system with a capacity supporting broadband video and data services.Concept of the system can be defined as a new radiocommunication category with advantages of both fixed and mobile systems.The system is designed to transport ATM-based signals using SHF (or EHF) bands to wireless terminals, interconnected with optical fibers at the network side. The basic system configuration is presented as well as examples of system parameters.For radio aspects the maximum service coverages of the radio base stations are calculated based on availability consideration. Preferred frequency bands for actual operation are also discussed.     

Wireless LANs: physical properties of infra-red systems vs. mmwsystems

Interest in wireless indoor communications has been spectacular. As we tend to need relatively broad bandwidths for such communication, the choice of carrier frequency would seem to be between the millimeter-wave/upper microwave bands and infra-red. The authors consider those systems which operate with one cell or multiple cells within a room. Such systems in the longer term must offer speeds compatible with fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) or the integrated broadband communications network (IBCN). Keeping this in mind, the authors look at the capability of systems supporting transmission rates of 100 Mb/s, though of course useful networks can be realized with much lower single user data transfer rates. As with mmw, infrared (IR) radiation is essentially restricted to the room in which it is generated; apart from leakage through windows and doors it will not normally be detected outside a room and should not interfere significantly with similar systems in neighboring offices. However, IR is not suitable for operation in very large rooms. In addition it is seen that mmw offers certain advantages in both large and small rooms     

Green Resource Allocation for Multiple OFDMA Based Networks: A Survey

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) is a popular and widely accepted multiple access technique to provide high data rate services in a mobile environment in the area of wireless communications. OFDMA can provide better flexibility in allocating the radio spectra by utilizing subcarrier allocations, scheduling, and energy control to obtain multi-dimension diversity gains. Due to its resource allocation flexibility, OFDMA has been widely used as a green air interface technology for the emerging broadband wireless access networks. This paper extensively addresses the integration of green OFDMA to the future air interface technologies, for instance:two-tier cellular, multi radio access technologies (RATs), FemtoCell, and relay networks. The main focus of the paper is to review and analyze the current OFDMA techniques to address the green resource allocation in multiuser diversity, where the critical constraints are the computational complexity, energy efficiency, and the sub-channel assignment. The future trend of OFDMA based networks will aim to maximize the energy efficiency of the exclusive channel assignment through a joint sub-channel and power allocation to accommodate high data traffic networks specially the relay based 5G cellular networks.     

Antenna systems for broadband wireless access

Broadband wireless access along with evolving mobile Internet and multimedia services are driving the surge of research and development activities for future wireless communication systems. We provide an overview of antenna systems for broadband wireless communications and introduce some of the important issues surrounding them. The approach we use is to first provide a general framework of how antenna systems may be utilized in wireless communication systems and then describe the antenna systems themselves. In particular, we consider antenna systems for the base station, mobile station, and then finally multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems where antenna systems are utilized at both the base and mobile stations     

MIMO技术的发展

未来无线通信系统需要更高的数据传输速率和更好的服务质量，因此需要系统容量大幅度提高。在有限的无线频谱资源条件下，只有极大地提高频谱利用率才能使系统容量更高。采用多输入多输出（MIMO）天线技术可以满足要求。MIMO技术的主要研究方向包括：MIMO信道、MIM0收发技术、分布式MIM0和MIM0应用。MIM0技术是无线通信领域重大的技术突破，将成为未来无线觅带移动通信系统和无线宽带接入系统的关键技术。     

OFDM技术及在认知无线电中的应用

OFDM技术是一种无线环境下的高速多载波传输技术,抗频率选择性衰落或窄带干扰能力较强,同时又有很高的频谱利用率,适合在多径传播的无线移动信道中传输高速数据。论文分析了OFDM的基本原理,论述了其关键技术及优缺点。OFDM技术将成为未来无线通信中的核心技术,在认知无线电、4G移动通信和无线宽带接入等领域得到广泛的应用。     

从WiMAX到LTE:不同宽带无线接入技术殊途同归

游牧和移动宽带无线接入将成为未来通信市场的重要需求.WiMAX正是针对这一需求而专门发展的,其性能强、效率高、成本低,具有灵活的体制,可通过配置满足各种应用场景的要求.同样,为了进入宽带无线接入市场,3GPP首先发展了被称为3.5G的HSDPA技术(可以大幅度提高分组数据的传输速率),2004年底又决定发展长期演进(LTE)计划,其指标和技术都与WiMAX相近,可以说是殊途同归.面对LTE的竞争,WiMAX要想在宽带无线接入市场中占有一席之地必须拥有好的频率,使用地面电视广播频率可提供大面积覆盖,降低成本.     

Fixed Mobile Convergence Architectures for Broadband Access: Integration of EPON and WiMAX [Topics in Optical Communications]

EPON and WiMAX are two promising broadband access technologies for new-generation wired and wireless access. Their complementary features motivate interest in using EPON as a backhaul to connect multiple dispersed WiMAX base stations. In this article we propose four broadband access architectures to integrate EPON and WiMAX technologies. The integrated architectures can take advantage of the bandwidth benefit of fiber communications, and the mobile and non-line-of-sight features of wireless communications. Based on these integrated architectures, we elaborate on related control and operation issues to address the benefits gained by this integration. Integration of EPON and WiMAX enables fixed mobile convergence, and is expected to significantly reduce overall design and operational costs for new-generation broadband access networks.     

ROF在无线宽带移动通信中的应用

文章从光载无线通信(ROF)的基本原理出发,提出了ROF在未来无线宽带移动通信中的多种应用方式,包括ROF技术在多体制无线接入重载中的应用以及ROF在无线移动网络中实现基站与光网络节点设备的互联等.总结了ROF的技术优势,提出了有待解决的关键技术问题.