Process Noise Parameters of Beamforming Green Nodes

Signals arrive out of phase at the intended receiver from collaborative beamforming (CB) nodes due to the instability in the output frequency signals of the universal software radio peripheral's (USRP) local oscillator (LO). These nodes including the target must synchronize their oscillator frequencies for coherent signal reception. In order to do this, frequencies and phases of the signals should be estimated in software defined radio (SDR) and smoothen with nonlinear filters such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF). The process noise parameters of the NI USRP-2920 nodes will have to be calculated and used with the EKF process noise covariance matrix. These nodes are green communication hardware devices where most of the hardware units are now software defined. This article uses the direct spectrum method to obtain the phase noise values at various frequency offsets of the NI USRP-2920 in order to calculate the power spectral density of fractional frequency fluctuation. By applying the power-law noise model to this obtained value, the generated white frequency noise and random walk frequency noise values are q1=1.9310-21 and q2=5.8610-18, respectively.     

多载波基带信号相参时差估计算法与分析

时差估计精度与信号在频域上的分布情况以及信号能量和噪声有关。多载波信号的频率信息和能量在频域上分布区间大,通过多载波信号的相参积累,可以有效利用信号在整个区间内的频域信息和能量来提高时差参数的估计精度,克服单载波信号带宽窄能量低导致的时差估计精度不高的问题.本文针对多载波基带信号的时差估计问题,在单载波基带信号互相关函数分析的基础上,推导了多载波基带信号互相关函数,并分析了其相位关系,通过相位补偿实现了多载波基带信号互相关函数的相参积累,并理论分析了多载波信号时差参数估计性能与信号各参数的关系。蒙特卡洛仿真表明,提出的多载波基带信号相参时差估计算法性能明显优于单载波信号的估计性能,性能改善情况与理论分析一致。      

Carrier frequency offsets estimation for distributed MIMO system based on SOMP method

By utilizing the half invariant property of high-order cyclic cumulants,the equation of signals and its high-order cyclic cumulants was rederivated first.Then simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (SOMP) method was used to jointly reconstruct multiple receiving signals’ high-order cyclic cumulants.At last,according to the fourfold relationship between carrier frequency offsets and cyclic frequencies of main non-zeros high-order cyclic cumulants,multiple transmitting signals’ carrier frequency offsets were obtained.Comparing with existing algorithms,the correlation between receiving signals is fully used by the proposed algorithm,the carrier frequency offset estimation performance at low signal to noise is improved and the pilots numbers are reduced.     

卫星常用调相信号自动调制识别算法

针对高阶幅度相移键控（APSK）信号在卫星通信中的应用,提出了一种识别数字调相信号的新方法。在信噪比估计的基础上,利用信号包络的统计特征对MPSK,MQAM,16APSK和32APSK信号进行区分。理论推导和实验仿真验证了该统计特征具有对加性高斯白噪声和滚降系数不敏感的特性。根据鲁棒性较好的四阶循环累积量提出一种新的特征参数Q以实现MPSK和MQAM信号的类内识别。仿真表明,当信噪比达到5dB时,该方法拥有较好的识别率（〉95％）。     

Current Reusing VCO and Divide-by-Two Frequency Divider for Quadrature LO Generation

For low-power and accurate quadrature local oscillator (LO) signal generation, an LC-tank voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operating at double the required LO-frequency reuses the bias current of divide-by-two frequency divider. The current reusing VCO and divide-by-two frequency divider are targeted to generate the LO signals for a 1.57 GHz global positioning system receiver. Implemented in a 0.18 mum CMOS technology, the current reusing VCO and divide-by-two frequency divider consumes 1.7mA from a 1.8 V supply. The measured phase noise is -120dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset when the carrier frequency is 1.57GHz.     

Performance Improvement of DPSK Signal Reception Using Reconfigurable Multiple Bit Differential Detection in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset

In this paper we propose a reconfigurable multiple bit differential detection (MBDD) algorithm with diversity reception in the form of postdetection equal-gain combining (EGC) that can be used for the differential phase shift keying (DPSK) signal reception in the presence of significant frequency offsets. The proposed algorithm is based on the MBDD algorithm with the introduction of a mechanism for the estimation of the frequency offset. The algorithm is checking N _c frequency offsets around zero offset and chooses the one that is the most likely. The analysis shows that the receiver with the proposed algorithm provides signal reception with almost equal quality in a wide range of carrier frequency offsets around zero frequency offset.     

A 60 GHz receiver front-end with PLL based phase controlled LO generation for phased-arrays

This paper presents a front-end architecture for fully integrated 60 GHz phased array receivers. It employs LO-path beamforming using a phase controlled phase-locked loop (PC-PLL). To demonstrate the architecture a circuit is implemented featuring a two stage low noise amplifier, two cascaded active mixers, and a PC-PLL. The receiver downconverts the 60 GHz signal in two steps, using LO signals from the 20 GHz QVCO of the PLL. A differential 2nd-order harmonic is coupled from the sources of the current commutating pairs of the QVCO, feeding the LO-port of the first mixer and downconverting the 60 GHz RF signal to a 20 GHz intermediate frequency. Quadrature 20 GHz LO signals are then used in the second mixer to down-convert the IF signal to baseband. The PLL is locked to a relatively high reference frequency, 1.25 GHz, which reduces the size of the PLL loop filter and enables a compact layout. The measurements show an input return loss better than ?10 dB between 57.5 and 60.8 GHz, a 15 dB voltage gain, and a 9 dB noise figure. Two-tone measurements show ?12.5 dBm IIP3, 29 dBm IIP2, and ?24 dBm ICP1. The PC-PLL phase noise is ?105 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from a 20 GHz carrier, and the phase of the received 60 GHz signal is digitally controllable with a resolution of 3.2°, covering the full 360° range with a phase error smaller than 1°. The chip consumes 80 mA from a 1.2 V supply, and measures 1,400 μm × 660 μm (900 μm × 500 μm excluding pads) including LNAs, mixers, and PC-PLL in a 90 nm RF CMOS process.     

满足高精度测量的GNSS自适干扰抑制算法

日益复杂的电磁环境严重干扰了全球卫星导航系统（Global Navigation Satellite System,GNSS）的正常有效运行.多天线空域自适应处理能够有效抑制电磁干扰,但是空域自适应处理算法可能会引入卫星信号载波相位误差.此外,多天线组成的阵列本身存在各种不理想因素也会引入误差,这些对高精度测量系统来说是不可容忍的.为此,本文首先分析了GNSS中常用的空域自适应处理算法在抑制干扰的同时对载波相位测量的影响,在此基础上提出了一种不需要阵列流形信息的盲波束形成算法——二次解重扩算法.其核心思想是在解重扩（De-spread Re-spread,DR）算法的基础上增加频率精估计环节,并根据精估后的载波频率重新构造本地参考信号与接收数据进行相关,从而最小化波束形成权矢量与卫星信号的导向矢量之间的误差,减小了空域抗干扰对卫星信号载波相位的影响.     

基于软件无线电的无线设备指纹识别

无线局域网由于其开放的信道环境和传统的密钥身份验证机制,安全问题十分严峻。通过射频指纹识别技术,提取无线设备硬件特征进行身份验证,能够大大提高无线网络安全性。本文基于通用软件无线电外设(USRP)和GNU Radio开源平台,提取IEEE 802.11a/g信号载波频偏作为指纹,结合神经网络分类器进行识别。首先接收信号并提取每帧信号载波频偏,然后训练神经网络分类器,最后利用此分类器对无线设备进行识别。在办公室和体育馆2种典型室内环境进行无线设备个体识别实验,识别率均大于90%。实验结果说明,基于软件无线电提取信号载波频偏可以识别出不同的无线设备,检测出非法设备接入,能够提高无线网络安全性。     

A 9.8-mW 1.2-GHz CMOS frequency synthesizer with a low phase-noise LC-VCO and an I/Q frequency divider

A 1.2 GHz frequency synthesizer integrated in a RF receiver for Beidou navigation is implemented in standard 0.18μm CMOS technology.A distributed biased varactor LC voltage-controlled oscillator is employed to achieve low tuning sensitivity and optimized phase noise performance.A high-speed and low-switching-noise divider-by-2 circuit based on a source-coupled logic structure is adopted to generate a quadrature(I/Q) local oscillating signal.A high-speed 8/9 dual-modulus prescaler(DMP),a programmable-delay phase frequency detector without dead-zone problem,and a programmable-current charge pump are also integrated into the frequency synthesizer. The frequency synthesizer demonstrates an output frequency from 1.05 to 1.30 GHz,and the phase noise is-98.53 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz offset and -121.92 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset from the carrier frequency of 1.21 GHz. The power dissipation of the core circuits without the output buffer is 9.8 mW from a 1.8 V power supply.The total area of the receiver is 2.4×1.6 mm~2.     

一种改进的CPFSK信号频率估计方法

针对突发信号解调中多普勒频偏大的问题,提出了一种改进的连续相位移频键控信号(CPFSK)频率估计方法.首先接收信号平方运算使信号的调制指数加倍,再通过一次离散傅里叶变换(DFT),用搜索信号平方谱谱峰的方法实现突发信号频率估计.仿真实验表明,在低信噪比条件下,该算法的频率估计精度比经典的相位差频率估计算法提高了20%;该算法与广泛用于高动态突发信号的频率插值估计算法相比,同道干扰信道下信干比改善可达4 dB,DFT长度缩短约1/3.     

基于高阶循环累积量的SQAM信号调制识别算法

该文利用通信信号的循环平稳特性,在循环累积量域内构造信号分类特征,提出了一种基于高阶循环累积量的调制识别算法,实现对SQAM信号分类。算法对载波频率偏差、时延和相位旋转具有稳健性,并可在多信号环境且存在载波频偏的情况下实现对感兴趣信号的识别。理论分析和仿真结果均证明了算法的正确性和有效性。     

Blind symbol timing offset estimation for offset‐QPSK modulated signals

In this paper, a blind symbol timing offset (STO) estimation method is proposed for offset quadrature phase‐shift keying (OQPSK) modulated signals, which also works for other linearly modulated signals (LMS) such as binary‐PSK, QPSK, π/4‐QPSK, and minimum‐shift keying. There are various methods available for blind STO estimation of LMS; however, none work in the case of OQPSK modulated signals. The popular cyclic correlation method fails to estimate STO for OQPSK signals, as the offset present between the in‐phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components causes the cyclic peak to disappear at the symbol rate frequency. In the proposed method, a set of close and approximate offsets is used to compensate the offset between the I and Q components of the received OQPSK signal. The STO in the time domain is represented as a phase in the cyclic frequency domain. The STO is therefore calculated by obtaining the phase of the cyclic peak at the symbol rate frequency. The method is validated through extensive theoretical study, simulation, and testbed implementation. The proposed estimation method exhibits robust performance in the presence of unknown carrier phase offset and frequency offset.     

Multicast-enabled high-speed VCSEL technology for flexible data center networks

We experimentally demonstrate the multiple signal modulation on a single class 10 G vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) carrier at 1 310 nm for next generation multicast-enabled data center networks. A 10 Gbit/s data signal is directly modulated onto a single mode VCSEL carrier. To maximize carrier spectral efficiency, a 2 GHz reference frequency (RF) clock tone is simultaneously modulated on the VCSEL phase attribute. The inherent VCSEL orthogonal polarization bistability with changing bias current is further exploited in transmission of a polarization based pulse per second (PPS) timing clock signal. Therefore, we simultaneously transmit a 10 Gbit/s directly modulated data, 2 GHz phase modulated RF and a polarization-based PPS clock signals using a single mode 10 GHz bandwidth VCSEL carrier. It is the first time that a single class 10 G VCSEL carrier is reported to transmit a directly modulated data, phase modulated RF clock and polarization based PPS timing signal simultaneously in a single wavelength. A of G.652 single mode fibre (SMF) transmission over 3.21 km is experimentally attained. A receiver sensitivity of ?15.60 dBm is experimentally obtained for the directly modulated 10 Gbit/s data signal. A 3.21-km-long SMF transmission introduces a penalty of 0.23 dB to the data signal. The contribution of a 2 GHz phase modulated RF and a polarization-based PPS clock signal to this penalty is found to be 0.03 dB. An RF single-side band (SSB) phase noise values of ?82.36 dBc/Hz and ?77.97 dBc/Hz are attained without and with simultaneous directly modulated data and polarization-based PPS clock signals respectively for a 3.21-km-long SMF transmission. This work provides an alternative efficient and cost effective technique for simultaneous high-speed multiple information transmission to different network nodes within a data center network through shared network infrastructure.     

一种改进的高动态QPSK信号解调算法

正交相移键控(QPSK)调制解调方式广泛应用于深空通信、数字卫星通信等高速系统中,高动态QPSK信号具有较大的多普勒载波频偏,针对现有的解调算法对QPSK信号频偏估计范围小、精度较低等问题,提出了一种改进的高动态QPSK信号解调算法。该算法利用基于Zoom-FFT的Quinn频率估计算法对载波频偏进行估计,将频偏估计分为粗估计和精估计两个过程,对估计所得频偏进行补偿后利用Costas环完成载波同步。在MATLAB中对算法进行了仿真,仿真结果表明,该算法能够实现对高动态大频偏QPSK信号的有效捕获,与传统的解调方式相比,该算法对载波频偏的估计范围更大,且具有更高的频偏估计精度和更好的误码性能。     

Joint estimation of symbol timing and carrier frequency offset of OFDM signals over fast time-varying multipath channels

In this paper, we present a novel joint algorithm to estimate the symbol timing and carrier frequency offsets of wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. To jointly estimate synchronization parameters using the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion, researchers have derived conventional models only from additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) or single-path fading channels. We develop a general ML estimation algorithm that can accurately calculate symbol timing and carrier frequency offsets over a fast time-varying multipath channel. To reduce overall estimation complexity, the proposed scheme consists of two estimation stages: coarse and fine synchronizations. A low complexity coarse synchronization based on the least-squares (LS) method can rapidly estimate the rough symbol timing and carrier frequency offsets over a fast time-varying multipath channel. The subsequent ML fine synchronization can then obtain accurate final results based on the previous coarse synchronization. Simulations demonstrate that the coarse-to-fine method provides a good tradeoff between estimation accuracy and computational complexity.     

A GSM-GPRS/UMTS FDD-TDD/WLAN 802.11a-b-g multi-standard carrier generation system

A compact carrier generation system enabling proper interoperability among quad-band GSM, WCDMA (FDD and TDD), and WLAN (802.11a/b/g) standards is developed. The implementation is achieved in 0.25-/spl mu/m BiCMOS-SiGe process. The measured tuning range is higher that 1 GHz (3.05 to 4.1 GHz) exceeding the specifications by 25%. The voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) exhibits a phase noise of -118 and -125 dBc/Hz measured, respectively, at 400 kHz and 1 MHz offsets while drawing 2.5 mA from 2.5 V supply. The measured phase noise at 400 kHz offset of the PCS/DCS output local-oscillator (LO) signal and the GSM output LO signal is, respectively, -124 dBc/Hz and -130 dBc/Hz.     

A 1.8-GHz self-calibrated phase-locked loop with precise I/Qmatching

This paper describes a 1.8-GHz self-calibrated phase-locked loop (PLL) implemented in 0.35-μm CMOS technology. The PLL operates as an edge-combining type fractional-N frequency synthesizer using multiphase clock signals from a ring-type voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). A self-calibration circuit in the PLL continuously adjusts delay mismatches among delay cells in the ring oscillator, eliminating the fractional spur commonly found in an edge-combing fractional divider due to the delay mismatches. With the calibration loop, the fractional spurs caused by the delay mismatches are reduced to -55 dBc, and the corresponding maximum phase offsets between the multiphase signals is less than 0.20. The frequency synthesizer PLL operates from 1.7 to 1.9 GHz and the closed-loop phase noise is -105 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz offset from the carrier. The overall circuit consumes 20 mA from a 3.0-V power supply     

Joint Estimation of Doubly Selective Channels and Carrier Frequency Offsets in High Mobility MIMO-OFDMA Uplink

In this paper, we address the joint estimation of doubly selective channels (DSCs) and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) in multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiple access uplink with highly mobile users. Since the channel coefficients are rapidly varying over time and the base station has to perform the estimation task from the received composite signal, the exact solution to this joint estimation problem requires multidimensional search which is computationally intensive. We propose an iterative technique for the joint estimation of DSCs and CFOs based on space alternating generalized expectation maximization algorithm which will decompose the multidimensional optimization to many one dimensional searches. The proposed method works even in the presence of residual timing offsets and it does not require the knowledge of channel statistics at the receiver. Convergence properties of the proposed algorithm in terms of rate matrix is studied and analytically proved that the proposed joint estimation algorithm converges. Simulation studies illustrate that the proposed technique offers good performance even at very high mobile speeds.

     

Multiuser carrier frequency offsets estimation for OFDMA uplink with generalized carrier assignment scheme

The frequency synchronization issue of multiuser in the uplink of an orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) system is investigated in this letter. We develop a subspace based blind carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) estimation algorithm for the base station (BS) equipped with uniform linear array (ULA). Due to the adoption of ULA at the BS and the narrowband signal assumption, CFOs of different users can be separated by their spatial information. Thus, unlike existing blind alternatives, which are subject to some specific carrier assignment schemes (CAS) or rely on null subcarriers, our proposed method can support generalized carrier assignment scheme (GCAS) and fully loaded systems, i.e., all subcarriers are available to users. Consequently, the dynamic channel assignment is available and the bandwidth efficiency is higher. Moreover, the closed-form directions of arrival (DOAs) of all active users are also obtained, which can be used in downlink beamforming in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. Performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated by computer Monte Carlo simulations.