OFDM零中频接收机I/Q不平衡的数字估计与补偿

由于零中频接收机的优点,其已经成为未来无线终端发展的方向.但它也有固有缺陷,即引入较大的射频损伤.首先分析了I/Q不平衡的系统模型,接着推导出其在OFDM系统中对接收机的影响.提出了一种硬件容易实现的简便时域估计和补偿I/Q不平衡的算法.最后通过仿真给出了该算法的性能,仿真表明在AWGN和频率选择性衰落信道下能够明显提高接收机的误码率性能.     

OFDM联合信道均衡与I/Q失衡补偿算法

分析多径衰落信道下零中频接收机的I/Q失衡对OFDM系统造成的影响,并在此基础上构造一个结合了信道频率响应与I/Q失衡因子的复合信道模型.通过设计OFDM双导频符号进行复合信道均衡,从而能同时补偿多径衰落信道和I/Q失衡对OFDM系统造成的影响.仿真结果表明:这种联合算法大大提高了OFDM系统的性能,而且具有较低的实现复杂度.     

基于STBC的MIMO OFDM系统中的I/Q不平衡及CFO的联合均衡策略

基于STBC方案,针对MIMO OFDM通信系统中同时存在发射机和接收机I/Q不平衡、前端滤波器失配、CFO和频率选择性信道失真的组合影响进行了深入研究,并提出了一种适用的联合均衡策略;具体实现是首先通过对MIMO OFDM系统中只存在发射机I/Q不平衡和多径信道干扰的分析,得到一种频域均衡器;然后再考虑同时存在接收机I/Q不平衡和CFO的情况,得到了2个时域均衡器;最后把2个时域均衡器变换到频域,并结合消除发射机I/Q不平衡和多径信道干扰的频域均衡技术,提出了一种全面的联合均衡技术即频域子载波均衡器。仿真结果表明,针对MIMO OFDM系统提出的频域子载波均衡技术不仅能扩展到其他高阶STBC系统,而且使均衡后的系统BER性能得到了明显的提高。     

基于信道化架构的宽带I/Q不平衡校准技术

零中频接收机凭借其架构简单、易于集成等特点已被广泛应用于通信系统和雷达系统,为未来雷达通信一体化技术发展奠定了基础。然而,零中频接收机存在I/Q不平衡问题,这不仅会造成通信星座图的偏移,还会引入雷达虚假目标。现有宽带I/Q补偿方法的精度不高,且都集中于后处理,无法做到实时。因此,本文首先建立了宽带I/Q不平衡模型,并提出了一种融合信道化架构和盲估计补偿算法的宽带I/Q失衡校准技术。该技术利用信道化架构将宽带信号划分为窄带信号,并利用盲估计算法对带有镜像信号的子信道进行在线补偿。实验表明,该方法在获得高精度补偿参数的同时,完成了对宽带I/Q失衡的实时补偿。镜像抑制比达到55 dB。     

宽带无线通信系统的零中频接收机设计

零中频(ZIF)接收机具有体积小、成本低、易于集成和扩展等优点,是宽带无线通信接收机的重要研究方向.本文首先论述了零中频接收机的系统架构,并分析了零中频接收架构所引入的本振泄漏、直流偏差、I/Q不平衡等问题及补偿算法,提出了一种可行的LTE零中频接收机设计方案.仿真结果表明,该方案能够很好地解决现有零中频接收机技术存在的问题,显著提高LTE宽带接收机的性能.     

基于信道估计的限幅OFDM信号检测性能分析

大峰均比是正交频分复用(OFDM)系统的主要缺陷之一，对时域OFDM信号限幅是通常采用的一种抑制发送信号峰值功率的方法，但是限幅产生的非线性干扰，使系统的信道估计和信号检测性能降低。本文分析了限幅干扰对信道估计以及基于估计信道信息的OFDM数据信号检测性能的影响，推导出了基于信道估计信号检测的信噪比与限幅参数之间的关系。利用信噪比和高斯信道的误符号率及误比特率公式，本文对频率选择性瑞利衰落信道环境限幅OFDM系统中信号的误符号率和误比特率进行估算。计算机仿真和估算的结果相吻合。     

一种2～4GHz宽带接收机的小型化前端设计

针对2~4 GHz的超宽频带,提出了一种宽带接收机的前端设计方法,其中包括射频信道设计、频率合成器的设计以及基带电路设计。鉴于小型化的设计思想,射频前端采用零中频接收机的架构,使用LTCC滤波器实现噪声系数优于8 d B,输出三阶截断点优于27 d Bm(低噪声模式下)。频率合成器采用集成VCO的锁相环芯片ADF4351,实现单边带相位噪声优于-110 d Bc/Hz@200 k Hz。基带电路采用正交解调器ADL5380和12位双通道AD转换器AD9238,可实现带宽为20 MHz的I/Q双路同时解调。通过FPGA或DSP处理,可广泛用于便携式小型化的监测接收机或通信接收机。     

基于OFDM技术的无线通信系统仿真与分析

正交频分复用（OFDM）能够有效地对抗频率选择性衰落,插入循环前缀作为保护间隔可以消除符号间干扰,而采用信道估计能够很好地跟踪无线信道的时变特性,从而减弱信道对系统的影响。文章首先阐述了OFDM系统基本模型,并给出OFDM通信系统仿真模型。在频率选择性信道下用Matlab仿真软件完成对OFDM系统发送、信道、接收等部分以及循环前缀与信道估计关键技术的设计,结合计算机仿真重点研究了循环前缀及信道估计对系统误码率性能的影响,得出了采用循环前缀和信道估计技术可以显著地提高系统性能。     

基于累积量和循环相关值的OFDM信号联合检测方法

为了提高在复杂信道环境下正交频分复用(OFDM)信号检测方法的性能,根据OFDM信号的渐进高斯性、自相关性、循环平稳性等特性,提出了一种基于累积量和循环相关值的OFDM信号联合检测方法.在瑞利多径衰落信道下对此方法进行了仿真研究,研究表明此方法能够有效抑制噪声和频率选择性衰落的影响,且弥补了其他方法难以区分高斯信号和OFDM信号这一不足,提高了对OFDM信号的检测率.     

线性预编码OFDM系统的迭代接收机

线性预编码是OFDM系统在频率选择性衰落信道中利用频率分集的有效方法.为了进一步提高性能,本文提出了一种线性预编码OFDM系统的迭代接收机,该迭代接收机采用基于线性最小均方误差准则(LMMSE)的turbo均衡算法及其简化方法,具有很低的计算复杂度.本文同时还提出通过使用长度不小于等效离散时间信道的时延扩展长度的线性预编码器和迭代接收机,可获得完全的频率分集增益.仿真表明本文提出的方法在多径干扰严重的信道条件下的误码率性能接近AWGN下界.     

Decision-Directed Channel Estimation and High I/Q Imbalance Compensation in OFDM Receivers

Direct-conversion architectures suffer from the mismatch between the In-phase (I) and the Quadrature-phase (Q) branches, commonly called I/Q imbalance. Even low I/Q imbalances imply poor performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that uses both training and data symbols in a decision-directed fashion to jointly estimate the channel and compensate for high receiver I/Q imbalance. Simulation results show that our method can compensate for high I/Q imbalance values and also estimate a frequency selective channel.     

Zero intermediate frequency receiver for multicarrier mode of cdma2000

This paper proposes a novel zero Intermediate Frequency (IF) receiver for MultiCarrier (MC) Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) based on multicartier mode of cdma2000 system.The proposed receiver employs direct RF-to-baseband downconversion,sampling at a rate equal to the bandwidth of the baseband multicarrier signal and complex-valued coefficient FIR filters.This receiver avoids the need for arrays of high Q analog bandpass filters,has a much lower sampling rate half of that of conventional receiver and offers significant savings in hardware implementation.Analytic and simulation results show that the presented receiver performs well for both the AWGN channel and Rayleigh fading channel.     

Joint estimation of carrier frequency offset, dc offset and I/Q imbalance for OFDM systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with direct-conversion receiver (DCR) are vulnerable to carrier frequency offset (CFO), dc offset (DCO) and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) imbalance. In this paper, we propose blind estimator for joint estimation of CFO, DCO and I/Q imbalance in OFDM systems with DCR. Simulation results show that performance of proposed estimator approaches Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) asymptotically, which demonstrates its effectiveness.     

An Exact Error Probability Analysis of OFDM Systems with Frequency Offset

In this paper, we derive exact closed form bit error rate (BER) or symbol error rate (SER) expressions for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with carrier frequency offset (CFO). We consider the performance of an OFDM system subject to CFO error in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), frequency flat and frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels. The BER/ SER performances of BPSK and QPSK modulation schemes are analyzed for AWGN and frequency-flat Rayleigh fading channels while BPSK is considered for frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels. Our results can easily be reduced to the respective analytical error rate expressions for the OFDM systems without CFO error. Furthermore, the simulation results are provided to verify the accuracy of the new error rate expressions.     

Generalized frequency division multiplexing–based acoustic communication for underwater systems

The underwater (UW) acoustic channel poses multiple challenges like coloured ambient noise, frequency‐dependent attenuation, and doubly selective fading. The availability of a robust underwater communication mechanism can largely enhance the success of human effort in a multitude of applications, ranging from pollution surveillance to defence and search/rescue operations. In this work, generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM), a non‐orthogonal multicarrier scheme, which has recently been studied for terrestrial wireless fading channels, is developed and tested for signalling in UW acoustic communication. UW noise, attenuation, and doubly selective fading channels are modelled with appropriate statistics. The BER performance of proposed system is systematically evaluated under different channel conditions, starting from simple additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh fading channels to a horizontally configured UW channel. The performance is also compared with contemporary orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (OFDM)– and filter bank multicarrier (FBMC)–based systems.     

Performance of sequence estimation scheme of narrowband digital FMsignals with limiter-discriminator detection

A communication scheme using binary FM with noncoherent limiter-discriminator detection has been well known. Up to now, the improvement of bit error rate at the receiver side has been carried out through the bandwidth optimization of the IF filter, the decision feedback equalization (DFE), or simple two-state maximum likelihood sequence estimator (MLSE). This channel is inherently the intersymbol interference (ISI) channel due to the premodulation baseband filtering as well as the narrowband IF filtering. So the sequence estimation scheme using the Viterbi algorithm can be applied successfully, although the channel is not additive white Gaussian and maximum likelihood in the strict sense. In this paper, through computer simulations, we examine the actual BER improvement of the sequence estimation scheme with multiple-state trellis especially for MSK and GMSK signals. We mainly consider static AWGN and frequency nonselective Rician fading channels. Consequently, by adjusting the IF filter bandwidth, very large estimation gains are obtained compared to the conventional DFE or MLSE detector for AWGN and Rician fading channels. This scheme does not produce large demodulation delay and is implemented only by adding the signal processing part to the final stage of the receiver. This scheme seems to be very useful for any applications including satellite mobile channels