交叉极化天线阵列信道的相关性

针对符合多簇拉普拉斯分布的功率角度谱,推导了适用于均匀线阵和均匀圆阵信道相关性的闭式表达式. 该表达式反映了信道角度功率谱以及交叉极化鉴别率对信道相关性的影响. 比较了具有相同角度扩展的单簇与多簇拉普拉斯角度功率谱引入信道相关性的差异. 分析了簇内角度扩展不同时,天线阵列信道相关性随均匀线阵天线间距或均匀圆阵半径的变化. 给出了簇内平均角和簇内角度扩展分别取不同值时,信道交叉极化鉴别率对应的等效天线间距.     

Kalman滤波预测的多小区子载波分配方法

小区间干扰协调是3G演进系统中抑制小区间干扰的重要策略, 并且在各类小区间干扰协调方案包含着不同的频率复用方法。为了在抑制干扰的同时提高频谱利用率,提出了可用频率集合的概念。如何分配可用频率集合中不同频点的子载波直接关系到小区间干扰的强弱程度,而现有的子载波分配方法往往基于当前信道状况, 导致在分配过程中因时间的滞后性而带来较大的干扰。针对这种情况,提出了一种基于Kalman滤波预测的自适应子载波分配方法。该方法通过检测获取不同子载波对用户的信道增益干扰比(GIR), 进而采用Kalman滤波估计得到下一时刻的GIR预测值大小,并以该预测值作为子载波分配的依据。仿真结果表明,与固定子载波分配方法和基于当前GIR的子载波分配方法相比,该方法能有效降低不同频率复用方法下的小区间干扰,改善小区和用户的性能,具体表现在提高了小区吞吐量,降低了用户的阻塞率,以及改善了小区边缘用户的比特丢失率。     

Design and implementation of light-weight mobile multicast for fast MIPv6

Mobile multicast is a research hotspot and can provide many applications. Some mobile multicast schemes have been proposed, but most of them introduce new entities and study construction algorithms of the dynamic multicast delivery structure which is heavyweight for wireless devices. In this paper, we propose a light-weight mobile multicast (LMM) scheme for Fast Mobile IPv6 which reduces the redundant operational overhead by simplifying multicast listener discovery (MLD) proxying. The LMM scheme implements simplified MLD proxying function on home agent to reduce the complicated multicast routing protocol and modifies MLD host part function on mobile node to reduce the multicast membership messages interaction. In order to solve the tunnel convergence problem, LMM also introduces a multicast tunnel combination and reconstruction algorithm. We set up a test-bed to evaluate the performance of LMM, and compare it with other mobile multicast schemes. The experimental results show that LMM reduces the multicast disruption time at handover. Based on the experimental results, we analyze the cost of LMM, and the results show that it has lower protocol cost than other schemes.     

Target tracking with fast adaptive revisit time based on steady state IMM filter

Time is a valuable resource in phased-array radar and proper use of it enables the radar to track more targets simultaneously. Appropriate usage of time in the tracking means the radar can minimize the revisit rate of the tracked targets while the accuracy of targets position estimation is still acceptable. In this paper, a new method for determination of target revisiting time is proposed which has relatively low computational cost and uses steady state filters with Interactive Multiple Models structure. The proposed algorithm allows the radar designer to determine the filter parameters by some criteria such as the desired accuracy and targets maneuver. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the conventional filters for standard maneuverable flying targets. Simulations show the better accuracy and reliability of the proposed method beside its less target revisit time and computational load.     

Inter-antenna and subblock shifting and inversion for peak-to-average power ratio reduction in MIMO-OFDM systems

In this article, an inter-antenna inter-subblock shifting and inversion (IASSI) scheme is proposed to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in multi-input multi- output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO- OFDM) systems. It exploits multiple antennas and subblocks to provide additional degrees of freedom to benefit the system. To reduce the implementation complexity of the proposed scheme, two simple suboptimal schemes are further presented based on the minimum current maximum criterion; one adopts sequential search and the other employs random binary grouping. The simulation results exhibit the effectiveness of these proposed schemes.     

A novel TOA estimation method with effective NLOS error reduction

It is well known that non-line-of-sight （NLOS） error has been the major factor impeding the enhancement of accuracy for time of arrival （TOA） estimation and wireless positioning. This article proposes a novel method of TOA estimation effectively reducing the NLOS error by 60%, comparing with the traditional timing and synchronization method. By constructing the orthogonal training sequences, this method converts the traditional TOA estimation to the detection of the first arrival path （FAP） in the NLOS multipath environment, and then estimates the TOA by the round-trip transmission （RTT） technology. Both theoretical analysis and numerical simulations prove that the method proposed in this article achieves better performance than the traditional methods.     

3GPP LTE中Femtocell数据信道干扰管理策略

对3GPP LTE中针对家庭基站引入后的干扰场景进行了介绍,之后从频率资源和功率资源2个资源分配自由度对数据信道的干扰管理算法进行了分析,最后,对家庭基站在3GPP LTE版本10中的标准化方向进行分析。     

Spatial characteristics and capacity investigation of indoor hotspot channel based on wideband MIMO measurement at 4.9 GHz

In this article,results obtained from wideband multiple-input multiple-output channel measurements at 4.9 GHz are presented.Measurements were performed in an indoor hotspot scenario with both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight propagation conditions.Vertical polarized uniform linear arrays(ULAs)with different antenna spacing and orientation were utilized for investigating the impact of antenna configurations on the system performance.Based on measured channel impulse responses,the spatial correlation of ULA is analyzed and compared with the theoretical values calculated from the power azimuth spectrum.Following that,the eigenvalue statistics and capacity with respect to antenna spacing and orientation are given and compared.The diversity-multiplexing tradeoff(DMT)of measured channels at operational signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)is also presented.The reason why the DMT of measured channels is much lower than that of i.i.d.Rayleigh channels is specified.     

System utility based resource allocation for multi-cell OFDM system

Utility based resource allocation strategy in multi-cell orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system plays a critical role in next generation mobile communication systems. Based on the analysis of risk aversion utility functions, this article proposed the system utility based utility, which is named the customer satisfaction (CS) utility. Compared with the proportional fairness (PF) utility, the CS utility reflects the user demands better, and enables the system to adjust its resource allocation according to both the traffic requirements and the resource situation.     

Efficient Color-theory-based Dynamic Localization for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Location information is critical to mobile wireless sensor networks (WSN) applications. With the help of location information, for example, routing can be performed more efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel localization approach, Color-theory based Dynamic Localization (CDL), which is based on color theory to exploit localization in mobile WSNs. CDL makes use of the broadcast information, such as locations and RGB values, from all anchors (a small portion of nodes with GPS receivers attached), to help the server to create a location database and assist each sensor node to compute its RGB value. Then, the RGB values of all sensor nodes are sent to the server for localization of the sensor nodes. A unique feature of our color-theory based mechanism is that it can use one color to represent the distances of a sensor node to all anchors. Since CDL is easy to implement and is a centralized approach, it is very suitable for applications that need a centralized server to collect user (sensor) data and monitor user activities, such as community health-care systems and hospital monitoring systems. Evaluation results have shown that for mobile WSNs, the location accuracy of CDL (E-CDL, an enhanced version of CDL) is 40–50% (75–80%) better than that of MCL (Hu, L., & Evans, D. (2004). Localization for mobile sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on mobile computing and networking, pp. 45–57). In addition, we have implemented and validated our E-CDL algorithm on the MICAz Mote Developer’s Kit.