Macroscopic Diversity in Frequency Reuse Radio Systems

Macroscopic diversity is a technique that can facilitate high quality and ubiquitous communications between low-power portable radiotelephones and data terminals, and radio base stations (ports) that are connected to the local network. It uses radio signals from several base stations to mitigate the effect of shadow fading, a variation of signal strength over space created by the presence of buildings, foliage, and terrain variations. With a path loss exponent of four and a shadow fading standard deviation of 10 dB, four-branch macroscopic diversity results in a 13 dB improvement in signal strength and a 15 dB improvement in signal to cochannel interference ratio for high user capacity interference-limited operation. (Both figures are for 99 percent statistical coverge of the service area.) The improvement in signal to cochannel interference ratio is equivalent to a factor-of-five savings of spectrum.     

一种跳相发射分集技术的差分方案

将差分编码方案引入到跳相发射分集系统中,提出了跳相差分空时编码(PHDSTBC)方案,该方案有效地改善了整个系统中的差错性能和时延。同时,伪随机的相位跳变大大增强了系统的保密性及干扰对抗性,提高了系统抗突发错误和深度衰落的能力。仿真结果表明,在准静态Rayleigh信道下,误码率为10-3时,新方案相比TarokhJafarkhani差分空时方案(TJDSTBC)性能有1.5dB的信噪比增益。     

A transmitter diversity for MSK with two-bit differential detection

Transmitter diversity is a technique that is effective for mitigating signal transmission degradation caused by multipath fading which is one of the most serious problems in land mobile radio. A frequency-offset transmitter diversity is proposed for a land mobile radio system that employs minimum-shift keying (MSK) and two-bit differential detection. It is shown that high transmission efficiency can be obtained in comparison with the other frequency-offset transmitter diversity. In addition, the diversity effect on the bit error rate (BER) performance is equivalent to that of postdetection equal gain combining diversity. The BER performance improvement was confirmed by the experimental test results.     

An improved π/4-QPSK with nonredundant error correction forsatellite mobile broadcasting

An improved π/4-quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) receiver that incorporates a simple nonredundant error correction (NEC) structure is proposed for satellite and land-mobile digital broadcasting. The bit-error rate (BER) performance of the π/4-QPSK with NEC is analyzed and evaluated in a fast Rician fading and additive white Gaussian noise. (AWGN) environment using computer simulation. It is demonstrated that with simple electronics the performance of a noncoherently detected π/4-QPSK signal in both AWGN and fast Rician fading can be improved. When the K-factor (a ratio of average power of multipath signal to direct path power) of the Rician channel decreases, the improvement increases. An improvement of 1.2 dB could be obtained at a BER of 10^-4 in the AWGN channel. This performance gain is achieved without requiring any signal redundancy and additional bandwidth. Three types of noncoherent detection schemes of π/4QPSK with NEC structure, such as intermediate frequency band differential detection, baseband differential detection, and FM discriminator, are discussed. It is concluded that the π/4-QPSK with NEC is an attractive scheme for power-limited satellite land-mobile broadcasting systems     

Particle swarm optimization–based power allocation for Alamouti amplify and forward relaying protocol

The performance of wireless communication systems is improved over flat fading channel by using Alamouti coding scheme, which provides the quality of diversity gain. In this paper, performance analysis of symbol error rate (SER) and particle swarm optimization (PSO)–based power allocation (PA) for Alamouti amplify and forward (AF) relaying protocol using maximum ratio combining (MRC) technique is presented. Analytical expression of SER upper bound and SER approximation is derived for Alamouti AF relaying protocol with quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation over Rayleigh fading channel and Rician fading channel. In addition, PSO‐based optimum PA factor is calculated on the basis of the minimum SER of proposed method. PSO‐based optimum PA gives 0.5 dB of improved signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) compared with the equal power allocation (EPA). The theoretical approximate SER result is compared with the simulated SER. The proposed protocol provides full diversity gain and reduces SER compared with the existing AF and decode and forward (DF) relaying protocols over Rayleigh fading channel and Rician fading channel.     

Transmit diversity over quasi-static fading channels using multiple antennas and random signal mapping

We introduce a scheme that achieves a diversity gain for coded systems under static fading conditions by using multiple antennas and random signal mapping. In a two-antenna system, the bit-error rate performance of the proposed scheme approaches that of Alamouti's scheme when the channel is perfectly known. In the presence of channel mismatch, the proposed scheme outperforms Alamouti's scheme significantly. It is shown that, as the number of transmit antennas N goes to infinity, the effective channel for the introduced scheme behaves as if it were perfectly interleaved (i.e., as if the fading was independent). When N is small, further performance gain can be achieved by expanding the original signal constellation.     

Differential modulation diversity

In this paper, differential modulation diversity (DMD) is introduced. This diversity scheme is based on diagonal signal constellations which have been previously proposed for differential space-time modulation (DSTM). DMD can exploit both space and time diversity and DSTM, which is a pure space-diversity scheme, results as a special case. Low-complexity noncoherent receivers originally designed for DSTM are adapted to DMD and the power efficiency of DMD for Ricean fading with spatial correlation and imperfect interleaving is investigated. Based on analytical expressions for the pairwise error probability it is shown that space diversity increases the effective fading bandwidth, which has a negative influence on performance. Time diversity does not have this disadvantage and is preferable especially for fast fading channels. If space and time diversity are combined, a robust receiver results that yields high performance for a wide range of fading velocities.     

Analyzing GPS signals to investigate path diversity effects of non‐geostationary orbit satellite communication systems

The concept behind path diversity is that a user who can access several satellites simultaneously will be able to communicate more effectively than a user who could only access one. The success of this method depends on the environment, the satellite constellation, and diversity combining technology. This paper explores the path diversity effects of non‐geostationary orbit (NGO) satellite personal communication services, for different degrees of user mobility, under various scenarios, using the constellation of the global positioning system (GPS). Measurements are taken near downtown Taipei. Three types of mobilities (fixed‐point, pedestrian, and vehicular) are examined, and the switch diversity and maximum ratio combining method are applied to determine the path diversity gain and calculate bit error probability. The error probability performance of applying diversity schemes in coherent binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and non‐coherent differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulations over Rician fading channels are also analysed and evaluated by using the characteristic function method. The results show that fading can be significantly reduced and diversity greatly increased. A significant diversity gain and improvement in bit error rate (BER) can be expected in all cases by simply applying switch diversity scheme. Besides, for the maximum ratio combining method, the results imply that summing two satellite signals suffices to increase diversity and improve the bit error rate performance. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

V-BLAST系统的一种新的分集迭代检测算法

讨论了原V-LAST(垂直Bell实验室分层空间-时间)系统的算法,从获得接收分集的角度给出了一种新的迭代处理算法。该算法利用接收端进行分集接收处理来改善V-BLAST系统每层的接收信号,对进一步抵抗V-BLAST系统的误差传播效应取得很好的效果。该算法可以看做是V-BLAST系统许多算法的一种延伸。仿真结果显示,与原V-BLAST算法相比具有更好的误码性能:在开环2发2收的情况下,信道为瑞利平坦慢衰落,采用QPSK(正交相移键控)调制,误码率为10-2时可获得2 dB的增益。     

On differentially encoded star 16QAM with differential detectionand diversity

Star 16QAM is a modulation method that transmits 4 bits per symbol and has the advantage that it may be differentially encoded and detected. It is very robust to fast multiplicative Rayleigh fading and is suitable for mobile telephone systems and personal communication networks. The main contribution of this paper is the derivation and bit error probability simulation of the maximum likelihood differential detector using phase differences and amplitude ratios from L diversity branches for bit decisions. As a comparison, much simpler previously known post detection combining techniques are generalized for star 16QAM and optimized. The bit error probability is simulated for both diversity detectors on a multiplicative Rayleigh fading channel with additive white Gaussian noise. It is found that the bit error probability of the ML detector may also be obtained by the simple combining detector. This is also true for the error floor due to the maximum Doppler frequency. The diversity gain is almost 8 dB, measured in signal to noise ratio per diversity branch, at a bit error probability of 1 percent. The diversity detector can sustain an almost 3 times larger Doppler frequency again at a bit error probability of 1 percent. We also show that star 16QAM offers, at most, 3 subchannels with different bit error probabilities     

MDPSK-OFDM with highly power-efficient block codes forfrequency-selective fading channels

This paper investigates the performance of M-ary differential phase shift keying orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MDPSK-OFDM) systems employing peak power controlling block codes over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels. The block codes have a capability of both error correction and reduction of the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). To decode the block codes with reasonable complexity, the extended version of the ordered statistic decoding of Fossorier and Lin (see IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol.41, p.1379-96, 1995) is utilized. The bit error rate performance of the block codes is evaluated over typical indoor radio channels by computer simulation and compared with that of the equivalent frequency diversity of the repetition codes. The significant coding gain and improvement of the irreducible error floor are observed under the constraint of the PAPR from 3 to 6 dB     

编码16DAPSK 信号解调译码新方法

基于子载波采用16阶差分幅度相移键控(16DAPSK)的正交频分复用(OFDM)系统,提出并分析了编码16DAPSK信号的一种新的简单易行的比特软输出解调译码方法。仿真结果表明,在高斯信道、平坦Rayleigh衰落信道和多径Rayleigh衰落信道下,采用编码速率为3/4的punctured卷积码与16DAPSK信号的硬输出解调译码方法相比,系统的误码性能可改善约1.2dB。新方法应用在日本CRL开发的100Mbps毫米波16DAPSK-OFDM宽带移动接入实验系统,将进一步提高系统误码性能。     

Decision feedback detection with error compensation for hybrid space-time block codes

Spatial division multiplexing (SDM) techniques increase the total throughput by transmitting independent information streams through multiple transmit antennas whereas space time coding (STC) techniques utilize diversity gain. Hybrid space-time block code (STBC) schemes proposed combine the above two techniques to maximize the link performance. We propose a decision feedback detection method to improve the performance of the hybrid STBC scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In this scheme, we take the error propagation effect into account to enhance the detection performance. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional hybrid STBC detection algorithm by more than 3dB at 1% frame error rate for frequency selective fading channels.     

Coherent detection of biorthogonal signals over Rayleigh fadingchannels

A practical coherent detection scheme for biorthogonal signals over Rayleigh fading channels is proposed. The proposed scheme improves the bit error rate (BER) performance compared to the noncoherent detection schemes for biorthogonal signals. It also outperforms the coherent and noncoherent detection schemes for orthogonal signals with comparable bandwidth efficiency. The BER performance for a Rayleigh fading channel with two path diversity combining is obtained by computer simulation. The results show that the required average signal-to-noise ratio per bit γ_b can be reduced by as much as 1.4 dB when we use this system in the CDMA cellular reverse link     

基于线性预编码的异步MIMOOFDM迭代检测算法

In asynchronous Multiple-Input-Multiple-Out-put Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(MIMO-OFDM) over the selective Rayleigh fading channel, the performance of the existing linear detection algorithms improves slowly as the Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) increases. To improve the performance of asynchronous MIMO-OFDM, a low complexity iterative detection algorithm based on linear precoding is proposed in this paper. At the transmitter, the transmitted signals are spread by precoding matrix to achieve the space-frequency diversity gain, and low complexity iterative Interference Cancellation(IC) algorithm is used at the receiver, which relieves the error propagation by the precoding matrix. The performance improvement is verified by simulations. Under the condition of 4 transmitting antennas and 4 receiving antennas at the BER of 10-4 , about 6 dB gain is obtained by using our proposed algorithm compared with traditional algorithm.     

A New Data Rotation Based CP Synchronization Scheme for OFDM Systems

In this paper, a new data rotation scheme for improving the symbol timing and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is proposed. The new data rotation scheme intentionally introduces a cyclic shift after the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) in the transmitter so that a higher energy cyclic prefix (CP) is obtained. This cyclic shift will not impair the orthogonality among the subcarriers and will only results in phase shift in the demodulated signal at the receiver. To recover the cyclic shift and for data detection, the scheme makes use of double differential encoding and decoding at the transmitter and the receiver. We analyze the performance of the new data rotation scheme by using order statistics theory. Our results show that the new scheme can provide a 1.6 dB gain in the performance of the CFO estimator and a 6 dB gain for the timing estimator at 15 dB SNR over AWGN channel, as well as a 6 dB gain in lock-in probability and a 4 dB gain in CFO performance at 5 dB SNR over frequency selective fading channel.     

异步V-BLAST中基于功率扩展的迭代并行干扰消除

在平坦瑞利衰落信道下,异步V-BLAST系统中,现有检测算法随信噪比提高误码率性能改善缓慢。为此,该文提出一种基于预处理矩阵的迭代检测算法：在发射端,通过预处理矩阵将发射信号扩展到整个数据帧上,以获取空时分集度;在接收端,采用低复杂的迭代并行干扰消除方法,由于在迭代过程中干扰重建基于预处理矩阵,所以上次迭代的检测误差被扩展,降低了迭代过程中的误差传播。仿真验证了所提方法的有效性,在8发4收场景下,误码率为10-3时,与现有串行干扰消除方法相比,带来了约7 dB信噪比增益。     

Performance Comparison of M-QAM Communications for (S + N) and (S/N) Channel State Estimation Schemes

Channel estimation at the receiver side is essential for adaptive modulation schemes, prohibiting low complexity systems from using variable rate (VR) and/or variable power transmissions. This problem can be solved using variable-rate M-QAM modulation scheme for communications over fading channels in the absence of channel gain estimation at the receiver. It is shown that signal plus noise (S + N) sampling value can serve as a much better criterion compared to signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) for determining modulation order in VR systems. In this way, low complexity transceivers use VR transmissions to improve spectrum efficiency under an error performance constraint. Two kinds of fading channels: Weibull fading and α–μ fading are considered. Spectrum efficiency of (S + N) based systems are compared to that of S/N systems and the advantage of (S + N) scheme over (S/N) scheme is shown. The symbol error rates of two schemes are also studied. As an application, the proposed VR modulation scheme is shown to work with a maximum ratio combining diversity receiver.     

Spectrally Shaped DS–CDMA with Dual Sideband Combining for Increased Diversity on Dispersive Fading Channels

A new modulation scheme is proposed in this paper. This scheme uses sinusoidal chip waveforms to shape the spectrum of a direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) signal such that the transmitted signal has two distinct spectral lobes, one from a lower sideband (LSB) and the other from an upper sideband (USB). By properly selecting the frequency of the sinusoidal chip waveforms, the two sideband signals can be made to undergo independent fading in a dispersive fading channel. These two independent sideband signals, when combined at the receiver, provide diversity gain. Our analysis and simulation results show that the bit error ratio (BER) performance of the proposed scheme is superior to that of the equivalent DS-SS system that uses conventional rectangular chip waveforms for severely faded channels.     

Variable-rate variable-power MQAM for fading channels

We propose a variable-rate and variable-power MQAM modulation scheme for high-speed data transmission over fading channels. We first review results for the Shannon capacity of fading channels with channel side information, where capacity is achieved using adaptive transmission techniques. We then derive the spectral efficiency of our proposed modulation. We show that there is a constant power gap between the spectral efficiency of our proposed technique and the channel capacity, and this gap is a simple function of the required bit-error rate (BER). In addition, using just five or six different signal constellations, we achieve within 1-2 dB of the maximum efficiency using unrestricted constellation sets. We compute the rate at which the transmitter needs to update its power and rate as a function of the channel Doppler frequency for these constellation sets. We also obtain the exact efficiency loss for smaller constellation sets, which may be required if the transmitter adaptation rate is constrained by hardware limitations. Our modulation scheme exhibits a 5-10-dB power gain relative to variable-power fixed-rate transmission, and up to 20 dB of gain relative to nonadaptive transmission. We also determine the effect of channel estimation error and delay on the BER performance of our adaptive scheme. We conclude with a discussion of coding techniques and the relationship between our proposed modulation and Shannon capacity