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。     

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.     

Decoupled compensation of IQ imbalance in MIMO OFDM systems

The direct-conversion architecture is an attractive front-end design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. These systems are typically small in size and provide a good flexibility to support growing number of wireless standards. However, direct-conversion based OFDM systems are generally very sensitive to front-end component imperfections. These imperfections are unavoidable especially when cheaper components are used in the manufacturing process and can lead to radio frequency (RF) impairments such as in-phase/quadrature-phase (IQ) imbalance. These RF impairments can result in a severe performance degradation. In this paper, we propose training based efficient compensation schemes for MIMO OFDM systems impaired with transmitter and receiver frequency selective IQ imbalance. The proposed schemes can decouple the compensation of the transmitter and receiver IQ imbalance from the compensation of the channel distortion. It is shown that the proposed schemes result in an overall lower training overhead and a lower computational requirement as compared to a joint estimation/compensation of IQ imbalance and the channel distortion.     

基于LS的OFDM零中频接收机IQ不平衡数字补偿技术

零中频接收机已成为未来无线终端发展潮流,但是零中频的结构会引入较大的射频损伤;本文首先介绍了射频I/Q不平衡时对高斯以及频率选择性信道下OFDM接收机性能的影响;通过特殊导频设计,解耦合I、Q路的相互影响;如此可以方便地估计和补偿射频I/Q不平衡对高斯以及频率选择性信道的影响。仿真表明本文所示方法大大提高了OFDM零中频接收机的性能。     

16‐QAM OFDM‐Based K‐Band LoS MIMO Communication System with Alignment Mismatch Compensation

This paper presents a novel K‐band (18 GHz) 16‐quadrature amplitude modulation (16‐QAM) orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (OFDM)‐based 2 × 2 line‐of‐sight multi‐input multi‐output communication system. The system can deliver 356 Mbps on a 56 MHz channel. Alignment mismatches, such as amplitude and/or phase mismatches, between the transmitter and receiver antennas were examined through hardware experiments. Hardware experimental results revealed that amplitude mismatch is related to antenna size, antenna beam width, and link distance. The proposed system employs an alignment mismatch compensation method. The open‐loop architecture of the proposed compensation method is simple and enables facile construction of communication systems. In a digital modem, 16‐QAM OFDM with a 512‐point fast Fourier transform and (255, 239) Reed‐Solomon forward error correction codecs is used. Experimental results show that a bit error rate of 10^?5 is achieved at a signal‐to‐noise ratio of approximately 18.0 dB.     

Joint I/Q imbalances estimation using data-dependent superimposed training

In this paper, we address the joint estimation of the channel impulse response and frequency-dependent in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalances using data-dependent superimposed training (DDST). The analysis developed shows that it is possible to use the first-order statistics of the received process to achieve synchronization and identify the resulting widely linear system that encompasses the radio frequency impairments considered. Furthermore, it is also verified that for the joint estimation of the transmitter and the receiver I/Q imbalances, additional constraints than those required for strictly linear systems should be imposed on the training sequences employed. The results of numerical simulations show that DDST has comparable performance with methods reported in the literature.     

On achievable performance of spatial diversity fading channels

Channel time-variation and frequency selectivity [causing intersymbol interference (ISI)] are two major impairments in transmission for a wireless communication environment. Spatial diversity on the transmitter or the receiver side has been traditionally used to combat multipath fading. Previous results indicate significant gains in using multiple transmitter and receiver antenna diversity. By deriving the mutual information and cutoff rate we characterize the gains on these channels. We show that gains linear in the number of antennas can be achieved either when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) becomes very large or when the number of antennas becomes large. We show that some of these gains can be achieved by lower complexity linear receiver structures. By evaluating the cutoff rate for phase-shift keying (PSK) constellations we further quantify the gains of using spatial diversity at both the transmitter and the receiver. Next, we examine the expected mutual information for slowly fading ISI channels where the channel is assumed to be block time-invariant. We then examine the impact of fast channel time variation (time variation within a transmission block) on multicarrier transmission schemes. We derive the average mutual information for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in time-varying ISI environments. Using this we examine the impact of transmitter and receiver diversity on OFDM transmission over time-varying ISI channels. We also study the effect of time variation on OFDM packet-size design     

OFDM power loading using limited feedback

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a practical broadband signaling technique for use in multipath fading channels. Over the past ten years, research has shown that power loading, where the power allocations on the OFDM frequency tones are jointly optimized, can improve error rate or capacity performance. The implementation of power loading, however, is dependent on the presence of complete forward link channel knowledge at the transmitter. In systems using frequency division duplexing (FDD), this assumption is unrealistic. In this paper, we propose power loading for OFDM symbols using a limited number of feedback bits sent from the receiver to the transmitter. The power loading vector is designed at the receiver, which is assumed to have perfect knowledge of the forward link channel, and conveyed back to the transmitter over a limited rate feedback channel. To allow for the vector to be represented by a small number of bits, the power loading vector is restricted to lie in a finite set, or codebook, of power loading vectors. This codebook is designed offline and known a priori to both the transmitter and receiver. We present two power allocation selection algorithms that optimize the probability of symbol error and capacity, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed limited feedback techniques provide performance close to full channel knowledge power loading.     

Independent component analysis for multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication systems

Independent component analysis (ICA), an efficient higher order statistics (HOS) based blind source separation technique, has been successfully applied in various fields. In this paper, we provide an overview of the applications of ICA in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems, and introduce some of the important issues surrounding them. First, we present an ICA based blind equalization scheme for MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, with linear precoding for ambiguity elimination. Second, we discuss three peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction schemes, which do not introduce any spectral overhead. Third, we investigate the application of ICA to blind compensation for inphase/quadrature (I/Q) imbalance in MIMO OFDM systems. Finally, we present an ICA based semi-blind layer space-frequency equalization (LSFE) structure for single-carrier (SC) MIMO systems. Simulation results show that the ICA based equalization approach provides a much better performance than the subspace method, with significant PAPR reduction. The ICA based I/Q compensation approach outperforms not only the previous compensation methods, but also the case with perfect channel state information (CSI) and no I/Q imbalance, due to additional frequency diversity obtained. The ICA based semi-blind LSFE receiver outperforms its OFDM counterpart significantly with a training overhead of only 0.05%.     

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.     

一种正交频分复用系统的非线性补偿技术

针对正交频分复用(OFDM)系统在功率放大器(PA)非线性较强时的性能问题,基于一种无线设备非线性与无线信道的联合估计技术,提出了一种基于训练序列的OFDM非线性信道估计与补偿技术.首先基于最小二乘(LS)算法进行发射机非线性与无线信道单位脉冲响应的联合估计,然后依次进行无线信道与发射机非线性的补偿.仿真结果显示,提出方法可逼近不考虑PA非线性时OFDM无线通信系统的完美均衡理论解析值.     

General ICI self-cancellation scheme for OFDM systems

One of the challenges in designing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is their inherent sensitivity to any frequency shift in the signal. A frequency offset between the local oscillators at the transmitter and receiver causes a single frequency shift in the signal, while a time-varying channel can cause a spread of frequency shifts known as the Doppler spread. Frequency shifts ruin the orthogonality of OFDM subcarriers and cause intercarrier interference (ICI); therefore, quickly diminishing the performance of the system. ICI self-cancellation schemes have been proposed to reduce the sensitivity of OFDM systems to frequency shifts. These schemes use signal processing and frequency domain coding to reduce the amount of ICI generated as a result of frequency shifts, with little additional computational complexity. These methods can be used as an alternative to the fine frequency-offset estimation methods to battle oscillator frequency offset or simply be used as an ICI mitigation technique when the system is operating over time-varying channels. We propose a general ICI self-cancellation scheme that can be implemented through windowing at the transmitter and receiver. We show that the previously proposed self-cancellation schemes are equivalent to special cases of this method. Through theoretical analysis of the signal-to-interference ratio and bit-error rate and the use of Monte Carlo simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed system considerably outperforms the existing systems in the presence of frequency offset or time variations in the channel. We consider both coherent and noncoherent systems.     

Estimation and compensation for transmitter and receiver I/Q imbalance of full-duplex terminals

In order to reduce I/Q imbalance of the full-duplex terminal with direct-conversion transceiver,an algorithm based on self-interference signal was proposed for the estimation and compensation of I/Q imbalance in both transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx).Without the perfect transmitter or receiver for I/Q imbalance estimation,the self-interference signal from Tx chain to Rx chain was used for parameter estimation and separation,and the Tx and Rx I/Q imbalance parameters were obtained,respectively.Then the pre-compensation before transmission and the correction after receiving was processed,so that there was nearly no I/Q imbalance in this full-duplex terminal from the view of the other terminals,and the complexity of the signal processing will be reduced as a result of the absent of the I/Q imbalance estimation.The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively estimate and compensate the I/Q imbalance of the full-duplex Tx ＆ Rx terminal,and improve the overall signal quality and the system performance.     

Rateless coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing system design based on intercarrier interference self‐cancelation

In this paper, we consider a rateless coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system under a quasistatic fading channel. During each transmission round, transmitter keeps transmitting to the receiver using Raptor code until the receiver feeds back an acknowledgement (ACK). On the other hand, frequency offset between the transmitter and receiver ruins the orthogonality of OFDM subcarriers and cause intercarrier interference (ICI). We resort to ICI self‐cancelation precoding to combat ICI, wherein the data symbol vectors are multiplied with some precoding matrix before transmission. To improve the system robustness, we jointly optimize the precoding matrix and the degree profile of Raptor code, with only statistical channel state information (CSI) being assumed at the transmitter. The optimization problem is formulated based on the extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) analysis of the decoding process at the receiver. The advantage of the proposed design is that the instant CSI is not required at the transmitter, which reduces the system overhead. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme with the optimized precoding matrix and degree profile can effectively combat ICI and achieve good performance both in bit error ratio (BER) and average transmission rate.     

Optimal placement of training for frequency-selective block-fading channels

The problem of placing training symbols optimally for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier systems is considered. The channel is assumed to be quasi-static with a finite impulse response of length (L + 1) samples. Under the assumptions that neither the transmitter nor the receiver knows the channel, and that the receiver forms a minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimate based on training symbols only, training is optimized by maximizing a tight lower bound on the ergodic training-based independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) capacity. For OFDM systems, it is shown that the lower bound is maximized by placing the known symbols periodically in frequency. For single-carrier systems, under the assumption that the training symbols are placed in clusters of length /spl alpha/ /spl ges/ (2L + 1), it is shown that the lower bound is maximized by a family of placement schemes called QPP-/spl alpha/, where QPP stands for quasi-periodic placement. These placement schemes are formed by grouping the known symbols into as many clusters as possible and then placing these clusters periodically in the packet. For both OFDM and single-carrier systems, the optimum energy tradeoff between training and data is also obtained.     

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.     

Subspace-based blind and semi-blind channel estimation for OFDMsystems

This paper proposes a new blind channel estimation method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The algorithm makes use of the redundancy introduced by the cyclic prefix to identify the channel based on a subspace approach. Thus, the proposed method does not require any modification of the transmitter and applies to most existing OFDM systems. Semi-blind procedures taking advantage of training data are also proposed. These can be training symbols or pilot tones, the latter being used for solving the intrinsic indetermination of blind channel estimation. Identifiability results are provided, showing that in the (theoretical) situation where channel zeros are located on subcarriers, the algorithm does not ensure uniqueness of the channel estimation, unless the full noise subspace is considered. Simulations comparing the proposed method with a decision-directed channel estimator finally illustrates the performance of the proposed algorithm     

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.     

Efficient use of DS/CDMA signals for broadband communications over power lines

This paper investigates the use of direct‐sequence/code‐division multiple access (DS/CDMA) signals for broadband communications over power lines. Each user is assumed to utilize all available spreading codes for sending the information to the destination. The transmitter and the receiver are assumed to have perfect channel knowledge with the receiver employing a zero‐forcing multiuser detector. Based on channel knowledge we attempt to maximize the data throughput by suitable choice of the number of codes used and the power and the constellation size (bit‐load) assigned to the data modulating each spreading code. We employ Gold codes, in addition to special codes derived based on the channel knowledge for ISI minimization, termed ‘eigen codes’. In contrast to some earlier results concerning CDMA and OFDM, we show that DS/CDMA signals can be optimized to achieve an overall data throughput of approximately 80% of that achieved by OFDM systems. This result shows that DS/CDMA signaling can be a good candidate for broadband power line communications. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Circularity-Based I/Q Imbalance Compensation in Wideband Direct-Conversion Receivers

Communication receivers that utilize I/Q downconversion are troubled by amplitude and phase mismatches between the analog I and Q branches. These mismatches are unavoidable in practice and reduce the obtainable image frequency attenuation to the 20-40-dB range in practical receivers. In wideband multichannel receivers, where the overall bandwidths are in the range of several megahertz and the incoming carriers located at each other's mirror frequencies have a high dynamic range, the image attenuation of the analog front-end (FE) alone is clearly insufficient. In this paper, two novel blind low-complexity I/Q imbalance compensation techniques are proposed and analyzed to digitally enhance the analog FE image attenuation in wideband direct-conversion receivers. The proposed algorithms are grounded on the concept of circular or proper complex random signals, and they are, by design, able to handle the often overlooked yet increasingly important case of frequency-dependent I/Q mismatches. The first technique is an iterative one, stemming from adaptive filtering principles, whereas the second one is a moment-estimation-based block method. The performance of the algorithms is evaluated through computer simulations, as well as real-world laboratory signal measurement examples in practical multicarrier receiver cases. Based on the obtained results, the proposed compensation techniques can provide very good compensation performance with low computational resources and are robust in the face of different imbalance levels and dynamics of the received signals, as well as many other crucial practical aspects such as the effects of the communications channel and carrier synchronization.