Multi‐carrier platform for wireless communications. Part 2: OFDM and MC‐CDMA systems with high‐performance,high‐throughput via innovations in spreading

Multi‐carrier technologies in general, and OFDM and MC‐CDMA in particular, are an integral part of the wireless landscape. In this second part of a two‐part survey, the authors present an innovative set of spreading codes known as CI codes, and demonstrate how these significantly increase performance and capacity in OFDM and MC‐CDMA systems, all the while eliminating PAPR concerns. Regarding OFDM: the spreading of each symbol over all N carriers using CI spreading codes (replacing the current one symbol per carrier strategy) are presented. CI codes are ideally suited for spreading OFDM since, when compared to traditional OFDM, CI‐based OFDM systems achieve the performance of coded OFDM (COFDM) while maintaining the throughput of uncoded OFDM, and, at the same time, eliminate PAPR concerns. When applied to MC‐CDMA, CI codes provide a simple means of supporting 2N users on N carriers while maintaining the performance of an N‐user Hadamard Walsh code MC‐CDMA system, i.e., CI codes double MC‐CDMA network capacity without loss in performance. The CI codes used in OFDM and MC‐CDMA systems are directly related to the CI pulse (chip) shapes used to enhance TDMA and DS‐CDMA (see part 1): hence, the CI approach provides a common hardware platform for today's multi‐carrier/multiple‐access technologies, enabling software radio applications. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi‐carrier platform for wireless communications. Part 1: High‐performance,high‐throughput TDMA and DS‐CDMA via multi‐carrier implementations

Multi‐carrier technologies in general, and OFDM and MC‐CDMA in particular, are quickly becoming an integral part of the wireless landscape. In this first of a two‐part survey, the authors present the innovative transmit/receive multi‐carrier implementation of TDMA and DS‐CDMA systems. Specifically, at the transmit side, the pulse shape (in TDMA) and the chip shape (in DS‐CDMA) corresponds to a linear combining of in‐phase harmonics (called a CI signal). At the receiver side, traditional time‐domain processing (equalization in TDMA and RAKE reception in DS‐CDMA) is replaced by innovative frequency based processing. Here, receivers decompose pulse (or chip) shapes into carrier subcomponents and recombine these in a manner achieving both high frequency diversity gain and low MAI. The resulting system outperforms traditional TDMA and DS‐CDMA systems by 10–14 dB at typical BERs, and, by application of pseudo‐orthogonal pulse shapes (chip shapes), is able to double system throughput while maintaining performance gains of up to 8 dB. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Pre‐filtering technique for MAI cancellation in MC‐CDMA systems

Multicarrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA), is a promising multiplexing technique for future communication systems. In this study, we employ the well‐known Walsh‐Hadamard spreading codes for synchronous downlink transmission of MC‐CDMA systems. The spreading codes allow that the frequency diversity to be efficiently exploited. However, multipath propagation may cause orthogonality among users is distorted, and this distortion produces multiple access interference (MAI). To eliminate this effect, we propose a pre‐filtering‐based MC‐CDMA system which uses a pre‐filtering technique at the transmitter and an equal gain combining (EGC) scheme at the receivers, respectively. Our proposed pre‐filtering technique transforms the transmitted signals so that the MAI can be eliminated, and the EGC scheme weights the signals received from all subcarriers so that channel distortions can be compensated. Furthermore, the proposed technique can calculate the transmitted power over all subcarriers to satisfy the required quality of service of each user and archive MAI‐free. In this paper, performance in terms of bit error rate is analyzed; in comparison with the EGC, orthogonal restoring combining, and maximal ratio combining schemes at receiver, respectively. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

联合均衡块迭代软判决反馈干扰抵消接收机

CDMA扩频通信系统在低扩频比时,路径间干扰(IPI, inter-path interference)变得非常严重。本文将块迭代干扰抵消同MMSE均衡器相结合,提出了一种适用于CDMA扩频通信系统低扩频比情况下的联合均衡块迭代软判决反馈干扰抵消(MMSE-BIIC)接收机结构。理论分析与计算机仿真表明,本文提出的MMSE-BIIC接收机同传统的Rake接收机、线性MMSE均衡器以及多级干扰抵消接收机相比在性能上有较大改善。     

Simplified group interference cancelling for asynchronous DS‐CDMA

A simplified group interference cancelling (IC) approach is investigated for asynchronous direct‐sequence code‐division multiple access on flat fading channels. The technique employs grouping by estimated signal‐to‐noise‐plus‐interference ratio (SNIR), and interference cancellation is performed blockwise, for a subset of the total number of users. We consider long random spreading codes, and include the effects of imperfect amplitude, carrier phase, and delay estimation. Performance of the technique shows SNIR gains of several dB, and concomitant improvements in error probability, with lower computational complexity than that of parallel or serial interference cancelling techniques. We also show that our SNIR expressions are applicable to both the AWGN and flat fading channels, and for moderate near–far conditions. In addition, we determine optimal group sizes for our technique, where optimality is in terms of average error probability over all users. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

QoS‐based space‐frequency prefiltering for TDD MC‐CDMA systems in slowly time‐varying channels

This work presents a space‐frequency prefiltering scheme for slowly time‐varying TDD MC‐CDMA downlink communications with multiple antennas at the base station (BS). Unlike the conventional spatially uncorrelated block fading channel model, both channel variation in each packet and spatial correlation are considered in the design. In the TDD mode, the mobile terminals (MTs) transmit training signals at the end of each uplink packet. In the following downlink packet, the BS computes the signal weights on different antennas and subcarriers for each MT in each symbol period based on the channel state predicted from the received training signals. The goal is to minimize the total required transmit power while keeping the received signal‐to‐interference‐plus‐noise ratio (SINR) as the target for each MT. Moreover, the maximum packet length for satisfying the SINR requirements has been determined. The results indicate that the total required transmit power can be reduced by a lower mobile speed or more BS antennas. As a result, the maximum packet length can be extended in virtue of the power reduction. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

带有循环前缀的单载波通信系统中干扰抵消辅助的频域均衡技术

在单载波通信系统中,循环前缀(简称CP)的存在不仅能减轻由于多径信道造成的传输数据块间信号干扰(简称IBI),而且可以采用频域均衡(简称FDE)技术来补偿由多径信道引起的频率选择性信号衰落.本文主要分析了带有循环前缀的单载波通信系统(简称CP-SC)中广泛应用的基于线性最小均方误差(简称LMMSE)准则的FDE技术中的残余信号间干扰(RISI)问题,提出了一种干扰抵消辅助的LMMSE-FDE接收机结构,它能很好的消除RISI,改善系统性能.     

上行空时分组编码多载波码分多址系统的逐级干扰对消接收机算法

针对空时分组编码多载波码分多址系统的上行物理链路,提出了基于QR分解和基于最小均方误差的逐级干扰对消接收机算法。经算法处理后的数据矩阵保持了空时分组编码的正交结构,从而可以通过简单的线性处理实现空时分组编码的次优译码。与传统的置零接收机算法相比,此算法不会对接收机端的白噪声产生放大作用。计算机仿真结果表明,在独立衰落信道或相关衰落信道下,此算法均优于置零接收机算法。在误码率为10-6水平下,此算法比传统算法的信噪比改善约4dB。     

Parallel interference cancellation employing RAKE receiver with selection diversity for multiuser asynchronous DS/CDMA detectors in multipath Rayleigh fading channels

In this paper, we propose and analyse parallel CCI multistage cancellation by combining RAKE and selection diversity. In order to account for channel variations, adaptive implementation of decision thresholds at the RAKE output is suggested. It is shown to provide significant improvement over either hard or soft decision techniques especially in the near‐far situation. Investigation of the system robustness to imperfect channel parameter estimation is also presented. The communication channel is modelled as slowly varying Rayleigh fading discrete multipath channel. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A bandwidth‐efficient cooperative relaying scheme with hard interference cancellation and iterative decoding

This paper considers a coded cooperative relaying scheme in which all successfully decoded signals from multiple sources are simultaneously forwarded by a multi‐antenna relay to a common multi‐antenna destination to increase bandwidth efficiency. Iterative decoding with hard interference cancellation is used at destination to recover user information. By using orthogonal transmission from sources to avoid their mutual interference, the multi‐antenna relay offers receive space diversity that greatly enhances the decoding performance at the relay. This makes the source‐relay transmission more robust, less sensitive to the source‐relay link SNR, and hence increases the contribution of the relay in cooperative transmission. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms direct transmission under the same transmit power and bandwidth efficiency. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance of group ordered successive interference cancellation for multiuser detection in GSTBC SFH/MC DS‐CDMA system

In this paper, we present a novel group space‐time block coding slow frequency‐hopping multicarrier direct‐sequence code division multiple access (GSTBC SFH/MC DS‐CDMA) system over frequency selective fading channels. The proposed scheme greatly improves the bandwidth‐efficient through assigning the users employing the same frequency‐hopping (FH) pattern. Moreover, the users employing the same FH pattern are assigned into different virtual groups, in which the users are assigned to the different spreading codes, while the users are assigned to the same spreading code in the same virtual group. Then, a novel group detection scheme that we denote by group ordered successive interference cancellation (GOSIC) is presented to suppress the interference between the different virtual groups. Our proposed scheme consists of ordering group at the receiver side in order to maximize the overall system performance, and carrying BLAST‐STBC (LSTBC) detection for the users in the same virtual group. We define and derive the optimal group order based on the post group signal to interference plus noise ratio (PGSINR). We also propose another suboptimal group order in order to overcome the complexity issues. Finally, we compare the performance of our proposed GOSIC with conventional group successive interference cancellation (GSIC), conventional STBC multiuser detection (MUD), and LSTBC‐MUD, and show that significant improvement is introduced. Finally, it is shown that the proposed scheme is robust to the imperfect channel estimation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive reference code‐based MAI cancellation for DS‐CDMA

A computationally efficient and practically deployable adaptive reference code‐based multiple access interference (MAI) cancellation scheme, in which the conventional transmitter/receiver architecture is minimally modified only at the receiver (and/or transmitter) end, is proposed for direct sequence code division multiple access (DS‐CDMA) communication. Upon numerical and theoretical analyses, the proposed communications system is seen to always outperform the existing conventional communications system. The theoretical analyses and results as presented are generally useful and applicable to any situation wherein IS95 pseudo noise (PN) codes are employed towards multiple access. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel low‐complexity transmission power adaptation in MC‐CDMA systems with a‐MRC receiver over Nakagami‐m fading channels

In this paper, we propose a novel low‐complexity transmission power adaptation with good bit error rate (BER) performance for multicarrier code‐division multiple‐access (MC‐CDMA) systems over Nakagami‐m fading channels. We first propose a new receiver called ath‐order‐maximal‐ratio‐combining (a‐MRC) receiver with which the receiver power gain for the nth subcarrier is the ath (a?1) power of the corresponding channel gain. Incorporating the a‐MRC receiver, we then propose a new transmission power adaptation scheme where the transmission power is allocated over all the N subcarriers according to the subchannel gains and the transmitter adapts its power to maintain a constant signal‐to‐interference‐plus‐noise (SINR) at the receiver. The proposed scheme has a significant performance gain over the nonadaptive transmission scheme over both independent and correlated fading channels. Moreover, the proposed scheme keeps good BER performance while it is much simpler than the previous power control/adaptation schemes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of multi‐stage interference cancellation for ultra‐wide band multiple‐access communication systems

In this contribution, a novel particle swarm optimization (PSO)‐based multi‐user detector (MUD) aided time‐hopping ultra‐wide band (TH‐UWB) system has been investigated in the multi‐path channel model. In this approach, the PSO‐based MUD employs the output of the Rake receiver as its initial value to search for the best solution which results in a formulated optimization mechanism. By taking advantage of the heuristic values and the collective intelligence of PSO technique, the proposed detector offers almost the same bit error rate (BER) performance as the full‐search‐based optimum MUD does, while greatly reducing the potentially computational complexity. Simulation results have been provided to examine the evolutionary behavior and the detection performance of the proposed PSO‐based MUD in both the additive white Gaussian noise and the multi‐path fading channel. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analyses of adaptive noncoherent receivers for MC‐CDMA communications

In this paper, we propose differential phase‐shift keying (DPSK) noncoherent receivers for multicarrier code division multiple access systems in multipath channels. The noncoherent receivers are composed of a linear equalizer and a decision‐feedback differential detector to detect DPSK signals. The performances of the proposed noncoherent receivers can be improved by increasing the number of feedback symbols. For an infinite number of feedback symbols, the optimum weight can be derived analytically, and the performances of the proposed noncoherent receivers approach that of the conventional coherent receiver. For adaptation of the equalizer coefficients, modified least mean square and recursive least squares algorithms are proposed. Furthermore, the reduced‐rank schemes are proposed to simplify the system complexities. Some simulation examples are given to show the system performances of the four proposed receivers. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Schemes for capacity increase in multiple‐rate dual‐class DS/CDMA systems

This paper presents and compares the capacities of multi‐cell and power constrained direct sequence‐code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) systems with different transmission or detection schemes. In the single‐class case (voice), we considered conventional and successive interference cancellation (SIC) schemes, determining the maximum number of users of each mode. Next, modeling and results proposed in the literature are extended for multi‐cell dual‐class systems (voice and data) and we compare the maximum data throughputs obtained with conventional, SIC and scheduling (transmission) schemes, for some user configurations. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multistage linear receivers for DS-CDMA systems

A new family of multistage low-complexity linear receivers for direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) communications is introduced. The objective of the proposed design is to mitigate the effect of multiple access interference (MAI), the most significant limiting factor of user capacity in the conventional DS-CDMA channel. The receivers presented here employ joint detection of multiple users and therefore require knowledge of all the signature codes and their timing. In addition, for a multipath environment, reliable estimates of the received powers and phases are assumed available for maximal ratio RAKE combining. Each stage of the underlying design recreates the overall modulation, noiseless channel, and demodulation process. The outputs of these stages are then linearly combined. The combining weights can be chosen to implement different linear detectors, including the decorrelating and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detectors. In this paper, we focus on implementing the MMSE detector. Simulation results illustrate that significant performance gains can be achieved in both synchronous and asynchronous systems.This work was presented in part at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, April 23–26, 1995, and at IEEE MILCOM '95, November 5–8, 1995.This work was submitted in partial fulfillment of Ph.D. requirements at The City University of New York.     

On feasibility examination of DS‐CDMA systems with imperfect successive interference cancellation

In DS‐CDMA systems with the successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique, there are K! possible decoding orders for K active users and the decoding order has considerable impact on system performance. Once the constraints on the received powers of mobile stations and the bit‐energy‐to‐interference‐power‐spectral‐density ratio requirements are satisfied under some decoding order of SIC, the system is feasible. Otherwise, if the constraints are violated under all possible decoding orders, the system is infeasible. It is highly time‐consuming to examine the system feasibility directly by using the usual exhaustive search method (ESM) for a system with even moderate number of users. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for examining the feasibility of DS‐CDMA systems with imperfect SIC. The proposed approach has significantly lower computational complexity than that of ESM and thus benefits the quick decisions of admission control and/or scheduling, which are essential for Quality of Service provisioning in DS‐CDMA systems. Furthermore, we theoretically prove that the system under the resultant decoding order obtained by the proposed approach is able to achieve the lowest outage probability among all possible decoding orders. We conduct extensive simulation experiments, and the numerical results validate our analysis and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance of coded DS‐CDMA system using reduced rank MMSE receiver in Rayleigh fading channels

This paper examines the performance of a reduced rank minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver‐based direct sequence code division multiple access (DS‐CDMA) system. For such system, when a large processing gain is employed, substantial time is consumed in computing the filter tap weights. Many schemes for reducing the complexity of the MMSE have been proposed in recent years. In this paper, computational complexity reduction of the MMSE receiver is achieved by using the K‐mean classification algorithm. The performance of the uncoded and coded systems are investigated for the full rank MMSE receiver and reduced rank MMSE receiver and results are compared in terms of bit error rate at different loading levels in both AWGN and fading channels. A system with the matched filter (MF) receiver is also presented for the purpose of comparison and an analytical pair‐wise error bound for the coded system is derived. In the adaptive implementation of the receivers, results show that good performance is achieved for the reduced rank receiver when compared to the full rank receiver in both coded and uncoded systems, while in the optimum implementation of the tap weights, the reduced dimension receiver performance experiences degradation when compared to the full rank scheme. Over the band‐limited channels considered, results for the reduced rank receiver also reiterate the fact that higher code rates tend to yield lower BER than that of low rate codes. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of cellular CDMA high‐speed data services

This paper investigates the forward‐link peak and average data rates, throughput, and coverage of a cellular CDMA system for delivering high‐speed wireless data services. The analysis takes into account major aspects commonly found in the forward data channel and applies the generalized Shannon capacity formula for multi‐element antenna (MEA) systems. The study focuses on the physical layer and is flexible for various propagation environments, antenna configurations, multicode allocations, user distributions, and cell site configurations. Numerical results for various multicode allocations are presented for a system model with two‐tier interfering cells operating under a frequency selective slow fading channel with propagation environments specified in the Recommendation ITU‐R M.1225. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.