MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道的稀疏自适应感知估计

在多输入多输出（MIMO）-正交频分复用（OFDM） 系统中,怎样在较高频谱利用率的情况下对快时变信道进行较为准确的估计是一个具有挑战性的课题。该文在利用压缩感知理论可提高系统频谱利用率的基础上,提出了一种适合于快时变环境下MIMO-OFDM 系统的稀疏自适应信道估计方法。该方法不再受到奈奎斯特采样频率条件约束,避免了传统导频辅助信道估计方法频谱利用率低的缺点。该文方法通过构建多天线群时频结构特征稀疏基,利用多天线间和群时变OFDM符号内信道冲激响应具有更强稀疏性的特点,对MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道进行稀疏变换。由于实际MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道往往处于频率选择性、时变性和多种干扰并存的复杂环境,受到干扰的信道参数对系统而言是未知,采用该方法克服了现有基于压缩感知理论的信道估计方法需要预先知道信道冲激响应稀疏度才能重构信道参数的不足,在信道稀疏度未知道的情况下,运用稀疏自适应的方法来对不同时频结构特征的信道参数进行估计。仿真结果表明所提估计方法具有对快时变信道参数估计的鲁棒性和较高频谱利用率,且均方误差小。      

Super-orthogonal differential space-time trellis coding and decoding

In this paper, a differential space-time trellis-coded scheme based on super-orthogonal space-time trellis codes (SOSTTCs) is proposed. It achieves full diversity and provides an improved coding gain. Based on the per-survivor processing (PSP) technique, a low-complexity suboptimal differential decoder is developed. In slow fading channels, it can approach the performance of SOSTTC with coherent decoding. Furthermore, in time-varying channels, a bank of recursive least square (RLS) type channel predictors are incorporated into the Viterbi decoder to track the channel variance and the RLS predictors do not need training data and channel statistics. The performance analysis is given. Simulation results are presented to illustrate our analytical results and they show that our scheme can achieve a good performance in both slow fading and time-varying fading channels with modest complexity.     

一种新颖的基于子矩阵交织的差分酉空时调制

差分酉空时调制(DUSTM)是一种应用于时变衰落信道下的多天线调制方法。该方法在慢衰落信道下无需知道信道状态信息而能获得全发送分集增益。但是,在快速衰落信道下,其性能明显恶化并且呈现出较高的误码平层。该文通过在差分酉空时调制中引入矩阵分割和子矩阵交织等操作提出了一种基于子矩阵交织的差分酉空时调制(SMI-DUSTM)方案,并对其性能进行了分析。性能分析和相应的计算机仿真证明了SMI-DUSTM 不仅能够继承DUSTM在慢衰落信道下的优点,而且在快速衰落信道下能够保持良好的系统性能。     

Performance of closed-loop power control in DS-CDMA cellularsystems

In situations where the round-trip delay between the mobile and the base stations is smaller than the correlation time of the channel, power control schemes using feedback from the base station can effectively compensate for the fast fading due to multipath. We study several closed-loop power control (CLPC) algorithms by analysis and detailed simulation. We introduce a new loglinear model for analyzing the received power correlation statistics of a CLPC scheme. The model provides analytical expressions for the temporal correlation of the power controlled channel parameterized by the update rate, loop delay, and vehicle speed. The received power correlation statistics quantify the ability of closed-loop power control to compensate for the time-varying channel. To study more complex update strategies, detailed simulations that estimate the channel bit-error performance are carried out. Simulation results are combined with coding bounds to obtain quasi-analytic estimates of the reverse link capacity in a direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) cellular system. The quasi-analytic approach quantifies the performance improvements due to effective power control in both single-cell and multicell DS-CDMA systems operating over both frequency-nonselective and frequency-selective fading channels. The effect of nonstationary base stations on the system performance is also presented     

Performance of Alamouti transmit diversity over time-varying Rayleigh-fading channels

We analyze the impact of a time-varying Rayleigh-fading channel on the performance of an Alamouti transmit-diversity scheme. We propose several optimal and suboptimal detection strategies for mitigating the effects of a time-varying channel, and derive expressions for their bit-error probability as a function of the channel correlation coefficient /spl rho/. We find that the maximum-likelihood detector that optimally compensates for the time-varying channel is very tolerant to time-varying fading, attaining full diversity order even for the extreme case of /spl rho/=0. In contrast, although lower in complexity, the suboptimal schemes suffer a diversity penalty and are thus suitable only for slowly fading channels.     

基于时变衰落信道分解的OFDM信号接收技术

OFDM信号在时变衰落信道中传输时存在载波间干扰(ICI),降低了系统的性能。基于衰落信道的多普勒分解,OFDM信号在时变衰落信道中的传输可以等效成信息数据直接通过无衰落的离散白噪声滤波器模型信道传输,改进的Viterbi算法可用于接收这类信号。该接收技术可以有效去除传统的OFDM系统中的载波间干扰,消除误码的地板效应,提高了系统性能。     

Iterative Channel Estimators in V-BLAST OFDM Systems

An iterative pilot-symbol aided modulation (PSAM) channel estimation approach is proposed for vertical Bell Laboratories layered space-time (V-BLAST) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems operating on frequency-selective fading channels. Since the signals at the receive antennas are the superposition of signals from multiple transmit antennas, accurate channel estimates are crucial for good error performance. Furthermore, the time selectivity of the fading channels leads to inter-carrier interference (ICI). While ICI can be ignored for slow fading channels, it should be mitigated for fast fading channels. This paper proposes an ICI mitigation scheme for time-varying channels. We also propose an iterative channel estimator with low-complexity. Simulation results demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed algorithm on frequency-selective fading channels.     

A robust channel estimator for DS-CDMA systems under multipath fading channels

This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems with time-varying multipath fading channels. The multipath fading channels are modeled as autoregressive (AR) models. A method is first proposed to convert the time-varying regression model due to the time-varying nature of users' information symbols into a time-invariant one. Then, a polynomial approach is proposed to obtain the minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator. The uncertainty of the channel model and decision errors of the DS-CDMA detector are taken into consideration in the design of the MMSE estimator. Compared with the Kalman estimator, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm is much lower. The simulation results show that the proposed estimator provides a comparable estimation performance with the Kalman estimator and is robust for fast-fading channels.     

Iterative Joint Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for OFDM System in Double Selective Channels

Intercarrier interference caused by fast time-varying multipath fading channels degrades the system performance of high-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. This study considers the challenging problem of joint channel estimation and signal detection in high mobility environments. The estimation method is based on a pilot-aided linear approximation channel modeling and iterative process. After each iteration, the channel estimates are refined with the fed-back detection signal. The channel is re-estimated iteratively, detected increasingly reliable signals. The proposed method is independent of the Doppler-spectrum, delay-profile shape and the number of paths. Numerical simulation results indicate that the proposed method is highly robust to fast time-varying multipath fading channels.     

Achieving near-optimum asymptotic efficiency and fading resistanceover the time-varying Rayleigh-faded CDMA channel

We study multiuser receiver design and analysis for synchronous code-division multiple-access (CDMA) channels with time-varying Rayleigh fading. Starting from an error probability criterion, we first derive a near-optimum receiver for this channel that admits a detector-estimator decomposition, has certain asymptotic optimality properties and a complexity which is independent of the length of the observation interval. The performance of this detector is analytically characterized and contrasted with that of the optimal multiuser detector for the time-invariant (or static) CDMA Rayleigh-fading channel when it is implemented over the time-varying channel. Notable among our conclusions is the fact that, unlike the static channel multiuser detector, the time-varying channel detector is able to withstand not only the estimated interference from the other system users, but also, the residual interference (that cannot be estimated) arising out of imperfect estimation of the interferer fading parameters. Using estimation error covariance information, this detector shows flexibility in accommodating a wide range of interferer fading conditions     

A Maximum Likelihood Fine Timing Estimation for Wireless OFDM Systems

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems are more sensitive to timing synchronization than single carrier systems. This paper presents a fine timing synchronization scheme which utilizes the channel impulse response (CIR) estimated from frequency-domain samples at OFDM receivers. A Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) of timing offset is derived based on the probability distribution of the estimated CIR under time-varying multipath fading. The ML timing scheme is further developed for both integer precision and real-valued precision implementations. In the real-valued timing precision case, a delay locked loop (DLL) structure is devised as an effective way to implement the MLE. Both analysis and simulations of the proposed MLE showed significant improvement over existing schemes under time-varying multipath fading channels.      

Performance of DPSK with Convolutional Encoding on Time-Varying Fading Channels

The bit error probability performance of a differentiallycoherent phase-shift keyed (DPSK) modem with convolutional encoding and Viterbi decoding on time-varying fading channels is examined. We consider both the Rician and the lognormal channels. Bit error probability upper bounds on fully-interleaved (zero-memory) fading channels are derived and substantiated by computer simulation. It is shown that the resulting coded system performance is a relatively insensitive function of the choice of channel model provided that the channel parameters are related according to the correspondence developed as part of this paper. Finally, a comparison of DPSK with a number of other modulation strategies is provided.     

Modeling and Estimation of Wireless OFDM Channels by Using Time-Frequency Analysis

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has become a very popular method for high data rate wireless communications because of its advantages over single carrier modulation schemes on multipath, frequency selective fading channels. However, intercarrier interference, due to Doppler frequency shifts, and multipath fading severely degrade the performance of OFDM systems. Estimation of channel parameters is required at the receiver. In this paper, we present a channel modeling and estimation method based on the time-frequency representation of the received signal. The discrete evolutionary transform provides a time-frequency procedure to obtain a complete characterization of the multipath, fading, and frequency selective channels. Simulations are used to illustrate the performance of the proposed procedure and to compare it with other time-varying channel estimation techniques.     

LMMSE detection for DS-CDMA systems in fading channels

The linear minimum mean-squared-error (LMMSE) criterion can be used to obtain near-far resistant receivers in direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems. The standard version of the LMMSE receiver (postcombining LMMSE) minimizes the mean-squared error between the filter output and the true transmitted data sequence. Since the detector depends on the channel coefficients of all users, it cannot be implemented adaptively in fading channels due to severe tracking problems. A modified criterion for deriving LMMSE receivers (precombining LMMSE) in fading channels is presented. The precombining LMMSE receiver is independent of the users' complex channel coefficients, and it effectively converts the time-varying Rayleigh fading channel to an equivalent fixed additive white Gaussian noise channel from the point of view of updating the detector. The performance of the LMMSE receivers in fading channels is studied via computer simulations and numerical analysis. The results show that the postcombining LMMSE receiver has potentially larger capacity, but it cannot be used in fast fading channels. The precombining LMMSE receiver has slightly worse capacity than the postcombining LMMSE receiver, but remarkably larger capacity than the conventional RAKE receiver at the signal-to-noise ratios of practical interest     

二维扩频系统中时频码片级差分检测的性能分析

时变频率选择性衰落信道中,针对二维扩频系统提出了一种时频码片级差分检测方法,并进行了误码率分析,同时进行了仿真验证.分析和仿真结果表明,时频码片级差分检测同时具有抵抗信道频率选择性和时间选择性衰落的能力,在选择性衰落信道中的性能优于平坦衰落信道中的性能.通过性能对比发现,时频码片级差分检测相对多载波扩频码片级差分检测能够更加有效地降低了载波间干扰对系统性能的影响.     

Decision-feedback detection for block differential space-time modulation

Time variation on fading channels hinders accurate channel estimation in differential space-time modulation and deteriorates the performance. Decision-feedback differential detection is studied for block differential space-time modulation, and compared with conventional differential space-time modulation. It is observed that the proposed scheme does not suffer effective fading bandwidth expansion, as does the conventional scheme. An improved effective signal-to-noise ratio approach is proposed for analyzing the performance of the proposed scheme in time-varying flat Rayleigh fading. Theoretical analysis and simulations show the improved performance of the proposed scheme over the conventional scheme.     

Bit Interleaved Time-Frequency Coded Modulation for OFDM Systems Over Time-Varying Channels

Bit Interleaved Time-Frequency Coded Modulation for OFDM Systems Over Time-Varying Channels Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technology in broadband wireless communications with its ability in transforming a frequency selective fading channel into multiple flat fading channels. However, the time-varying characteristics of wireless channels induce the loss of orthogonality among OFDM sub-carriers, which was generally considered harmful to system performance. In this paper, we propose a bit interleaved time–frequency coded modulation (BITFCM) scheme for OFDM to achieve both time and frequency diversity inherent in broadband time-varying channels. We will show that the time-varying characteristics of the channel are beneficial to system performance. Using the BITFCM scheme and for relatively low maximum normalized Doppler frequency, a reduced complexity Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding approach is proposed to achieve good performance with low complexity as well. For high maximum normalized Doppler frequency, the inter-carrier interference (ICI) can be large and an error floor will be induced. To solve this problem, we propose two ICI mitigation schemes by taking advantage of the second order channel statistics and the complete channel information, respectively. It will be shown that both schemes can reduce the ICI significantly.     

一种频选衰落信道下的Turbo多用户检测算法

联合MAP多用户检测与信道解码的迭代多用户检测(MUD)技术可显著提高宽带移动CDMA系统的容量和性能.在多径时变衰落的编码信道下,提出一种迭代实现干扰抑制、符号估计、信道解码的Turbo多用户检测算法.在每次迭代中,MUD自适应地实现干扰抑制并输出符号估计的软信息,软输入软输出的信道解码器使用LOG MAP方法实现信道解码并反馈符号估计的软信息作为下一次TurboMUD迭代的先验信息.仿真结果证实了该算法在频选衰落信道下经两次迭代就能逼近单用户编码CDMA系统的接收性能.     

一种OFDM导频的信道估计算法的研究

提出了一种基于编码的OFDM系统的导频符号迭代辅助信道估计。利用信道解码器中的APP符号来形成虚拟的导频。与原有的信道估计算法相比,此种算法不仅在一般的信道条件下具有良好的性能,而且更加适合快变信道条件下的OFDM系统。仿真结果表明:提出的OFDM信道估计算法不仅可以给出精度较高的信道信息,而且近似达到EM信道估计的性能。     

A semiblind method for transmit antenna arrays in CDMA systems

Using a transmit antenna array (TAA), the downlink beamforming is able to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. We propose a semiblind downlink beamforming method based on channel reciprocity of the wireless channels for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems equipped with TAA. In the proposed semiblind method, it is shown that the feedback delay can result in performance degradation under a time-varying fading channel environment. Hence, the performance of the semiblind method is satisfactory only when the maximum Doppler frequency is low or the feedback delay is not significant. To overcome this difficulty, the channel prediction is considered. Using the channel predictor, the semiblind method can provide a reasonable performance for a moderate maximum Doppler frequency (about a few hundred hertz). For theoretical performance analysis, upper, and lower bounds of the bit error probability under a fading channel environment are derived