On the performance of a maximum-likelihood code-acquisitiontechnique for preamble search in a CDMA reverse link

The performance of a maximum likelihood (ML) code-acquisition technique is analyzed for slotted-mode preamble search in the code-division multiple access (CDMA) reverse link. The probabilities of detection, miss, and false alarm are derived analytically for multiple H ₁ cell cases, based on the statistics of the CDMA noncoherent demodulator output in a frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel. The probability density function (PDF) of a decision variable is also derived by considering the fading characteristics of the received signal for both single- and dual-antenna cases. The performance of the code-acquisition technique is evaluated numerically with emphasis on the effects of postdetection integration, fading rate, antenna diversity, and so on     

Performance Analysis of MIMO Based CDMA Code Acquisition Over Rayleigh Fading Channels

This paper proposes a new MIMO based CDMA code acquisition scheme. The pilot codes consist of a number of short Gold code sequences which are transmitted in parallel using a group of transmit antennas. Reception diversity is performed by multiple receive antennas at the receiver. Three different acquisition detection techniques are proposed and compared. Corresponding threshold optimizations are investigated as well. Detection and false alarm probabilities are derived in closed form based on the outputs of non-coherent matched filters. The acquisition performance is evaluated in terms of mean acquisition time (MAT) in Rayleigh fading environment. It is shown that the proposed MIMO acquisition scheme exhibits a much better MAT performance than the conventional single-antenna acquisition scheme. The results reveal that multiple receive antennas can be utilized to significantly reduce the MAT at the expense of receiver complexity increase. On the other hand, increasing the number of transmit antennas makes the MAT performance more robust in the presence of strong interference.     

Code acquisition schemes using antenna arrays for DS-SS systems and their performance in spatially correlated fading channels

We propose parallel and serial code-acquisition schemes using antenna arrays for initial acquisition of direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals, which can lower substantially the range of detectable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as compared to the corresponding conventional schemes with a single antenna. The proposed schemes use the sum of all the single-antenna decision samples from antenna arrays, corresponding to an identical subsequence of a given pseudonoise code as a decision variable in order to enhance SNR of the resulting signal. We analyze the mean acquisition time performance under an additive white Gaussian noise channel and spatially correlated time-varying flat Rayleigh fading channels by deriving the expressions for the probabilities of detection, missing, and false alarm. We consider two extreme cases of spatial fading correlation among antenna arrays, the case of uncorrelated diversity antennas and the case of perfectly correlated antennas. From numerical results, we see that the acquisition performance of the proposed schemes using antenna arrays becomes improved continually as the number of antennas increases and the performance improvement depends on the degree of spatial fading correlation.     

Intelligent antenna system for cdma2000

Third-generation (3G) cellular code division multiple access (CDMA,) systems can provide an increase in capacity for system operators over existing second-generation (CDMA) systems. The gain in capacity for the base station to mobile (forward) link can be attributed to improvements in coding techniques, fast power control, and transmit diversity techniques. Additional gains in the mobile to base station (reverse) link can be attributed to the use of coherent quadrature phase shift keyed (QPSK) modulation and better coding techniques. While these enhancements can improve the performance of the system, system operators expect that with increased demand for data services, even greater capacity enhancements may be desired. There are essentially three methods, which we describe, based on diversity, spatial beamforming, and a combination of diversity and beamforming, to improve the performance of system through the use of additional antennas at the base station transmitter and receiver. The performance improvements are a function of the antenna spacings and the algorithms used to weight the antenna signals. We focus on the possibilities for the cdma2000 3G system that do not require standards changes. We highlight the performance enhancements that can be obtained on both the reverse and forward links through use of an antenna array architecture that supports a combination of beamforming and transmit diversity. We focus on the performance enhancements for the forward link     

A study of opportunism for multiple-antenna systems

Recently proposed opportunistic beamforming exploits the multiuser diversity to reduce the feedback by not requiring the precoding information used for closed-loop schemes to be known at the transmitter. Opportunism could also be beneficially employed for other multiple-antenna transmission techniques like cophasing and antenna selection. For opportunistic beamforming and antenna selection, we give closed-form expressions for throughput that closely approximate the performance of these schemes with a Proportionally Fair scheduler (PFS) at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). For large number of transmit antennas, opportunistic cophasing has similar performance as opportunistic beamforming. Asymptotic dependence of the required number of users to achieve the gains of opportunism on the number of transmit antennas is exponential for opportunistic beamforming (and cophasing for large numbers of transmit antennas), and at best linear for opportunistic antenna selection. For multiple-antenna receivers, we additionally examine an opportunistic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme that transmits multiple data streams simultaneously to the same user.     

A transmitter diversity scheme for wideband CDMA systems based onspace-time spreading

We present a transmit diversity technique for the downlink of (wideband) direct-sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The technique, called space-time spreading (STS), improves the downlink performance by using a small number of antenna elements at the base and one or more antennas at the handset, in conjunction with a novel spreading scheme that is inspired by space-time codes. It spreads each signal in a balanced way over the transmitter antenna elements to provide maximal path diversity at the receiver. In doing so, no extra spreading codes, transmit power or channel information are required at the transmitter and only minimal extra hardware complexity at both sides of the link. Both our analysis and simulation results show significant performance gains over conventional single-antenna systems and other open-loop transmit diversity techniques. Our approach is a practical way to increase the bit rate and/or improve the quality and range in the downlink of either mobile or fixed CDMA systems. A STS-based proposal for the case of two transmitter and single-receiver antennas has been accepted and will be included as an optional diversity mode in release A of the IS-2000 wideband CDMA standard     

Blind adaptive space-time multiuser detection with multipletransmitter and receiver antennas

The demand for performance and capacity in cellular systems has generated a great deal of interest in the development of advanced signal processing techniques to optimize the use of system resources. In particular, much work has been done on space-time processing in which multiple transmit/receive antennas are used in conjunction with coding to exploit spatial diversity. We consider space-time multiuser detection using multiple transmit and receive antennas for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communications. We compare, via analytical bit-error-probability calculations, user capacity, and complexity, two linear receiver structures for different antenna configurations. Motivated by its appearance in a number of third-generation (3G) wideband CDMA standards, we use the Alamouti (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.16, p.1451-58, Oct. 1998) space-time block code for two-transmit-antenna configurations. We also develop blind adaptive implementations for the two transmit/two receive antenna case for synchronous CDMA in flat-fading channels and for asynchronous CDMA, in fading multipath channels. Finally, we present simulation results for the blind adaptive implementations     

Smart versus dumb antennas-capacities and FEC performance

We compare two approaches to use multiple transmit antennas in an FEC coded wireless system: smart antennas use an antenna array to direct a beam in the direction of the dominant transmission path in order to obtain an antenna gain. Another approach is to use multiple transmit antennas for diversity using space-time block codes. Since no knowledge of the channel is required at the transmitter we denote this approach as dumb antennas. Using equivalent single-input channel models we compare smart and dumb antennas in terms of the BER performance and channel capacity and discuss under which conditions it is preferable to use multiple transmit antennas for transmit diversity or for beamforming     

Space-time multiplexing for mimo multiuser downlink channels

In this paper, we study the downlink of a multiuser system, in which antenna arrays are employed at both the transmitter (base station) and the receivers (clients). A space-time modulation technique that can be seen as two-dimensional spreading is introduced. It provides full transmit diversity for every user, and accommodates N_t times the number of users as a single-antenna code-division multi-access (CDMA) scheme, where N_t is the number of transmit antennas. Thus multiple access is provided through spatial as well as code dimensions. In addition, the scheme forms groups of users that are orthogonal to each other. This feature translates into simplified detection strategies without loss of performance. The main detector structure of interest is a two-stage interference canceller because of its low complexity compared to other joint detectors. We will demonstrate that in conjunction with an unequal power allocation scheme, this receiver provides full diversity and suffers from only a small performance loss compared to the full-complexity maximum likelihood (ML) receiver. In a single-user multiple antenna system, the same spreading scheme and unequal power allocation yields a new approach to designing full-rate, full-diversity space-time codes having good performance with successive interference cancellers     

Adaptive MMSE receiver with beamforming for DS/CDMA systems

The minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver is a linear filter which can suppress multiple access interference (MAI) effectively in direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communications. An antenna array is also an efficient scheme for suppressing MAI and improving the system performance. In this letter, we consider an adaptive MMSE receiver in conjunction with beamforming in CDMA systems employing an antenna array. The proposed structure is featured as a low complexity receiver, which adapts the MMSE filter coefficients and the beamforming weights simultaneously. However, it does require the channel state information and the direction of arrival (DOA) of the desired user signal. As a result, we propose two adaptation methods to perform joint channel estimation and signal detection without any training sequence. It is demonstrated that the two proposed methods achieve similar bit-error-rate performance. More importantly, their performance degradation compared with the case with perfect channel information is small.     

多天线系统中的多用户分集方案的性能分析及比较

在多天线多用户无线通信系统中,可以利用用户之间彼此独立的随机衰落信道的特点,结合随机波束成型技术,或者空间分集技术,或者天线选择技术,获得多用户分集增益。然而不同多用户分集方案的系统性能不尽相同。该文分析了在多输入单输出(MISO)信道中目前几种典型的多用户分集方案的性能,给出系统吞吐率的定量表达式,并综合比较了不同用户数和不同天线数对各种多用户分集方案性能的影响,为实际多天线多用户系统设计提供了有益的参考。     

Acquisition for DS/CDMA systems with multiple antennas in frequency-selective fading channels

A generalized code acquisition scheme for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems with multiple antennas is proposed over frequency-selective fading channels. The proposed scheme is developed on the framework of a generalized configuration of multiple antennas and correlators. The nonconsecutive search method is generalized and extended to multiple antenna systems to exploit multipath signals in improving acquisition performance over frequency-selective fading channels. The proposed scheme also adopts a hybrid decision strategy to make effective decisions on acquisition. The mean acquisition time performance of the proposed acquisition scheme is analyzed and evaluated in frequency-selective Rayleigh-fading channels with general multipath delay profiles and spatial-fading correlations. The effects of nonconsecutive search on mean acquisition time are investigated for various channel environments, and the optimal choice of decision strategy is discussed. Furthermore, effects of various configurations of multiple antennas and correlators, decision thresholds, and correlation interval on the performance are also investigated.     

频谱有效的差分空时编码CDMA系统

该文针对码分多址(Code-Division Multiple-Access,CDMA)系统提出了频谱有效的差分空时传输方案。考虑包含M个同步共道用户的多用户环境,每一用户配备双发射天线。若接收端配备N2个接收天线,该方案将采用解相关检测器和接收天线分集分离M个用户。基于平坦Rayleigh衰落信道,给出了非相干译码器,它可为每一共道用户提供2(N-1)的最小分集增益。与已有的差分空时编码CDMA系统相比,该方案具有两大优势:第一,仅需增加单个接收天线,该方案可在频谱效率提高1/3的条件下显著地改善系统性能;第二,译码仅具有线性复杂度。     

Weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes

In existing grouped multilevel space-time trellis codes (GMLSTTCs), the groups of transmit antennas are predefined, and the transmit power is equally distributed across all transmit antennas. When the channel parameters are perfectly known at the transmitter, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming scheme can achieve the better performance by optimum grouping of transmit antennas and properly weighting transmitted signals based on the available channel information. In this paper, we present a new code designed by combining GMLSTTCs, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming using the channel state information at transmitter (CSIT), henceforth referred to as weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes (WAGMLSTTCs). The CSIT is used to adaptively group the transmitting antennas and provide a beamforming scheme by allocating the different powers to the transmit antennas. Simulation results show that WAGMLSTTCs provide improvement in error performance of 2.6 dB over GMLSTTCs.     

拥有多天线源节点的放大转发双向中继信道机会中继策略研究

We consider a two-way relay network where the Amplify-and-Forward (AF) protocol is adopted by all relays in this paper. The network consists of two multi-antenna source nodes and multiple distributed single-antenna relays. Two opportunistic relaying schemes are proposed to efficiently utilize the antennas of the source nodes and the relay nodes. In the first scheme, the best relay is selected out by a max-min-max criterion before transmitting. After that, at each source, only the antenna with the largest channel gain between itself and the best relay is activated to transmit and receive signals with full power. In the second scheme, assisted by the best relay which is selected by the typical max-min criterion, both source nodes use all their antennas to exchange data, and match filter beamforming techniques are employed at both source nodes. Further analyses show that all schemes can achieve the full diversity order, and the conclusions are not only mathematically demonstrated but numerically illustrated. System performance comparisons are carried out by numerical methods in terms of rate sum and outage probability, respectively. The beamforming assisted scheme can be found to be superior to the antenna selection scheme when accurate Channel State Information (CSI) is available at the transmitters. Otherwise, the latter is very suitable.     

Successive beamforming,multiuser detection and diversity reception for multicarrier DS-CDMA system with antenna array

Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) systems are interference limited,and therefore efficient interference management is necessary to enhance the performance of a CDMA system.In this paper,a successive beamforming (spatial filtering),linear decorrelating MultiUser Detection (MUD, temporal filtering) and diversity reception structure for uplink multicarrier Direct Sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) system with antenna array are proposed.By beamforming,the antenna array suppresses interference according to the distinct array signature.Subsequently,linear decorrelating MUD is ap- plied to separate the signals of different users and eliminate Multiple Access Interference (MAI).Finally, the decorrelated signals at different subcarriers that belong to the same user are combined to achieve frequency diversity.Simulation results show that the proposed structure offers significant Bit Error Rate (BER) performance improvement by successively exploiting the space-time-frequency processing.     

Serial search code acquisition using smart antennas with single correlator or matched filter

This paper investigates three code acquisition methods for direct sequence spread spectrum systems (DS/SS) utilizing smart antennas. The methods are suitable especially for receivers that consist of a smart antenna followed by a single correlator or a matched filter (IMF). The first method is the known fixed beam strategy where the whole angular uncertainty region is divided into small cells using conventional beamforming techniques. Therein, the receiver searches through all angular and delay cells via a serial search procedure. In the second method, the fixed division is made using advanced beamforming techniques, which provide improved tolerance against interference. In the third strategy, the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of incoming signals are estimated and utilized in the acquisition process. An advantage of this DOA estimation-based strategy, when compared to fixed beamforming methods, is a decrease in the region of uncertainty. Disadvantages are increased computational complexity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) limitations. The acquisition strategies are compared when the serial search acquisition of the code phase is made using either the correlator or the matched filter. The results indicate that a single antenna receiver gives the best acquisition performance when SNR is high. However, single antenna methods are sensitive to interference. On the other hand, DOA estimation-based methods offer shorter mean acquisition times than fixed beam methods, especially when the number of arriving signals is small.     

Mitigation of Antenna Displacement with Array Antenna for Data Transmission in Wireless Power Transfer System

Magnetic resonance wireless power transfer is expected to be one of the prevalent schemes because of its high efficiency and long transmission range. However, in this scheme, there is a problem that the characteristics of a transmission channel changes in according with the distance between coil antennas. This paper investigates the performance of data transmission with an array antenna in a wireless power transfer system. In the assumed system, the same antennas for wireless power transfer are used for data transmission. The assumed system uses multiple transmit antennas and beamforming is realized by shifting the phases of signals in a transmitter. Numerical results obtained through computer simulation show that the proposed scheme can mitigate the dependently of a bit error rate (BER) to the distance between the antenna coils. The variation of the performance is suppressed within 1–3 dB at the BER of \(10^{-5}\) in the case of two transmit antennas. In addition, the system with two transmit antennas achieves 2 dB or more improvement in term of the BER performance than that with a single antenna at specific antenna distances.     

Merging multicarrier CDMA and oscillating-beam smart antenna arrays: exploiting directionality, transmit diversity, and frequency diversity

In this paper, a novel merger of multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) and smart antenna arrays is introduced. Here, a group of Q carriers in the MC-CDMA system is applied to its own M-element smart antenna array at the base station (BS). The smart antennas are located in close proximity to one another. We generate a transmit diversity gain at the receiver by carefully moving (oscillating) the antenna array's pattern. The pattern oscillation is achieved by applying appropriate time-varying phases to array elements of each smart antenna. The beam pattern oscillation ensures a mainlobe at the position of the intended user and small oscillations in the beam pattern. This beam pattern oscillation leads to a time-varying channel with a controllable coherence time; hence, a transmit diversity benefit, in the form of a time diversity benefit, is available at the receiver. Employing MC-CDMA with the proposed smart antenna at the BS, we achieve: 1) directionality which creates high network capacity via space-division multiple access; 2) a transmit diversity gain which supports high performance at the receiver in the mobile unit; and 3) increased capacity and performance via MC-CDMA's ability to support both CDMA and frequency diversity benefits, respectively.     

Noncoherent hybrid parallel PN code acquisition for CDMA mobilecommunications

This paper proposes a noncoherent hybrid parallel pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition scheme for code-division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication systems and analyzes the effect of multiple access interference (MAI) on the code acquisition performance for Rayleigh and Rician fading channels. The hybrid acquisition scheme combines parallel search with serial search to cover the whole uncertainty region of the input code phase. It has a much simpler acquisition hardware structure than the total parallel acquisition and can achieve the mean acquisition time slightly inferior to that of the total parallel acquisition in the case of severe MAI; on the other hand, it provides the flexibility in the tradeoff between the mean acquisition time and system complexity if no MAI is considered. The closed-form expressions of the detection and false-alarm probabilities and mean acquisition time are derived. Numerical analysis quantifies the severe performance degradation of code acquisition due to both MAI and channel fading, and demonstrates the dependence of the increase of mean acquisition time (due to MAI) on the number of users in the CDMA system, system design parameters, and channel fading statistics