基于分层空时结构的多码CDMA系统中一种新的迭代均衡接收算法的研究

为了提高基于垂直结构的分层空时结构(V-BLAST, vertical bell-laboratories layered space-time)的多码 CDMA 系统的抗干扰能力与系统容量,文章提出了一种将 MMSE 均衡与 Turbo 译码联合运算进行的方法,得到了一种针对该系统的迭代均衡接收算法。该接收算法包含两个连续的软输入软输出模块,首先经过 MMSE 均衡后得到第一个软输出,然后从 Turbo 译码器得到第二个软输出。每一次迭代过程中,从均衡和译码中得到的外赋信息作为第二次迭代的先验信息。仿真结果表明,文章提出的迭代均衡接收算法相比较传统非迭代接收算法,性能有非常可观的改善。     

Turbo码软判决输出维特比译码方案的改造

Turbo码是一种新的纠错编码，具有十分强的纠错能力。Turbo码编码端采用两个或两个以上的卷积并行级联构成，译码端则采用以基于软判决信息输入／输出的反馈迭代译码结构。译码算法是Turbo码设计的核心，现已有的两种主要的译码算法——MAP和SOVA。SOVA是一种改进的维特比算法，使其可以逐比特输出与MAP算法类似的软判决信息。该文综述了Turbo码SOVA译码的几种改进方式，并分析了这几种改进方式及仿真结果。     

瑞利衰落信道下的Turbo均衡

Turbo均衡是一种将Turbo原理和均衡技术结合起来的技术。他通过反复均衡和信道译码来提高接收机性能。针时瑞利衰落信道，采用基于线性滤波器的软输入／软输出均衡器来消除码间干扰，其系数由最小均方误差准则确定。译码器采用最大后验概率算法时卷积码译码。考虑到瑞利衰落信道为随机信道，用非相干检测时信道进行估计。接收机通过联合均衡和译码以充分利用已经获得的信息，实现信道估计及信道均衡与信道译码的迭代更新。仿真结果表明其性能不仅远远优于非迭代系统．而且在信噪比高于4dB时几乎可以完全消除符号间干扰的影响，与MAPSE相比其复杂度大大降低。     

Turbo码软判决输出维特比译码方案的改进

Turbo码是一种新的纠错编码,具有十分强的纠错能力。Turbo码编码端采用两个或两个以上的卷积并行级联构成,译码端则采用以基于软判决信息输入/输出的反馈迭代译码结构。译码算法是Turbo码设计的核心,现已有的两种主要的译码算法——MAP和SOVA。SOVA是一种改进的维特比算法,使其可以逐比特输出与MAP算法类似的软判决信息。该文综述了Turbo码SOVA译码的几种改进方式,并分析了这几种改进方式及仿真结果。     

一种单载波频域均衡输出符号的软信息计算方法

在单载波传输中,对多径接收信号进行单载波频域均衡(SC-FDE)可令系统以较低的复杂度获得较强的抗多径能力,但传统SC-FDE不能直接为后续的软输入软输出(SISO)迭代译码模块提供译码所需的软信息。而SISO迭代译码器恰是Turbo码、LDPC码等Shannon极限码发挥良好纠错能力的重要手段。为了使SC-FDE与SISO迭代译码相结合,该文在导频数据时分复接块传输(TD-PABT)系统中给出了一种SC-FDE输出符号软信息的计算方法,并进行了仿真验证。仿真结果表明,采用该文所述的输出符号软信息计算方法的软输出SC-FDE能够与LDPC码很好地结合,且该系统误码性能明显好于采用传统SC-FDE和卷积码的TD-PABT系统。     

衰落信道硬判决解调下的Turbo码译码方法

实际应用中某些通信系统的解调器只能输出硬判决信息,无法较好地匹配Turbo码采用的软输入软输出译码算法。针对衰落信道,提出了一种对硬判决信息进行修正,改善Turbo码译码性能的方法。该方法通过对译码初始化信息根据不同的可靠性进行补偿,可改善来自信道的硬判决接收值的准确性。仿真结果表明,改进方法可有效提高Turbo码译码的性能,复杂度也较低。     

并行级联分组码的一种新的迭代译码算法

并行级联分组码比串行级联分组码具有更高的码率,基于LLR计算的Turbo迭代译码算法使其内外分量码均做到了软判决译码。通过引入校正因子a（m）,将接收信息与子译码器的输出软信息进行线性叠加反馈能在省去繁琐的LLR计算的情况下实现并行级联分组码的Turbo迭代译码。仿真研究表明,若将译码器的输出进行简单的相关运算,可进一步改善译码器性能。     

Turbo码译码的改进SOVA算法

Turbo编码自1993年提出以来，由于其出色的译码性能，在编码界得了广泛关注，逐渐被吸纳到一些标准化体系中，对于Turbo码的译码问题，目前已有许多种译码算法，在传统SOVA（软输出维特比算法）译码算法的基础上，给出了一种SOVA译码的改进算法，仿真结果表明该算法在译码性能等方面具有较强的优越性。     

维特比均衡算法

基于符号级维特比译码算法,将信道等效为一时变卷积编码器,提出了一种将信道均衡和信道译码相结合的技术——维特比均衡。重点研究了采用维特比均衡技术的单载波系统,并对比给出了采用频域均衡技术和维特比均衡技术,系统误码性能随信噪比的变化曲线及系统的计算复杂度。仿真结果表明：信道的等效脉冲响应滤波器长度较长时,维特比均衡技术明显改善了系统的误码性能,然而系统的复杂度也随之增加。     

空时分块编码OFDM系统的Turbo均衡

研究了空时分块编码的OFDM（正交频分复用）系统,对系统进行了Turbo均衡,并讨论了此时系统的译码算法和均衡算法。系统信道编码采用Turbo码,通过对BCJR（Bahl,Cocke,Jelinek,Raviv）算法的简单修改得到SISO（单输入单输出）MAP（最大后验概率）译码算法;均衡器采用SISOMMSE（最小均方差）Turbo均衡算法,并利用OFDM系统的循环前缀特性进一步降低算法复杂度。通过仿真对系统性能进行了比较分析,仿真结果表明,采用迭代均衡的空时分块编码OFDM系统性能要明显优于未空时编码和未迭代均衡的OFDM系统。     

用于盲接收的turbo均衡与迭代信道估计

Turbo均衡是一种将信道均衡和差错控制译码联合迭代处理的均衡机制,与传统的均衡器相比,能在更低的信噪比条件下克服严重信道失真导致的符号间干扰(ISI)。该文提出一种用于盲接收的turbo均衡和迭代信道估计方案,不依赖于训练序列或发送符号的先验知识,采用初始盲均衡处理来启动迭代信道估计和turbo均衡。在该方案中,初始盲均衡算法的选择是十分关键的,它需要在恶劣的信道条件为后续迭代处理的启动提供足够的先验信息。该文根据turbo均衡的特点,选择了超指数算法作为初始盲均衡。仿真结果表明,该文提出的用于盲接收的turbo均衡方案是有效的。     

Sampling-based soft equalization for frequency-selective MIMO channels

We consider the problem of channel equalization in broadband wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems over frequency-selective fading channels, based on the sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampling techniques for Bayesian inference. Built on the technique of importance sampling, the stochastic sampler generates weighted random MIMO symbol samples and uses resampling to rejuvenate the sample streams; whereas the deterministic sampler, a heuristic modification of the stochastic counterpart, recursively performs exploration and selection steps in a greedy manner in both space and time domains. Such a space-time sampling scheme is very effective in combating both intersymbol interference and cochannel interference caused by frequency-selective channel and multiple transmit and receiver antennas. The proposed sampling-based MIMO equalizers significantly outperform the decision-feedback MIMO equalizers with comparable computational complexity. More importantly, being soft-input soft-output in nature, these sampling-based MIMO equalizers can be employed as the first-stage soft demodulator in a turbo receiver for coded broadband MIMO systems. Such a turbo receiver successively improves the receiver performance through iterative equalization, channel re-estimation, and channel decoding. Finally, computer simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed sampling-based soft MIMO equalizers in both uncoded and turbo coded systems.     

一种水声通信Turbo均衡中的软迭代信道估计算法

 Turbo均衡技术是水声相干通信克服信道多径、消除码间干扰(ISI)的有效工具。Turbo均衡实际使用时需要对时变、多径信道进行良好的估计。为了提高信道估计的效果,该文基于时变横向滤波和相位旋转信道模型,提出一种水声通信Turbo均衡中的软迭代信道估计算法。该算法采用快速自优化最小均方算法得到各数据符号处的横向滤波器系数矢量并与二阶锁相环联合优化计算。通过仿真比较,该算法明显优于硬迭代信道估计算法,且相位估计性能优于其他文献中的软迭代信道估计算法。在海上试验中,水声通信距离5 km,方向近似垂直,接收阵起伏周期10 s,起伏幅度5 m左右,在此情况下进行数据采集。将该算法用于对海试数据的单通道Turbo均衡处理,实现无误码输出,验证了所提算法在软迭代信道相位估计方面的优势。     

A RAKE-based iterative receiver for space-time block-coded multipath CDMA

A turbo multiuser receiver is proposed for space-time block and channel-coded code division multiple access (CDMA) systems in multipath channels. The proposed receiver consists of a first stage that performs detection, space-time decoding, and multipath combining followed by a second stage that performs the channel decoding. A reduced complexity receiver suitable for systems with large numbers of transmitter antennas is obtained by performing the space-time decoding along each resolvable multipath component and then diversity combining the set of space-time decoded outputs. By exchanging the soft information between the first and second stages, the receiver performance is improved via iteration. Simulation results show that while in some cases a noniterative space-time coded system may have inferior performance compared with a system without space-time coding in a multipath channel, proposed iterative schemes significantly outperform systems without space-time coding, even with only two iterations. Furthermore, the performance loss in the reduced-complexity receiver due to decoupling of interference suppression, space-time decoding, and multipath combining is very small for error rates of practical interest.     

Turbo equalization of doubly selective channels

In this paper, turbo equalization for transmission over doubly selective channels is proposed. The maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) algorithm is used for channel detection as well as for channel decoding. The detection/decoding constituents can exchange soft information in an iterative manner resulting in the so‐called turbo equalization. The time‐varying multi‐path fading channel is modeled using the basis expansion model (BEM). In this BEM, the time‐varying channel is viewed as a bank of time‐invariant finite impulse response filters, and the time variation is captured by means of time‐varying complex exponential basis functions. Therefore, the time‐varying transition tables that characterize the time‐varying channel can also follow a similar BEM. The complexity of the MAP channel detector is rather prohibitive for practical applications. This motivates the search for lower‐complexity soft‐output channel detectors. For this purpose, soft‐output linear minimum‐mean square error (LMMSE)‐based channel detectors are proposed for single carrier as well as for multi‐carrier systems. With the use of Gaussian approximation, expressions for the a posteriori and extrinsic log‐likelihood ratios have been derived. The performance of the proposed turbo equalization schemes are evaluated using numerical simulations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Iterative channel estimation for turbo equalization of time-varying frequency-selective channels

We investigate turbo equalization, or iterative equalization and decoding, as a receiver technology for systems where data is protected by an error-correcting code, shuffled by an interleaver, and mapped onto a signal constellation for transmission over a frequency-selective channel with unknown time-varying channel impulse response. The focus is the concept of soft iterative channel estimation, which is to improve the channel estimate over the iterations by using soft information fed back from the decoder from the previous iteration to generate "extended training sequences" between the actual transmitted training sequences.     

Iterative multiuser detection for coded CDMA signals in AWGN andfading channels

A new iterative receiver for joint detection and decoding of code division multiple access (CDMA) signals is presented. The new scheme is based on a combination of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion and the turbo processing principle by Hagenauer (see Proc. Int. Symp. Turbo Codes and Related Topics, Brest, France, p.1-9, 1997). The complexity of the new scheme is of polynomial order in the number of users. The new scheme is applicable to two situations: (a) when the receiver is capable of decoding the signals from all users and (b) when the receiver is only capable of decoding the signals from a subset of users. In the first scenario, we establish that the proposed receiver achieves superior performance to the iterative soft interference cancellation technique under certain conditions. On the other hand, in the second scenario, we argue that the proposed receiver outperforms both the iterative soft interference canceler and the iterative maximum a posteriori (MAP) receiver because of its superior near-far resistance. For operation over fading channels, the estimation of the complex fading parameters for all users becomes an important ingredient in any multiuser detector. In our scheme, the soft information provided by the decoders is used to enhance this estimation process. Two iterative soft-input channel estimation algorithms are presented: the first is based on the MMSE criterion, and the second is a lower-complexity approximation of the first. The proposed multiuser detection algorithm(s) are suitable for both terrestrial and satellite applications of CDMA     

Reduced complexity in-phase/quadrature-phase M-QAM turbo equalization using iterative channel estimation

A reduced complexity trellis-based turbo equalizer known as the in-phase (I)/quadrature-phase (Q) turbo equalizer (TEQ-IQ) invoking iterative channel impulse response (CIR) estimation is proposed. The underlying principle of TEQ-IQ is based on equalizing the I and Q component of the transmitted signal independently. This requires the equalization of a reduced set of separate I and Q signal components in comparison to all of the possible I/Q phasor combinations considered by the conventional trellis-based equalizer. It was observed that the TEQ-IQ operating in conjunction with iterative CIR estimation was capable of achieving the same performance as the full-complexity conventional turbo equalizer (TEQ-CT) benefiting from perfect CIR information for both 4- and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmissions, while attaining a complexity reduction factor of 1.1 and 12.2, respectively. For 64-QAM, the TEQ-CT receiver was too complex to be investigated by simulation. However, by assuming that only two turbo equalization iterations were required, which is the lowest possible number of iterations, the complexity of the TEQ-IQ was estimated to be a factor of 51.5 lower than that of the TEQ-CT. Furthermore, at BER = 10/sup -3/ the performance of the TEQ-IQ 64-QAM receiver using iterative CIR estimation was only 1.5 dB away from the associated decoding performance curve of the nondispersive Gaussian channel.     

Simplified Viterbi processors for the GSM Pan-European cellularcommunication system

The GSM cellular system provides the European countries with a common digital mobile radio structure for overland communications. This paper illustrates an implementation of a GSM receiver in which two reduced complexity Viterbi processors are used: the first one for the demodulation of the GMSK signal and the second one for the decoding operations. The performance of the receiver is evaluated through a channel simulator for mobile communications. The results show that in many cases the proposed receiver allows the significant reduction of the computation complexity with respect to the classical Viterbi processor. In particular, for mean and high signal-to-noise ratios, a reduction of four times in the computational burden is obtained     

Turbo equalization: adaptive equalization and channel decodingjointly optimized

This paper deals with a receiver scheme where adaptive equalization and channel decoding are jointly optimized in an iterative process. This receiver scheme is well suited for transmissions over a frequency-selective channel with large delay spread and for high spectral efficiency modulations. A low-complexity soft-input soft-output M-ary channel decoder is proposed. Turbo equalization allows intersymbol interference to be reduced drastically. For most time-invariant discrete channels, the turbo-equalizer performance is close to the coded Gaussian channel performance, even for low signal-to-noise ratios. Finally, results over a time-varying frequency-selective channel proves the excellent behavior of the turbo equalizer