Cooperative Fading Regions for Decode and Forward Relaying

Cooperative transmission protocols over fading channels are based on a number of relaying nodes to form virtual multi-antenna transmissions. Diversity provided by these techniques has been widely analyzed for the Rayleigh fading case. However, short range or fixed wireless communications often experience propagation environments where the fading envelope distribution is meaningfully different from Rayleigh. The main focus in this paper is to investigate the impact of fading distribution on performances of collaborative communication. Cooperative protocols are compared to co-located multi-antenna systems by introducing the concept of cooperative fading region. This is the collection of fading distributions for which relayed transmission can be regarded as a competitive option (in terms of performances) compared to multi-antenna direct (noncooperative) transmission. The analysis is dealt with by adopting the information theoretic outage probability as the performance metric. Cooperative link performances at high SNR are conveniently expressed here in terms of diversity and coding gain as outage parameters that are provided by the fading statistics of the channels involved in collaborative transmission. Advantages of cooperative transmission compared to multi-antenna are related to the propagation environment so that the analysis can be used in network design.      

多载波码分多址系统在瑞利衰落信道中的性能分析

多载波码分多址(MC-CDMA)是一种把多载波和CDMA相结合的技术方案。在MC-CDMA中,每个数据符号通过N个子载波传输,且根据扩频码对每个子载波以0或π相位偏移进行编码。分别研究了MC-CDMA系统上行链路和下行链路的瑞利衰落信道模型以及采用等增益组合和最大比组合的接收机模型,并对上行链路和下行链路的系统误码率性能进行了分析和计算。数值结果表明,MRC在上行链路中的性能要优于EGC,但在下行链路中的抗干扰性能不如EGC。     

多载波CDMA在深度瑞利慢衰落环境下的实用均衡策略

多载波CDMA（MC-CDMA）系统中信号经过频率选择性衰落的信道时,接收端需要采取一定的均衡技巧。在多用户的环境下,恢复正交的均衡措施能得到较好的效果。本文提出的带反馈的能量受控均衡由恢复正交均衡发展而来,能较好地恢复扩频码的正交性且避免信道深度衰落导致的噪声扩大的影响。并且,加上自适应的策略,能使系统达到很低的误码率水平,使系统的性能提高超过2dB。     

Rayleigh衰落信道中的CDMA多用户分集接收性能

本文针对频率选择性Ｒａｙｌｅｉｇｈ衰落信道，设计了一种ＣＤＭＡ多用户检测器分集结构，通过该结构，高斯信道多用户检测算法可以有效地应用到Ｒａｙｌｅｉｇｈ衰落信道中，仿真结果表明，分集合并实现的多用户中以显著改善衰落信道的误码性能，其处理多址干扰能力并不因分集而受到影响，另外，本文还对不同的合并以及不同的检测地作了性能上的比较。     

Performance of a Multicarrier CDMA System with Rayleigh Fading Multipath Channels

This paper examines the performance of a multicarrier CDMA system in a Rayleigh fading channel without a RAKE receiver. Since the multicarrier technique is a diversity reception technique used in the frequency domain, the signal is transmitted at different frequency bands and undergoes different fading. The superimposed signal of the multipath components after going through the mobile channel will be processed by an Fourier Transform to enter the frequency domain, where the time delays in various paths are converted to the phase shifts in the compound signal. In this paper, we use sounding bits to extract the characteristics of the mobile channel and to partly remove the multipath effect. From the simulation, it is found that the multicarrier technique is simpler than the technique used in the single carrier system with a RAKE receiver while producing a better performance than that of the RAKE receiver.     

Performance of Multicarrier CDMA Rake System over Rayleigh Fading Channel

Based on the theory of multicarrier (MC) technique and the Rake receiver, a multicarrier DS-CDMA Rake system is proposed, where a data sequence multiplied by a spreading sequence modulates multiple carriers. The receiver provides a Rake for each subcarrier, and the outputs of the Rakes are combined by a maximal-ratio combiner. The average probability of error of the system is derived from an uncorrelated subcarrier and frequency-selective fading channel model. The system performances are evaluated over Rayleigh fading channel with an exponential multipath intensity profile(MIP) and with a rectangular MIP, respectively, when multipath interference is present. It is found that this kind of model has larger superiority in an exponential MIP than in a rectangular MIP.     

译码转发中继网络的能量效率分析

随着人们资源节约与环保意识增加,如何获得较高的能量效率成为了绿色通信中一个重要而又棘手的问题。因此,本文研究了译码转发协议下的直接传输、单向中继、双向中继三种传输方式的能量效率。首先在瑞利信道环境下推导了能量效率的闭合表达式,然后通过凸优化算法使得能量效率达到最大。最后,还分析了信道衰落情况、发射的比特数、中继位置和系统电路功率对系统能量效率的影响。仿真结果表明,电路功率对系统的能量效率影响较大;双向中继在发送比特数对等、源节点至中继的距离相同时,其能量效率才达到最优;而当源节点至中继的距离差异较大时,单向中继的能量效率比双向中继性能更好;信道衰落较大时,双向中继比单向中继和直传更有优势。      

Multi-antenna Decode and Forward Relay Selection over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

This paper analyzes the performance of opportunistic relay under aggregate power constraint in Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay networks over independent, non-identical, Nakagami-m fading channels, assuming multiple antennas are available at the relay node. According to whether instantaneous Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) or average SNR can be exploited for relay selection, two opportunistic relay schemes, opportunistic multi-antenna relay selection (OMRS) and average best relay selection (ABRS) are proposed. The closed form expressions of outage probability and error performance for binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation of OMRS and ABRS are determined using the moment generating function (MGF) of the total signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination. Simulations are provided to verify the correctness of theoretical analysis. It is observed that OMRS is outage-optimal among multi-antenna relay selection schemes and approaches the Beamforming (BF) scheme known as theoretical outage-optimal very closely. Compared with previous single-antenna Opportunistic Relaying (OR) scheme, OMRS brings remarkable performance improvement obtained from maximum ratio combining (MRC) and beamforming, which proves that multiple antennas at the relays could provide more array gain and diversity order. It also shows that the performance of ABRS in asymmetric channels is close to OMRS in the low and median SNR range.     

平坦瑞利衰落信道中多用户检测器的性能分析

在采用传统信号检测方式的CDMA系统中,多址干扰限制了系统的容量和性能.本文分析了在精确估计信道的情况下平坦瑞利衰落信道中的判决反馈和线性解相关两种多用户检测器的性能,主要分析了二者的误码率性能和抗远近效应的能力,并首次分析了衰落信道中的渐近多用户效率(AME).结果表明,判决反馈多用户检测器的渐近多用户效率优于线性解相关检测器.     

瑞利衰落下Turbo-TCM与发射分集级联系统的性能

为了比较Turbo码与不同发射分集技术的结合在对抗多径衰落时的作用,本文比较了Turbo-TCM方案分别与Alamouti提出的编码分集技术(ACD)和传统的正交发射分集技术(OTD)的级联系统在瑞利衰落信道下的性能.针对级联系统的译码,本文给出了一种具有低译码时延的次优译码算法,该算法的特点是各模块独立译码,先算比特对数似然比再进行二进制Turbo码译码.同时进行了仿真.     

Performance Analysis of Multiband Complex Wavelet Based MC-CDMA System with Space Diversity Combining in Rayleigh Fading Channel

In this paper, the multiband complex wavelet used as multi-carrier basis function is optimized. On the basis of analyzing the principle of multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), a new multiband complex wavelet based MC-CDMA (MBCW-MC-CDMA) system model is proposed, and space diversity combining (SDC) technique is employed to improve the system performance further. The uplink performance of proposed MBCW-MC-CDMA system with SDC technique is investigated in Rayleigh fading channel, and corresponding bit error rate (BER) analysis is given in detail. Without any cyclic prefix (CP), the system can avoid the decrease of spectrum efficiency and data rate of conventional MC-CDMA with CP. By comparison, our scheme outperforms real wavelet packet based MC-CDMA and slightly outperforms conventional MC-CDMA with CP via utilizing superior properties of the optimized multiband complex wavelet. Theoretical analysis and simulation result show that the application of SDC technique can improve the proposed system ability to combat spatial fading and various interferences effectively. Moreover, the proposed system based on SDC technique has superior BER performance over conventional DFT and SDC based MC-CDMA system and real wavelet packet and SDC based MC-CDMA system. Xiangbin Yu received the M.S degrees in Communication and Information Systems from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2001; and his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems in 2004 from National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory at Southeast University, China. Now he is working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Information and Communication Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His research interests include multi-carrier digital communication, space-time coding and digital signal processing in modern communications. Xiaodong Zhang received the M.S degrees from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 1998. In 2002, he received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include contemporary signal processing and digital communications. DaZhuan Xu received the M.S degrees and Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1986 and 2001, respectively. He is now a full professor in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. Prof.Xu is a Senior Member of China Institute of Electronics (CIE). His research interests include digital communications, soft radio, coding theory, medical signal processing. Guangguo BI was graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1960. He is now a professor in the Department of Radio Engineering of Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prof.Bi is a fellow and a member of the board of Director of the China Institute of Communications, and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests include digital communications, personal communications network, spread spectrum communications, and intelligent information processing. He has published more than 200 papers in above areas.     

Performance Analysis of Cooperative Communication System with Hierarchical Modulation over Rayleigh Fading Channel

Much attention had been devoted to study the bit error rate (BER) of hierarchical modulation on point-to-point transmissions in recent years. But few mention the error performance of hierarchical modulation on cooperative communication systems. Thus, in this paper, we derive the explicit closed-form expressions of the exact bit error rate computation for cooperative communication systems with hierarchical modulation over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels and Rayleigh fading channels. To obtain the theoretical formulas of error rate performance, an analyzing model is proposed to clearly express all possibilities of each transmission. For error rate performance, the expression for BER is a function of distance parameters. Based on this relationship, a criterion is proposed to choose the optimal distance parameters for minimizing the BER of the refinement bits while guaranteeing the BER requirement of the base bits. Simulation results validate the correctness of the derived BERs of the base bits and the refinement bits. Also from simulation results, the performance with optimal distance parameters is greatly improved compared to the non-optimal distance parameters.     

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.     

SER Analysis of QAM with Space Diversity in Rayleigh Fading Channels

This paper derives the symbol error probability for quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM) with L-fold space diversity in Rayleigh fading channels. Two combining techniques, maximal ratio combining(MRC) and selection combining(SC), are considered. The formula for MRC space diversity is obtained by averaging the symbol error probability of M-ary QAM in an additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) channel over a chi-square distribution with 2L degrees of freedom. The obtained formula overcomes the limitations of the earlier work, which has been limited only to deriving the symbol error rate(SER) of QAM with two branch MRC space diversity. The formula for SC space diversity is obtained by averaging the symbol error probability of M-ary QAM in an AWGN channel over the distribution of the maximum signal-to-noise ratio among all of the diversity channels for SC space diversity. No analysis for QAM with SC space diversity has been reported yet. Analytical results show that the probability of error decreases with the order of diversity. We can also see that the incremental diversity gain per additional branch decreases as the number of branches becomes larger. On the other hand, the performance of 16 QAM with MRC becomes much better than that of SC as the number of branches becomes larger. By giving the order of diversity, L, and the number of signal points, M, we have been able to obtain the SER performance of QAM with general space diversity. These results can be used to determine the order of diversity to achieve the desired SER in land mobile communication system employing QAM modulation.     

Performance of Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Communications with Multiple Dual-Hop Relays over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

In this letter, we examine the symbol-error-rate (SER) performance of decode-and-forward (DF) cooperative communications. Our focus is on the scenario in which multiple dual-hop relays are employed and the channel environment is described by Nakagami-m fading. Cooperative diversity is observed from the derived error-rate expressions, and some insight into how channel conditions in the relay nodes affect the SER performance is obtained. In addition, with the knowledge of the partial channel state information (CSI) at the transmitting sides, we derive an optimal power allocation scheme to further enhance the SER performance. Simulation results are finally presented to demonstrate the correctness of our analysis and perception for the considered DF protocol.     

Baseband Performance of a Pilot Diversity System with Simulated Rayleigh Fading Signals and Co-Channel Interference

Using simulated Rayleigh-fading FM signals, the baseband performance of a diversity system that uses a separate pilot is studied. The effect of various RF/audio bandwidth expansion ratios is included. These results show an approach to a constant asymptotic baseband SNR for large expansion ratios, with diversity increasing this asymptote by 5 dB in the case of moderate to large interference and/or RF noise levels (9 to 15 dB below the carrier), to over 10 dB in the case of lower impairment levels (21 to 27 dB below the signal level). Assuming the usual hex-cell radio coverage plan, and a propagation law of the formr^{-n}, n = 3or 4, bandwidth expansion ratios of about three to six seem to yield the most efficient RF spectrum utilization in many practical situations. The number of required channel subsets (cells) is strongly influenced by the propagation law ranging from about 19 forn = 3, to about 7 forn = 4.     

Design and Analysis of a Coded Multi-Carrier CDMA System

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Nakagami衰落信道下多跳合作分集系统的中断率

该文在Nakagami衰落信道下研究了多跳无线网络中合作分集系统的中断性能。根据单节点和多节点中继的情况导出了合作系统再生中继时中断率的数学闭式解,并在高平均信噪比下给出了系统的分集度。理论分析和仿真研究的结果表明多跳合作系统在一定条件下可实现全路由分集,其分集度为所有路由的分集度之和,不是所有合作节点的和,但每支路由的分集度取决于该路由两跳中较小的值。     

Multiuser receivers for CDMA systems in Rayleigh fading channels

Multiuser demodulation in relatively fast fading channels is analyzed. The optimal maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) receiver is derived and a general suboptimal receiver to approximate the MLSD is proposed. The performance of the parallel interference cancellation (PIC) and decorrelating receivers is compared. The PIC receiver is demonstrated to achieve better performance in known channels than the decorrelating receiver, but it is observed to be more sensitive to the channel coefficient estimation errors than the decorrelator. At high channel loads the PIC receiver suffers from bit error rate (BER) saturation, whereas the decorrelating receiver does not. The performance of data-aided (DA) and decision-directed (DD) multiuser channel estimation is also compared. DA channel estimation is shown to be more robust than DD channel estimation, which may suffer from BER saturation caused by hangups at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The impact of channel estimation filter impulse response on the BER is studied by comparing optimal and suboptimal channel estimation filters. The implementation complexity of the decorrelating and PIC receivers is compared in terms of required floating point operations and clock cycles in a practical communication scenario. It is observed that the PIC receiver is only moderately more complex to implement than the conventional matched filter bank receiver, whereas the decorrelating receiver is significantly more complex