Doppler spread estimation in mobile radio systems

In this letter, Doppler spread estimation in digital mobile radio systems is described. A maximum-likelihood approach is derived, and used to develop suboptimal approaches with lower complexity. The proposed algorithms rely on periodic channel estimation and can be used in both TDMA and CDMA systems     

Capacity estimation of cellular mobile radio systems

A capacity estimation procedure for cellular systems is introduced under a condition of concentrated traffic distribution. Comparisons are made of systems with 12.5 kHz and 25 kHz channel spacing to clarify the difference in system capacity for uniform and concentrated traffic distribution conditions. The results show it is necessary to take actual traffic distribution conditions into account in making system capacacity estimations.     

ARQ schemes for data transmission in mobile radio systems

An important problem in land mobile radio communications is how to provide reliable data communications to the largest number of users. To explore this problem, several existing ARQ protocols are examined which have application to the land mobile radio channel, as well as some new protocol combinations. All protocols are analyzed for several key system performance measures which are verified by experimental means for static as well as fading channels. Finally, a conclusion is reached regarding a new protocol combination which is found to offer significant advantages over all other protocols explored.     

Multiple radio zone plans in mobile radio systems

Multiple zone structure in a land mobile system seems to offer a flexibility in radio zone planning by using different interference distances conforming to the different system requirements in a system, thus improving the frequency utilization. A multiple zone structure can be formed by a tessellation of basic zone groups with an identical shape in parallel translation on a plane. To assure the possibility of the tessellation, two types of basic zone groups are investigated. One has several hexagonally shaped zones covered by an omnidirectional antenna beam from the zone center, while another is constructed as a subdivision of hexagons covered by a directive antenna beam. The former is expected to facilitate reduced interference distance between adjacent frequencies. An estimate of the latter type has shown better frequency economy than that in a conventional zone structure.     

Land mobile radio systems in Poland

The current situation of land mobile radio (LMR) systems in Poland is described. This includes paging, dispatch, trunking, and cellular systems. Frequency plan and organization of LMR communication in Poland are presented. Finally, the plan for the future development of LMR systems in Poland, prepared by the Ministry of Telecommunications, is summarized     

Vehicle location in cellular mobile radio systems

A tutorial discussion of vehicle location as used to control cellular mobile radio systems is presented. Early concepts and misconceptions concerning vehicle location are described, and the relation between location "accuracy" and system performance optimization is discussed. Measurement parameters commonly used for vehicle location are described, and considerations relating to the algorithm used in the location process are presented.     

Outage statistics in CDMA mobile radio systems

The statistics of the outage events in the reverse link of a direct sequence code-division multiple access (DS/CDMA) wireless system are investigated taking into account the effects of correlated Rician fading. The outage probability and the average fade duration are derived by assuming a constant multipath intensity profile, which includes a direct-path component in the first path. Simulations have been carried out which validate the analytical results     

Capacity of cellular mobile radio systems

A lower bound to the Shannon capacity of the uplink channel of a cellular system, with perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver, is evaluated against the reuse distance and the level of shadowing affecting the interfering signals. Capacity is normalised to the covered area and expressed in bit/s/Hz/unit area     

Elements of cellular mobile radio systems

A major concern in a cellular mobile radio system is the co-channel interference. Therefore, the reduction of co-channel interference becomes a main thrust for the system design engineers. We use the co-channel interference reduction factor as a design criterion and predict the signal-to-interference (S/I) ratios in different system configurations. The handoff mechanism and algorithmic considerations, the traffic capacity and procedure for splitting cells, and the near-end-to-far-end ratio interference and reduction are the elements described.     

Iterative receiver for joint detection and channel estimation in OFDM systems under mobile radio channels

In this paper, an iterative receiver for a joint data-detection and channel-estimation scheme is presented for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems, which incorporates iterative decoding in the receiver. In the proposed scheme, a maximum a posteriori-based decoder and a channel estimator provide more reliable information on the coded bits for each other in an iterative manner. We first consider a practical implementation issue for the optimal minimum mean squared error two-dimensional (2-D) channel estimator as an essential element in the iterative receiver. To reduce the complexity of the 2-D estimator as suited to the iterative receiver, we focus on rigorously investigating how a separable estimator must be designed so that its structure may become asymptotically equivalent to that of the optimal 2-D estimator. Furthermore, we derive an analytical expression of the iterative process to evaluate a convergence performance as a function of the number of iterations and discuss its convergence property. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed iterative receiver achieves a near-ideal performance with only a few iterations under time-variant multipath fading channels.     

Linear equalizer in MIMO radio communications systems

A linear equalizer for MIMO radio communications systems has been considered. The weight coefficients of the MIMO equalizer were obtained in accordance with the criterion of minimum mean squared error. Using the computer simulation technique and analyzing the case study of HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) channel it was shown that the application of equalizer made it possible to significantly improve the reception characteristics as compared with those of a conventional rake receiver.     

Outage possibilities in mobile radio systems suffering cochannelinterference

Mobile radio systems are usually designed on the basis of providing adequate reception quality to a specified area. The outage probability equations are used to determine the quality of radio reception when that quality is limited by a minimum required signal level, interference from a cochannel transmitter, and variability in the received signal levels. Considering Rayleigh fading and lognormal shadowing as joint causes of signal variation, average outage probability expressions are derived for mobile radio systems of a uniform nature. These expressions are used to investigate the influence of various system and propagation characteristics on reception quality     

Packet data transmission over mobile radio channels

Since in mobile radio Rayleigh fading poses the main threat to accurate data transmission, a mathematical model of the dynamics of Rayleigh fading is used to explore the optimum duration of data packets. The performance criterion is the rate of information transfer through the mobile radio channel. In addition to packet size, the information rate depends on: the speed of the mobile terminal, the channel bit rate, the size of the packet header, and the fade margin of the modulation and coding techniques. In particular, attention is focused on line rates of 16 kb/s and 256 kb/s (which are representative of the rates proposed for digital mobile radio systems in North America and Europe, respectively). At 16 kb/s, the optimum packet size is approximately 17 B (8.5-ms duration). At 256 kb/s, maximum throughput occurs when the packet contains about 48 B (1.5-ms duration). The precise optimum depends on vehicle speed, header size, and fade margin. The optimum packets are considerably shorter than the 125-B packets customarily used in terrestrial and satellite systems     

Network planning for third-generation mobile radio systems

The success of UMTS relies not only on the development of a flexible air interface, efficient coding techniques, and handset technology; it is equally important to design a system that can support the underlying technology and to interface with other networks     

Channel estimation joint DOAs and time delay correlation in TD‐SCDMA mobile radio systems

An improved channel estimation technique based on the Steiner low‐cost channel estimator is proposed, which is widely used in TD‐SCDMA (Time Division‐Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) cellular mobile radio systems. TD‐SCDMA is also known as third‐generation mobile systems where adaptive antennas are employed. As additive noise has a great adverse effect on the performance of the Steiner estimator, the proposed method employs time‐correlated post‐processing with a threshold filter to reduce channel noise and compensate channel variations. Furthermore, channel estimation combining direction‐of‐arrivals (DOAs) is performed, which can reduce channel interferences without adding computational complexity, for the information of DOAs has been obtained by the inherent adaptive antenna system. The performance of the improved channel estimator is compared with conventional channel estimation approaches, and numerical results show that the new approach can lead to considerable performance enhancement even in high‐speed vehicle propagation environments. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Security services for protecting radio mobile systems

The development of radio networks has brought the problem of security specifically related to mobility of terminals sharply into focus, and has created the need for radio network operators to implement new security functionalities. The security level of the analog radio mobile systems (the so-called “first generation ” systems was very low, and these systems were often exposed to massive fraud. The development of digital radio mobile systems (the so-called “second generation” systems: GSM, DECT,. allowed the systematic introduction of cryptology based protection mechanisms. Hence, for gsm networks for instance, the main fraud and confidentiality problems were taken into account at the design stage and a security architecture was implemented to provide security services to users and network operators. The third generation mobile telecommunication systems belonging to the imt- 2000 family (which are still under specification within standardisation bodies in particular within the 3gpp worldwide third generation partnership project) will, in the forthcoming years, provide a wide variety of services on a single terminal in a multi-environment (domestic, public, business), multi-operator, and multi-service provider context. Security will be based on second generation systems security functions that have proved to be needed and reliable, and shall be adapted and improved to resolve security threats underlying to new services supplied by third generation radio systems. This document presents examples of security solutions currently implemented for protecting second generation radio mobile systems against frauds and attacks and gives an overview of potential solutions for protecting future third generation radio mobile telecommunication systems.     

Channel parameter estimation in mobile radio environments using theSAGE algorithm

This study investigates the application potential of the SAGE (space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization) algorithm to jointly estimate the relative delay, incidence azimuth, Doppler frequency, and complex amplitude of impinging waves in mobile radio environments. The performance, i.e., high-resolution ability, accuracy, and convergence rate of the scheme, is assessed in synthetic and real macro- and pico-cellular channels. The results indicate that the scheme overcomes the resolution limitation inherent to classical techniques like the Fourier or beam-forming methods. In particular, it is shown that waves which exhibit an arbitrarily small difference in azimuth can be easily separated as long as their delays or Doppler frequencies differ by a fraction of the intrinsic resolution of the measurement equipment. Two waves are claimed to be separated when the mean-squared estimation errors (MSEEs) of the estimates of their parameters are close to the corresponding Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLBs) derived in a scenario where only a single wave is impinging. The adverb easily means that the MSEEs rapidly approach the CLRBs, i.e., within less than 20 iteration cycles. Convergence of the log-likelihood sequence is achieved after approximately ten iteration cycles when the scheme is applied in real channels. In this use, the estimated dominant waves can be related to a scatterer/reflector in the propagation environment. The investigations demonstrate that the SAGE algorithm is a powerful high-resolution tool that can be successfully applied for parameter extraction from extensive channel measurement data, especially for the purpose of channel modeling     

Combined diversity sequence estimation receiver for widebanddigital mobile radio

An investigation is presented into the performance of a novel type of sequence estimation equalisation receiver. The receiver incorporates space diversity to further enhance the signal reception in multipath fading environments. It is shown that the receiver complexity is reduced by ~90% with virtually no performance loss compared to that of the MLSE