Performance of simulcast wireless techniques for personalcommunication systems

Broadband analog transport facilities using fiber or fiber/coax cable can play a significant role in the evolution of the network infrastructure for personal communications services (PCSs). Low-power PCS systems require a dense grid of radio ports to provide connectivity to the telephone network. Analog transport has a number of important advantages over digital transmission facilities, including the flexibility to support a variety of air interface formats, shared infrastructure cost with other services such as video distribution, and centralized call processing allowing the use of low cost and simple radio ports. A simulcast technique can be used in such systems to permit low rates of handoff (no handoff within each simulcast area) and sharing of hardware resources among multiple radio ports. This paper provides a detailed model and a simulation analysis of the cochannel interference and noise performance as well as the resource sharing benefit of a simulcast PCS system. Several potential PCS air interfaces are considered, including time division multiple access (TDMA) and code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques. Our investigation shows that the impact of multiple antenna noise in a simulcast system is offset by the improved signal-to-interference (SIR) ratio brought about by distributed antennas. Even with distributed antennas, multiple antenna noise places a limit on the maximum number of radio ports that can be assigned to each simulcast group. This limit, however, is shown to have little impact on the achievable resource sharing benefit of simulcasting (i.e., grouping beyond this limit has diminishing returns). A saving of 40% to 60%, in terms of the required central hardware resources, is typical for both TDMA and CDMA systems in suburban environments     

Direction biased handoff algorithms for urban microcells

A novel class of direction biased handoff algorithms are proposed for improving the handoff performance in urban microcells. Multi-cell handoff properties are obtained for a cell layout consisting of base stations at every other intersection of a Manhattan street grid. The direction biased handoff algorithms are shown to improve cell membership properties by simultaneously reducing the mean number of handoffs and handoff delay. A signal strength based direction estimator is shown improve handoff performance for line-of-sight handoffs.This research was supported by Nortel and completed while Dr. Austin was a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech. Portions of this paper were presented in the Vehicular Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 7–10, 1994.     

Impact of secondary user mobility on spectrum handoff under generalized residual time distributions in cognitive radio networks

Cognitive Radio is an emerging technology to accommodate the growing demand for wireless technology via dynamic spectrum access to enhance spectrum efficiency. Spectrum handoff is an important component of Cognitive Radio technology for practical implementation of radio frequency access strategy and better utilization of spectrum in both primary and secondary networks. The probability of spectrum handoff and expected number of spectrum handoffs are key parameters in performance analysis and design of the cognitive radio network. This work presents an analytical model to evaluate the impact of secondary users’ mobility on intra-cell spectrum handoff considering primary users’ activity model in a cognitive radio network. A standard form of intra-cell spectrum handoff probability and expected number of intra-cell spectrum handoffs are derived for complete call duration of a non-stationary secondary user. The probability and expected number of intra-cell spectrum handoffs of a post inter-cell handoff call are also derived for generalized residual time distributions of call holding time and spectrum holes. A detailed analysis of these performance measuring metrics is presented under the impact of departure rate and cell crossing rate of secondary users. The accuracy of the derived analytical result is validated by Monte-Carlo simulation of the model.     

Resource pooling and effective bandwidths in CDMA networks withmultiuser receivers and spatial diversity

Much of the performance analysis on multiuser receivers for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is focused on worst case near-far scenarios. The user capacity of power-controlled networks with multiuser receivers are less well-understood. Tse and Hanly (see ibid., vol.45, p.541-657, 1999) have shown that under some conditions, the user capacity of an uplink power-controlled CDMA cell for several important linear receivers can be very simply characterized via a notion of effective bandwidth. We show that these results extend to the case of antenna arrays. We consider a CDMA system consisting of users transmitting to an antenna array with a multiuser receiver, and obtain the limiting signal-to-interference (SIR) performance in a large system using random spreading sequences. Using this result, we show that the SIR requirements of all the users can be met if and only if the sum of the effective bandwidths of the users is less than the total number of degrees of freedom in the system. The effective bandwidth of a user depends only on its own requirement. Our results show that the total number of degrees of freedom of the whole system is the product of the spreading gain and the number of antennas. In the case when the fading distributions to the antennas are identical, we show that a curious phenomenon of “resource pooling” arises: the multiantenna system behaves like a system with only one antenna but with the processing gain the product of the processing gain of the original system and the number of antennas, and the received power of each user the sum of the received powers at the individual antennas     

Indoor Planning for High Speed Downlink Packet Access in WCDMA Cellular Network

The aim of this paper is to show the special characteristics of the indoor environment related to radio propagation and furthermore to radio network planning. The aspects of the radio network planning are highlighted especially for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) radio access technology that is used widely in the third generation mobile networks. Moreover, the detailed planning parameters in indoor environment are studied for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) in order to support high throughput data applications in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The final target of the paper is to compare pico cell, distributed antenna system (DAS), and radiating cable network configurations in indoor environment to provide the optimal radio conditions for the data applications, and thus to serve highest number of mobile users. Several measurement campaigns with different antenna configurations have been conducted in order to study the effect of multi path related parameters, as delay spread of the signal. Also other capacity related parameters as received signal levels, interference, throughput, and transmit power levels have been studied in order to find out the optimal solution for HSDPA in UMTS. The results clearly show that pico cells and distributed antenna system have outstanding performance in indoor propagation channel compared to radiating cable. In sense of signal quality, pico cell performance is slightly better compared to distributed antenna system. However, measurements with HSDPA indicate that practical capacity of DAS outperforms pico cells. The measurements also show that separation of the antennas is a key capacity related parameter when planning WCDMA based indoor systems.     

A movable safety zone scheme in urban fiber-optic microcellularsystems

We consider an urban fiber-optic microcellular system in which a cigar-shaped cell consists of several microzones with their own antenna sites connected to a central station through optical fibers. To increase the efficiency of radio resources and reduce unnecessary handoffs between microzones, we propose a movable safety zone scheme. A safety zone is a virtually guarded area that does not permit cochannel interference. Outside the safety zone, cochannels can be reused. The safety zone can move under the condition that its user does not meet cochannel interference as he moves to an adjacent microzone. Considering user mobility characteristics in the cigar-shaped cell, we analyze and evaluate the proposed system in terms of intracell and intercell handoff rates, blocking probability, intracell call-dropping probability, and channel reuse parameter. The proposed system can handle a traffic capacity of about 12 Erlangs for seven traffic channels under a call blocking probability of 1% and generates a negligible number of intracell handoffs compared with those of intercell handoffs     

Variations on optimal and suboptimal handoff control for wirelesscommunication systems

The design of handoff algorithms for cellular communication systems based on signal-strength measurements is addressed. The system is modeled using a hybrid framework: a mixture of continuous state and discrete event systems. The handoff problem is formulated as an optimization problem to control the switchings within the discrete event system. Performance is evaluated as a function of the expected number of handoffs, the expected handoff delay, and the expected number of signal degradations. A signal degradation occurs when the signal level falls below a threshold. The cost of handoff delay is explicitly specified, in contrast to prior work. Various optimization problems are posed to trade off between these quantities. Based on the optimal solutions which are obtained through dynamic programming, suboptimal versions are proposed for ease of implementation. The performance of the suboptimal algorithm which trades off between the expected number of handoffs and the expected number of signal degradations is improved through the use of signal averaging; however, this algorithm suffers from excessive handoff delay. Therefore, the tradeoff between handoff delay and number of handoffs is considered. The corresponding suboptimal algorithm provides nearly one handoff and almost no delay, which is ideal if call quality is also good. Finally, an algorithm which is a combination of the two previous algorithms is explored     

Antenna selection in a multisector packet radio system

To improve performance on the inbound (mobile-to-base-station) channel of a packet radio system consisting of a base station and a number of mobile users, the area around the base station is divided into M sectors. Signals originating from users in different sectors are received by different directional antennas at the base station. It is shown that, if the number of receivers at the base station is less than M, the selection of the antennas to be connected to the receivers becomes an issue. A number of antenna selection schemes are compared for three different channel models, assuming an ideal antenna pattern. It is found that the scheme that selects the antennas with the largest received signal powers is nearly optimum. The effects of a more practical nonideal antenna pattern are discussed     

几种多天线系统的信道容量比较

分布式天线、智能天线和扇区天线是三种能大大提高无线通信系统容量的技术,本文比较了这三种多天线系统的信道(Shannon)容量.假设每个用户在所有接收天线上的总功率相等,分析表明分布式天线和扇区天线的信道容量远大于智能天线的信道容量,而传统的观点认为智能天线在抑制干扰时要比扇区天线的性能更好,从而获得更大的系统容量.另外我们分析了分布式天线在渐近条件下的信道容量,即用户数K和载波数M都趋近无穷大,而保证α=K/M一定.分析表明在α较大时,分布式天线与比扇区天线的信道容量差趋近常数0.44比特/秒/维,但是如果考虑分布式天线的分集增益,那么分布式天线的信道容量要远大于扇区天线.     

Signal Ratio Detection and Approximate Performance Analysis for Ambient Backscatter Communication Systems with Multiple Receiving Antennas

Recently, ambient backscatter attracts much attention since it can utilize ambient radio frequency signals to enable battery-free devices to communicate with others. Most existing studies about ambient backscatter assume that the reader is equipped with one receiving antenna. In practice, the reader can utilize multiple antennas to overcome channel fading. In this paper, we investigate the problem of signal detection for ambient backscatter systems with multiple receiving antennas. Specifically, we formulate a new transmission model where the reader is equipped with at least two antennas and propose a ratio detector that exploits the ratio of the signal strength received at each antenna. It is shown that the closed-form expression of the optimal detection threshold for this detector is difficult to derive. Therefore, we derive a reasonable approximate expression for the optimal detection threshold. Moreover, we obtain the closed-form expression for approximate bit error rate (BER). Furthermore, we propose an antenna selection scheme if the reader is equipped with more than two antennas. The selection scheme is investigated through the BER performance. It is found that the largest gain in BER can be achieved when the antenna number increases from two to three, and that much less gain is obtained from enlarging the antenna number when the reader already has four antennas. Finally, simulation results are provided to corroborate our theoretical studies.     

Hybrid Turbo FEC/ARQ Systems and Distributed Space-Time Coding for Cooperative Transmission

Cooperative transmission can be seen as a “virtual” MIMO system, where the multiple transmit antennas are in fact implemented distributed by the antennas both at the source and the relay terminal. Depending on the system design, diversity/multiplexing gains are achievable. This design involves the definition of the type of retransmission (incremental redundancy, repetition coding), the design of the distributed space-time codes, the error correcting scheme, the operation of the relay (decode & forward or amplify & forward) and the number of antennas at each terminal. Proposed schemes are evaluated in different conditions in combination with forward error correcting codes (FEC), both for linear and near-optimum (sphere decoder) receivers, for its possible implementation in downlink high speed packet services of cellular networks. Results show the benefits of coded cooperation over direct transmission in terms of increased throughput. It is shown that multiplexing gains are observed even if the mobile station features a single antenna, provided that cell wide reuse of the relay radio resource is possible.     

Performance of feedback and switch space diversity 900 MHz FM mobile radio systems with Rayleigh fading

A theoretical and experimental comparison of performance has been made between two types of predetection switching space diversity mobile radio systems. This comparison was made at a frequency of 840 MHz using simulated Rayleigh fading for a vehicle speed of about 80 mi/h. The switch diversity system was a conventional receiver antenna switching technique with two simulated physically separated receiving antennas and a single transmitting antenna. The feedback diversity system used a single receiving antenna with two simulated physically separated transmitting antennas. The transmitting antennas were switched remotely from the receiver. The difference in the performance of the two systems was shown to be primarily due to time delay inherent in the remote antenna switching technique.     

Performance of Feedback and Switch Space Diversity 900 MHz FM Mobile Radio Systems with Rayleigh Fading

A theoretical and experimental comparison of performance has been made between two types of predetection switching space diversity mobile radio systems. This comparison was made at a frequency of 840 MHz using simulated Rayleigh fading for a vehicle speed of about 80 mi/h. The switch diversity system was a conventional receiver antenna switching technique with two simulated physically separated receiving antennas and a single transmitting antenna. The feedback diversity system used a single receiving antenna with two simulated physically separated transmitting antennas. The transmitting antennas were switched remotely from the receiver. The difference in the performance of the two systems was shown to be primarily due to time delay inherent in the remote antenna switching technique.     

Cybersecurity Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks: Current Challenges and Solutions

The spectrum is a scarce resource and shall be used efficiently. It is observed that fixed spectrum allocation techniques, currently in use, may not be able to accommodate increased number of users trying simultaneously to access the network. Researches suggest that this problem of spectrum scarcity can be addressed by cognitive radio networks; which permits the dynamic use of spectrum. One of the basic requirements of dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio network is spectrum handoff. There is an associated issue with frequent spectrum handoffs and that is of the ping-pong ect. The ping-pong ect is caused due to the motion of mobile users between the adjacent cells, thus, initiating unnecessary spectrum handoffs. The purpose of this study is to develop and analyse a system that has the ability to perform cient decision about the execution of spectrum handoffs and in turn reduce the chances of ping-pong ect. Therefore, a fuzzy logic based system has been developed in a cognitive radio WLAN and UMTS environment and handoff is investigated between primary and secondary users. Our proposed hybrid system uses a two-stage fuzzy logic controller to reduce the number of ping-pong handoffs. In the rst stage, the system is designed to control the power of SU and to avoid any interference to PU. In the second stage, the system is designed to take the decision to execute handoff.

     

Reduced-Complexity Receiver Structures for Space–Time Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation Systems

Transmission efficiency in radio channels can be considerably improved by using multiple transmit and receive antennas and employing a family of schemes called space-time (ST) coding. Both extended range and/or improved bandwidth efficiency can be achieved, compared with a radio link with a single transmit and receive antenna. Bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes give diversity gains on fading channels with higher order modulation constellations combined with conventional binary convolutional codes also for the case of a single transmit and receive antenna radio link. In this paper, we study a family of flexible bandwidth-efficient ST coding schemes which combine these two ideas in a narrowband flat-fading channel and single-carrier modems. We address receiver complexity for the case of a large number of transmit antennas and higher order modulation constellations. Especially, we focus on practical configurations, where the number of transmit antennas is greater than that of receive antennas. Simplified receivers using tentative decisions are proposed and evaluated by means of simulations. Tradeoffs between complexity reduction and performance loss are presented. We emphasize systems that are of particular interest in applications where the number of transmit antennas exceeds the number of receive antennas. A system with four transmit antennas with an eight-fold complexity reduction and a performance loss of about 1 dB is demonstrated     

Switched diversity with feedback for DPSK mobile radio systems

Switched diversity with feedback for differential phase shift keying (DPSK) mobile radio is discussed. The technique uses multiple transmit antennas at the base station but only one receive antenna at the mobile. The base station transmits with one antenna that is switched when the mobile informs the base station that the received signal has fallen below a fixed level. The implementation of switched diversity with feedback in a digital mobile radio system is first described, and then the bit error rate performance of the system is analyzed with fading as a function of several design parameters. Implementation of the system is shown to be relatively simple, yet the system is shown to reduce substantially the required received Eb/N0for a given error rate at the mobile as compared to a system without diversity. For example, with five transmit antennas the required received Eb/N0for a 10^-3bit error rate is 13 dB less. The system capacity and availability assuming 32 kb/s audio and flat fading is then discussed. It is shown that with three-corner base station diversity and four transmit antennas at each base station, 126 two-way circuits per cell can be used in a fully loaded 40-MHz bandwidth system with a ten-percent probability that the error rate exceeds 10^-3.     

Distributed Antennas for Indoor Radio Communications

The idea of implementing an indoor radio communications system serving an entire building from a single central antenna appears to be an attractive proposition. However, based on various indoor propagation measurements of the signal attenuation and the multipath delay spread, such a centralized approach appears to be limited to small buildings and to narrow-band FDMA-type systems with limited reliability and flexibility. In this paper, we present the results of indoor radio propagation measurements of two signal distribution approaches that improve the picture dramatically. In the first, the building is divided into many small cells, each served from an antenna located in its own center, and with adjacent cells operating in different frequency bands. In the second approach, the building is divided into one or more large cells, each served from a distributed antenna system or a "leaky feeder" that winds its way through the hallways. This approach eliminates the frequency cell handoff problem that is bound to exist in the first approach, while still preserving the dramatic reductions in multipath delay spread and signal attenuation compared to a centralized system. For example, the measurements show that, with either approach, the signal attenuation can be reduced by as much as a few tens of decibels and the rms delay spread becomes limited to 20 to 50 us, even in large buildings. This can make possible the implementation of sophisticated broad-band TDMA-type systems that are flexible, robust, and virtually building-independent.     

A CDMA-distributed antenna system for in-building personalcommunications services

To investigate applications of spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) technology to in-building personal communications services (PCS), comprehensive studies have been conducted for a CDMA PCS distributed antenna system in the 1.8 GHz band. The CDMA PCS distributed antenna system was set up with three nodes, each having two time-delayed elements, in a Qualcomm two story office building in San Diego. This paper presents measurement and modeling results on coverage, voice quality (frame error rate), reduction of transmit power, and path diversity for the in-building CDMA PCS distributed antenna system. Wideband CDMA signal coverage was predicted by using a ray tracing tool to find optimum placement of the distributed antennas. Using three nodes mounted in the ceiling space between the first and second floors, with each active element transmitting at -5 dBm in the system, the ray-tracing prediction shows good signal coverage in both floors of the building. The prediction results are confirmed by measurements at numerous discrete points with a standard deviation of 3.3 dB. Measurements using various combinations of number of nodes and delay elements showed significant time and path diversity advantages for the CDMA-distributed antenna system in indoor radio environments. Trade-offs between diversity gain and self-interference due to uncaptured finger energy in fringe areas are discussed     

A Simple Distributed Antenna Processing Scheme for Cooperative Diversity

In this letter the performance of multiple relay channels is analyzed for the situation in which multiple antennas are deployed only at the relays. The simple repetition-coded decodeand- forward protocol with two different antenna processing techniques at the relays is investigated. The antenna combining techniques are maximum ratio combining (MRC) for reception and transmit beamforming (TB) for transmission. It is shown that these distributed antenna combining techniques can exploit the full spatial diversity of the relay channels regardless of the number of relays and antennas at each relay, and offer significant power gain over distributed space-time coding techniques.     

Spectrum sensing and communication functionalities verification in cognitive radio

This paper is intended to discuss hardware setup implementation for realizing the spectrum sensing and communication functionalities of a five‐port integrated ultrawideband and narrowband antenna system. The five‐port integrated antenna system consists of one ultrawideband antenna and four narrowband antennas. The ultrawideband antenna is used for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio, whereas the four narrowband antennas are used for communication. In order to validate functionalities of the antennas, their spectrum sensing and communication performance is verified using an arbitrary waveform generator, real‐time signal analyzer, and Universal Software Radio Peripheral. The ultrawideband antenna is able to sense the various frequencies transmitted by the arbitrary waveform generator. These transmitted signals from the arbitrary waveform generator are treated as busy spectrum channels in the cognitive radio environment. The narrowband antennas are able to perform communication by transmitting the signals at identified spectrum holes. The sensed signals are observed on a real‐time signal analyzer, and the communication signals are viewed in LabVIEW software for which a real‐time signal reception algorithm is used. This signal reception is performed using Universal Software Radio Peripheral.