Channel precoding for indoor radio communications using dimensionpartitioning

A new phase precoding technique is developed to combat the intersymbol interference (ISI) resulting from a frequency-selective slowly fading channel in a personal communication system using quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK). Based on a new dimension partitioning technique, the precoder predistorts only the phase of the transmitted signal to keep a constant transmitted signal amplitude and, therefore, to ensure the stability of the precoder even in equalizing a nonminimum-phase channel. Under the constraint of the constant amplitude, the dimension partitioning method is developed to guarantee the possibility of correct detection for all transmitted information symbols and to further improve the transmission accuracy by increasing the size of the decision regions. Analytical and simulation results demonstrate that over frequency selective Rayleigh and Rician fading channels, the system using the proposed channel precoder can achieve a bit error rate (BER) comparable with that using a conventional decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The precoder can outperform the DFE in an indoor environment where there is a strong direct propagation path. The main advantage of using the precoder is that the impairment of ISI due to multipath propagation on the transmission performance can be mitigated without increasing the complexity of the portable unit receiver. The proposed technique is especially useful for personal communications, where ISI due to multipath fading channels can severely deteriorate the BER transmission performance and where the simplicity of portable units is a vital characteristic of the system     

1.2 GHz band wave propagation measurements in concrete building for indoor radio communications

For the design of indoor radio communication or a portable radio telephone system, 1.2 GHz band radio wave propagation characteristics are investigated in a concrete building. Penetration loss through a window, local median variations, and cumulative distributions of received signal levels in a room, reflection coefficient or equivalent dielectric constant and transmission loss of a wall/floor are discussed.     

Performance of M-QAM modulations for indoor radio communications with combined diversity and equalization techniques

Digital indoor radio communications systems have become an attractive proposal as they could provide the user high quality voice and low rate data services with total mobility. However, indoor communications are affected by multipath propagation that restricts their application imposing an upper limit on the system data rate. To overcome this drawback diversity and channel equalization could be considered. In this paper the performances of 4, 16 and 64-QAM modulations in a radio communications indoor environment are presented. The results show that a system without protection has very limited performance. Diversity techniques are efficient when the radio channel can be assumed to be non-selective. For systems operating in selective fading channels joint equalization and diversity techniques are necessary to fight the degrading effect introduced by the channel. Moreover, if correlation between the two diversity channels is taken into account, the system performances remain almost unchanged, assuming that the correlation coefficient between the two diversity branches is lower than 0.6 to 0.7 approximately.     

An experimental TDMA indoor radio communications system using slowfrequency hopping and coding

The general principles, implementation, and performance of a 1-Mb/s time-division-multiple-access (TDMA), slow frequency hopping and coding, 1.5-GHz radio communications system for a medium-sized office building are discussed. TDMA is provided for service flexibility and slow frequency hopping and coding for immunity against multipath fading and interference. Measurements show that, with a hallway-mounted distributed antenna system installed on one floor of the building and with the mobile unit transmitting only 1 mW of peak RF power from anywhere on that floor, only a single 384-b frame out of a total of 200000 transmitted frames suffered an unrecoverable error. This kind of performance is comparable to that of wired data modems. Similar performance was obtained from a central antenna covering the same floor. However, the required transmitted power in this case was 100 mW. Implementation issues, such as spectrum allocation, cellular subdivisions, and spectrum efficiency, are also discussed     

ISI simulation for indoor wireless communications

In this paper, simulations for intersymbol interference (ISI) and outage probability for site-specific environments are presented. All factors such as the impulse response, carrier recovery, and timing recovery are considered in the simulations. An approximation method which can save a large amount of computing time and storage space in the calculation of many impulse responses in a room is proposed. This approximation method is used to simulate ISI for several indoor environments, including a room furnished with metal shelves and rooms separated by walls with and without windows on top of the walls. Results show that the existence of windows can raise the average level of received power, however, due to a greater dispersion of multipath waves, the allowable data transmission rate is lowered     

Multibeam antennas for indoor wireless communications

A multibeam beamformer in combination with a decision feedback equalizer is considered for the base station in a single-cell 100-Mb/s TDMA/TDD QPSK indoor wireless network at 24 GHz. The outage rate in terms of required SNR/bit/antenna is estimated using a statistical, clustered propagation model and for beam selection diversity and two-beam combining     

Direct-conversion radio transceivers for digital communications

Direct-conversion is an alternative wireless receiver architecture to the well-established superheterodyne, particularly for highly integrated, low-power terminals. Its fundamental advantage is that the received signal is amplified and filtered at baseband rather than at some high intermediate frequency. This means lower current drain in the amplifiers and active filters and a simpler task of image-rejection. There is considerable interest to use it in digital cellular telephones and miniature radio messaging systems. This paper briefly covers case studies in the use of direct-conversion receivers and transmitters and summarizes some of the key problems in their implementations. Solutions to these problems arise not only from more appropriate circuit design but also from exploiting system characteristics, such as the modulation format in the system. Baseband digital signal processing must be coupled to the analog front-end to make direct-conversion transceivers a practical reality     

Performance studies for high-speed indoor wireless communications

A major difficulty in achieving high-bit-rate wireless transmission is the large delay spread which severely limits the maximum data rate. In this paper, techniques are presented for overcoming these transmissionrate limits. Specifically, the performances of multicarrier modems and a single-carrier modem with equalization are characterized in terms of the efficiency (or achievable bit rate) versus outage, under a wide range of conditions and parameters.For the multicarrier approach, the extensive set of performance results indicate the following: for QPSK, in a typical office-building environment (rms delay spreads of 50–100 ns), if the subchannel symbol rate is limited to 1 Mbaud,and provided there is sufficient power, an efficiency of 1–1.2 b/s/Hz can be achieved with 99% availability (1% outage) with either the multitone or the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing realizations. With 16 subchannels this corresponds to at least 16 Mb/s. To achieve higher data rates (for example, 155 Mb/s), or where there are larger delay spreads (for example, in outdoor microcells), more subchannels can be used, if practical. Otherwise, equalization can be combined with wider subchannels and/or sophisticated antenna techniques.Link-budget calculations, also presented here, show how transmitted power can be a limiting factor in transmission bit rate. In particular, for 20 MHz of bandwidth and a frequency of 5 GHz or less, a transmitted power of 100 mW to 1 W should be sufficient to accommodate 30–50 m cells with good performance (for example, bit error probability of 10^–8 and 1% outage). However, for larger bandwidths (for example, 100–200 MHz), the frequency must be higher (for example, 20 GHz) and the distance will be severely limited, possibly to a single room.     

Trellis-coded pulse-position modulation for indoor wirelessinfrared communications

We analyze the performance of trellis-coded pulse-position modulation (PPM) on indoor, wireless infrared channels. We show that maximum-likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) of trellis-coded PPM is very effective in mitigating the multipath dispersion on such channels. We present code search results for high constraint-length, rate-2/3, 8-PPM and rate-3/4, 16-PPM codes. We provide bit-error rate curves and intersymbol interference power-penalties for MLSD of PPM with these codes, evaluated on ceiling-bounce channel models with delay spread per bit duration ratios of 0.01-0.3. Finally, we present Monte Carlo simulation results to verify our analysis     

Universal portable radio communications

In our highly mobile society, the provision of voice and data communications to people away from their wireline telephones has become a major communications frontier. Some emerging radio systems, e.g., cellular mobile radio, cordless telephone, and radio paging, have begun to penetrate this frontier. However, each of these approaches only partially satisfies portable communication needs. That is, the approaches do not provide overall portable communication service. Some of the problems involved and the technologies and system configurations needed for an advanced radio communications system are discussed. The goal for the system is to provide high quality ubiquitous service to low power portable radiotelephones and data terminals. Frequency reuse radio system configurations applicable to residential and large building environments will be described along with multipath and other 800 MHz radio propagation limitations. The system would use fixed radio ports attached to the telephone network and spaced about 2000 ft in residential areas. The residential ports would have antenna heights of less than 30 ft. The horizontal spacing of ports within large buildings would be 200 ft or more. In service areas, more than 99 percent radio link availability would be provided for 5 mW portable transmitters.     

多用户MIMO系统基于消息块预编码的可信通信技术

针对多用户MIMO窃听信道,提出了在未知非法接收者任何信息的前提下,实现可信通信的基于消息块的人为干扰和预编码算法,并且在实现可信通信"可信性"的同时,考虑了"有效性"和"效率"问题。人为干扰仅干扰非法接收者,而不对合法接收者产生任何影响。预编码算法是已有的用于消除多用户干扰的"迫零"方式与基于SVD分解的线性预编码方式的结合。与基于单消息符号的预编码方式相比,提高了可信通信的效率。仿真结果表明,其进一步降低了非法接收者的SINR,并提高了多用户MIMO系统的通信容量。     

Wideband CDMA system for personal radio communications

This article describes a wideband spread code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) system for high-capacity and high-quality personal radio communication. This system has been authorized as an EIA/TIA Interim Standard IS-665, T1P1 Trial Use Standard J-STD-015, and ITU-R Recommendation M 1073. The system uses wideband spreading to accomplish good interference immunity, high-quality speech, and high-speed data transmission. The system uses coherent detection (CD) and an interference canceller system (ICS) to enhance the capacity. The CD and ICS use continuous pilot signals in the forward/reverse links to estimate the propagation path parameters. PN and Hadamard sequences are used as the spreading code for minimal mutual interference between traffic and pilot/sync/paging channels. A robust 32 kb/s waveform speech coder, ITU-T COM101+, has been developed to achieve toll-quality speech in the radio environment. This system provides up to 128 voice channels per cell and data transmission up to 64 kb/s by 5 MHz spreading. Unification of low- and high-mobility applications and reduced complexity of system and hardware configurations are accomplished     

Orthogonal spectral precoder for minimizing adjacent channel leakage ratio in OFDM based cognitive radio

One of the major drawback of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based cognitive radio is high out‐of‐band leakage that can severely affect primary users operating in adjacent bands. The paper aims to design a new spectral precoding scheme that minimizes Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) while retaining the orthogonality among data symbols. The problem is formulated as trace ratio minimization subjected to unitary constraint that can be effectively solved using iterative methods. The proposed precoder's error performance is similar to uncoded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system due to orthogonal multiplexing. Also, it is practically realizable due to lower complexity. The scheme also extends for distinct ACLR requirements in upper and lower adjacent bands. A relative important factor is introduced so as to flexibly control the interference leakage in upper and lower adjacent channels. An algorithm is suggested for choosing suitable values of this factor. Simulation results display the superiority of proposed scheme over existing techniques in terms of ACLR and throughput. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Wideband radio propagation modeling for indoor geolocationapplications

A framework for statistical modeling of the wideband characteristics of the frequency-selective fading multipath indoor radio channel for geolocation applications is presented. Multipath characteristics of the channel are divided into three classes according to availability and the strength of the direct line of sight (DLOS) path with respect to the other paths. Statistics of the error in estimating the time of arrival of the DLOS path in a building is related to the receiver's sensitivity and dynamic range. The effects of external walls on estimating the location of the DLOS path are analyzed     

MAP selection-diversity DFE for indoor wireless data communications

Indoor high-speed wireless data networks encounter signal fading and delay-spread multipath propagation. Hence, the realization of low error rate transmission requires measures to combat the performance degradation due to both signal fading and intersymbol interference (ISI). Receiver diversity has been known to be an efficient way of coping with the former problem, while adaptive equalization could be used to mitigate the effects of the latter. Incorporation of receiver diversity with adaptive equalization is therefore desirable. We propose a novel selection-diversity approach with an adaptive decision-feedback equalizer (DFE). In this method, selection is done on a symbol-by-symbol basis such that the output of the branch with the lowest estimated a posteriori probability of error is used as the final decision. This final (and hence more reliable) decision is used to adapt the DFE for all diversity branches. It is shown in this paper that the proposed selection rule is optimal for selection-diversity in the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) sense. A very simple selection metric can be derived from this selection rule and practical ways of computing the selection metric are also presented. Simulation results show that the proposed method is very efficient. It is capable of achieving almost the same performance as an optimal [least squares (LS)], but computationally intensive, combining diversity approach. Furthermore, at an average bit error rate (BER) of 10^-4, a gain of approximately 1.25 dB can be achieved over a previously proposed selection-diversity equalization approach     

Spread spectrum techniques for indoor wireless IR communications

Multipath dispersion and fluorescent light interference are two major problems in indoor wireless infrared communications systems. Multipath dispersion introduces intersymbol interference at data rates above 10 Mb/s, while fluorescent light induces severe narrowband interference to baseband modulation schemes commonly used such as OOK and PPM. This article reviews the research into the application of direct sequence spread spectrum techniques to ameliorate these key channel impairments without having to resort to complex signal Processing techniques. The inherent properties of a spreading sequence are exploited in order to combat the ISI and narrowband interference. In addition, to reducing the impact of these impairments, the DSSS modulation schemes have strived to be bandwidth-efficient and simple to implement. Three main DSSS waveform techniques have been developed and investigated. These are sequence inverse keying, complementary sequence inverse keying, and M-ary biorthogonal keying (MBOK). The operations of the three systems are explained; their performances were evaluated through simulations and experiments for a number of system parameters, including spreading sequence type and length. By comparison with OOK, our results show that SIK, CSIK, and MBOK are effective against multipath dispersion and fluorescent light interference because the penalties incurred on the DSSS schemes are between 0-7 dB, while the penalty on OOK in the same environment is more than 17 dB. The DSSS solution for IR wireless transmission demonstrates that a transmission waveform can be designed to remove the key channel impairments in a wireless IR system.