基于差分编码的OFDM系统ICI消除方法的研究

在高速移动通信环境下,OFDM 系统在传输过程中出现的多普勒频移和收发两端本地振荡器之间的频率偏差,形成子载波间干扰(ICI)并造成系统性能降低。该文在分析子载波间干扰机制的基础上,从信道估计的角度提出了一种高效的ICI自消除差分编码方案。该方案提高了传统ICI自消除方案频谱利用率。仿真表明,在系统归一化频率偏差大于0.1时,该方案具有4 的信道估计增益,消除了因ICI带来的地板效应。     

Efficient ICI Self‐Cancellation Scheme for OFDM Systems

In this paper, we present a new inter‐carrier interference (ICI) self‐cancellation scheme — namely, ISC scheme — for orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing systems to reduce the ICI generated from phase noise (PHN) and residual frequency offset (RFO). The proposed scheme comprises a new ICI cancellation mapping (ICM) scheme at the transmitter and an appropriate method of combining the received signals at the receiver. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal is transformed into a real signal through the new ICM using the real property of the transmitted signal; the fast‐varying PHN and RFO are estimated and compensated. Therefore, the ICI caused by fast‐varying PHN and RFO is significantly suppressed. We also derive the carrier‐to‐interference power ratio (CIR) of the proposed scheme by using the symmetric conjugate property of the ICI weighting function and then compare it with those of conventional schemes. Through simulation results, we show that the proposed ISC scheme has a higher CIR and better bit error rate performance than the conventional schemes.     

OFDM系统中相位噪声的影响及ICI自消除方案

相位噪声也能引起信道间干扰( ICI) ,本文系统的分析了采用ICI自消除方案前后相位噪声对OFDM系统的影响,得出了载波干扰比和信噪比的近似计算公式,在AWGN信道上仿真了系统的误码性能。从仿真结果看,ICI自消除的方案能够显著提高系统的载波干扰比和误码率     

ICI cancellation for OFDM communication systems in time-varying multipath fading channels

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, time-varying multipath fading leads to the loss of subcarrier orthogonality and the occurrence of intercarrier interference (ICI). In this study, an efficient ICI suppression with less noise enhancement for multicarrier equalization is presented by using a parallel canceling scheme via frequency-domain equalization techniques, with the assumption that the channel impulse response (CIR) varies linearly during a block period. In order to avoid performance deterioration due to unreliable initial estimations in the parallel cancellation scheme, a cost function with proper weighting factor is introduced to improve the performance of the proposed equalizer. The proposed equalizer consists of a set of prefilters and a set of ICI cancellation filters, with two stages to perform different functions to achieve minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalization. The prefilters compensate for the multiplicative distortion at the first stage, and the ICI cancellation filters remove the effects of ICI by a parallel cancellation scheme at the second stage. Finally, the performance of the proposed equalizer is analyzed and compared with that of other equalizers, indicating significant performance improvement.     

Analysis of ICI cancellation scheme in OFDM systems with phase noise

Phase noise in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems destroys the orthogonality of the subcarriers and inter-carrier interference (ICI) is caused. In this paper, the ICI self-cancellation scheme is adopted to combat the ICI caused by phase noise in OFDM systems. Moreover, the error coefficients are defined and the theoretical expressions of carrier to interference ratio (C/I) with and without the ICI self-cancellation scheme are separately derived. From the simulation results, it is verified that the ICI self-cancellation scheme obviously decreases the amount of the ICI caused by phase noise and the improvement of C/I could reach 10 dB when the normalized 3 dB bandwidth of phase noise is 0.4. However, the convolutional coding OFDM (COFDM) system could supply more performance gain at the expense of increasing decoder complexity compared to OFDM system with the ICI self-cancellation scheme in the frequency-selective channel.     

A new ICI mitigation method with generalized data‐allocation for OFDM systems

This paper describes an ICI mitigation method based on the generalized data‐allocation of (1, ?β) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. To improve the performance of the ICI mitigation for the higher‐frequency offset, we propose an efficient search algorithm to generate the sub‐optimal parameter β for maximizing the carrier‐to‐interference ratio (CIR). The CIR and bit error rate performances of the proposed method were derived in this paper. The performances with different carrier frequency offset scenarios were evaluated by computer simulations. According to the simulation results, the performance of the proposed ICI mitigation scheme is better than that of the conventional ICI self‐cancellation scheme and is nearly the same as that of the ICI self‐cancellation scheme for the optimal parameter β. Additionally, the proposed ICI mitigation scheme has a dramatically reduced hardware complexity in comparison with the ICI self‐cancellation scheme for the optimal parameter β. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Joint ICI Cancellation and PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems Without Side Information

Intercarrier interference (ICI) self-cancellation, new ICI self-cancellation and conjugate cancellation schemes have been proposed in the literature to mitigate the effect of ICI. In this paper we have performed the mathematical analysis of PAPR performances for ICI self-cancellation, new ICI self-cancellation and ICI conjugate cancellation schemes and it is found that PAPR performance of these schemes are either very close to or poorer than the standard OFDM signal, which necessitates the requirement of PAPR reduction. After realizing the need of PAPR reduction in ICI cancellation schemes, we have proposed a joint scheme to reduce ICI and PAPR simultaneously. In this paper, we have proposed a multipoint partial transmit sequence (PTS) scheme, to improve the PAPR performance of ICI cancellation schemes. The proposed multipoint PTS based PAPR reduction scheme is coupled with ICI cancellation schemes in such a way that CIR performance of these schemes after coupling remains unchanged and no SI is required at the receiver to recover the original data signal. A comparison of CIR and PAPR performances for ICI cancellation schemes with and without PAPR reduction is also presented in this paper. The analytical results of CIR and PAPR performances for conventional ICI cancellation and joint ICI cancellation and PAPR reduction confirm the outperformance of the proposed scheme. We have also evaluated the SER performance of the joint schemes over additive white Gaussian noise and fading channels and presented a comparison with other existing schemes.     

时变信道下OFDM系统中基于载频间干扰抑制的迭代检测算法

为了有效地抑制OFDM系统载频间干扰（ICI），提出一种并行干扰消除的迭代检测算法。基于检测信号的信干噪比最大化的准则，通过对接收信号进行判决、重构、干扰抵消处理，建立了ICI抑制的迭代检测算法，给出了信号检测流程。通过对时变信道的分析，研究了时变信道中归一化频偏对系统陛能的影响，给出了性能仿真结果。仿真结果表明所建议的算法可有效地利用时变信道的时间分集特性来提高系统性能，计算复杂度从O（N^3）降低到O（N）。     

An Enhanced Inter-carrier Interference Reduction Scheme for OFDM System with Phase Noise

Inter-carrier interference (ICI) reduction techniques achieve a better carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) in OFDM system in the presence of synchronisation errors. However, the frequency diversity available on the frequency-selective channel has not been utilised by conventional ICI reduction techniques. In this paper, the frequency diversity of ICI reduction methods in the presence of phase noise over frequency-selective fading channels is analysed. Based on the analysis, an ICI reduction technique is proposed, enhanced symmetric data-conjugate (ESDC) technique, to enhance the frequency diversity in multipath fading channel. The carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) and common phase error (CPE) of the proposed ICI reduction scheme are derived and the BER performance of the proposed system is compared with the conventional ICI reduction methods such as adjacent data-conjugate (ADC) and symmetric data-conjugate (SDC) methods. Simulation results reveal that the proposed ICI reduction scheme provides an improvement in BER performance over a fading channel and it is also better than conventional ICI reduction techniques in the presence of ICI due to phase noise.     

Compensation of phase noise in OFDM systems using an ICI reduction scheme

In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems, the local oscillator phase noise introduces two effects: common phase error (CPE) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). The correction of CPE does not suffice always, especially when high data rates are required. Through the creation of a frequency-domain linearized parametric model for phase noise, we generate an ICI reduction scheme to deal with phase noise. The effects of the transmitter high-power-amplifier (HPA) nonlinearity on the phase noise compensation are also investigated. The algorithm performance over AWGN channel is presented for DVB-T 2k and 8k modes. It is shown by the simulation results that the algorithm can significantly reduce the symbol-error rate (SER) floor, caused by the residual phase noise after CPE correction, while sacrificing an acceptable transmission bandwidth.     

Biorthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Cellular System with Angle Division Reuse Scheme

In conventional OFDMA cellular systems, mobile stations (MSs) suffer from large ICI in fully loaded cellular environments with full cell frequency reuse, especially at the cell-edge. The fundamental cause is that the signals from serving Base Station (BS) and interference BSs, are modulated by same exponential bases, at same subcarrier. In this paper, a generalized low-complexity fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) based biorthogonal frequency division multiple access (B-OFDMA) cellular system with multiple angle division reuse scheme (MADR) scheme for inter-cell interference (ICI) cancellation is proposed. FrFT angle is regarded as a kind of time-frequency combination resource (TFCR), and it can be optimally allocated to each BS of the cellular system, based on simplified minimal base correlation coefficient (MBCC) criteria, which confirms the inner-cell mutual orthogonality between modulating bases at different subcarriers, and inter-cell mutual approximate orthogonality between modulating bases at same subcarriers. Therefore, at the receiver, ICI can be dramatically suppressed by MMSE equalization and correlative detection in respective optimal FrFT domain. Extensive system simulations are conducted for various practical scenarios to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed FrFT MADR scheme in bit error rate (BER) and system throughput, especially for cell-edge MSs, compared with conventional OFDMA cellular with different ICI cancellation schemes and scheduling schemes.     

Low Complexity Iterative ICI Cancellation and Equalization for OFDM Systems Over Doubly Selective Channels

In this paper, a low complexity iterative intercarrier interference (ICI) cancellation and equalization technique is proposed for use in OFDM systems over doubly selective channels. In the iterative parallel interference cancellation/minimum mean square error (PIC/MMSE) detector has a high complexity and a restriction on the structure which can not remove the ICI in the initial stage. Therefore, an error propagation occurs due to the ICI regenerated by the incorrect output of soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoder. In order to reduce the error propagation, an MMSE detector based on the successive interference cancellation (SIC) is used in the initial stage. The low complexity MMSE detector is also derived to minimize the error propagation by quantifying the decision error before SISO decoding. In the first iteration, simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional PIC/MMSE scheme by about 3 dB at bit error rate $({rm BER})=1times 10^{-3}$ while maintaining the equivalent computational complexity. In the subsequent iteration, it is possible to cancel the ICI out in the received signals by the aid of soft log-likelihood ratio (LLR) fed from the SISO decoder. Converting the LLR to the decision error probability, the error covariance matrix is obtained more accurately. As a result, the error propagation can be effectively reduced by dealing with only the dominant components, when considering decision errors. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional PIC/MMSE scheme.      

Inter‐carrier Interference Reduction Scheme for SFBC‐OFDM Systems

In this paper, we first analyze carrier‐to‐interference ratio performance of the space–frequency block coded orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (SFBC‐OFDM) system in the presence of phase noise (PHN) and residual carrier frequency offset (RCFO). From the analysis, we observe that conventional SFBC‐OFDM systems suffer severely in the presence of PHN and RCFO. Therefore, we propose a new inter‐carrier interference (ICI) self‐cancellation method — namely, ISC — for SFBC‐OFDM systems to reduce the ICI caused by PHN and RCFO. Through the simulation results, we show that the proposed scheme compensates the ICI caused by PHN and RCFO in Alamouti SFBC‐OFDM systems and has a better performance than conventional schemes.     

Interference avoidance and cancellation in automotive OFDM radar networks

With increasing use of millimeter-wave radars in driving safety applications, interference between vehicles becomes a significant issue. Moreover, oscillator imperfections and relative velocity effects induce inter-carrier interference (ICI) owing to frequency offset, leading to degradation of target detection. In this paper, time-frequency resources are divided into several orthogonal logical channels according to the time-frequency division (TFD) scheme. We propose a two-stage interference mitigation method. First, an interference avoidance technique is designed for each piece of radar equipment (RE) to select logical channels with the least ICI. Then, each RE reconstructs and cancels interference according to estimated parameters based on the proposed interference cancellation technique. Computer simulations reveal that the proposed interference avoidance technique can approximately achieve the performance of ground truth, especially when the number of interferers is small. In addition, noise enhancement effects can be effectively mitigated through the proposed cancellation technique.

     

Decision Feedback Frequency Offset Estimation and Tracking for General ICI Self-Cancellation Based OFDM Systems

Inter-carrier interference (ICI) self-cancellation schemes were often employed in many OFDM systems as a simple and effective approach to suppress ICI caused by carrier frequency errors. The same procedure, however, can not perform very well at high frequency offsets. We propose a simple decision feedback scheme based on the general ICI self-cancellation scheme to perform estimation and tracking of the carrier frequency offsets. A system with the scheme does not consume additional bandwidth since it used the same data symbols employed for ICI cancellation for the estimation. After an initial estimation is completed, the scheme switches to the tracking mode to carry out the estimation of deviations in the frequency offsets. Finally this fine-tuned estimate is applied to the ICI self-cancellation scheme concurrently for frequency offset correction and hence improved the system performance greatly. Simulation results showed that our scheme allowed up to 9% of random variations in the frequency offset. The effectiveness of our scheme is further verified by calculating the bit error rate performance of various OFDM receivers.     

ICI reduction scheme for OFDM system with phase noise over time‐varying channels

For mobile orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, time‐varying channels and random phase noise introduced by the oscillator result in severe intercarrier interference (ICI), respectively, and degrade the overall OFDM system performance. However, the existing ICI reduction methods only aim at a single interference source, i.e. either time‐varying channels or phase noise. Therefore, these methods are not suitable for the actual situation. In this paper, we analyze the spectral property of the transfer function composed of time‐varying channels and phase noise, and propose that the transfer function can be approximated by a finite parameter complex exponential basis expansion model (CE‐BEM). Then, a pilot‐aided minimum mean square error estimation is adopted to estimate the CE‐BEM coefficients in order to reconstruct the transfer function and reduce ICI. Finally, our simulation results show how the proposed scheme would improve the system performance in a time‐varying environment with phase noise. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An Improved ICI Reduction Method in OFDM Communication System

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technique for the broadband wireless communication system. However, the inter-sub-carrier-interference (ICI) produced by the phase noise of transceiver local oscillator is a serious problem. Bit error rate (BER) performance is degraded because the orthogonal properties between the sub-carriers are broken down. In this paper, ICI self-cancellation of data-conjugate method is studied to reduce ICI effectively. CPE (common phase error), ICI and CIR (carrier to interference power ratio) are derived and discussed by the linear approximation of the phase noise. Then, the system performance of the data-conjugate method is compared with those of the original OFDM and the conventional data-conversion method. As results, it can be shown that CPE becomes zero in the OFDM of the data-conjugate method. Besides, in the OFDM system with phase noise, the data-conjugate method can make remarkable improvement of the BER performance and it is better than the data-conversion method and the original OFDM with or without convolution coding.     

OFDM系统中ICI自消除算法研究

OFDM系统对频率偏移极为敏感,频率偏移将导致子载波之间失去正交性,于是产生子载波干扰（ICI）,从而降低系统性能。通过对有效抑制ICI的方法—ICI自消除算法进行研究,分析了ICI自消除算法对OFDM系统的影响。在软件无线电（GNU Radio）平台上搭建该系统,并在实际环境中运行。研究结果表明：与传统OFDM系统相比,ICI自消除算法使OFDM系统的误码率得到改善。     

Orthogonal Basis Expansion-Based Phase Noise Estimation and Suppression for CO-OFDM Systems

In coherent optical orthogonal frequency- division-multiplexing systems, the laser phase noise which induces common phase error (CPE) and intercarrier interference (ICI) is a major impairment to the system's performance. In this letter, we propose an orthogonal basis expansion-based phase noise suppression algorithm which can mitigate CPE as well as ICI effectively. The proposal can significantly reduce the bit-error-rate floor caused by ICI.      

相干光OFDM系统中一种新颖时域容积卡尔曼相位噪声补偿算法

针对激光器产生的相位噪声会严重影响相干光正交频分复用(CO-OFDM)系统的性能问题,提出了一种新颖容积卡尔曼滤波(CKF)相位噪声补偿算法。该算法利用导频信息,先通过扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)和线性插值算法补偿公共相位误差(CPE)噪声,然后对相位噪声粗补偿后的信号进行预判决,在时域对预判决后的信号进行次符号处理的CKF实现对载波间干扰(ICI)相位噪声的精细补偿。对补偿后的信号进行二次迭代,从而提高补偿效果。分析和仿真表明:提出的新颖CKF算法能有效补偿相位噪声对信号的影响,在相位噪声线宽较大时能有效增强对ICI相位噪声的补偿效果,改善CO-OFDM系统对激光器线宽的容忍度,有效提高系统的性能。