A novel MAC protocol for IDMA‐based multi‐beam satellite communication systems

Considering the limitations of satellite communication systems and advantages of new emerging interleave‐division multiple access (IDMA) technology, IDMA is introduced into the satellite systems, providing a new solution for multiple access techniques of satellite systems. To further validate the IDMA into satellite systems, a novel medium access control (MAC) scheme is proposed. In the random access channel, the interleave‐division slotted ALOHA method is adopted to alleviate the collision of access requests. Furthermore, a novel minimum power allocation scheme based on signal‐to‐interference‐plus‐noise ratio (SINR) evolution is proposed to maximize the capacity of such an interference‐sensitive system. By virtue of SINR evolution, our proposed scheme can accurately estimate multi‐user detection efficiency with low computational cost and further reduce the transmitted power, illustrating the high power efficiency of IDMA. To further enhance the performance of the MAC protocol, an effective call admission control scheme considering the effect of power control error is designed and combined into our MAC protocol. Analysis and simulation results show that, by taking full advantage of the chip‐by‐chip multi‐user detection technique, the proposed IDMA MAC protocol achieves high throughput and low average packet delay simultaneously, with low onboard processing complexity in the multi‐beam satellite communication systems. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interleave‐division multiple access (IDMA) using low‐rate layered LDGM codes

We propose the use of low‐rate layered serially concatenated low‐density generator matrix (SCLDGM) codes in interleave‐division multiple access (IDMA) systems to approach the multiuser capacity. We study the behavior of the soft interference cancellation (SIC) detector employed in IDMA systems and design the channel codes using EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) evolution, aiming at optimizing the system performance. Simulation results show that the designed codes approach the theoretical limits and outperform previous IDMA schemes based on Turbo‐Hadamard codes. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A low‐complexity adaptive receiver for DS‐CDMA systems in unknown code delay environment

In direct‐sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) multiuser communication systems in multipath channels, both intersymbol interference (ISI) and multiple‐access interference (MAI) must be considered. The multipath channel characterizes the propagation effects including the timing offset and delays, etc. Traditionally, we use the delay‐locked loop (DLL) code tracking loop to recover the timing delay. But DLL cannot work well in multipath environment. In this paper, we propose a low‐complexity adaptive receiver to suppress ISI/MAI and solve the timing offset problems without using conventional DLL code tracking loop. The proposed receiver employs an adaptive filter whose weights are adapted using a block least‐mean square error algorithm with fractional sampling. Simulations confirm the good performance, including learning curves and theoretical analysis of minimum mean‐square error, of the proposed receiver. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive antennas for MIMO OFDM‐CDMA communication systems

In this paper, we propose symbol‐based receivers for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) code‐division multiple‐access (CDMA) multiple‐input‐multiple‐output (MIMO) communications in multipath fading channels. For multiuser and multipath fading environments, both intersymbol interference and multiple‐access interference must be considered. We propose narrowband and wideband antennas and Wiener code filter for MIMO OFDM‐CDMA systems. The proposed receivers are updated symbol‐by‐symbol to achieve low computational complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed Wiener code filter can improve the system performance for the proposed adaptive antennas. The wideband antenna can achieve better error‐rate performance than that of the narrowband antenna when multipath effect exists. The convergence rate of the recursive least squares antennas is faster than that of the least mean square antennas. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

交织多址技术在BRadio系统上行链路中的应用

基于BRadio系统上行采用的时频域联合单载波调制时分多址（TFu—SCM—TDMA）技术,将交织多址接入（IDMA）技术引入其中,同一时隙中可以支持多用户同时通信。该方式用不同的交织器区分不同用户,并在发送端插入训练序列以分别获得用户到基站的信道信息,在接收端采用多用户迭代译码消除其他用户的干扰。在AWGN和瑞利衰落信道下进行仿真,验证了所提方法的可行性。     

BER analysis and interference mitigation for GO‐OFDMA transmission

Carrier frequency offset (CFO) results in multiaccess interference and intersymbol interference and degrades the bit error rate performance. Mitigating the effects of CFO always burdens the receiver with respect to architecture and power. This disadvantage increases with increase in number of users. In the present work, bit error rate analysis of multiuser group orthogonal–orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme for variable rate and single rate over pedestrian channel in the presence of CFO is presented. Through analysis, it is proved that by incorporating carrier interferometry codes in the scheme, CFO effects can be removed without burdening receiver. It is also shown by analysis that effect of CFO is rate dependent. Finally, simulation results are provided to confirm the analytical results.     

Energy‐efficient device‐to‐device communication using adaptive resource‐block allocation

Device‐to‐device (D2D) communication in the fifth‐generation (5G) wireless communication networks (WCNs) reuses the cellular spectrum to communicate over the direct links and offers significant performance benefits. Since the scarce radio spectrum is the most precious resource for the mobile‐network operators (MNOs), optimizing the resource allocation in WCNs is a major challenge. This paper proposes an adaptive resource‐block (RB) allocation scheme for adequate RB availability to every D2D pair in a trisectored cell of the 5G WCN. The hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to allocate RBs adaptively, promoting high resource efficiency. The stringent quality‐of‐service (QoS) and quality‐of‐experience (QoE) requirements of the evolutionary 5G WCNs must not surpass the transmission power levels. This is also addressed while using HMM for RB allocation. Thus, an energy‐efficient RB allocation is performed, with higher access rate and mean opinion score (MOS). Cell sectoring effectively manages the interference in the 5G networks amid ultrauser density. The potency of the proposed adaptive scheme has been verified through simulations. The proposed scheme is an essential approach to green communication in 5G WCNs.     

Performance analysis of MC‐CDMA by employing the MMSE‐PIC scheme in wireless communications

From the past decade, the multicarrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA) transmission schemes have placed major role in wireless communications. It is providing a secured wireless communication to the users with guaranteed performance. In many situations, the performance of the MC‐CDMA is restricted due to the interference caused by multiple access interference (MAI), which also influences the frameworks of CDMA. To overcome this issue, we concentrated on developing the efficient technique for data transmission with interference cancellation for downlink MC‐CDMA. In the proposed method, the interference cancellation procedure is done by using the regeneration and subtraction of MAI from the signal. The simulation results are evaluated using the MC‐CDMA system with different decision functions. Results proved that the proposed system is efficient in reducing the MAI along with an improved bit error rate (BER).     

MC‐CDMA MIMO systems with quasi‐orthogonal space–time block codes: Channel estimation and multiuser detection

This paper investigates blind channel estimation and multiuser detection for quasi‐synchronous multi‐carrier code‐division multiple‐access (MC‐CDMA) multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems with quasi‐orthogonal space–time block codes (QO‐STBC). Subspace‐based blind channel estimation is proposed by considering a QO‐STBC scheme that involves four transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas. Based on the first‐order perturbation theory, the mean square error of the channel estimation is derived. With the estimated channel coefficients, we employ minimum output energy and eigenspace receivers for symbol detection. Using the QO‐STBC coding property, the weight analyses are performed to reduce the computational complexity of the system. In addition, the forward–backward averaging technique is presented to enhance the performance of multiuser detection. Numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed channel estimation methods and symbol detection techniques. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive Multiuser Decision Feedback Detector: A Novel Parallel Interference Canceller

Adaptive decision feedback detector based on the parallel interference cancellation approach (ADFD-PIC) is presented for code division multiple access transmission, which not only combats the intersymbol interference and multiple access interference but also suppresses other-cell interference. For frequency-selective smoothly time-varying channels, the proposed ADFD-PIC structure using the erasure algorithm based soft-slicer and channel estimator (EC-ADFD-PIC) offers performance improvement by mitigating the adverse effects of error propagation. The simulation results are presented to demonstrate the substantial improvement in bit error rate performance of the minimum mean square error EC-ADFD-PIC over other multiuser detection techniques.     

MITA Interleaver for Integrated and Iterative IDMA Systems Over Powerline Channel

Recently, the powerline communication (PLC) mechanism has attracted the attention of researchers across the globe since it demonstrates the least bit error rate in comparison to conventional wireless communication, apart from the merit of no extra cost for implementation of wired communication infrastructure. To make signal transfer over PLC system with no hassling, various multiple access schemes inclusive of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) etc. have been employed in the defined communication system. In order to facilitate more reliable communication over PLC channel, the OFDMA and IDMA schemes are combined together, termed as integrated IDMA (IIDMA) scheme. All the variant of IDMA Scheme, inbuilt with interleaving mechanism as its heart, accumulates the merits of original IDMA Scheme in addition to the merits of other multiple access scheme duly coupled with it for intended purpose. In the literature, the researchers have evaluated the IDMA and its variant multiple access schemes with various interleavers, however still there remains scope for improvement in the performance of communication systems with induction of appropriate interleaver. In this paper, a novel interleaver named as Multiplicative Interleaving with Tree Algorithm (MITA) has been implemented over OFDM-IDMA systems and evaluated against existing other interleavers in MATLAB environment. The performance result evidently indicates the superiority of the suggested interleaver in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER), memory consumed and computing complexity. Thus MITA interleaver can be implemented for enhanced performance of the communication system.

     

Performance analysis of coded space‐time adaptive detection in DS/CDMA systems over Rayleigh fading channels

In this paper, we study the use of channel coding in a direct‐sequence code‐division multiple‐access (DS‐CDMA) system that employs space‐time adaptive minimum‐mean square‐error (MMSE) interference suppression over Rayleigh fading channels. It is shown that the employment of adaptive antenna arrays at the receiver can assist in attenuating multiuser interference and at the same time speeds‐up the convergence rate of the adaptive receiver. In this work, we assess the accuracy of the theoretical results developed for the uncoded and convolutionally coded space‐time multiuser detector when applied to the adaptive case. It is found that the use of antenna arrays brings the receiver performance very close to its multiuser counterpart. Using performance error bounds, we show that a user‐capacity gain of approximately 200% can easily be achieved for the space‐time adaptive detector when used with a rate 1/2 convolutional code (CC) and a practical channel interleaver. This capacity gain is only 10% less than the gain achieved for the more complicated multiuser‐based receiver. Finally, we perform a comparison between convolutional and turbo coding where we find that the latter outperforms the former at all practical bit‐error rates (BER). Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Iterative Multiuser Detection for Single-Carrier Modulation with Frequency-Domain Equalization

In this letter, we propose a new multiuser detection scheme for single-carrier modulation with frequency-domain equalization (SC-FDE). We first present mathematical formulations of multiuser detection for the SC-FDE system with user- specific interleaving. The proposed structure employs spreader and different interleaver for each user at the transmitter, and re moves multiuser interference with an iterative detection method in the frequency domain at the receiver. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the interleave- division multiple-access (IDMA) scheme in the block error rate even for severely frequency-selective channel, while providing considerably lower computational complexity.     

Electromagnetism‐like method tuned constant modulus algorithm for blind detector in multicarrier CDMA system

This paper presents an efficient meta‐heuristic algorithm based on electromagnetism‐like method, which has been successfully implemented in multiuser detection problems. The contribution revisits blind multiuser detection for multicarrier code division multiple access systems using a novel combined adaptive step‐size constant modulus algorithm (CMA) and electromagnetism‐like method scheme. To work around potentially computational intractability and improved the capability of suppressing multiple access interference (MAI) for Multicarrier CDMA System, the proposed scheme exploits heuristics in consideration of both global and local exploration of the step size of the CMA. Simulation results obtained confirm that faster convergence and desirable BER performance with low computational complexity can be achieved with electromagnetism‐like method based CMA scheme, compared with the previous step‐size CMA scheme, genetic algorithm, and particle swarm optimization with CMA scheme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multiuser receiver scheme for full‐rate space–time coded CDMA system with imperfect estimation

By introducing a full‐rate space–time coding (STC) scheme, a synchronous CDMA (code division multiple access) system with full‐rate STC is given, and the corresponding uplink performance is investigated in Rayleigh fading channel with imperfect estimation. Considering that existing STC‐CDMA system has high decoding complexity, low‐complexity multiuser receiver schemes are developed for perfect and imperfect estimations, respectively. The schemes can make full use of the complex orthogonality of STC to reduce the high decoding complexity of the existing scheme, and have linear decoding complexity compared with the existing scheme with exponential decoding complexity. Moreover, the proposed schemes can achieve almost the same performance as the existing scheme. Compared with full‐diversity STC‐CDMA, the given full‐rate STC‐CDMA can achieve full data rate, low complexity, and partial diversity, and form efficient spatial interleaving. Thus, the concatenation of channel coding can effectively compensate for the performance loss due to partial diversity. Simulation results show that the full‐rate STC‐CDMA has lower bit error rate (BER) than full‐diversity STC‐CDMA systems under the same system throughput and concatenation of channel code. Moreover, the system BER with imperfect estimation are worse than that with perfect estimation due to the estimation error, which implies that the developed multiuser receiver schemes are valid and reasonable. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detection for the MC‐CDMA Systems Using Orthogonalized Subspace Tracking

In this paper, we study the performance of subspace‐based multiuser detection techniques for multicarrier code‐division multiple access (MC‐CDMA) systems. We propose an improvement in the PASTd algorithm by cascading it with the classical Gram‐Schmidt procedure to orthonormalize the eigenvectors after their sequential extraction. The tracking of signal subspace using this algorithm, which we call OPASTd, has a faster convergence as the eigenvectors are orthonormalized at each discrete time sample. This improved PASTd algorithm is then used to implement the subspace blind adaptive multiuser detection for MC‐CDMA. We also show that, for multiuser detection, the complexity of the proposed scheme is lower than that of many other orthogonalization schemes found in the literature. Extensive simulation results are presented and discussed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme.     

基于人工鱼群的中继卫星多用户检测方法

随着航天技术的发展,未来的中继卫星系统需要为多个用户航天器提供码分多址通信服务。因此需要采用多用户检测技术来抑制多个用户航天器信号之间的多址干扰。文中将人工鱼群优化算法引入到中继卫星系统多用户检测中,通过模拟人工鱼群觅食过程中的觅食行为、聚集行为以及尾随行为,利用人工鱼群的迭代优化,实现多址干扰的最小化。为加快人工鱼群算法的收敛速度,文中将解相关多用户检测的结果作为人工鱼群算法的迭代初值。结果表明,基于人工鱼群算法的多用户检测方法误码率在信噪比为10 dB时可以达到10 ^-6数量级,在误码率、远近效应以及用户容量等方面的性能优于传统的多用户检测方法。     

IDMA水声多用户下行通信链路迭代接收算法

水声通信网络的快速发展对多用户水声物理层通信技术提出了迫切的需求。本文主要针对水声多用户下行通信链路中存在严重码间干扰和多址干扰的问题,提出了一种交织多址（IDMA）水声多用户下行通信链路迭代接收算法,能够根据译码器输出的软信息对估计的信道进行迭代更新,同时根据信道估计结果重建各用户对当前用户的多址干扰（MAI）,并使用干扰抵消器予以抵消,通过在均衡器、译码器和干扰抵消器之间的迭代逐次提高当前用户信息的输出信噪比,最终实现正确解调。其中,信道估计算法采用LMMSE初始化的分簇OMP稀疏信道估计算法,多普勒估计采用时频二维搜索结合自相关相位估计的方法,计算机仿真结果表明该接收机具有与已知信道时接近或相当的性能。进行了多用户水声通信海上试验,在4.5km、6km和7km三个距离实现了对2个用户、3个用户和4个用户的同时通信,每个用户的通信净速率约为500bps,证明了本文所提出的方法能够有效应用在多用户水声通信中,为水声通信网络的发展提供了一种重要的物理层通信技术手段。      

Pre‐filtering technique for MAI cancellation in MC‐CDMA systems

Multicarrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA), is a promising multiplexing technique for future communication systems. In this study, we employ the well‐known Walsh‐Hadamard spreading codes for synchronous downlink transmission of MC‐CDMA systems. The spreading codes allow that the frequency diversity to be efficiently exploited. However, multipath propagation may cause orthogonality among users is distorted, and this distortion produces multiple access interference (MAI). To eliminate this effect, we propose a pre‐filtering‐based MC‐CDMA system which uses a pre‐filtering technique at the transmitter and an equal gain combining (EGC) scheme at the receivers, respectively. Our proposed pre‐filtering technique transforms the transmitted signals so that the MAI can be eliminated, and the EGC scheme weights the signals received from all subcarriers so that channel distortions can be compensated. Furthermore, the proposed technique can calculate the transmitted power over all subcarriers to satisfy the required quality of service of each user and archive MAI‐free. In this paper, performance in terms of bit error rate is analyzed; in comparison with the EGC, orthogonal restoring combining, and maximal ratio combining schemes at receiver, respectively. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi‐group linear turbo equalization with intercell interference cancellation for MC‐CDMA cellular systems

In this paper, we investigate multi‐group linear turbo equalization using single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) techniques to mitigate the intercell interference for multi‐carrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA) cellular systems. It is important for the mobile station to mitigate the intercell interference as the performance of the users close to cell edge is mainly degraded by the intercell interference. The complexity of the proposed iterative detector and receiver is low as the one‐tap minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer is employed for mitigating the intracell interference, while a simple group interference canceller is used for suppressing the intercell interference. Simulation results show that the proposed iterative detector and receiver can mitigate the intercell interference effectively through iterations for both uncoded and coded signals. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.