Full-Rate Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code for Multiple Antennas

In this paper, full-rate and complex orthogonal space-time block code (STBC) schemes for multiple antennas are proposed, and turbo code is employed as channel coding to improve the proposed STBC schemes performance further. Compared with full-diversity multiple antennas STBC schemes, the proposed schemes can implement full data rate, partial diversity and a smaller complexity. On the condition of the same system throughput and concatenation of turbo code, the proposed schemes have lower bit error rate (BER) than those low-rate and full-diversity code schemes.This work is supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under grant No. 2005038242 and Chinese Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds. Xiangbin Yu received the M.S degrees in Communication and Information Systems from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2001; and his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems in 2004 from National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory at Southeast University, China. Now he is working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Information and Communication Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His research interests include multi-carrier digital communication, space-time coding, adaptive modulation and digital signal processing in communications. DaZhuan Xu received the M.S degrees and Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1986 and 2001, respectively. He is now a full professor in College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. Prof. Xu is a Senior Member of China Institute of Electronics (CIE). His research interests include digital communications, soft radio, coding theory, medical signal processing. Guangguo Bi was graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1960. He is now a professor in the Department of Radio Engineering of Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prof. Bi is a fellow and a member of the board of Director of the China Institute of Communications, and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests include digital communications, personal communications network, spread spectrum communications, and intelligent information processing. He has published more than 200 papers in above areas.     

Performance of Multiband Complex-Wavelet-Based MC-CDMA System with Space-Time Coding over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Space-time coding technique and Multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) technique have received much interest due to their high frequency spectrum efficiency and high data rate transmission. On the basis of analyzing the two technique principle, utilizing the optimized multiband complex wavelet as multi-carrier basis function, we propose an MC-CDMA system based on multiband complex wavelet and space-time coding for downlink and investigate the system bit error rate (BER) performance over Nakagami-m fading channel. The system has much higher spectrum efficiency and data rate due to no need any cyclic prefix (CP) when compared to the conventional MC-CDMA system. Moreover, the application of space-time coding technique improves the ability against fading channel effectively and perfects the downlink performance further. Simulation results show that the proposed multiband complex-wavelet-based MC-CDMA (MBCW-MC-CDMA) system performs better than conventional MC-CDMA system and real wavelet-packet-based MC-CDMA system due to its superior ability against interferences. Especially, the space-time coded MBCW-MC-CDMA system has superior performance, and it outperforms single antenna MBCW-MC-CDMA and conventional MC-CDMA with space-time coding.     

Physical-layer air interface solutions for broadband high-speed wireless cellular systems

We propose the physical-layer (PHY) air interface solutions for downlink and uplink transmissions in broadband high-speed wireless cellular systems. A system based on low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) time-division multiple-accessing (TDMA) (with scheduling) is proposed for downlink transmission; and a system based on orthogonal space-time block coded (STBC) multi-carrier code-division multiple-accessing (MC-CDMA) is proposed for uplink transmission. The proposed scheme can support ∼100 Mbps peak rate over 25 MHz bandwidth downlink channels and ∼30 Mbps sum rate of multiple users over 25 MHz uplink channels. Moreover, the proposed solutions provide excellent performance and reasonable complexity for mobile station and for base station. Ben Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1994 and 1997; the Ph.D. degree from Texas A & M University in 2002. From 1994 to 1997, he was a Research Assistant with National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory at Southeast University, China. From 1997 to 1998, he was with the CDMA Research Department of Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co., Shanghai, China. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for the project of high-speed wireless packet data transmission (4G prototype) at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, New Jersey. He is now with Silicon Laboratories. His research interests include the signal processing and error-control coding for mobile and wireless communication systems. Xiaodong Wang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (with the highest honor) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1992; the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1995; and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1998. From July 1998 to December 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University. In January 2002, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Dr. Wang’s research interests fall in the general areas of computing, signal processing and communications. He has worked in the areas of digital communications, digital signal processing, parallel and distributed computing, nanoelectronics and bioinformatics, and has published extensively in these areas. Among his publications is a recent book entitled “Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception”, published by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, in 2003. His current research interests include wireless communications, Monte Carlo-based statistical signal processing, and genomic signal processing. Dr. Wang received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2001 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Mohammad Madihian (S’78-M’83-SM’88-F’98) received his Ph.D in electronic engineering from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1983. He is presently the Chief Patent Officer and Department Head, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, where he conducts Microwave as well as PHY/MAC layer signal processing activities for high-speed wireless networks and personal communications applications. He holds 35 Japan/US patents and has authored/co-authored more than 130 technical publications including 25 invited talks. He has received 8 NEC Distinguished R&D Achievement Awards, the 1988 IEEE MTT-S Best Paper Microwave Prize, and 1998 IEEE Fellow Award. He has served as Guest Editor to the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Japan IEICE Transactions on Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is currently serving on the IEEE Speaker’s Bureau, IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium Executive Committee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium Executive Committee, IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Program Committee, IEEE MTT-6 Subcommittee, IEEE MTT Editorial Board, and Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials. Dr. Madihian is an Adjunct Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.     

A MC-CDMA Mobile Communication System Employing Pre-Rake and Transmit Diversity

In this paper, a multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) downlink mobile communication system employing pre-rake and dual transmit diversity is proposed. It combines high spectral efficiency with an immunity to channel dispersion and fading. It also ensures small size, cost and power consumption of the terminal. Theoretical and simulation results for the system under consideration are obtained. Depicted results show appreciable improvements of the proposed system over those previously known.Emad K. Al-Hussaini received his B.Sc degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1964 and his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. From 1964 to 1970, he was with the General Egyptian Aeroorganization. Since 1970, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and is currently professor there. He was a research fellow at Imperial College, London, UK, and at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in the academic years 1976/1977 and 1981/1982, respectively. In 1990, he received the Egyptian national encouragement award for outstanding engineering research. He has written several papers for technical international journals and conferences. His research interests include signal processing, fading channel communication, modulation, and cellular mobile radio systems. Dr Al-Hussaini is a senior member of IEEE. He is listed in Marquis Whos Who in the World and in the IBC (International Biographical Center, Cambridge) for outstanding people of the 20th century.Hebat-Allah M.Mourad received her B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1983, 1987 and 1994 respectively. Since 1983 she has been with the Electronics and Communications Department, Faculty of Engineering Cairo University and is currently associate professor there. Her research interests include mobile communications, satellite communications and optical fiber communications.Fatma A. Newagy received her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in electrical communication engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 1998 and 2002 respectively. Since 1999, she has been a research assistant with the Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. She is pursuing her Ph.D. there. Her research interests include mobile communications and modulation techniques for spread spectrum and wireless communications.     

基于优化多带复小波和Turbo编码的多载波CDMA系统及性能

在分析多载波CDMA(MC-CDMA)技术原理的基础上,利用优化的多带复小波作为多载波调制以及turbo 编码作为信道编码,提出一种基于优化多带复小波和turbo编码的MC-CDMA系统,研究了其在瑞利衰落信道下的误比特率性能。该系统能克服通常MC-CDMA系统插入循环前缀(CP)所带来频谱效率的降低,并能充分利用turbo 码的良好抗信道衰落能力,进一步提高系统性能。理论分析和仿真结果表明该系统性能要好于通常MC-CDMA系统,具有与采用CP的MC-CDMA系统相比较的优势。同时turbo编码的应用显著增强了系统抗多径衰落和多址干扰的能力。     

TiAl基合金表面激光重熔MCrAlY涂层组织结构及抗氧化性

采用等离子喷涂工艺在TiAl基合金表面制备NiCoCrAl-Y2O3涂层.并用激光重熔工艺对涂层进行处理.用SEM、XRD对激光重熔前后的试样进行检测,分析了涂层的微观组织结构以及物相成分组成,同时对涂层进行高温氧化试验.结果表明,等离子喷涂后的涂层组织较致密,但仍存在孔洞等缺陷.激光重熔后涂层的组织结构进一步均匀、致密,晶粒得到细化.激光重熔过程中,涂层中Al元素上浮,并部分氧化生成Al2O3相.这两方面均可有效"阻碍"氧离子向内扩散和金属阳离子向外扩散,使重熔后涂层的高温抗氧化性能得到较大地改善.     

基于微波光子I/Q去斜接收的宽带线性调频雷达成像系统

该文提出一种新的基于微波光子I/Q去斜接收的宽带线性调频雷达成像系统方案。发射机利用微波光子倍频技术产生宽带线性调频信号,接收机利用偏分复用-双驱动马赫曾德尔调制器,将回波信号同时输入到两个不同偏振态的调制器上,并通过调节对应调制器的偏置电压在两偏振态之间引入90°相位差,从而实现微波光子I/Q去斜接收。此雷达在具备实时高分辨探测能力的同时,能区分参考点两侧的目标,解决了现有微波光子雷达接收机采用光子混频去斜接收中受镜频干扰导致距离向模糊的问题。该文首先论证了采用I/Q去斜接收的必要性,随后介绍了所提出的微波光子雷达结构与原理,最后开展了目标探测与逆合成孔径雷达成像的实验研究。该雷达工作在K波段,带宽为8 GHz。结果表明该系统可以有效解决镜频干扰引起的距离向模糊。      

Carrier Frequency Recovery Technique in OFDM Systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are highly sensitive to carrier frequency errors. In this paper, a new method utilizing pilots to do frequency synchronization in frequency domain is proposed with large estimation range. It needs no such prerequisite assumption that a perfect symbol timing synchronization [IEEE Transactions on Communications 42 (1994) 2908; 45 (1997) 1613] has been done before performing integer carrier frequency synchronization. Also, a new adjusting model for fine carrier frequency is proposed. Simulation and performance analysis show that our overall frequency estimator has high accuracy. The corresponding FPGA circuit through test in high definition TV (HDTV) prototype in Team of Expert Engineering Group (TEEG) in China proves its availability and feasibility.Bo Ai (M2001) was born in Shannxi Province in China on February 7, 1974. He received a B.Sc. degree from Engineering Institute of Armed Police Force and a Master degree, a Ph.D degree from Xidian University in 1997, 2002 and 2004 in China respectively. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG (Team of Engineering Expert Group) of China, and has published over forty papers in his research area till now. He is senior member of Chinese Electronics Institute (CIE), an editorial commitee member of journal of Computer Simulations. His current interests are the research and applications of OFDM technique with emphasis on synchronization.Jian-hua Ge was born in September, 1961 in JiangSu Province in China. He received the B.Sc., Master and Ph.D. degree from Xidian University in 1982, 1985 and 1989 respectively. He is now the professor in both Xidian University in Xian and Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai. He is the senior member of Chinese Electronics Institute. He has won lots of scientific and technical prizes in China and published many papers. His interests are transmission communications and web security.Yong Wang (M2003) was born in Shannxi Province in China in 1976. He received a B.Sc. and Master degree from Xidian University in China in 1997 and 2002 respectively, and is now working towards the Ph.D. degree on communications in the Key Laboratory of ISN in Xidian University. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG of China and his interests are broadband multimedia communications.Dian-fu Zhang was born in Shannxi Province in China in 1954. He received a B.Sc. degree from Xidian University in China in 1977. He is now working as a professor and the chairman of the telecommunication department in Engineering College of Armed Police Force. His interests are mobile communications.Jun Liu was born in Beijing in China in 1963. He received his B.Sc. degree from Nanjing University Of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China in 1984. He is now a professor in Engineering College Of Armed Police Force. His research interests include integrated circuit design and artificial intelligence.     

基于优化多带复小波的多载波CDMA及反向链路性能

在分析多载波码分多址的原理基础上,利用优化生成的多带复小波,提出了一种基于优化多带复小波的多载波CDMA系统反向链路模型,并采用基于多天线的空间分集合并(SDC)技术进一步完善所提系统.该系统可利用优化多带复小波的优良特性来避免通常多载波CDMA由于插入循环前缀所带来的频谱效率的下降,在此基础上我们研究了所提系统采用空间分集合并技术时在瑞利衰落信道下的反向链路性能;给出相应的误比特率分析.理论分析和仿真结果表明采用基于最大比合并的SDC技术可显著提高所提系统抗空间衰落和各种干扰的能力,而且基于SDC技术的所提系统要好于同样基于SDC技术的通常多载波CDMA系统和基于实小波包的多载波CDMA系统.     

基于光波分复用网络的分布式多目标定位系统

该文研究了基于光波分复用网络的分布式多目标定位系统,引入混沌光电振荡器实现宽带正交波形产生,引入光波分复用网络将分布式发射和接收单元的宽带信号传输回中心站进行信号处理,基于TOA (Time Of Arrival, 到达时间)定位方法实现对多目标的精确定位。多个光载波在中心站产生,中心站的资源可支撑复杂的高精度目标定位算法,远端发射和接收单元结构简单。进行了原理验证实验,构建了2个发射机、2个接收机的实验定位系统,基于混沌光电振荡器产生了频率范围为3.1～10.6 GHz的正交混沌波形。实现了对2个目标的2维定位,最大误差为7.09 cm,并对系统架构的可重构性进行了实验验证。      

超低相噪光电振荡器及其频率综合技术研究

该文提出一种基于级联相位调制器的注入锁定光电振荡器及其频率综合系统。该文提出的光电振荡器利用相位调制实现调制器输出光谱展宽并保持光纤中传播功率恒定,降低光纤非线性效应引入的强度噪声。采用双输出MZI级联平衡探测器的结构完成相位调制到强度调制的转化,提高系统的信噪比,实现频率为9.9999914 GHz、边模抑制比大于85 dB、10 kHz频偏相位噪声为–153.1 dBc/Hz的超低相位噪声信号输出。此外,还基于所提出的超低相位噪声光电振荡器构建了宽带、高性能频率综合系统。联合DDS和PLL的混合锁相技术,所提出频率综合器的输出频率成功覆盖5.9～12.9 GHz,相位噪声达到–130 dBc/Hz@10 kHz,杂散抑制比优于65 dB,跳频时间小于1.48 μs。      

New range alignment algorithm for ISAR based on high order moment

A new technique is proposed for range alignment in Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR). The basic idea is to perform range alignment using a maximum kurtosis (fourth-order central moment) criterion. After maximizing the kurtosis of the combined range profile of two adjacent echoes, the amount of range shift between them can be automatically tracked out. The combined range profile is constructed by a max operation, which only reserves the larger elements of the two echoes, and the echoes’ amplitudes are limited before they are combined. This algorithm has been used to process real ISAR data and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. Compared with the correlation method and the minimum entropy method, the proposed algorithm obtains much better results in both examples in this paper. Its computation complexity has the same order of magnitude as the minimum entropy method.     

Improved LUT Technique for HPA Nonlinear Pre-Distortion in OFDM Systems

In this paper, we focus on the Look-up Table (LUT) technique for the compensation of HPA nonlinear distortion. An improved LUT method is proposed with better performance compared with conventional LUT technique in terms of convergence speeds, BER and total degradation (TD). It can get over 8 dB gain in out-of-band spectrum re-growth suppression and about 0.3 dB BER performance gain than conventional LUT technique with the same iteration times. Also, we propose an actual application of HPA with pre-distorter in OFDM transmitter. Ai Bo was born in Shannxi Province in China on February 7, 1974. He received a BSc. Degree from Engineering Institute of Armed Police Force in 1997, a Master and Dr. degree from Xidian University in 2002 and 2004 in China respectively, and now working as a post dr. in Dept. of E&E, state of key lab. on microwave and digital communications in Tsinghua University in China. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG (Team of Engineering Expert Group) of China. He is an editorial committee member of journal of “Computer Simulations”, “Information and Electronic Engineering”, an IEEE member and a senior member of Electronics Institute of China (CIE). He has published over 60 scientific papers in his research area till now. His current interests are the research and applications of OFDM techniques with emphasis on synchronization and HPA linearization techniques. Yang Zhi-Xing graduated from Tsinghua University, P.R. China in 1970. He is now a Professor and Deputy Director of State Key Lab. on Microwave and Digital Communication at the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Director of the DTV R&D Center in Tsinghua University. As a DTV technical expert for the Chinese government, Professor Yang has also been a member of the DTV standardization Committee of China and a leader of the DTV Standardization Harmonizing Group in Ministry of Information Industry of China. His major research interests include broadband information transmission technologies and DTV broadcasting systems. Pan Chang-Yong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University, P.R. China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and a member of the DTV R&D Center in Tsinghua University. His research interests are in the areas of broadband wireless transmission systems and satellite communications. Zhang Tao-Tao was born in Shandong Province in China in 1982, he received BSc. degree from Tsinghua University in 2004 and now pursing his Master degree in Dept. of E&E, state of key lab. on microwave and digital communications in Tsinghua University in China. His research interests is the power amplifier linearization techniques. Wang Yong was born in Shannxi Province in China in 1976. He received a BSc., a Master and a Dr. Degree from Xidian University in China in 1997, 2002 and 2005, respectively, and now is an associate professor in Xidian University. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG (Team of Engineering Expert Group) in China and is an IEEE Member. His interests are broadband multimedia communications. Ge Jian-Hua was born in September, 1961 in JiangSu Province in China. He received the B.Sc., Master and Ph.D. degree from Xidian University in 1982, 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is now the professor in both Xidian University in Xi’an and Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai. He is the senior member of Chinese Electronics Institute. He has won lots of scientific and technical prizes in China and published many papers. His interests are transmission communications and web security.     

Optimization and Performance Analysis of Zero Forcing Decision Feedback Detector for MIMO Block-Fading Channels with Per-Antenna Power Control

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems, the zero forcing decision feedback detector (ZF-DFD) is used to recover transmit signals. In this paper, we propose a per-antenna power control (PAPC) scheme based on ZF-DFD for MIMO block-fading channels. The optimal power controlled ZF-DFD can minimize the block error rate (BLER) and maximize the lower bound of the channel’s free distance at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region subject to a power constraint. Additionally, the optimal power controlled ZF-DFD can achieve this BLER performance without any ordering operation at the receiver. The performance analysis among the conventional ZF-DFD without feedback, the optimal power controlled ZF-DFD with power feedback, and the ZF-DFD with full channel state information feedback shows that the optimal ZF-DFD achieves a tradeoff between performance and feedback overhead. We compare the bit error rate (BER) and BLER performance of the optimal ZF-DFD with other detectors without power feedback by simulation. In simulations, the execution times required by these detectors are also reported to compare their complexity. It comes straight that the optimal power controlled ZF-DFD proposed in this paper can achieve good performance with small feedback overhead and have low complexity. Kun Zhao was born in Hefei, China, on 9 October 1979. He received his BS and MS degrees from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 2001 and 2003, all in Electrical Engineering. He is now a Ph.D. candidate at USTC.His research interests are in the area of spread spectrum and CDMA communications, radio resource management in mobile communications, space-time signal processing and multiuser MIMO. Ling Qiu received her BS degree from Southeast University, P. R. China, in 1990. She also received MS and Ph.D. degrees from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 1997 and 1999, all in Electrical Engineering.From 1990 to 1994, she was an engineer in the Institute of Nanjing Electronic Technology. In 1999, she joined the Department of Electronic and Engineering and Information Science, USTC as a lecturer. Since 2002, she has been an Associate Professor. She is a coauthor of two books and over 40 conference/journal papers. Her research interests are in the area of wireless communications, spread spectrum and CDMA communications, wireless access networks and protocols, radio resource management in mobile communications, space-time signal processing and multiuser MIMO. Jinkang Zhu is a professor of Department of Electronic Engineering & Information Science of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Now he is director of Personal Communication Network and Spread Spectrum Lab. of USTC, Chair of the Academic Committee of School of Information Science & Technology of USTC, Vice-Chiar of the Academic Committee of USTC.He was Permanent V-President of School of Information Science & Technology of USTC, Chairman of PCN Experts Group of Communication Project of National R & D on High-Technology Programme of China, Member of Information Technology Expert Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member (Representation of China Mainland) of Technical Forum on Wireless Communications of Asia Pacific Region, Member of Technical Advisory Committee of IEEE VTC'99 Fall, Member of Technical Program Committee of IEEE VTC'2000, Member of Technical Program Committee of SCI'2001.His research area is Wireless and Mobile Communications, CDMA and Spread Spectrum Communications, Signal Process of Communications, and Wireless Networks. He got two awards of Ministry of Science & Technology of China, three awards of Chinese Academy of Science. He published five books and 100 papers, where synchronous CDMA method proposed is used in TD-SCDMA Standard of 3G as basic technology.     

Essential Considerations in Implementing the Smart Antenna System for Downlink Beamforming

This paper addresses some essential problems that have to be taken into consideration in implementing the smart antenna base station (SABS) for downlink beamforming. In order to provide proper downlink beamforming as well as uplink beamforming, a pragmatic procedure of automatic calibration is proposed. Through the experimental test, we confirm that the proposed calibration technique has eliminated the problem of the phase differences of the signal path associated with each antenna. Also, in this paper, we first analyze the multipath condition under which the auxiliary pilot becomes indispensable for detecting the data transmitted on the data channel and what happens if the auxiliary pilot is not available. Then, the performance of the downlink beamforming utilizing the auxiliary pilot is analyzed through the computer simulations. Finally, we present a comparison of downlink communications to uplink ones in terms of throughputs available at each of uplink and downlink communications. Weon-Cheol Lee received the B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Communication Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 1992, 1994, 2005, respectively. From 1994 to 2000, he was with LG Electronic Inc., where he had worked for developing the digital VCR, digital cable modem, digital TV. Since 2001, he has been a professor with department of information and communications, Yong-in Songdam College, Korea. His research interests include smart antennas, mobile communications beyond the third generation, digital broadcasting technology, and communication signal processing. Dr. Lee also received the Best Research Paper Award and Excellent Research Engineer Award from LG Electronics, respectively. Seungwon Choireceived the BS degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and the M.S. degree from Seoul National University, Korea, 1980 and 1982, respectively, both in electronics engineering, the MS degree (computer engineering) in 1985, and the PhD degree (electrical engineering), in 1988, both from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. From 1988 to 1989 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, as an Assistant Professor. In 1989 he joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea. From 1990 to 1992 he was with the Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, as a Science and Technology Agency fellow, developing the adaptive antenna array systems and adaptive equalizing filters. He joined Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1992 as an assistant professor. He is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Hanyang University. Since 2003, Dr. Choi has been serving as a Vice Chairman and the representative of the ITU region 3 for SDR (Software Defined Radio) Forum and as a Director of the HY-SDR Research Center, MIC, Korea. His research interests include digital communications and adaptive signal processing with a recent focus on the implementation of the smart antenna systems for both mobile communication systems and wireless data systems. Jae-Moung Kim received the BS degree from Hanyang University, Korea in 1974, the MSEE degree from University of Southern California, USA in 1981, and the PhD degree from Yonsei University, Korea in 1987. He was a Vice President of Radio {&} Broadcasting Technology Laboratory and Director of Satellite Communication System Department at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from September 1982 to March 2003. Since April of 2003, he has been a Professor in the Graduate School of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Inha University. He is a board member of directors of Korean Institute of Communication Science (KICS), a Vice President of Korea Society of Broadcast Engineers (KOSBE) and a senior member of IEEE. His research background is telecommunication systems modeling and performance analysis of broadband wireless access systems, mobile communications, satellite communications and broadcasting transmission technologies.     

Pre-equalization Techniques for Downlink and Uplink TDD MC-CDMA Systems

Time division duplex (TDD) multi carrier-code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems have recently been proposed as potential candidates for next generation (4G) technology. In order to mitigate multiple access interference, in this paper we investigate pre-equalization schemes for both downlink and uplink transmissions, the former also in a multiple transmit antenna scenario. In particular, new pre-equalizer techniques are introduced and complexity issues addressed. Numerical results are given to highlight the effectiveness of the proposed schemes with respect to other existing pre-equalizer solutions. Paola Bisaglia was born in Padova, Italy, on August 8, 1971. She received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy in 1996 and 2000 respectively. In 2000 she joined Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol, England, working on Home Phoneline Networking and wireless LANs. From 2002 she is a research fellow at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy. Her research interests include wireless local area networks; modulation, coding techniques and detection strategies for next generation (4G) broadband cellular systems, based on the combination of multi-carrier and spread-spectrum modulations. Luca Sanguinetti is a Ph.D. Student of the University of Pisa. He was born in Empoli, Italy, on February 19, 1977, and he received the Doctor Engineer degree (cum laude) in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002. Since 2002 he was with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in information engineering under the supervision of Prof. Umberto Mengali and Prof. Michele Morelli. In 2004, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Currently he is involved in a research project dealing with the design and the development of base stations and user terminals for wideband wireless communications systems able to cope with those reconfigurability and interoperability characteristics required by the next generation mobile communication systems. His research interests are in wireless communication theory, with emphasis on synchronization and detection algorithms and channel estimation in multiple-access communication systems. Michele Morelli received the Laurea (cum laude) in electrical engineering and the “Premio di Laurea SIP” from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1991 and 1992 respectively. From 1992 to 1995 he was with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. In September 1996 he joined the Centro Studi Metodi e Dispositivi per Radiotrasmissioni (CSMDR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa where he held the position of Research Assistant. Since 2001 he has been with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa where he is currently an Associate Professor of Telecommunications. His research interests are in wireless communication theory, with emphasis on synchronization algorithms and channel estimation in multiple-access communication systems. Nevio Benvenuto received the Laurea degree from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1976 and 1983, respectively, both in electrical engineering. From 1983 to 1985 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, working on signal analysis problems. He spent the next three years alternating between the University of Padova, where he worked on communication systems research, and Bell Laboratories, as a Visiting Professor. From 1987 to 1990, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Ancona. He was a member of the faculty at the University of L'Aquila from 1994 to 1995. Currently, he is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Padova. His research interests include voice and data communications, digital radio, and signal processing. Silvano Pupolin received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1970. Since then he joined the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, where currently is Full Professor of Electrical Communications. He was Chairman of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering from 1990 to 1994, Chairman of the PhD Course in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from 1991 to 1997 and Director of the PhD School in Information Engineering from 2004. Also, he was member of the programming and development committee from 1997 to 2002 and member of Scientific Committee from 1996 to 2001 of the University of Padova; member of the budget Committee of the Faculty of Engineering from 2003. He has been actively engaged in research on: Digital communication systems over copper wires and fiber optics; Spread spectrum communication systems; Design of large reliable communications networks; Effects of phase noise and HPA nonlinearities in OFDM systems; 3G mobile radio communications systems (UTRA-FDD and TDD) and beyond 3G (OFDM modulation and MC CDMA); Packet radio, Ad-hoc networks with the use of Bluetooth and WLAN. He was Chairman of the 9-th and 10-th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications devoted to “Broadband Wireless Communications” and to “Multimedia Communications”, respectively, and he was General Chair of the 7th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'04). He spent the summer 1985 at AT&T Bell Laboratories on leave from Padova, doing research on digital radio systems. He was Principal investigator for research projects entitled “Variable bit rate mobile radio communication systems for multimedia applications”, “OFDM Systems with Applications to WLAN Networks”, and “MC-CDMA: an air interface for the 4th generation of wireless systems”.     

A Hierarchical Digital Modulation Classification Algorithm for Adaptive Wireless Communication Systems

Blind modulation classification has been applied in adaptive transmission, non-cooperative communications, and interference identification. This paper propose a novel hierarchical classifier for four digital modulation schemes. The hierarchical classifier is based on quasi-log-likelihood ratio. Its performance is verified via extensive simulations. Simulation results show that the hierarchical algorithm is effective for classification of four SQAM signals. FENG Xiang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from The Missile College of the Air Force PLA, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D degree at Xidian University, Xi'an, China. His research interests include digital communication systems, digital signal processing, adaptive transmission, and multicarrier modulation. LI Jiandong was graduated from Xidian University with Bachelor Degree, Master Degree and Ph.D in communications and Electronic System respectively in 1682, 1985 and 1991. He is Professor and Dean of School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University. He is a senior member of IEEE and CIE and the fellow of CIC. His research interests include Broadband Wireless Communications, Ad hoc Networks, and Software Radio.     

Capacity and Error Probability for Maximal Ratio Combining Reception over Correlated Nakagami Fading Channels

In this paper, the capacity and error probability of maximal ratio combining (MRC) reception are considered for different modulation schemes over correlated Nakagami fading channels. Based on an equivalent scalar additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, we derive the characteristic function (CF) and the probability density function (PDF) of the signal to noise ratio for MRC reception over Nakagami fading channels. Using these CF and PDF results, closed form error probability and capacity expressions are obtained for PSK, PAM and QAM modulation. Wei Li received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria in 2004. He is now a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. He is a Member of the IEEE. His research interests include ultra-wideband system, spread spectrum communications, diversity for wireless communications, and cellular communication systems. Hao Zhang was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1975. He received his Bachelor Degree in Telecom Engineering and Industrial Management from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China in 1994, his MBA from New York Institute of Technology, USA in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada in 2004. His research interests include ultra-wideband radio systems, MIMO wireless systems, and spectrum communications. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Assistant President of ICO(China) Global Communication Company. He was the Founder and CEO of Beijing Parco Co., Ltd. from 1998 to 2000. In 2000, he joined Microsoft Canada as a Software Engineer, and was Chief Engineer at Dream Access Information Technology, Canada from 2001 to 2002. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. T. Aaron Gulliver received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he was employed as a Defence Scientist at Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. He has held academic positions at Carleton University, Ottawa, and the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He joined the University of Victoria in 1999 and is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada. In 2002, he became a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. His research interests include information theory and communication theory, algebraic coding theory, cryptography, construction of optimal codes, turbo codes, spread spectrum communications, space-time coding and ultra wideband communications.     

Multiuser Detection in MC-CDMA Communication Systems Using MPEM Algorithm

In this paper, we propose a sub-optimum multiuser detection technique in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) communication systems based on missing parameter expectation maximization (MPEM) algorithm. In the proposed detection procedure, first initial values for the bits of all users are estimated from received signal. Then, the proposed MPEM based algorithm uses outputs of carries’ demodulators to improve the accuracy of the initial estimates of the bits. In this paper, the expectation and maximization steps’ functions of the MPEM algorithm for MC-CDMA multiuser detection are derived and the performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed. Our presented numerical results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed detection algorithm both in bit error rate performance and computational complexity points of view. Paeiz Azmi was born in Tehran, Iran, on April 17, 1974. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran, in 1996, 1998, and 2002, respectively. Since September 2002, he has been with the Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. From 1999 to 2001, he was with Advanced Communication Science Research Laboratory at Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, Iran. From 2002 to 2005, he was with Signal Processing Research Group at ITRC. His current research interests include modulation and coding techniques, digital signal processing, and optical CDMA communications.     

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