Least-squares channel estimation assisted by self-interference cancellation for mobile pseudo-random-postfix orthogonal-frequencydivision multiplexing applications

A least-squares (LS) channel estimation (CE) technique is investigated to apply pseudo-random-postfix orthogonal-frequency-division multiplexing (PRP-OFDM) communications onto mobile applications, which often operate on a rapidly time-varying frequency-selective fading channel. Since conventional techniques exploiting a moving averager cannot function on a rapidly time-varying channel, the proposed technique takes advantage of several self-interference cancellation (SIC) methods to effectively and timely reduce inter-path interference, inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-block interference (IBI). The proposed technique can therefore overcome frequency selectivity caused by multipath fading and time selectivity caused by mobility; in particular, OFDM communication is often anticipated to operate in environments where both wide Doppler spread and long delay spread exist. Meanwhile, lower mean-square estimation errors, lower error probabilities and lower error floors can also be achieved using the proposed technique. Since conventional techniques based on minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) CE usually highly require a priori channel information or many training preambles, a generic estimator assisted from LS CE is exploited as it can be performed serially, block by block, to reduce computational complexity. Extensive computer simulations in conjunction with strict statistical analysis are carried out to verify the improvements provided by the proposed technique.     

一种改进LS信道估计算法在稀疏多径水声信道中的应用

为了消除水声正交频分复用调制(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)系统中噪声对稀疏多径信道估计的影响,提出了一种改进的最小二乘(Least-Square,LS)信道估计算法。该方法在传统基于离散傅里叶变换(Discrete Fourier Transform,DFT)插值的信道估计结构上进行了改进,得到了基于阈值探测的DFT插值信道估计方法,该方法将小于阈值的时域信道响应置零,探测最有效信道抽头,有效消除噪声干扰的影响。仿真结果验证了DFT插值在稀疏多径水声信道估计中的实用性;得到了当循环前缀长度与信道长度越接近时信道估计性能(Bit Error Rate,BER)越好的结论;确定了在两种调制方式下算法的阈值系数范围;且该新算法与已有算法所需的信噪比可低约2 d B,解决了用循环前缀长度来近似信道真实长度的实际问题。     

OFDM水声通信系统动态OMP信道跟踪算法

针对正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM)水声通信系统中最小二乘(Least Square,LS)信道估计算法和静态压缩感知信道估计算法分别存在估计精度低、导频开销大和计算复杂度高、实时性差的缺点,利用水声信道冲激响应的时域相关性,通过建立动态稀疏观测模型,提出一种动态正交匹配追踪(Dynamic Orthogonal MatchingPursuit,D-OMP)信道跟踪算法。该算法仅在初始时刻进行一次完整的正交匹配追踪(OrthogonalMatching Pursuit, OMP)信道估计获取信道支撑集,之后通过连续跟踪前一时刻信道支撑集的变化来跟踪信道。仿真结果表明,在导频开销相同的情况下,与传统LS算法、经典OMP算法相比,所提算法具有更好的信道跟踪性能和较低的算法复杂度。     

无线城域网OFDM系统信道估计算法

OFDM技术是无线城域网IEEE802.16a标准中物理层面的主流调制技术,今建立符合IEEE802.16a标准的OFDM信道估计模型,阐述其导频基本信道估计方法的原理及特点,分析比较了LS/MMSE/LMMSE/SVD四种算法的MSE和BER性能特点.仿真结果说明,LMMSE算法的均方误差和误码率性能最好,且计算复杂度相对较低,易于物理实现.     

OFDM水声通信系统的LS-OMP信道估计

对于正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)水声通信系统,最小二乘(Least Squares,LS)信道估计方法受噪声影响较大,并且使用的导频数量较多,影响通信效率。而基于压缩感知理论的正交匹配追踪(Orthogonal Matching Pursuit,OMP)信道估计方法可以充分利用水声信道的稀疏特性,同时能够有效地抑制系统噪声,但控制迭代运算次数的相关参数(稀疏度或误差容忍值)是OMP算法的关键条件。针对上述问题,提出了利用少量导频随机分布的LS和OMP联合的信道估计方法,该方法首先利用少量导频采用LS方法估计出OMP算法的误差容忍值,再利用OMP算法恢复数据子载波的信道信息。理论分析和仿真结果同时表明,与传统的LS算法或OMP算法相比,新算法能够在数据恢复的同时有效抑制系统噪声,应用稀疏特性及较少量的导频,进一步提高了系统的频谱效率,对时变稀疏水声信道具有更好的适应性。     

适用于OFDM系统的改进的信道估计算法

针对实际系统中的信道冲激响应(CIR)泄漏问题,提出了一种适用于梳状导频正交频分复用(OFDM)系统的改进的最小二乘(LS)信道估计算法.该算法基于分数抽头延时信道近似(FTCA)的参数化信道模型,此信道模型采用一个抽头间隔为分数倍采样间隔的抽头延时线结构的有限冲激响应(FIR)滤波器表示.此算法首先通过FTCA信道模型来近似实际信道,然后再估计该信道模型中的某些参数来获取实际的信道信息;该算法利用了FTCA信道模型中所有的延时抽头,从而很好地抑制了CIR泄漏.仿真与分析表明,FTCA信道模型能够有效地近似实际信道,同时降低信道自相关矩阵的维数,从而提高信道估计的性能.     

Transmitter pre-filtering for the downlink of a time-division-duplex/direct sequencecode division multiple access system over time-varying multipath fading channels

In this paper, we investigate an optimised transmitter pre-filtering technique for downlink time-division-duplex (TDD) code division multiple access (CDMA) communications, which employs the conventional matched filter (MF) detector at the mobile receivers. The proposed pre-filtering technique eliminates the multiple-access interference and intersymbol interference (MAI/ISI) effects by applying a very simple transmission scheme that combines a signal transformation with a cyclic prefix strategy under a power constraint condition. Two constrained pre-filtering transformations are suggested depending on the information required at the mobile unit. An open-loop transmitter pre-filtering is first formulated; however, this solution does not consider the properties of the noise at the mobile receiver. A second solution is then presented via a closed-loop transmitter pre-filtering that includes an optimum gain for a given transmit and noise power. Some associated issues such as system efficiency, computational complexity and channel estimation errors are also addressed. Simulation results show that the proposed transmitter pre-filtering scheme can be used to increase the system performance and capacity. In addition, its performance is compared with another similar transmit pre-processing scheme in order to evaluate the performance improvement by the proposed algorithm.     

MIMO-OFDM系统中一种新的信道估计方法

提出了多输入多输出-正交频分复用(MIMO-OFDM)系统中一种新的信道估计方法.根据最小均方误差的准则,推导出了求解信道频率响应的方程,方程求解的运算量主要集中在一个矩阵的求逆上.对每一个符号,此矩阵是固定的,所以矩阵的求逆仅需计算一次,整个求解过程的运算量较低.计算机仿真给出了这种方法的归一化均方误差和误码率性能.仿真结果表明,本文方法在多普勒频移为60Hz和360Hz下,其归一化的均方误差值相当,表明本文方法可以在不同的移动环境中良好工作.在不同的数据调制方式和不同的多普勒频移下,本文方法的误码率性能优于最小平方算法,略差于线性最小均方误差算法,但复杂度大大降低.     

一种低复杂度的正交频分复用水声信道估计方法

高可靠性、低复杂度的信道估计是实现正交频分复用(OFDM)数据通信的必要前提。由于水声信道是时间、频率高度散射的信道,传统的基于维纳滤波的信道估计复杂度过高,参考无线信道的广义平稳非相关散射(WSSUS)模型,本文提出了一种基于最小均方误差(MMSE)准则的低复杂度OFDM水声信道估计方案,其运算复杂度明显降低,并被实际实验证明是可行、有效的。     

High mobility orthogonal frequency division multiple access channel estimation using basis expansion model

Owing to the loss of subcarrier orthogonalities in high-speed applications, the use of conventional frequency-domain-based channel estimation in high mobility orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems such as mobile WiMax may give rise to an unacceptable high channel estimation error floor. To alleviate this problem, the authors develop some basis expansion model (BEM)-based estimation schemes for the OFDMA uplink. Specifically, the authors express the time-varying channel as a superposition of a small number of complex exponential basis functions spanning the entire Doppler range, and then formulate least square (LS) and linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) algorithms to estimate the basis coefficients for two different types of pilot patterns. The authors also derive the respective Cramer-Rao lower bounds for these estimators. It has been shown that the time domain BEM using a pilot scheme where pilots are placed over time axis will give better performance under a high Doppler scenario. Lastly, using simulation results, the proposed algorithms have been found to have better estimation accuracy over current frequency domain estimation techniques. This is in addition to the advantage that the proposed algorithms have in general a lower computational complexity.     

利用子空间的投影和跟踪改进OFDM信道估计

OFDM系统的LS信道估计可看作真实信道频率响应的一个有噪观察值，因此可采用子空间投影方法对噪声进行压缩。分析了利用子空间投影方法改进LSOFDM信道估计性能的实质，给出了利用子空间投影改进OFDM信道估计的一般框架，在此基础上将子空间投影推广到非LS信道估计方法。当信号子空间随时间变化时，需要采用子空间跟踪技术保持对信号子空间的良好估计，因此提出了一种基于子空间跟踪的参数化信道估计方法，仿真表明这种方法在性能上优于非参数化时的相应方法。     

Optimization of Channel Estimation Using ELMx-based in Massive MIMO

In communication channel estimation, the Least Square (LS) technique has long been a widely accepted and commonly used principle. This is because the simple calculation method is compared with other channel estimation methods. The Minimum Mean Squares Error (MMSE), which is developed later, is devised as the next step because the goal is to reduce the error rate in the communication system from the conventional LS technique which still has a higher error rate. These channel estimations are very important to modern communication systems, especially massive MIMO. Evaluating the massive MIMO channel is one of the most researched and debated topics today. This is essential in technology to overcome traditional performance barriers. The better the channel estimation, the more accurate it is. This paper investigated machine learning (ML) for channel estimation. ML channel estimations based on the Extreme Learning Machine (ELMx) group are also implemented. These estimations, known as the ELMx group, include Regularized Extreme Learning Machine (RELM) and Outlier Robust Extreme Learning Machine (ORELM). Then, it was compared with LS and MMSE. The simulation results reveal that the ELMx group outperforms LS and MMSE in channel capacity and bit error rate. Additionally, this paper has proven complexity for verified computational times. The RELM method is less time consuming and has low complexity which is suitable for future use in large MIMO systems.     

Maximum a posteriori channel estimation for cooperative diversity orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing systems in amplify-andforward mode

Transmit diversity-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems have been proposed to mitigate the detrimental effects of channel fading. However, owing to the space and power limitations, the use of multiple transmit antennas is not practical in certain wireless devices, such as portable terminals and wireless sensors. Therefore cooperation among users at the physical layer has been proposed recently. Here, space-time block coded in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying mode has been proposed as cooperative diversity for OFDM systems (CO-OFDM) in the presence of perfect channel-state information. Then, the channel estimation techniques for CO-OFDM systems in AF mode based on pilot symbols are investigated over frequency-selective channels. In particular, expectation-maximisation (EM) based maximum a posteriori (MAP) channel estimation is developed and compared with comp-type pilot-aided channel estimation (PACE) based the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator and the least minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) channel estimation techniques for CO-OFDM systems. To overcome the drawback owing to the receiver complexity, the Karhunen-Loeve expansion with the optimal truncation property is also considered. Simulation results that demonstrate the overall performance advantage of the EM-MAP based receiver over the PACE-ML and PACE-LMMSE based receivers are presented.     

一种适用于时不变信道的信道估计方法

研究了时不变信道下突发式正交频分复用(OFDM)通信系统的信道估计问题,针对在突发式OFDM通信系统中不同时刻发送的帧存在不同的采样起始时刻偏差和载波起始相位偏差,使各帧的信道估计结果难以被其它帧利用的情况,提出了一种基于对采样起始时刻偏差和载波起始相位偏差进行估计与纠正的信道估计方法。该方法对随机传输的物理层帧之间的采样起始时刻偏差以及载波起始相位偏差的差值进行估计和纠正,使各帧获得统一的采样起始时刻和载波起始相位,从而使不同帧的信道估计结果可以互相利用,从而提高信道估计结果的精度。仿真结果表明,这种信道估计方法可使系统的误码性能提高约1dB,并且可使系统的传输效率提高约10%。     

基于深度学习的OFDM半相干水声通信方法

针对正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM)水声通信中常用的相干和非相干通信分别面临的对多普勒敏感和频谱效率低的问题,提出一种高阶幅度键控调制的半相干通信技术,将OFDM符号时频帧结构中全部频点采用高阶幅度键控调制方式,并利用信号幅度信息完成半相干信道估计。通过两种基于深度学习的算法优化半相干信道估计这一非线性过程,较非相干通信有效提高了频谱效率,较一定信噪比下的相干通信提高了鲁棒性,降低了误比特率和系统复杂度,并利用元学习算法降低深度学习算法对训练数据的依赖。最后,提取海试信道数据,完成OFDM半相干水声通信系统仿真,验证了所提方法在频谱效率和系统误比特率性能方面较非相干和相干通信的优势,当信道长度改变时,基于元学习的算法依然可以获得较好的性能。     

Precoded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with hidden pilots for ultrawideband wireless communications

The authors propose a new hidden pilot scheme equipped with precoding and its application to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-ultra-wideband (OFDM-UWB) systems. The proposed scheme can be thought of as an improvement over conventional hidden pilot schemes. By carefully designing precoder and hidden pilot from the view point of frequency diversity, channel estimation and the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), more frequency diversity gain and reduced PAPR can be achieved. In addition, the authors can support more pilots to estimate a channel providing mitigated self-interference between data symbol and hidden pilot with almost no loss of bandwidth efficiency in OFDM-based UWB communication systems. The authors show improved performance of the proposed scheme over the multiband OFDM scheme through simulations in a realistic UWB channel environment.     

基于差分进化的时变信道最大似然估计算法

研究了隧道环境下的通信信道估计。针对隧道环境的地铁列车与轨旁设备之间无线通信中无线传输信道快速变化的特点,提出了一种采用元胞差分进化(DE)方法实时获取时变信道的有效信道长度的新型最大似然(ML)信道估计算法——DE-ML算法。仿真结果表明该算法在使用较少导频信息的情况下,通过差分进化方法有效估计跟踪有效信道长度,其估计性能优于最小二乘(LS)、线性最小均方误差(LMMSE)、传统ML等经典信道估计算法。该算法能在提高系统传输效率的同时显著提高算法的估计精度,尤其在高速移动情况下也具有了非常良好的性能。     

正交频分复用连续系统的一种频率同步估计

频率同步是影响正交频分复用系统性能的一个重要的问题。提出了一种利用重复对称序列构成的训练序列进行正交频分复用系统同步的新方法。通过数据相关运算,结合构造训练序列的特点,得出比较准确的频率偏移值。新方法有精度高和估计范围大的优点,同时在高斯信道、噪声信道和多径信道(Raleigh)下的仿真验证了算法的有效性。     

On subchannel inversion for improvement of power efficiency in OFDM-based systems

The problem of power loading in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based systems that provides minimization of the bit-error rate (BER) performance under a fixed transmit power (or equivalently minimisation of the transmit power under a fixed value of the BER) is addressed in this work. A lemma about inversion of subchannel power gains is proved and examples that exhibit its utility are presented. As a result, a non-iterative adaptive power allocation technique is derived. The algorithm combines the recently proposed ordered subcarrier selection method with 'subchannel inversion'. Compared with the original technique, such a combination provides a power gain that depends on the channel statistics.     

Differentiated cooperative multiple access for multimedia communications over fading wireless networks

The quality of service (QoS) support for multimedia communications faces a big challenge in a fading wireless network. On one hand, conventional automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes are not effective for small-scale fading channels with correlated errors due to consecutive retransmission failures. On the other hand, large-scale fading due to propagation loss or shadowing severely limits transmission range. A novel differentiated cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol, called DC-MAC, is proposed to enhance the QoS support for multimedia communications while supporting service differentiation based on the IEEE 802.11e architecture. By enabling cooperative ARQ, the retransmission is initiated from an appropriate transmission queue of an appropriate relay node instead of the original source. Since unnecessary and useless retransmissions may intensify the node contention and degrade the system performance contrarily, a novel negative acknowledgement feedback mechanism is introduced for loss distinguishing and channel estimation such that cooperative retransmission will be employed only when necessary and only by competent nodes. Extensive simulations are conducted on the OPNET platform to analyse the performances of DC-MAC under both small-scale and large-scale fading. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme significantly improves the performances of both multimedia applications and best-effort data applications in terms of throughput, delay and coverage with moderate user contention.