A co-channel interference cancellation technique using orthogonalconvolutional codes on multipath Rayleigh fading channel

This paper proposes and evaluates a new co-channel interference cancellation technique that utilizes orthogonal convolutional codes on a multipath Raleigh fading channel. In a spread spectrum multiple access environment co-channel interference (CCI) limits the performance of the communication link. To remove this interference, several CCI cancellation techniques have been proposed, including a technique that does not require the receiver to have knowledge of the cross-correlation between user sequences. This method leaves residual interference after the cancellation caused by errors in the initial decisions. To reduce the residual interference and improve the initial decisions, the proposed scheme utilizes the error-correcting capability of orthogonal convolutional codes. This paper evaluates the performance of this scheme. Our results show that the proposed CCI canceller offers an improvement in capacity of a factor of 1.5~3 as compared with a conventional canceller on a multipath Rayleigh fading channel. The proposed canceller works in the presence of residual interference due to imperfect cancellation. The proposed canceller also has a capacity improvement with the use of soft handoff in a multicell configuration     

A Hybrid Domain Block Equalizer for Single-Carrier Modulated Systems

Poor performance in the presence of multipath with long delay spread has been considered as one of the main weaknesses of most single carrier modulated systems, including ATSC (advanced television systems committee) system. The introduction of distributed transmission network and single frequency network brings new challenges for the ATSC equalizer design, since the delay spread of a multipath channel under such scenarios becomes significantly longer than the traditional broadcasting practice of using one high power transmitter to cover a wide area, where the multipath distortion is mainly from reflected echoes. An iterative hybrid frequency-time domain equalizer for ATSC system is proposed in this paper based on our block-based interference analysis. The multipath distortion in the received ATSC signal is first tentatively removed with a frequency domain equalizer on a block-by-block basis. However, inter-block and intra-block interferences still exist due to the lack of cyclic structure in the received ATSC signal. A time domain interference cancellation algorithm is then used to cancel the inter-block interference and intra-carrier interference, based on the tentative decisions in time domain after the frequency domain equalization. These two steps are iterated until desired receiver performance is achieved. The proposed equalizer and the subsequent analysis are verified through numerical simulations.     

Novel Equalization On‐Channel Repeater with Feedback Interference Canceller in Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting System

In this paper, we propose a novel equalization on‐channel repeater (OCR) with a feedback interference canceller (FIC) to relay terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting signals in single frequency networks. The proposed OCR not only has high output power by cancelling the feedback signals caused by insufficient antenna isolation through the FIC, but also shows better output signal quality than the conventional OCR by removing multipath signals existing between the main transmitter and the OCR through an equalizer. In addition, computer simulations and laboratory test results demonstrate that the proposed OCR successfully cancels feedback signals and compensates channel distortions and provides a higher quality transmitting signal with higher output power than conventional OCRs.     

Observations and Conclusions from a Three Year Digital Radio Field Experiment in Australia

For the purpose of investigating the performance of digital radio systems, Telecom Australia established and conducted over a three year period (1982-1984), a 140 Mbit/s 16 QAM digital radio field experiment. In parallel with this experiment, analytical work was undertaken to develop an "outage prediction method" to assist with route design. This paper presents the observations and conclusions drawn from this work. Emphasis is placed on the aspects which relate to system design. We show that for digital radio outage prediction, a radio path can be characterized for multipath fading by the probability of occurrence of multipath fading and the mean echo delay, while the radio equipment can be characterized by a set of normalized parameters. The performance improvements achieved through the use of adaptive equalization and space-diversity are highlighted. Finally, we present a methodology for considering the performance of digital radio systems in the presence of interference and thermal noise, and present results for system performance with adjacent channel interference.     

INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR MOBILE DISPERSIVE CHANNELS

A robust interference canceller for Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in Rayleigh fading is proposed. This interference canceller is robust in the sense that it cancels Inter-Carriers Interference (ICI) and is suitable for use in dispersive channels. To come up the effects of the slgnal dispersion, Doppler shifts and delay spreads on the performance of MC-CDMA systems over mobile fading channels, this interference canceller exploits the merit of the orthogonal signaling and pilot signals to evaluate the channel parameters. This interface canceller is well suited to work in iterative turbo interference cancellation.     

ZCZ‐CDMA and OFDMA using M‐QAM for broadband wireless communications

This paper considers direct‐sequence code‐division multiple‐access with zero‐correlation zone sequences (ZCZ‐CDMA) and orthogonal frequency‐division multiple‐access (OFDMA) schemes using M‐ary QAM signaling for broadband wireless communications. Their system structures, complexities and performances in both AWGN and multipath frequency‐selective fading channels are evaluated and compared. For ZCZ‐CDMA, joint suppression of the multipath fading interference and multiple‐access interference can be achieved with a reduced family‐size of the spreading sequences. For OFDMA, analytical and simulation results indicate that it has the same performance as ZCZ‐CDMA in fast time‐varying multipath fading channels. In time‐invariant or slowly time‐varying channels, where the channel information can be made available to transmitters, OFDMA outperforms ZCZ‐CDMA, offers a higher capacity and is more flexible for system reconfiguration with a comparable computational complexity. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive Echo Cancellation Based on a Multipath Model of Acoustic Channel

Usually Acoustic Echo Cancellers (AECs) are realized by adaptive Finite duration Impulse Response (FIR) filter having large number of coefficients and Least Mean Square (LMS) as an adaptive algorithm resulting in slow convergence speed and poor tracking performance of these adaptive filters. In this paper, we have proposed a Multiple Sub-filter (MSF) parallel structure based on multipath acoustic echo model using the basis that each sub-filter will compensate the echo contributed by each path of multipath acoustic channel. To realize the MSF, modified Generalized Autocorrelation-based Estimator (MAE) has been used to estimate time delay associated with each path while the order of each sub-filter has been estimated using Power Spectral Density (PSD) method. Accuracy Percentage (AP) performance measure has been used to characterize the performance of the estimator. Simulation results show that the performance of the MAE improves with the increase in SNR and/or decrease in number of multipath. Using these estimates MSF based AEC is constructed. The convergence performance of MSF-based AEC has been studied, via computer simulation, and compared with the conventional Single Long length adaptive Filter (SLF)-based canceller for different SNRs and number of multipath. The results of MSF have been found to be very encouraging in almost all of the various situations considered. Subsequently, the tracking behavior has also been studied with variation in the channel parameters of the multipath model. The proposed MSF can track variations in the channel parameters of the multipath model faster as compared to the conventional echo canceller.     

Calculation of error probability for MSK and OQPSK systems operating in a fading multipath environment

A technique is given for determining the error-rate performance of a class of digital communication systems operating with fading multipath interference. The approach uses a truncated series to represent the fading process and takes into account the effects of intersymbol interference caused by linear filtering in the receiver or channel. Application of the method to the cases of minimum shift keyed (MSK) and offset quadriphase shift key (OQPSK) systems reveals a slight performance advantage for MSK.     

Digital multi-carrier spread spectrum versus direct sequence spreadspectrum for resistance to jamming and multipath

We compare single user digital multi-carrier spread spectrum (MC-SS) modulation with direct sequence (DS) SS (with a modified implementation) in the presence of narrowband interference (NBI) and multipath fading. We derive closed-form expressions for the symbol error probability for both the linear MMSE receiver as well as the conventional matched-filter receiver under different scenarios: additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with NBI, multipath channel with or without NBI. We show that DS-SS can achieve the same performance as MC-SS if the spreading code is carefully designed to have perfect periodic autocorrelation function (PACF). On the other hand, MC-SS is more robust to narrowband interference and multipath fading than is DS-SS with the widely used spreading codes that do not possess perfect PACE. Our analysis reveals that the performance improvement of MC-SS is precisely due to the implicit construction of an equivalent spreading code having nonconstant amplitude but possessing perfect periodic autocorrelation     

Performance of an Echo Canceller and Channel Estimator for On-Channel Repeaters in DVB-T/H Networks

This paper investigates the design and performance of an FIR echo canceller for on-channel repeaters in DVB-T/H network within the framework of the PLUTO project. The possible approaches for echo cancellation are briefly reviewed and the main guidelines for the design of such systems are presented. The main system parameters are discussed. The performance of an FIR echo canceller based on an open loop feedforward approach for channel estimation is tested for different radio channel conditions and for different number of taps of the FIR filter. It is shown that a minimum number of taps is recommended to achieve a certain mean rejection ratio or isolation depending on the type of channel. The expected degradation in performance due to the use of fixed point rather than floating point arithmetic in hardware implementation is presented for different number of bits. Channel estimation based on training sequences is investigated. The performance of maximum length sequences and constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequences is compared for different channels. Recommendations are given for training sequence type, length and level for DVB-T/H on-channel repeater deployment.     

Multipath interference canceller for high-speed packet transmissionwith adaptive modulation and coding scheme in W-CDMA forward link

This paper proposes a multipath interference canceller (MPIC) associated with orthogonal code-multiplexing that achieves much higher peak throughput than 2 Mbit/s with adaptive data modulation for high-speed packet transmission in the wideband direct sequence-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) forward link, and evaluates its throughput performance by computer simulation. The simulation results elucidate that sufficient multipath interference (MPI) suppression is achieved by a four-stage MPIC with 6-12 orthogonal code-multiplexing using one iterative channel estimation with pilot and decision feedback data symbols and further that the interference rejection weight control according to the number of observed multipaths is effective in improving the throughput. It is also demonstrated that MPIC exhibits a superior MPI suppression effect to a chip equalizer in the lower received signal energy per bit-to-background noise spectrum density (E_b/N₀) channel around 0-3 dB owing to the successive channel estimation at each stage. We show that the maximum peak throughput using MPIC is approximately 2.1 fold that without MPIC in a two-path and three-path Rayleigh fading channel and that the peak throughput of 8.0 Mbit/s is achieved using 64 QAM data modulation in a two-path fading channel within a 5 MHz bandwidth. Furthermore, the required average E_b/N₀ for satisfying the same throughput with MPIC is decreased by more than 2.0 dB     

Experiments on pilot symbol-assisted coherent multistageinterference canceller for DS-CDMA mobile radio

A three-stage coherent multistage interference canceller (COMSIC) employing pilot symbol-assisted (PSA) channel estimation for replica generation of multiple access interference (MAI) is implemented and its performance in the presence of frequency selective multipath fading is experimentally evaluated by a multipath fading simulator. A fast transmission power control (TPC) method suitable for COMSIC is also proposed, in which the signal-to-interference plus background noise power ratio (SIR) at the matched filter (MF) based RAKE receiver is measured to achieve a short TPC delay and the target signal-to-interference ratio value is compensated by an outer loop so that the measured block error rate (BLER) is equal to the prescribed target value. The experimental results show that as expected the COMSIC satisfactorily reduces the MAI even when the number of active users is equal to the spreading factor in a multipath fading environment, and thus, improves the bit error rate (BER) performance in a multiuser environment. The results also show that the proposed fast TPC method with a two-slot delay associated with COMSIC works satisfactorily and the combination of COMSIC and fast TPC significantly decreases the transmission power of a mobile station (required transmission power of a mobile station with COMSIC at the average BER of 10^-3 is decreased by approximately 2.0 (3.0) dB compared with the MF-based RAKE receiver with (without) antenna diversity reception). This extends the cell coverage, battery life, and increases the system capacity in the reverse link     

Design parameter analysis for ATSC 1.0 single frequency networks based on receiver multipath handling performance

This work proposes suitable network configurations for single frequency networks (SFNs) with ATSC 1.0 based on network coverage calculations and the laboratory multipath handling performance of commercial receivers. SFNs are widely used for delivering terrestrial digital television services because of their efficient use of the spectrum. In Mexico the analogue television transmissions switch-off occurred on 31 December 2016. Thus it is expected the adopted ATSC 1.0 system will be in force for the next several years despite the recent standardization of the ATSC 3.0 system. As ATSC 1.0 uses 8-VSB modulation the multipath handling capability of receivers is critical for the design of SFNs. The presented network planning results help develop technical normativity for implementing SFNs in Mexico and other countries that use ATSC 1.0. SFNs with transmitter separation up to 130 km are fully covered for outdoor reception mainly due to the directivity of the receiving antenna. Moreover for indoor reception at least 70% of an SFN coverage area can be achieved with a transmitter separation of up to 60 km depending on the radiated power and the transmitter antenna height.     

DS－SFH扩频多址系统在瑞利衰落信道中多径分集的性能研究

本文讨论了混合ＤＳ－ＳＦＨ扩频多址ＳＳＭＡ通信系统在瑞利衰落信道中多径分集接收的性能。基于多径干扰、多址干扰和信道噪声之和为一个高斯随机变量的分析，推导了在等增益组合（ＥＧＣ）和选择最大（ＳＭ）多径分集接收算法下，扩频系统的平均差错概率。理论分析和数值模拟指出：扩频多径分集接收可以明显地改善ＤＳ－ＳＦＨＳＳＭＡ系统的性能，在提高系统性能方面，等增益组合算法优于选择最大分集算法。     

Hopfield multiuser detection of asynchronous MC-CDMA signals inmultipath fading channels

Multiuser reception using Hopfield neural network (HNN) for asynchronous multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) in a multipath fading channel is investigated. We have shown that by the appropriate choice of HNN parameters from the channel state information, the HNN can collectively resolve the multipath fading effects and the multiple-access interference in the system     

基于OFDM技术的短波电台系统研究

OFDM（正交频分复用）技术是一种多载波数字调制技术,在无线多径衰落信道下具有较好的传输特性,文中设计短波电台系统采用了OFDM技术来对克服多径衰落带来的干扰,并且给出了系统的设计方案。利用Simulink建模,并在瑞利衰落信道和高斯信道下进行了仿真,结果显示出性能上有较大的改进。     

Blind RLS-Based Detection Using GSC with DF for STBC MC-CDMA Systems Under Mismatched Channel Estimation

Under Rayleigh fading channels, a common problem with blind multiuser space-time block coded (STBC) multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) detectors is that their performance is very sensitive to the signature waveform mismatch (SWM) induced by channel estimation distortion. This paper presents a robust detector using the generalized sidelobe canceller with a double-feedback filter that effectively mitigates the channel estimation distortion for the STBC MC-CDMA system during multipath fading. Numerical simulations show that the proposed detector substantially provides robustness against small-to-medium SWM scenarios for a downlink STBC MC-CDMA system.     

Closed‐Form Expressions for Selection Combining System Statistics over Correlated Generalized‐K Fading Channels in the Presence of Interference

This paper considers the effects of simultaneous correlated multipath fading and shadowing on the performances of a signal‐to‐interference ratio (SIR)‐based dual‐branch selection combining (SC) diversity receiver. This analysis includes the presence of cochannel interference. A generalized fading/shadowing channel model in an interference‐limited correlated fading environment is modeled by generalized‐K distribution. Closed‐form expressions are obtained for probability density function and cumulative distribution function of the SC output SIR, as well as for the outage probability. Based on this, the influence of various fading and shadowing parameter values and the correlation level on the outage probability is examined.     

Cellular channel modeling and the performance of DS-CDMA systemswith antenna arrays

In this paper, a new channel modeling approach incorporating nonuniform propagation environments is introduced, and the bit error rate (BER) of a direct sequence code division multiple access cellular system incorporating antenna arrays for spatial filtering is derived analytically. Specifically, this paper introduces a channel model for, and analyzes the performance of, a system in an environment where the multipath signals on each of the diversity branches of a RAKE receiver have varying fading characteristics. This scenario would typically describe urban environments where a large number of multipath echoes are present, each with different fading statistics resulting from the nonhomogeneous propagation paths seen by each multipath echo. It is shown that nonuniform fading parameters for multipath signals can severely influence the system performance, especially at high E_b /N₀ levels. Furthermore, it is shown that the conventional assumption of identical fading statistics for all RAKE receiver branches provide a lower bound on the system performance