MIMO Beamforming Architecture in Millimeter Wave Communication Systems

Wireless Personal Communications - The recent traffic explosion in wireless communication systems have drawn great attention to the large amount of the underutilized spectrum in millimeter-wave (mm...     

Smart Antenna for Indoor Millimeter Wave Communication

The following paper introduces a smart antenna system with MUSIC algorithm for indoor millimeter wave communication. The smart antenna system separates main transmission paths towards receiver by antenna array. Maximal-ratio combination (MRC) of the separated transmission paths provides nearly optimal performance of receiver. Multipath distortion and noise can be greatly reduced by the system.     

End-to-End Performance Analysis of Millimeter Wave Triple-Hop Backhaul Transmission Systems

Frequencies above 10 GHz nowadays may be employed either for backhaul networks of mobile communication access networks or for broadband fixed wireless access networks. Millimeter wave networks can afford large bandwidth by carrying the aggregate traffic through different network nodes. Consequently, many line-of-sight multi-hop transmissions may occur. At these frequency bands, rain attenuation is the dominant fading mechanism that aggravates the outage performance of these networks. The objective of this paper is the presentation of analytical models for the calculation of the end-to-end performance analysis of a triple-hop system with non-regenerative and regenerative relays using the trivariate lognormal distribution along with a physical model for the calculation of the correlation coefficients among the rain fading channels. Moreover, an accurate rain attenuation time series synthesizer based on multi-dimensional first order Stochastic Differential eqnarrays is employed in order to validate the analytical results. Finally, extended numerical results investigate the impact of various operational and geographical parameters, as well as the influence of the arbitrary position of the relays on the outage system performance.     

Identification of Radio Environments in Software Antenna for High-Speed Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication Systems

Different from smart antenna, software antenna can cope with various radio environments by selecting appropriate algorithms. In this paper, we place emphasis on the identification of radio environments in software antenna for high-speed millimeter wave wireless communication systems. According to the major impairments of radio propagation and the limitation of the adaptive algorithms, we give a criterion to categorize the environments. A spatial smoothing method to identify the environments is also proposed.     

Efficient Detection Algorithms for MIMO Communication Systems

In this paper, two new efficient detection algorithms, Type 1 (T1) with better complexity-performance tradeoff and Type 2 (T2) with lower complexity, are derived from one generalized framework for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. The proposed generalized detection framework constructed by parallel interference cancellation (PIC), group, and iteration techniques provides three parameters and three sub-algorithms to generate two efficient detection algorithms and conventional BLAST-ordered decision feedback (BODF), grouped, iterative, and B-Chase detection algorithms. Since the group interference suppression (GIS) technique is applied to the proposed detection algorithms, the complexities of the preprocessing (PP) and tree search (TS) can be reduced. In (8,8) system with uncoded 16-QAM inputs, one example of the T1 algorithm can save complexity by 21.2% at the penalty of 0.6 dB loss compared with the B-Chase detector. The T2 algorithm not only reduces complexity by 21.9% but also outperforms the BODF algorithm by 3.1 dB.     

Adaptive Diversity Combining for Improved Millimeter Wave Communication through Rain

Under severe rain conditions there may be significant amounts of multiply-scattered millimeter wave radiation present in the vicinity of the receiving antenna for a satellite downlink. This paper explores angle diversity reception of the scattered radiation as an alternative to spatial (multiple site) diversity for ameliorating rain attenuation. Results from scalar plane-wave transport theory for the attenuation, angle-of-arrival spread, multipath spread, and Doppler spread of the scattered field are summarized. When combined with a diversity reception communication analysis, these solutions imply that a large performance gain over nondiversity reception can be achieved if adaptive coherent combining can successfully be employed. Although this gain does not require multiple receiver sites, it does entail a transmission bandwidth reduction.     

Millimeter Wave Communication for Cellular and Cellular-802.11 Hybrid Networks

The demand for wireless data has been driving network capacity to double about every two years for the past 50 years, if not 100 years, and this has come to be known as Cooper’s Law. In recent years, this trend has accelerated as a greater proportion of the population adopts wireless devices with ever greater capabilities, including tablets that support HD video and other advanced capabilities. Many cellular operators have tried to adapt this trend by throttling data rates, backing away from all-you-can-eat data plans, and offloading to WiFi. Over the next decade, further increases in demand are expected,     

Holographic Diffusers for Indoor Infrared Communication Systems

Diffused infrared transmission is one of thepreferred techniques used in indoor wirelesscommunications. Tolerance to shadowing and a lack ofalignment requirements are among the many advantagesoffered by this technique compared to the line-of-sighttechniques. However, it has its disadvantages, namelyhigh path loss and multipath dispersion. The limitationimposed by eye-safety requirements restricts the transmitted power. Therefore, efficient useof transmitted optical power is the key for practicalbroadband infrared systems. In this paper, we report onusing a holographic diffuser for shaping of infrared radiation pattern in an indoorinfrared transmission system. The holographic diffusershave the advantage of light weight and added flexibilityin the system design. The reported measurements show that employing a properly designed holographicdiffuser can reduce the path loss of a nondirectedoptical link. The results also show another advantage ofusing the proposed holographic diffuser, which is additional tolerance of the transmission toshadowing.     

频率选择性MIMO信道下的网格退化辅助检测

将应用于平坦衰落相关信道下的网格退化(LR, lattice reduction)算法推广到频率选择性衰落信道中.给出了在频率选择性衰落的相关信道中,采用网格退化算法辅助检测前后最小均方误差(MMSE)检测器的性能比较.实验表明:在具有频率选择性衰落的相关信道中,采用网格退化辅助检测算法能显著地提高系统的检测性能.     

Performance and Application of Slow Wave Circuits for Power TWT in Millimeter Wave

In millimeter wave range, high-power traveling wave tube (TWT) is a key device with broadband and high-power amplification. Basis of comparing traditional and new type slow wave circuits for high-power TWT in MMW, analysis and computation of propagating and RF performance for folded wave circuit are carried out. Theoretic calculation and experimental test show that folded wave circuit is an ideal slow wave structure for broadband and high-power TWT in MMW. There is extreme wide application for the circuit in high-power TWT. This development possesses important consult value to designer for MMW power amplifiers.     

Transmit Beamforming for MIMO Optical Wireless Communication Systems

This paper focuses on transmit beamforming for multiple-input multiple-output optical wireless communication (OWC) systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD). OWC with IM/DD requires the transmitted signals to be nonnegative, for which existing beamforming schemes developed for radio frequency systems cannot be applied directly. We propose effective schemes for OWC over frequency flat and frequency selective channels. For frequency flat fading, the property of the beamforming vector is derived. For frequency selective fading, bit-error rate performances of the proposed scheme with zero-forcing and minimum mean-square error frequency domain equalization receivers are derived, and a suboptimal beamforming vector for frequency selective fading channels is proposed. Compared with asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based frequency domain beamforming, the proposed scheme needs much less feedback information and has a better error performance.     

毫米波在短距宽带通信的应用前景

说明无线电通信使用频率的现状和开拓无线电频谱利用的必要性,介绍短距通信可用毫米波的三种典型和短距毫米波宽带传输系统的组成,并逐一叙述公路运输智能系统、室内高速无线局域网和市内无线交互性电视业务等。     

毫米波副载波光纤通信技术的研究进展

综述了用于下一代移动通信的光纤毫米波副载波通信技术(ROF)的研究进展。介绍了系统的基本构想和涉及的关键技术。着重介绍几种毫米波副载波光发射器以及有关光学技术的新进展,包括外调制器方法、射频上转换法、光学外差法、毫米波调制光脉冲发生器等;简要介绍了ROF接收技术、系统技术和有关应用的研究动向。     

Multibeam Selection for Indoor MIMO Systems: Two Cases of Study

The performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using beam selection is investigated in this paper. Based on the results of a channel sounding campaign carried out at the University of Manitoba for line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios, it was possible to contrast the results of transmitter, receiver and joint beam selection in rich scattering environments. The channel was characterized in the 1-2.4 GHz frequency band with a multipath delay resolution better than 5.8 ns. The beam selection was performed by exhaustive search method. The results led us to important conclusions regarding the beam selection procedure and its potential to improve the indoor channel capacity. In LOS, the single input single output (SISO) system that favours the maximum power direction of arrival (DOA) maximizes the capacity. Capacity improvements are observed by increasing the number of receiver beams (RBs) only at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for omnidirectional transmission. The best performance in transmitter beam selection in LOS is observed by increasing the number of transmitter beams (TBs) for high SNRs. In the case of NLOS, the capacity performance is improved when more than a single beam is used in either, transmitter or receiver side. The joint transmitter-receiver beam selection exhibits best capacity performance only for large SNRs in LOS while the SISO systems outperforms any joint beam selection alternative for low SNRs. In contrast, in NLOS environments, the use of joint beam selection shows a constant capacity performance improvement starting from lower SNR than in the LOS case     

Mean of Subarrays in the Angular Estimation for the Millimeter Wave Communication

Wireless Personal Communications - In the hierarchical codebook, changing the codeword's beamwidth depends on the codeword position in this codebook. Some articles take two steps to find the...     

A Dual-Linearly-Polarized MEMS-Reconfigurable Antenna for Narrowband MIMO Communication Systems

The design and characterization is described of a compact dual-linearly-polarized reconfigurable 2-port antenna. The antenna can operate in two different selectable linear polarization bases, thus being capable of reconfiguring/rotating its polarization base from vertical/horizontal $(0^{circ}/90^{circ})$, to slant $pm 45^{circ}$. The antenna has been implemented on a Quartz substrate, and uses monolithically integrated micro-electromechanical (MEM) switches to select between the two aforementioned polarization bases. The antenna operates at 3.8 GHz and presents a fractional bandwidth of 1.7%. The interest of the proposed antenna is two-fold. First, in LOS scenarios, the antenna enables polarization tracking in polarization-sensitive communication schemes. Second, there are the gains of using it in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system employing orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) to improve the diversity order/gain of the system in NLOS conditions. These benefits were verified through channel measurements conducted in LOS and NLOS propagation scenarios. Despite the simplicity of the antenna, the achievable polarization matching gains (in LOS scenarios) and diversity gains (in NLOS scenarios) are remarkable. These gains come at no expenses of introducing additional receive ports to the system (increasing the number of Radio-Frequency (RF) transceivers), rather as a result of the reconfigurable capabilities of the proposed antenna.      

Low Complexity Linear Channel Estimation for MIMO Communication Systems

Channel estimation is employed to get the current knowledge of channel states for an optimum detection in fading environments. In this paper, a new recursive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel estimation is proposed which is based on the recursive least square solution. The proposed recursive algorithm utilizes short training sequence on one hand and requires low computational complexity on the other hand. The algorithm is evaluated on a MIMO communication system through simulations. It is realized that the proposed algorithm provides fast convergence as compared to recursive least square (RLS) and robust variable forgetting factor RLS (RVFF-RLS) adaptive algorithms while utilizing lesser computational cost and provides independency on forgetting factor.     

Block-Based Performance Measures for MIMO OFDM Beamforming Systems

In this paper, we consider an adaptive modulation system with multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antennas in conjunction with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) operating over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading environments. In particular, we consider a type of beamforming with a maximum ratio transmission/maximum ratio combining (MRT-MRC) transceiver structure. For this system, we derive a central limit theorem for various block-based performance metrics. This motivates an accurate Gaussian approximation to the system data rate and the number of outages per OFDM block. In addition to the data rate and outage distributions, we also consider the subcarrier signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a process in the frequency domain and compute level crossing rates (LCRs) and average fade bandwidths (AFBs). Hence, we provide fundamental but novel results for the MIMO OFDM channel. The accuracy of these results is verified by Monte Carlo simulations, and applications to performance analysis and system design are discussed.