Bidirectional iterative ISI canceller for high-rate DSSS/CCK communications

This paper proposes a new RAKE receiver incorporated with a bidirectional iterative intersymbol interference (ISI) canceller in order to reinforce multipath robustness of high-rate direct-sequence spread-spectrum complementary code keying (DSSS/CCK) systems. The proposed RAKE receiver first combines multipath signal components through a channel matched filter (CMF) and removes postcursor-ISI by employing a codeword decision feedback equalizer (DFE). Then, a CCK codeword detector tentatively determines the current CCK codeword symbol and reuses it to subtract precursor-ISI from the previous symbol. Therefore, the ultimate symbol decision is made using the delayed signal with both postcursor-ISI and precursor-ISI cancelled. The detection performance can be more improved through an iterative refinement processing between the postcursor and the precursor components. Simulation results exhibit a significantly improved error rate performance of the proposed receiver compared with that of the legacy RAKE receiver employing only a postcursor DFE. The additional cost for realization of the proposed receiver is one symbol decision delay and reuse complexity of the DFE and the codeword detector.     

A RAKE Receiver With an ICI/ISI Equalizer for a CCK Modem

In this paper, we first derive the theoretical performance of a complementary code keying (CCK) code on an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and over a multipath channel. To derive the error performance, we use the weight and cross-correlation distributions of the CCK code for optimal and suboptimal decoding, respectively, based on union bound. In addition, we propose a RAKE receiver for a CCK modem, which is suitable for a multipath environment with a large delay spread. The RAKE receiver principle is acceptable for modest multipath because it can coherently combine multipath components to provide signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement. However, as the delay spread is larger and the data rate of systems goes higher, intersymbol interference (ISI) generated due to multipath environments are increased. To handle the increasing ISI, the CCK modem needs an equalization technique to remove the ISI, together with RAKE processing. Thus, our proposed system is based on a channel matched filter (CMF) with a decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The CMF is applied for RAKE processing, whereas the DFE structure is used for ISI cancellation. In our system, ISI is calculated and removed by using a decoded CCK codeword.     

稀疏多径信道的T/2间隔CFE均衡器研究

完全反馈均衡器(Complete Feedback Equalizer, CFE)是判决反馈均衡器(DFE)的改进。该文提出了一种T/2分数间隔稀疏CFE(T/2 Sparse CFE, T/2-SCFE)结构,以避免接收机对于符号定时误差的敏感性,并有效利用长时延扩展多径信道的稀疏性来降低均衡器的复杂度。理论分析与基于实测信道的计算机仿真表明, T/2-SCFE均衡器对符号定时误差保持了稳健性,总体性能优于符号间隔CFE及分数间隔DFE。     

Performance of RAKE reception in dense multipath channels:implications of spreading bandwidth and selection diversity order

We develop an analytical framework to quantify the effects of the spreading bandwidth (BW) on spread spectrum systems operating in dense multipath environments in terms of the receiver performance, the receiver complexity, and the multipath channel parameters. The focus of the paper is to characterize the symbol error probability (SEP) performance of a RAKE receiver tracking the L strongest multipath components in wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) Gaussian channels with frequency-selective fading. Analytical SEP expressions of the RAKE receiver are derived in terms of the number of combined paths, the spreading BW and the multipath spread of the channel. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transforming the physical RAKE paths, which are correlated and ordered, into the domain of a “virtual RAKE” receiver with independent virtual paths. This results in a simple derivation of the SEP for a given spreading BW and an arbitrary number of combined paths     

Performance based on selective multipath reception

As wireless data rate requirements increase, multipath delay spread becomes an increasingly significant limitation on the performance of wireless systems. Techniques such as RAKE reception combat time dispersion by combining multipath components. Alternative implementations of RAKE receivers isolate the strongest multipath components and then shift each component to a common timing reference. The optimal timing reference in frequency-selective fading channels remains an open problem. This paper examines the impact pulse shaping and multipath delay spread on both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit-error rate performance. The receiver being considered achieves symbol synchronization to the strongest multipath component. The performance when synchronization is achieved based on the first multipath component arrival is also found and used to illustrate performance differences. Multipath delay distributions used on the performance calculations are derived from indoor measurements. Pulse shapes considered in the analysis include root-raised cosine, raised cosine, and Gaussian filters. SNR losses are shown to range between 1-6 dB for bit rates of 10 Mb/s. Results show that synchronization of the receiver to the strongest multipath component gives a 1-3 dB advantage over synchronization to the first arriving multipath component.     

Reduced-dimension blind space-time 2-D RAKE receivers for DS-CDMAcommunication systems

Blind space-time RAKE receivers for classical DS-CDMA that cancel strong multiuser access interference while optimally combining the desired user's multipath are presented. The delay spread is assumed to be fraction of a symbol interval as in the IS-95 CDMA standard. The post-correlation symbol interval is segmented into that which encompasses the RAKE fingers and that away from the RAKE fingers. The signal-plus-interference and interference alone space-time correlation matrices are estimated during the former and latter, respectively. Reduced-dimension space-time RAKE receivers are investigated for alleviation of the computational burden of computing the largest generalized eigenvector of the resulting matrix pencil. Theoretical analysis and supporting simulations reveal that if the space and time compressing transformations are designed judiciously, reduced-dimension two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receivers offer faster convergence at the expense of only a slight loss in asymptotic signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) relative to the full-dimension space-time RAKE receiver. Applications to the IS-95 uplink are also presented along with supporting simulations     

Impact of spreading bandwidth on RAKE reception in dense multipathchannels

Spread spectrum (SS) multiple access techniques have been proposed for third generation broadband wireless access. We develop an analytical framework to quantify the effects of spreading bandwidth on SS systems operating in dense multipath environments in terms of the receiver performance, receiver complexity, and multipath channel parameters. In particular, we consider wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) Gaussian channels with frequency-selective fading. The focus of the paper is to characterize the combined signal of the RAKE receiver fingers tracking the strongest multipath components. Closed form expressions for the mean and the variance of the total RAKE receiver output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are derived in terms of the number of RAKE fingers, spreading bandwidth, and multipath spread of the channel. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transforming the physical RAKE paths into the virtual path domain. A representative result indicates that for SS systems with 5 MHz signal bandwidth operating in a channel with constant power delay profile having 5 μs spread, the average SNR gain from increasing the number of RAKE fingers from one to three is 3.8 dB and from three to five is 1.5 dB. Furthermore, the reduction in the variation of SNR is 1.1 dB and 0.4 dB for the same increments in the number of fingers     

"Fractional Self-Decorrelation" to Enhance Single-User-Type DS-CDMA Detectors Output SINR in Blind Space Time RAKE Receivers

In this letter, a new "fractional self-decorrelation" technique is proposed to enhance the multipath-constructive-summation and interference-rejection capability of single-user-type DS-CDMA detectors at maximum-SINR blind space-time RAKE receivers, to tackle the near-far problem in wireless mobile communications. This technique can significantly decrease the error rate and can reduce the near-far problem's error floor at high SNR. This "blind" space-time processing receiver architecture needs no prior knowledge nor explicit estimation of: 1) the channel's multipath arrival angle or arrival delay or power profile-the fading channel's delay spread may be of arbitrary length, even as long as the symbol duration; 2) the receiver's nominal or actual antenna array manifold; and 3) the other DS-CDMA users' signature spreading codes.     

Comparison of MC-CDMA with DS-CDMA using frequency domain and time domain RAKE receivers

In this paper a multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) system with a soft decision differential phase shift keying (DPSK) frequency domain RAKE receiver is described. We compare a MC-CDMA system with a direct sequence CDMA system using RAKE receivers. In contrast with previous MC-CDMA systems, guard intervals are not used and the carriers are spaced at the reciprocal of the bit rate, optimising the usage of the bandwidth. In this way a comparison can be made between the multicarrier CDMA system described and a direct sequence (DS-CDMA) system with the same bandwidth. The results presented are received bit error rates from Monte Carlo simulations. The simulations are conducted in a multipath channel with Rayleigh fading and 300 Hz Doppler spectrum with additive white Gaussian noise. It is shown that the multicarrier CDMA matched filter receiver performs favourably compared to the direct sequence CDMA matched filter receiver for 1 -path fading. For a single user at a receive bit error rate of 1×10^–3 in the 4-path fading channel the multicarrier RAKE receiver requires no knowledge of the channel delay spread and performs 3 dB worse than the DS-CDMA RAKE receiver simulated. The performance of the MC-CDMA RAKE receiver for a single user increases with increasing channel dispersion. The performance of the DS-CDMA RAKE receiver for multiple user is superior to that of the MC-CDMA RAKE receiver.     

DS-CDMA的一种时频二维联合解扩方法

多径环境中传统的DS-CDMA信号接收,一般采用RAKE接收技术.本文提出一种不使用RAKE接收机的DS-CDMA接收算法:基于时频二维扩频的思想,考虑DS-CDMA发射机发射的一个扩频符号对应时间内的信号,在接收机中先将接收到的信号做一个比扩频增益N小的DFT变换,联合对多个DFT变换后的信号进行扩频解扩处理,从而恢复出发射的原始信息比特.本文对比了DS-CDMA传统的RAKE接收算法、基于时频二维扩频的DS-CDMA接收算法(2DSS)、以及Wang等提出的具有信道选择的频域解扩算法的复杂度,并就性能进行了计算机仿真验证.结果表明,在根均方时延较小信道中的性能优于传统RAKE接收算法和具有信道选择的频域解扩算法的性能.     

一种新的基于特征向量合并的超宽带系统分集方案

针对超宽带系统在室内环境中面临严重的多径衰落问题,通常在接收端需使用RAKE接收机来收集多径能量改善性能。该文提出了一种新的分集方案,在发送端信号进行预处理,在接收端使用RAKE合并收集多径能量,同时给出了基于信道矩阵特征值估计的最佳合并权重和时延参数估计算法。理论分析和仿真结果都表明,该算法得到的输出信噪比总是大于传统的RAKE接收机输出信噪比。     

Bounding performance and suppressing intercarrier interference in wireless mobile OFDM

While rapid variations of the fading channel cause intercarrier interference (ICI) in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), thereby degrading its performance considerably, they also introduce temporal diversity, which can be exploited to improve performance. We first derive a matched-filter bound (MFB) for OFDM transmissions over doubly selective Rayleigh fading channels, which benchmarks the best possible performance if ICI is completely canceled without noise enhancement. We then derive universal performance bounds which show that the time-varying channel causes most of the symbol energy to be distributed over a few subcarriers, and that the ICI power on a subcarrier mainly comes from several neighboring subcarriers. Based on this fact, we develop low-complexity minimum mean-square error (MMSE) and decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) receivers for ICI suppression. Simulations show that the DFE receiver can collect significant gains of ICI-impaired OFDM with affordable complexity. In the relatively low Doppler frequency region, the bit-error rate of the DFE receiver is close to the MFB.     

A research of UWB rake receiver based on novel RLS adaptive algorithm

A modified RAKE receiver based on novel Recursive Least Squares （RLS） adaptive algorithm is proposed. The receiver uses L-fingered correlators, which are composed of RLS adaptive filters, to enhance the performance of multipath receiving. It can also track the amplitude of the received signal to form a real-time amplitude estimation which is correlated with the power of excess delay bin. The simulation results based on the IEEE UltraWide Band （UWB） channel models （CMI to CM4） show that the novel RLS algorithm can alter the attenuation estimation with the finger＇s power delay profile, and RAKE receiver with few fingers can be employed to get high performance.     

Effects of chip rate on selective RAKE combining

The focus of this paper is to characterize the performance of a RAKE receiver tracking the L strongest multipath components and to quantify the effects of the chip rate on spread spectrum systems operating in dense multipath frequency-selective fading environments. Analytical expressions for the symbol error probability are derived in terms of the chip rate, multipath spread of the channel and an arbitrary number of combined paths     

Bit error probability of a matched filter in a Rayleigh fadingmultipath channel in the presence of interpath and intersymbolinterference

The exact bit error probability of a matched filter receiver in a known discrete Rayleigh fading multipath channel is determined for a binary antipodal system. The matched filter receiver or the RAKE is one form of a diversity receiver. Traditionally, both the interpath interference (IPI) and the intersymbol interference (ISI) caused by the non-ideal autocorrelation function of the bit waveform are neglected in the analysis of the RAKE. Previously, the exact matched filter bounds; which include IPI, were derived. This bound gives the performance of the matched filter if only one symbol is transmitted. In our analysis, a symbol sequence is transmitted instead of only one symbol. Thus, our analysis includes both IPI and ISI as well as the correlation between the paths, The analysis permits direct comparisons between different kinds of bit waveforms     

宽带自适应MIMO-DFE空时接收机

设计了频率选择信道基于RLS算法的自适应判决反馈均衡MIMO-DFE空时接收机,由于这种接收机不需要信道识别,从而降低了接收机的复杂度。通过蒙特卡罗仿真评估了接收机在频率选择信道下的误符号率性能。仿真结果表明,在不加信道编码的情况下,该接收机在信噪比为 14dB时误符号率达到 10-3以下。     

The performance of the PACS radio link and its improvements atvehicular speeds

The personal access communication system (PACS) radio interface is the leading low-tier candidate for standardization in North America. This radio interface was originally conceived to serve pedestrian and fixed-distribution applications; there has been significant recent interest in extending this technology into high-mobility environments. In such environments, rapid channel variations significantly degrade the performance of the preselection diversity scheme proposed for use in PACS handsets. The effects of time-delay spread on the PACS radio link was also included in our investigation. It is found that a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) with a short measurement length can better cope with high fading rates than can a quality measure in a preselection diversity system, although a quality measure has better performance than RSSI at low speeds in the presence of time-delay spread. In the preselection diversity scheme, using short-measurement RSSI provides relatively good performance in both low- and high-mobility environments. However, its performance degrades rapidly for RMS delay spreads larger than about 9% of a symbol time. Postselection diversity using two complete receiver chains is more robust than preselection diversity, both to high fading rates and to delay spread. Postselection diversity is relatively insensitive to changes in the fading rate and can tolerate an RMS delay spread up to 12.5% of a symbol time     

Small delay multipath diversity in spread spectrum communication systems

A new double-filter receiver for spread spectrum wireless systems is presented. The receiver exploits the inherent diversity due to the small delay difference between the multipaths which may not be exploited by the conventional RAKE receiver. The bit error rate performances of both the coherent and the noncoherent detectors are analyzed and compared with the ideal RAKE receiver and the matched filter bound. We also examine the best and the worst cases of a three-path fading channel for the proposed receiver. Optimum pulse shapes under various channel conditions are designed. Implementation issues in code-division multiple access systems are discussed. The numerical results show that the proposed receiver achieves significant gains for a given spreading factor under a complexity constraint.     

Error probability performance for W-CDMA systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas in correlated Nakagami fading channels

The bit error rate (BER) performance of a two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receiver, in combination with transmit diversity on the downlink of a wide-band CDMA (W-CDMA) system, is presented. The analyses assume correlated fading between receive antenna array elements, and an arbitrary number of independent but nonidentical resolvable multipaths combined by the RAKE receiver in the general Nakagami-m (1960) fading channel framework. The impact of the array configuration (e.g., the number of transmit antennas and receive antennas, the antenna element separation) and the operating environment parameters (such as the fading severity, angular spread and path delay profile) on the overall space-path diversity gain can be directly evaluated. In addition, the exact pairwise error probability of a convolutional coded system is obtained, and the coding gain of a space-path diversity receiver is quantified.     

智能天线中一种迭代的联合信道估计 与符号检测算法

在传统的二维RAKE接收机中,通常使用导频信道来估计信道矢量,进而求取加权系数,用于业务信道符号序列的检测.当导频功率较低时,信道估计误差较大,系统性能较差.本文提出了一种新的算法,先利用导频进行信道矢量的初始估计,然后用带投影的迭代最小二乘法,进行信道和符号序列的联合估计,该算法具有计算复杂度低,收敛速度快的特点.仿真结果表明:与传统二维RAKE接收机相比,该算法使系统的误码性能得到了有效改善.