Space-time turbo multiuser detection for coded MC-CDMA

The system capacity and performance of multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) communication systems can be significantly enhanced by jointly employing MAP-based multiuser detection (MUD) and channel decoding techniques. In this paper, a group-oriented soft iterative MUD based on the combination of smart antennas and iterative MAP-based MUD is presented. The proposed method is featured as a novel technique for further increasing the system capacity and performance. In this method, all the users are first grouped into several groups according to their impinging direction of arrivals (DOAs). All users with similar DOAs are classified into the same group and then low-complexity MAP-based iterative MUD is employed in each group. Because spatial filtering cannot suppress all the interference between the groups, interference cancellation among the groups is used prior to MUD within each group. It is shown that the proposed group-oriented soft iterative MUD algorithm can significantly reduce the computational complexity compared with the conventional optimal MAP-based MUD schemes. It is also demonstrated that the performance of the proposed algorithm can approach that of a single-user coded MC-CDMA system with an antenna array in additive white Gaussian noise and frequency selective fading channels.     

采用MT—TCM的跳频／扩频多址系统的性能研究

本文采用不降低扩频处理增益的多音网格编码调制（ＭＴ－ＴＣＭ）及改进的交织ＭＴ－ＴＣＭ方案来提高跳频／扩频多址系统的性能，对于给定的总跳频带宽，跳束和符号速率，考虑加性白高斯噪声，部分带宽干扰与多有户干扰的综合影响，推导出估计比特错误率的计算公式。给出数值与模拟结果，并与采用卷积编码的跳频／扩频多址系统的性能作了比较。     

Soft Decoding Assisted SNR Estimation Under Block Fading Channels for Orthogonal Modulations

The performance of the coded orthogonal modulation (OM) system under slow fading channels heavily depends on the estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), including the fading amplitude and the noise spectral density. However, a relatively long packet of pilot symbols is often required to guarantee the accuracy of the SNR estimation, which makes it impractical in some situations. To address this problem, this paper proposes an iterative SNR estimation algorithm using the soft decoding information based on the expectation-maximization algorithm. In the proposed method, a joint iterative loop between the SNR estimator and decoder is performed, where the extrinsic information generated by the soft decoder is employed to enhance the estimation accuracy and the SNR estimated by the estimator is used to generate the soft information to the decoder. Also, no pilot symbols are needed to estimate the SNR in the proposed estimator. The Cramer–Rao lower bound (CRLB) of fully data-aided (FDA) estimation is derived to works as the final benchmark. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of the normalized mean square errors (NMSEs) and the bit error rates (BERs) under block fading channels. Simulation results indicate that the NMSE of the proposed estimator reaches the CRLB of the FDA estimator and outperforms that of the approximate ML (ML-A) estimator proposed by Hassan et al. by 4.1 dB. The BER performance of coded OM system with the proposed estimation algorithm is close to the ideal case where the channel fading and the noise spectral density are known at the receiver.     

DFT-S-OFDM系统中基于DFT的软迭代信道估计

在基于傅里叶变换扩展的正交频分复用（DFT-S-OFDM）系统中,为了消除由多径传播和多普勒效应导致的信道间干扰（ICI）,提出了一种基于离散傅里叶变换（DFT）的软迭代信道估计算法。该算法将传统DFT信道估计技术与Turbo均衡技术相结合,利用Turbo均衡器反馈的软信息来更新初始信道估计响应,进而消除噪声和ICI。Matlab仿真结果表明,在多径信道下,经过2次以上的迭代后,该算法的误码率（BER）性能得到了显著的改善。     

Code-aided iterative carrier phase estimation using selective soft decision feedback

A code-aided iterative carrier phase estimator using selective soft decision feedback is proposed. Based on the reliability metric defined, soft decisions provided by the soft-in/soft-out channel decoder with higher reliabilities are selected to perform carrier phase estimation iteratively. Simulation results demonstrate the performance improvement of the proposed algorithm in both the unbiased estimation range and the estimation precision. The overall bit error rate performance of the coded systems with different phase estimators is also compared.     

Exploiting error-control coding and cyclic-prefix in channel estimation for coded OFDM systems

OFDM systems typically use coding and interleaving across subchannels to exploit frequency diversity on frequency-selective channels. This letter presents a low-complexity iterative algorithm for blind and semi-blind joint channel estimation and soft decoding in coded OFDM systems. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of the channel finite delay-spread constraint and the extra observation offered by the cyclic-prefix. It converges within a single OFDM symbol and, therefore, has a minimum latency.     

采用图像处理的跳频信号参数盲估计

针对短波复杂信道环境下的跳频信号参数估计问题,提出了一种基于图像处理的跳频信号参数盲估计算法。该算法在时频分析的基础上采用灰度共生矩阵提取信号的纹理特征,通过对纹理特征量的分割实现信号与背景噪声的分割,并运用形态学滤波去除二值化后产生的椒盐噪声;然后根据连通区域标记得到的各个信号在时频图中的位置信息来聚类,从而去除定频、突发等干扰信号,分选出跳频信号;最后根据分选出的跳频信号提取其跳频频线并进行修正,估计出跳频信号的跳周期、跳变时刻和跳频频率。仿真实验表明,该算法切实有效,能够在较低的信噪比条件下精确地估计出跳频信号的参数。     

Algorithm of Robust Frequency Estimation in a Channel with White Gaussian Noise and Pulse Interferences

An algorithm for robust frequency estimation in a channel with additive white Gaussian noise and pulse interference is proposed. The algorithm involves iterative elimination of pulse interferences and subsequent calculation of the maximum likelihood estimate. It is demonstrated that the proposed filter-cleaner differs from the well-known Martin–Thomson filter in the functional dependence of adaptive coefficients on the estimates of parameters of distributions of the linear prediction error and the amplitude envelope of the signal. The results of mathematical modeling and numerical estimation of the threshold point of the method (0.49) are presented.     

Downlink transmission of broadband OFCDM systems-part IV: soft decision

In this paper, the performance of turbo-coded orthogonal frequency and code-division multiplexing (OFCDM) systems is investigated with soft multicode interference (MCI) cancellation and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) detection for downlink transmission in future high-speed wireless communications. To regenerate the soft interference signal, the conventional turbo decoding algorithm must be modified to provide log-likelihood ratio (LLR) values for all coded bits. Based on the LLR outputs of turbo decoder, two soft-decision functions are proposed, called LLR-soft-decision and Gaussian-soft-decision functions. The Gaussian assumptions used for deriving these two soft functions are verified by simulation results, and simple methods are proposed to estimate parameters used in the soft functions in practical systems. By means of computer simulations, the performance of soft MCI cancellation is studied extensively and compared with that of hard ones. It is shown that in a highly frequency-selective channel, soft MCI cancellation and MMSE detection can significantly improve the performance of turbo-coded OFCDM systems. Two iterations in turbo decoding are sufficient for both hard and soft-decision functions. The proposed soft-decision functions outperform the hard-decision function with various channel conditions and system parameters, such as the channel correlation, the quality of channel estimation, the number of iterations in turbo decoding and the frequency-domain spreading factor (N/sub F/). Furthermore, the Gaussian-soft-decision function provides better performance than the LLR-soft-decision function. Finally, although frequency diversity gain is saturated for large channel correlation when N/sub F/ is large as in , the gain increases further with increasing N/sub F/ for small channel correlation even when N/sub F/ is large.     

EM‐based iterative receiver for coded MIMO systems in unknown spatially correlated noise

We present iterative channel estimation and decoding schemes for multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) Rayleigh block fading channels in spatially correlated noise. An expectation‐maximization (EM) algorithm is utilized to find the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of the channel and spatial noise covariance matrices, and to compute soft information of coded symbols which is sent to an error‐control decoder. The extrinsic information produced by the decoder is then used to refine channel estimation. Several iterations are performed between the above channel estimation and decoding steps. We derive modified Cramer–Rao Bound (MCRB) for the unknown channel and noise parameters, and show that the proposed EM‐based channel estimation scheme achieves the MCRB at medium and high SNRs. For a bit error rate of 10⁻⁶ and long frame length, there is negligible performance difference between the proposed scheme and the ideal coherent detector that utilizes the true channel and noise covariance matrices. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于LDPC编码的MIM0系统迭代接收机研究

研究了基于LDPC编码无线MIMO通信系统中的软输出最小均方误差干扰抵消迭代(MMSE PIC)检测算法.针对初次迭代检测时PIC输出的后验比特对数似然比(LLR)不可靠的问题,利用MMSE滤波器输出的高斯近似表示,给出了基于后验概率估计的迭代干扰抵消检测算法,以提高检测器输出的编码比特对数似然比的可靠性.仿真结果表明...     

空时分组码MC-CDMA系统盲干扰抑制

该文考虑空时分组码多载波码分多址(MC-CDMA)系统的盲干扰抑制。通过研究多径信号频域码空间和数据矢量空间,采用噪声子空间技术进行盲信道估计。使用一种修改的ULV更新算法进行噪声子空间跟踪,该算法不需要相关矩阵的秩估计,直接估计噪声子空间。为了抑制多址干扰(MAI),提出一种基于投影的辅助矢量(PAV)算法,用前一级滤波矢量的输出重构最大比合并(MRC)滤波矢量,将重构滤波矢量到由基本滤波矢量和前几级辅助矢量张成子空间上的正交投影作为辅助矢量,将前一级滤波矢量和新产生辅助矢量线性合并得到新的滤波矢量。仿真结果验证了该文算法的有效性。     

一种频选衰落信道下的Turbo多用户检测算法

联合MAP多用户检测与信道解码的迭代多用户检测(MUD)技术可显著提高宽带移动CDMA系统的容量和性能.在多径时变衰落的编码信道下,提出一种迭代实现干扰抑制、符号估计、信道解码的Turbo多用户检测算法.在每次迭代中,MUD自适应地实现干扰抑制并输出符号估计的软信息,软输入软输出的信道解码器使用LOG MAP方法实现信道解码并反馈符号估计的软信息作为下一次TurboMUD迭代的先验信息.仿真结果证实了该算法在频选衰落信道下经两次迭代就能逼近单用户编码CDMA系统的接收性能.     

Performance of LDPC coded FMT systems over frequency selective fading channel

This paper proposes the Low Density Parity Check （LDPC） coded Filtered MultiTone （FMT） systems with high-order modulation for the high data rate reliable transmission over frequency selective fading channel. For the purpose of accomplishing soft input soft output iterative decoding of LDPC codes, a new soft decision metric generation method is proposed, which obviates the need of the noise variance estimation, for M-PSK/M-QAM-type high-order modulation over frequency selective fading channel. Computer simulation indicates that, there is no performance loss with our new metric, but the complexity of implementation is reduced, and that the LDPC codes are effective to improve the Bit Error Rate （BER） of FMT in frequency selective fading channel.     

Iterative Joint Channel Estimation and Multi-User Detection for Multiple-Antenna Aided OFDM Systems

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems have recently attracted substantial research interest. However, compared to single-input-single-output (SISO) systems, channel estimation in the MIMO scenario becomes more challenging, owing to the increased number of independent transmitter-receiver links to be estimated. In the context of the Bell layered space-time architecture (BLAST) or space division multiple access (SDMA) multi-user MIMO OFDM systems, none of the known channel estimation techniques allows the number of users to be higher than the number of receiver antennas, which is often referred to as a "rank-deficient" scenario, owing to the constraint imposed by the rank of the MIMO channel matrix. Against this background, in this paper we propose a new genetic algorithm (GA) assisted iterative joint channel estimation and multi-user detection (GA-JCEMUD) approach for multi-user MIMO SDMA-OFDM systems, which provides an effective solution to the multi-user MIMO channel estimation problem in the above-mentioned rank-deficient scenario. Furthermore, the GAs invoked in the data detection literature can only provide a hard-decision output for the forward error correction (FEC) or channel decoder, which inevitably limits the system's achievable performance. By contrast, our proposed GA is capable of providing "soft" outputs and hence it becomes capable of achieving an improved performance with the aid of FEC decoders. A range of simulation results are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.     

Performance of multicarrier CDMA with successive interference cancellation in a multipath fading channel

A high capacity, low complexity, and robust system design for a successive interference cancellation (SIC) system is developed and analyzed. Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) is used to suppress multipath and to overcome the multipath channel estimation problem in single-carrier SIC systems. In addition, an optimal power control algorithm for MC-CDMA with SIC is derived, allowing analytical bit-error rate expressions to be found for an uncoded system. Low-rate forward error-correcting codes are then added to the system to achieve robustness. It is found that the capacity of the coded system approaches the additive white Gaussian noise capacity for SIC, even in a fading multipath channel with channel estimation error. This indicates that MC-CDMA is very attractive for systems employing SIC.     

Joint source-channel coding using combined TCQ/CPM: iterative decoding

An iterative decoding approach to joint source and channel coding (JSCC) using combined trellis-coded quantization (TCQ) and continuous phase modulation (CPM) is proposed. The channel is assumed to be the additive white Gaussian noise channel. This iterative procedure exploits the structure of the TCQ encoder and the continuous phase modulator. The performance in terms of the signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) is compared with that of a combined TCQ/trellis-coded modulation (TCM) system. It is shown that the combined TCQ/CPM systems are both power- and bandwidth-efficient, compared with the combined TCQ/TCM system. For source encoding rate R=2 b/sample, it is observed that the combined TCQ/CPM systems with iterative decoding working at symbol level converge faster than the systems working at bit level. The novelty of this work is the use of a soft decoder and an iterative decoding algorithm for TCQ-based JSCC systems. The combined TCQ/CPM with iterative decoding is considered for the first time.     

On the Suboptimality of Iterative Decoding for Turbo-Like and LDPC Codes With Cycles in Their Graph Representation

Performance of Multicarrier CDMA With Successive Interference Cancellation in a Multipath Fading Channel A high-capacity, low-complexity, and robust system design for a successive interference cancellation (SIC) system is developed and analyzed. Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) is used to suppress multipath and to overcome the multipath channel estimation problem in single-carrier SIC systems. In addition, an optimal power control algorithm for MC-CDMA with SIC is derived, allowing analytical bit-error rate expressions to be found for an uncoded system. Low-rate forward error-correcting codes are then added to the system to achieve robustness. It is found that the capacity of the coded system approaches the additive white Gaussian noise capacity for SIC, even in a fading multipath channel with channel estimation error. This indicates that MC-CDMA is very attractive for systems employing SIC.     

Joint Source and Channel Coding using Punctured Ring Convolutional Coded CPM

In this paper, a novel trellis source encoding scheme based on punctured ring convolutional codes is presented. Joint source and channel coding (JSCC) using trellis coded continuous phase modulation (CPM) with punctured convolutional codes over rings is investigated. The channels considered are the additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and the Rayleigh fading channel. Optimal soft decoding for the proposed JSCC scheme is studied. The soft decoder is based on the a posteriori probability (APP) algorithm for trellis coded CPM with punctured ring convolutional codes. It is shown that these systems with soft decoding outperform the same systems with hard decoding especially when the systems operate at low to medium signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Furthermore, adaptive JSCC approaches based on the proposed source coding scheme are investigated. Compared with JSCC schemes with fixed source coding rates, the proposed adaptive approaches can achieve much better performance in the high SNR region. The novelties of this work are the development of a trellis source encoding method based on punctured ring convolutional codes, the use of a soft decoder, the APP algorithm for the combined systems and the adaptive approaches to the JSCC problem.     

An EM-Based Iterative Receiver for MIMO-OFDM Under Interference-Limited Environments

In this paper, we derive an iterative receiver for multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. As MIMO-OFDM is considered for future cellular systems, the iterative receiver is investigated when the co-channel interference (CCI) exists. It is assumed that the CCI's are also OFDM signals. Since a joint detection of the desired signal and CCI is difficult, we only detect the desired signal, while the CCI is assumed to be a (colored) noise. This approach can avoid the channel estimation and detection of the CCI and keep the complexity of the receiver low. The proposed iterative receiver estimates the channel impulse response of the desired signal and the covariance matrix of the CCI for the detection based on a generalized expectation- maximization (GEM) algorithm. Through GEM iterations, we can observe the performance is improved.