A Radio Resource Allocation Scheme for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems with Avoidance of Major Interferers

An improved radio resource allocation scheme with avoidance of major interferers is proposed and analyzed for the downlink of Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (FBWA) systems with full frequency reuse. The scheme is based on Enhanced Staggered Resource Allocation (ESRA) and permits the enhancement of the throughput per sector. Simulation results show a maximum downlink throughput per sector in excess of 44% and an increase of 10% with respect to ESRA is achieved, with Base Station (BS) selection procedure, while meeting a 15 dB signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). Nicholas Vaiopoulos was bornin Lamia in 1977. He received his Physics degree and his M.Sc.degree in electronics and radio-communications from the University of Athens, Greecein 2000and 2003, respectively. Currently, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree on the resource allocation techniques with reference to wireless systems at the Department of informatics and Telecommunications at the same University. His research interests include broadband communications systems, scheduling algorithms and power control techniques for wireless systems. Alexander Vavoulaswas born in Athens in 1976. He received his B.Sc. degree in physics and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and radio-communications in 2000 and 2002 respectively,both from the University of Athens, Greece. Currently he is working toward the Ph.D. degree on the radio resource allocation techniques with the same University. His research interest is focused on broadband wireless access and interference management. He is a student nmember of the IEEE. Dimitris Varoutas holds BSc. degree in Physics, M.Sc. in electronics and radio-communi cations and Ph.D. in telecommunications systems and technoeconomics, all from the University of Athens. He is a lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of University of Athens and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunications of the newly founded University of Peloponnese. He has participating in numerous European R&D projects in the RACE I &II, ACTS, Telematics, RISI and IST framework in the areas of telecommunications and Technoeconomics. He is an adviser in several organisations including OTE and EETT (Greek NRA for telecommunications) in the fields of telecommunications, broadband and mobile services, licensing, spectrum management, pricing and legislation. His research interests are optical, microwave communications and technoeconomic evaluation of network architectures and services. He has more than 30 publications in refereed journal and conferences in the area of telecommunications, optoelectronics and technoeconomics. He is a member of IEEE and serves as reviewer in several journals and conferences. Thomas Sphicopoulos received the Physics degree from Athens University in 1976, the D.E.A. degree and Doctorate in Electronics both from the University of Paris VI in 1977 and 1980 respectively, the Doctorat Es Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1986. From 1976 to 1977 he worked in Thomson CSF Central Research Laboratories on Microwave Oscillators. From 1977 to 1980 he was an Associate Researcher in Thomson CSF Aeronautics Infrastructure Division. In 1980 he joined the Electromagnetism Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne where he carried out research on Applied Electromagnetism. Since 1987 he is with the Athens University engaged in research on Broadband Communications Systems. In 1990 he was elected as an Assistant Professor of Communications in the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, in 1993 as Associate Professor and since 1998 he is a Professor in the same Department. His main scientific interests are Microwave and Optical Communication Systems and Networks and Techno-economics. He has lead about 40 National and European R&D projects. He has more than 100 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. From 1999 he is advisor in several organisations including EETT (Greek NRA for telecommunications) in the fields of market liberalisation, spectrum management techniques and technology convergence.     

认知无线电与多维度的协作通信

认知无线电技术已经向“网络与系统”的框架转变,为增强认知能力、降低认知成本,协作手段成为必然。物理层链路技术面临进一步提升性能的“瓶颈”,通过不同网络元素间的多维度协作提高系统整体性能是下一阶段移动通信系统增强的主要途径。在这一过程中,对环境背景信息和用户业务特征的广泛感知是智能化协作与联合资源管理的重要基础。认知无线电与多维度协作通信的结合将成为技术发展的必然趋势。     

无线宽带通信系统的上行带宽资源分配方案

提出了一种适用于宽带无线通信系统的上行无线带宽资源分配方案。在详细描述算法的基础上,建立了对应的仿真系统对算法进行验证。该方案较好地解决了多业务并发时的上行带宽分配问题。兼顾了不同实时业务对时延和带宽的不同需求,与传统技术相比较,提高了带宽利用率,并减少了协议开销和传输时延。     

A Distributed Algorithm for Dynamic Channel Allocation

Recent demand for mobile telephone service has been growing rapidly while the electro-magnetic spectrum of frequencies allocated for this purpose remains limited. Any solution to the channel assignment problem is subject to this limitation, as well as the interference constraint between adjacent channels in the spectrum. Channel allocation schemes provide a flexible and efficient access to bandwidth in wireless and mobile communication systems. In this paper, we present an efficient distributed algorithm for dynamic channel allocation based upon mutual exclusion model, where the channels are grouped by the number of cells in a cluster and each group of channels cannot be shared concurrently within the cluster. We discuss the algorithm and prove its correctness. We also show that the algorithm requires at most (worst case) O(N _gN _n logN _n) messages, where N _g is the number of groups and N _n is the number of neighbors. This is compared to Choy's algorithm which requires O(N _g ²N _n), where N _g is the number of groups and N _n is the number of neighboring cells in the system. We report our algorithm's performance with several channel systems using different types of call arrival patterns. Our results indicate that significant low denial rate, low message complexity and low acquisition time can be obtained using our algorithm.     

认知网络中基于中继的频谱资源分配

根据无线认知中继网络上、下行链路子载波的信道特性,研究认知网络的频谱资源分配,提出一种上、下行链路子载波联合优化的分配算法。该算法根据子信道增益差值因子的大小分配下行链路子载波,以源节点和中继节点功率最小化为优化目标配对上行链路子载波,以用户的实时需求分配子载波的比特和功率,有效降低了系统的发射功率,提高了系统吞吐量。仿真结果表明,与启发—集中式和分布式辅助反馈传输功率分配算法比较,该联合优化算法的单位比特功耗降低了1.5~3 dBμW,误比特率性能提高了1个数量级左右。     

无线通信领域的“下一个大事件”——认知无线电

认知无线电是在软件无线电基础上发展而来的能够自适应外界环境变化的智能无线通信系统,其核心思想是使无线通信设备具有发现"频谱空穴"并合理利用所发现的"频谱空穴"的能力。认知无线电的提出为从根本上解决日益增长的无线通信需求与有限的无线频谱资源之间的矛盾开辟了一条行之有效的新途径。从认知无线电技术的研究背景入手,综合阐述了认知无线电的定义及其特点、实现认知无线电的关键技术以及超宽带与认知无线电相结合的认知超宽带通信技术。     

TD-SCDMA系统混合业务下的无线资源管理算法研究

给出了智能天线技术在系统级研究的理论模型,推导了采用多用户检测和自适应智能天线技术后的容量和负载评估理论模型。基于该模型,给出了一种新的接入控制算法,并为实时多媒体业务提出了一种先进的动态信道分配算法。仿真结果表明,提出的理论模型和无线资源管理算法适用于TD-SCDMA系统,能够显著提高系统性能,用于实际TD-SCDMA网络的规划优化。     

Operation and Performance of Link-Quality Based Channel Assignment Schemes in Adaptive Packet-Switched Mobile Radio Systems

This paper proposes and evaluates a set of physical level assisted cross-layer channel assignment schemes. These schemes allocate an incoming call the available channel that experienced the best channel quality conditions during previous transmissions. To estimate such conditions, three different link quality metrics have been considered. The performance of the proposed schemes has been compared to that of the commonly employed random allocation mechanism. The obtained results show that the proposed schemes improve the system performance of an adaptive packet-switched mobile radio system while also exhibiting the long-term channel uniform use characteristic of the random allocation mechanism. The higher performance attained with the proposed schemes is due to their short-term channel use pattern that results in an implicit cooperation among co-channel interfering cells during the channel allocation process. With the proposed schemes, interfering cells avoid assigning the same channels to simultaneous incoming calls, therefore reducing the experienced interference and increasing the system performance. Javier Gozalvez received an electronics engineering degree from ENSEIRB (Bordeaux, France), a DEA in Electronics from Université de Bordeaux I and a PhD in Mobile Communications from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). During his PhD, he received a Best Student Paper Award at the Fourth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) in 2001. Since October 2002, he is a lecturer at the Signal Theory and Communications Division of the University Miguel Hernández (Elche, Spain). Dr. Javier Gozalvez currently serves as Mobile Radio Senior Editor of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society News publication and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Communication Letters journal. He has also served in the organizing and/or technical committees of various international conferences including IEEE Vehicular Technology Conferences and International Symposiums on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), and as member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Telecommunications. Over the last years, he has researched on various aspects of adaptive radio resource management techniques. His current research interests include: radio resource management, heterogeneous systems, application of wireless communications to the vehicular environment and wireless sensor networking. Juan-Jesús González-Delicado received a BEng in Telecommunications Engineering from the University Miguel Hernández (Elche, Spain), obtaining an award for the best academic records. At the moment, Mr Gonzalez-Delicado is pursuing the final year of the MEng in Telecommunications Engineering at the University Miguel Hernández, conducting research in cross-layer radio resource management and heterogeneous wireless systems.     

Robust Channel Estimation and Multiuser Detection for MC–CDMA Systems Under Narrowband Interference

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive channel estimator and a robust multiuser detector for wireless multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC–CDMA) systems under narrowband interference (NBI). The conventional least-squares (LS) channel estimator performs poorly when narrowband interfering signals contaminate the multicarrier systems. A new weighted recursive least M-estimate (WRLM) channel estimator is hence developed to estimate multipath fading channels in the presence of NBI. The new robust channel estimator resorts to M-estimate and weighted least-squares (WLS) techniques. Simulations show that the WRLM channel estimator offers substantial performance gain over conventional recursive least-squares (RLS), recursive least M-estimate (RLM) and weighted RLS (WRLS) channel estimators under NBI. With the estimated channel coefficients, a robust multiuser detector is proposed to jointly suppress multiple access interference (MAI) and NBI. The performance of the linear decorrelator will degrade substantially in the presence of NBI. A weighted least M-estimate (WLM) algorithm is therefore developed to combat the NBI. The WLM multiuser detector is also based on the weighted M-estimate concept. Numerical results show that the proposed WLM multiuser detector significantly outperforms over the conventional linear decorrelator, the robust decorrelator with M-estimate and the WLS detector under NBI.