Spectral width reduction using apodized cascaded fiber Bragg grating for post-dispersion compensation in WDM optical networks

This paper proposes a system that aims to reduce the spectral width, Δλ, of the optical signal at transmitter for WDM system over distance 100 km. Also, a chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) at the receiver is used to compensate dispersion. The proposed system consists of four cascaded FBGs connected between light source and optical fiber. Many apodization functions are investigated to enhance the performance of the FBG in the proposed system, and Δλ is obtained at every stage and apodization function. The Q-factor and bit error rate (BER) are obtained at distances 30, 40 and 50 km. It is found that Cauchy apodization function is the best one that reduces the reflective spectral width, Δλ, and achieves a maximum Q-factor and minimum BER at distances 30, 40 and 50 km at the last stage.

     

Dispersion compensation of fiber Bragg gratings in 3100 km high speed optical fiber transmission system

By optimizing the fabrication process of the chirped optical fiber Bragg grating (CFBG), some key problems of CFBG are solved, such as fabrication repetition, temperature stability, group delay ripple (GDR), fluctuation of the reflection spectrum, polarization mode dispersion (PMD), interaction of cascaded CFBG, and so on. The CFBG we fabricated can attain a temperature coefficient less than 0.0005 nm/℃, and the smoothed GDR and the fluctuation of the reflection spectrum are smaller than 10ps and 0.5dB, respec-tively. The PMD of each CFBG is less than 1 ps and the dispersion of each grating is larger than -2600 ps/(nm·km). With dispersion compensated by the CFBGs we fabricated, a 13×10 Gbit/s 3100 km ultra long G.652 fiber transmission system is successfully imple-mented without electric regenerator. The bit error rate (BER) of the system is below 10-4 without forward error correction (FEC); when FEC is added, the BER is below 10-12. The power penalty of the carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) code transmission system is only 2.5 dB.     

Performance analysis of hybrid transmit antenna selection/maximal‐ratio transmission in Nakagami‐m fading channels

Hybrid diversity systems have been of great importance because they provide better diversity orders and robustness to the fading effects of wireless communication systems. This paper focuses on the performance analysis of multiple‐input gle‐output systems that employ combined transmit antenna selection (TAS)/maximal‐ratio transmission (MRT) techniques (i.e., hybrid TAS/MRT). The probability density function, the moment generating function and the n ^th order moments of the output signal‐to‐noise ratio of the investigated diversity scheme are derived for independent identically distributed flat Nakagami‐m fading channels. The system capacity of the hybrid TAS/MRT scheme is examined from the outage probability perspective. Exact bit/symbol error rate (BER/SER) expressions for binary frequency shift keying, M‐ary phase shift keying and square M‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation signals are derived by using the moment generating function‐based analysis method. By deriving the upper bounds for BER/SER expressions, it is also shown that the investigated systems achieve full diversity orders at high signal‐to‐noise ratios. Also, by Monte Carlo simulations, analytical performance results are validated and the effect of feedback delay, channel estimation error and feedback quantization error on BER/SER performances are examined. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of impulse‐radio ultra‐wideband energy detector system using cooperative dual‐hop amplify and forward strategy

A novel analytical representation of bit error rate (BER) performance of an impulse‐radio ultra‐wideband energy detector on–off keying system using cooperative dual‐hop amplify and forward relay technology, with various diversity combining schemes over IEEE 802.15.4a environment is presented in this paper. In particular, the approximate expressions based on energy detection principle are derived for various diversity combining cases, namely linear optimal combining, linear combining, and selective combining. Simulation results depict an improvement in BER performance, with increase in number of relay paths (L ) and decrease in number of frames per symbol (N _f ). Furthermore, the BER performance of the impulse‐radio ultra‐wideband energy detector on–off keying system improves substantially using dual‐hop cooperative amplify and forward scheme, compared with that of non‐cooperative or single link scenario. Among the diversity combining schemes, linear optimal diversity combining performs better when compared with linear diversity combining and selective combining. The analytical BER expressions are validated with the simulation results, which confirm the accuracy and precision in approximation used in the investigation of BER. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Estimation of the error performance objectives for satellite communication systems

We consider the physical layer error performance parameters and design criteria for digital satellite systems established by ITU‐R Recommendation S.1062, where the performance objectives are given in terms of the bit error rate (BER) divided by the average number of errors within a cluster. It is well known that errors on satellite links employing forward error correction (FEC) schemes tend to occur in clusters. The resulting block error rate is the same as if it was caused by randomly occurring bit errors with an error‐event ratio of BER/α, where α is the average number of errors within a cluster. The factor, α, accounts for the burstiness of the errors and also represents the ratio between the BER and the error‐event ratio. This paper proposes theoretical methods to estimate the factor, α. Using the weight distributions of the FEC codes, we derive a set of expressions for the factor, α, as well as their compact lower bounds. We present lower bounds for various FEC schemes including binary BCH codes, block turbo codes, convolutional codes, and turbo codes. The simulation results show that the proposed lower bounds are good estimates in the high signal‐to‐noise ratio region. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Hydrogen‐Bonded‐Supramolecular‐Polymer‐Based Nanoprobe for Ratiometric Oxygen Sensing in Living Cells

The first example of a ratiometric optical oxygen nanoprobe based on a hydrogen‐bonded supramolecular polymer has been reported. The supramolecular polymer based nanoprobe (SPNP) is prepared from the co‐assembly of a bis‐ureidopyrimidinone (bis‐UPy)‐containing phosphorescent indicator (Por(Pd)‐bisUPy), fluorescent reference dye (BF₂‐bisUPy), and skeleton unit (DPA‐bisUPy) through quadruple hydrogen bonds by a mini‐emulsion method. The water‐dispersible SPNP is highly sensitive to oxygen (Q = 95%), with full reversibility, excellent storage stability and photostability, and good cell‐penetrating ability, and exhibits low cytotoxicity toward living cells. The preparation of the SPNP is straightforward and its function is easily tuned by changing the monomeric structure. This work is expected to lead to the design of other SPNPs for other important analytes in biological systems.     

HTRCI and Channel Ranking Based Joint Symbols Detection for MQRD-PCM/MIMO-OFDM

MIMO-OFDM is considered a key technology in emerging high-data rate systems. In MIMO-OFDM systems, channel estimation and signal detection are important to distinguish transmit signals from multiple transmit antennas. Previously, we have proposed a parallel detection algorithm using multiple QR decompositions (Q is an orthogonal square matrix, R is upper triangular matrix) with permuted channel matrix (MQRD-PCM) to reduce the system complexity of MIMO-OFDM. This method achieves a good BER performance with a low system complexity. However, since MQRD-PCM is a kind of parallel detection method, the wrong detection probability is increased due to the bad channel signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio (SINR) of the transmitted signals. As a result, the average BER performance is influenced by the wrong detection probability of the bad channel SINR. To overcome the above-mentioned problems, in this paper, we propose the high time resolution carrier interferometry and channel ranking based joint signal detection for MQRD-PCM/MIMO-OFDM.     

Q-factor improvement of degenerate four-wave-mixing regenerators for ASE degraded signals

All-optical regenerators can be used to suppress amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise introduced by cascaded erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) in optical fiber communication systems and lead to the improvement of optical receiver sensitivity. By introducing the Q-factor transfer function (QTF), we evaluate the Q-factor performance of degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) regenerators with clock pump and reveal the differences between the optimal input powers determined from the static and dynamic power tranfer function (PTF) and the QTF curves. Our simulation shows that the clock-pump regnerator is capable of improving the Q-facor and receiver sensitivity for 40 Gbit/s ASE-degraded return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) signal by 2.58 dB and 4.2 dB, respectively.     

Bi‐directional relay‐assisted FSO communication systems over strong turbulence channels with pointing errors

This paper presents the capacity and average bit error rate (BER)‐based performance analysis of a two‐way relay‐assisted free‐space optical communication system, over an atmospheric turbulent channel modeled by the Gamma–Gamma distribution and also affected by path loss and misalignment errors. A half‐duplex, decode‐and‐forward, two‐way, optical relay is considered, which establishes communication between two terminals, when direct communication is not possible because of non line‐of‐sight propagation or large distance. For the presented system and channel models and considering heterodyne detection at the receiver, we formulate the statistics of the instantaneous signal‐to‐noise ratio, followed by calculation of exact analytical expressions of capacity and BER. The mathematical expressions are formulated in terms of easily computable Meijer's G‐function. This mathematical analysis is accompanied with several numerical examples to illustrate the effect of the key system parameters. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance Evaluation of the Physical Layer of the DSRC Operating in 5.8 GHz Frequency Band

In this paper, the theoretical as well as experimental results of BER characteristics of three different modulation schemes, ASK, FSK and BPSK, in a multi‐path Rician channel are addressed. These BER characteristics are analyzed as a function of E_b / N_o and the power ratio of the line of sight (LOS) component to the Rayleigh scattered component. The theoretical as well as computer simulation results shows the ASK is the most suitable modulation scheme for the dedicated short range communication (DSRC) in terms of implemental cost and system complexity. The decision feedback equalizer is proved to be very effective in canceling the multi‐path interference in the DSRC channel environment. The simulation result of the equalized ASK, reveals the performance enhancement achievable with decision feedback (DFE) equalizer for the first generation DSRC system. The multi‐ray DSRC channel model is also provided to predict the received carrier power and fluctuation, which are quite dependent on the surroundings of a cell.     

光纤通信系统色散补偿方案的优化

为了优化光纤通信系统色散补偿方案,采用软件仿真的方法设计了一个用色散补偿光纤进行色散补偿的单信道通信系统,利用光纤环形镜的全反射特性使该系统的色散补偿方案得到了优化,补偿效果良好,并节约了成本。对色散补偿及光纤环形镜的工作原理进行了理论分析和仿真验证,取得了系统在2.5Gbit/s和10Gbit/s下Q参量和眼图的仿真数据,分别找出了两个信号速率下的系统最佳输入功率。结果表明,系统在2.5Gbit/s下的最佳输入功率为13dBm,此时Q参量达到了172.88;系统在10Gbit/s下的最佳输入功率为6dBm,其相应Q参量为45.96。这一结果对实际应用中光纤通信系统的色散补偿是有帮助的。     

Convolutionally‐Coded and Spectrum‐Overlapped Multicarrier DS‐CDMA Systems in a Multipath Fading Channel

Multicarrier DS‐CDMA is an effective approach to combat fading and various kinds of interference. In this paper, we present an overlapped multicarrier DS‐CDMA system, wherein each of the rate 1/M convolutionally‐encoded symbols is also repetition coded and transmitted using overlapped multicarriers. However, since the frequency spectrums of successive carriers are allowed to overlap, the transmission bandwidth is more efficiently utilized. The effect of the overlapping percentage between successive carriers of a multicarrier DS‐CDMA system on the performance is investigated to determine the overlapping percentage showing the best performance. We suggest two methods for sub‐band overlapping variation. One is to allow variation of sub‐band overlapping percentage when the total number of subcarriers is fixed. The other is to increase the number of sub‐bands (the number of repetitions R) with fixed subband bandwidth. Given a total number of subcarriers MR, we show that the BER variation is highly dependent on the roll‐off factor β of a raised‐cosine chip wave‐shaping filter irrespective of convolutional encoding rate 1/M and repetition coding rate 1/R. We also analyze the possibility of reduction in total multi‐user interference by considering the variation of both the roll‐off factor (0 < β ≤ 1) and the sub‐band overlapping factor (0 < λ ≤ 2), and show that the proposed system may outperform the multicarrier DS‐CDMA system in [3].     

Performance analysis of M‐APSK generalised spatial modulation with constellation reassignment

Generalised spatial modulation (GSM) is a recently developed multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) technique aimed at improving data rates over conventional spatial modulation (SM) systems. However, for identical antenna array size and configurations (AASC), the bit error rate (BER) of GSM systems in comparison with SM systems is degraded. Recently, a GSM system with constellation reassignment (GSM‐CR) was proposed in order to improve the BER of traditional GSM systems. However, this study focused on M‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M‐QAM) schemes. The focus of this paper is the application of a circular constellations scheme, in particular, amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) modulation, to GSM and GSM‐CR systems. An analytical bound for the average BER of the proposed M‐APSK GSM and M‐APSK GSM‐CR systems over fading channels is derived. The accuracy of this bound is verified using Monte Carlo simulation results. A 4 × 4 16‐APSK GSM‐CR system achieves a gain of 2.5 dB at BER of 10^?5 over the traditional 16‐APSK GSM system with similar AASC. Similarly, a 6 × 4 32‐APSK GSM‐CR system achieves a gain of 2 dB at BER of 10^?5 over equivalent 32‐APSK GSM system.     

Performance of a turbo‐coded CDMA system in a mobile satellite channel

The bit error rate (BER) performance of a turbo‐coded code‐division multiple‐access (CDMA) system operating in a satellite channel is analysed and simulated. The system performance is compared for various constituent decoders, including maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) and Max‐Log‐MAP algorithms, and the soft‐output Viterbi algorithm. The simulation results indicate that the Max‐Log‐MAP algorithm is the most promising among these three algorithms in overall terms of performance and complexity. It is also shown that, for fixed code rate, the BER performance is improved substantially by increasing the number of iterations in the turbo decoder, or by increasing the interleaver length in the turbo encoder. The results in this paper are of interest in CDMA‐based satellite communications applications. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance of zero cross correlation resultant weight spectral amplitude codes in lower Earth orbit‐based optical wireless channel system

A consolidated performance investigation and design of newly constructed zero cross correlation resultant weight (ZCCRW) code is presented without mapping over optical wireless channel (OWC) in lower Earth orbit (LEO). Multiple access interference (MAI) is suppressed by incorporating proposed 1‐D code at 10 Gbps with an algorithm. A further state of the art comparison of diverse optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) codes such as multi diagonal codes and diagonal double weight codes is accomplished with proposed code in terms of root mean square (RMS) jitter, extinction ratio, MAI, quality factor (QF), and bit error rate (BER) at different linewidths, chip sizes, link lengths, and active users. It is perceived that for ZCCRW code, QF obtained is 16.5 for chip size (0.1 ns), and at 4000 km, BER 10^‐9 is achieved using the forward error correction (FEC) technique. OWC system in LEO with lasers in spectral amplitude code (SAC) OCDMA is proposed for the first time as per the author's best knowledge.     

A high‐speed long‐haul wavelength division multiplexing–based inter‐satellite optical wireless communication link using spectral‐efficient 2‐D orthogonal modulation scheme

In this work, we propose a novel multi‐bit/symbol spectral‐efficient optical orthogonal modulation scheme based on simultaneously modulating differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK)‐polarization shift keying (PolSK) in a 16‐channel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)‐based inter‐satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC) system. Through numerical simulations, we demonstrate a reliable transportation of 16 × 100 Gbps information over 25 000 km of transmission range with acceptable bit error rate (BER) using the proposed system. Further, the impact of space turbulences (ie, pointing error losses) on the BER performance of the proposed IsOWC link has been evaluated using numerical simulations. The simulation results report a successful transportation of information up to 2.7 μrad receiver pointing error angle with acceptable performance.     

SSD‐enhanced uncoded space‐time labeling diversity

Space‐time labeling diversity (STLD) has been shown to be an efficient technique for improving the bit error rate (BER) performance of an uncoded space‐time coded modulation system. In this paper, signal space diversity (SSD) is incorporated into the uncoded STLD system to further enhance the system BER performance. A tight closed‐form union bound on the BER of the proposed system is derived and is used to optimize the rotation angle of the SSD scheme. Simulation results are used to confirm the theoretical bound derived for the system. The results also show performance gains of approximately 2.0 dB at a BER of 10^?6 and 1.6 dB at a BER 10^?4 from incorporating SSD into the uncoded STLD system using 16QAM and 64QAM, respectively. Furthermore, a low complexity detection scheme based on orthogonal projection is formulated for the proposed scheme and, in comparison with the optimal maximum‐likelihood detector, is shown to result in a 56% and 95% reduction in computation complexity for the 16QAM and 64QAM versions of the proposed system, respectively.     

Spectral efficiency improvement with SISO and SIMO in M‐QAM over millimeter‐wave links

This paper proposes a spectral efficiency improvement technique for millimeter wave (mmWave) links. The proposed technique provides an efficient utilization of the mmWave link capacity. This technique is applied in three cases the single‐input single‐output (SISO), single‐input multiple‐output (SIMO) with the maximal ratio combining and with the equal gain combining. The M‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation scheme is used in our work. The power series expansion is used for deriving closed‐form expressions for bit error rate (BER) performances in all studied cases. The BER closed‐form expressions are confirmed by the numerical solution of the integral equations. The simulation results show that a high spectral efficiency can be accomplished by the proposed technique. As well as the derived expressions closely match with the numerical solution of integration expressions at different values of modulations order the Rician factor. For instance, the spectral efficiency gain achievement is 8 at signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) equals 34 dB in the case of SISO system whereas in the case of SIMO system, the same gain is achieved at SNR equals 24 dB. As well as the BER performance is enhanced from 1.188 × 10^?4, 7.112 × 10^?4, 4.164 × 10^?3, and 3.286 × 10^?2 to 8.717 × 10^?16, 1.119 × 10^?12, 1.308 × 10^?9, and 4.905 × 10^?6 for M = 4, 16, 64, and 256, respectively, at SNR equals 30 dB.     

BER minimization for dual‐polarized wireless systems with polarization‐domain rotation

We consider the problem of bit error rate (BER) degradation because of the power gain imbalance between horizontal (H)‐polarization and vertical (V)‐polarization components in an orthogonal dual‐polarization transmission system. To alleviate the aforementioned BER degradation problem, we propose a non‐orthogonal polarization‐domain rotation scheme where the axes of H‐polarization and V‐polarization components are rotated with different angles at the transmitter and de‐rotated at the receiver. In addition, in order to assess the effectiveness of the polarization‐domain rotation scheme, we derive the closed‐form BER expression under a practical dual‐polarized channel model, which is represented by cross‐polarization ratio and co‐polarization ratio (CPR). We also derive the approximated BER expressions for the two asymptotic values of CPR: balanced CPR and infinite CPR. With the derived BER expressions, we find the optimal rotation angles that jointly minimize the BER. According to the numerical results, it is shown that about 3dB E_b/N₀ gain is obtained at the BER of 10^?4 and the CPR of 10dB by the polarization‐domain rotation scheme with optimal rotation angles compared with the conventional orthogonal dual‐polarization transmission. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.