A bandwidth allocation strategy for a FDM multichannel modem

Implementing a frequency division multiplexing (FDM)-based modem for a multichannel application requires a bandwidth allocation strategy. That is, one must decide how to allocate total bandwidth to individual channels such that (a) the desired aggregate rate can be achieved and (b) the desired individual channel bit rates can be achieved. An optimal strategy for bandwidth allocation is proposed. The multitone channel result is used to specify a scheme to allocate four separate channels. The allocation strategy assigns to each subchannel a constellation that is equal in size to that of an equivalent single-band modem operating at the aggregate rate. In this manner, bandwidth is allocated proportional to the desired bit rate on a particular subchannel. Power allocation will be done to maintain a constant probability of error between all channels. This technique will allow the user to split total bandwidth to meet error performance objectives, provided that the desired aggregate rate does not exceed the maximum bit rate allowed by channel conditions     

Message waiting time performance for meteor-burst communicationsystems

The performance is investigated of the meteor-burst channel in terms of the waiting time required to reliably transmit a message of length N bits. Two modulation techniques are considered. The first is the traditional fixed-rate modulation scheme where the modem operates at a constant bit rate whenever the channel is available for message traffic. The second is an adaptive modulation method where the channel symbol rate varies continuously to match the time-varying signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver. Upper and lower bounds on waiting time for the general case are derived using probabilistic arguments. Novel closed-form expressions for waiting time and optimal bit rate are derived for the fixed-rate modem. Bounds on mean waiting time are derived for the adaptive-symbol-rate modem. It is shown that for fixed-rate modems operating at the optimal bit rate and for adaptive modems operating at a minimum bit rate equal to this rate, the improvement in mean waiting time can never exceed a factor of two     

16‐QAM‐Based Highly Spectral‐Efficient E‐band Communication System with Bit Rate up to 10 Gbps

This paper presents a novel 16‐quadrature‐amplitude‐modulation (QAM) E‐band communication system. The system can deliver 10 Gbps through eight channels with a bandwidth of 5 GHz (71‐76 GHz/81‐86 GHz). Each channel occupies 390 MHz and delivers 1.25 Gbps using a 16‐QAM. Thus, this system can achieve a bandwidth efficiency of 3.2 bit/s/Hz. To implement the system, a driver amplifier and an RF up‐/down‐conversion mixer are implemented using a 0.1 µm gallium arsenide pseudomorphic high‐electron‐mobility transistor (GaAs pHEMT) process. A single‐IF architecture is chosen for the RF receiver. In the digital modem, 24 square root raised cosine filters and four (255, 239) Reed‐Solomon forward error correction codecs are used in parallel. The modem can compensate for a carrier‐frequency offset of up to 50 ppm and a symbol rate offset of up to 1 ppm. Experiment results show that the system can achieve a bit error rate of 10^?5 at a signal‐to‐noise ratio of about 21.5 dB.     

Transmission of high rate ATM packets over indoor radio channels

The design and performance of a high data rate modem that transmits asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) packets over indoor radio channels is discussed. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based multicarrier modulation technique is used to mitigate intersymbol interface (ISI) caused by a multipath spread of up to 250 ns. A rate one-half channel code is used to combat fading. Computer simulation is performed to investigate the system performance for five different multipath intensity profiles. The system performance is compared using a differentially coherent scheme and a coherent scheme based on channel estimation. The effects of carrier frequency offset and some of the hardware nonlinearities are discussed. Using various channel codes, an signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 14-21 dB is required at an average bit error rate (BER) of 10^-5 to transmit a total of 155 Mb/s data over a bandwidth of 280 MHz     

FDMA-FSK star network with a tunable optical filter demultiplexer

An optical frequency-division-multiple-access (FDMA) star network is analyzed and demonstrated experimentally using two 45-Mb/s frequency-shift-keyed (FSK) laser channels at 1.5 μm. A tunable fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) filter is used to select channels and convert FSK to intensity modulation for direct detection. The analysis predicts and experiment supports a minimum channel spacing of about six times bit rate B for a single FFP. These constraints are similar to those for more complex heterodyne demultiplexing. Estimates show that a network with 1000 users, independent of bit rate, is feasible with a tandem FFP. For B=1 Gb/s per channel the network capacity would be 1 Tb/s     

Channel modeling and adaptive equalization of indoor radio channels

The authors analyze the benefits of using a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) in the indoor radio environment and examine the results of performance predictions for different channel modelings. It is found that a QPSK/DFE modem with second-order diversity can operate at a data rate that is an order of magnitude higher than a QPSK (quadratic-phase-shift-keying) modem without equalization. A given set of measured profiles of the channel impulse response is interpreted using continuous and discrete channel models. The continuous channel model is represented by the delay power spectrum and the discrete channel model by the envelope delay power spectrum and the arrival rate of the paths. The sensitivity of the performance to the shape of the delay power spectrum, and the arrival rate of the paths is analyzed     

Residue number system arithmetic assisted M-ary modulation

A residue number system based M-ary modem is proposed and its performance is evaluated over Gaussian channels. When one or two redundant moduli are employed, a signal-to-noise ratio gain of 1.2-2 dB was achieved for a 16-ary, 32-ary and 37-ary modem, respectively, at a bit error rate of 10^-6     

Serially concatenated space-time codes with iterative decoding and performance limits of block-fading channels

This work considers space-time channel coding for systems with multiple-transmit and a single-receive antenna, over space uncorrelated block-fading (quasi-static) channels. Analysis of the outage probability over such channels reveals the existence of a threshold phenomenon. The outage probability can be made arbitrary small by increasing the number of transmit antennas, only if the E/sub b//N/sub 0/ is above a threshold which depends on the coding rate. Furthermore, it is shown that when the number of transmit antennas is increased, the /spl epsi/-capacity of a block-fading Rayleigh channel tends to the Shannon capacity of an additive white Gaussian noise channel. This paper also presents space-time codes constructed as a serial concatenation of component convolutional codes separated by an interleaver. These schemes provide full transmit diversity and are suitable for iterative decoding. The rate of these schemes is less than 1 bit/s/Hz, but can be made arbitrary close to 1 bit/s/Hz by the use of Wyner-Ash codes as outer components. Comparison of these schemes with structures from literature shows that performance gains can be obtained at the expense of a small decrease in rate. Computer simulation results over block-fading Rayleigh channels show that the frame-error rate of several of these schemes is within 2-3 dB from the theoretical outage probability.     

Optimization of Linearly Equalized QAM

A QAM signal transmitted over a channel with linear distortion and additive white Gaussian noise can be linearly equalized at the receiver to eliminate intersymbol interference. If the QAM signal is power constrained and a given symbol error rate is required, we show that it is possible to maximize the bit rate of this system by optimizing the symbol rate and the number of bits/symbol. Ideal linear equalization is assumed at the receiver to overcome the distortion introduced by the channel. As an example, a Gaussian channel is chosen, and the bit rate is maximized for this channel. The QAM maximization is especially useful for channels with slowly decaying channel attenuation characteristics, e.g., the twisted-pair channel.     

Granularity in all-optical WDM networks

Granularity is a key issue in the design of an optical layer of a transport network. In fact, the choices of the number of wavelength division multiplexing channels and of the bit rate of each channel have a significant impact on the design of the network nodes and influence both the network management and the transmission performance. As a matter of fact, the selection of the channel bit rate that allows the best tradeoff to be reached is a complex task. In this paper, we analyze, for three different routing strategies (according to the fact that wavelength conversion is achieved in any node for all the channels, or just partially for some channels, or even not at all, respectively), the impact of transmission performance taking into consideration two technologies that allow wavelength conversion to be accomplished, and considering three relevant transmission hierarchies: 622 Mb/s, 2.5 Gb/s, and 10 Gb/s. The analysis highlights that the transmission performance has to be investigated to find the best choices     

A Performance Study of Delta Modulation Systems for Voiceband Data Signals

In this paper the performance of delta modulation (DM) systems have been studied by computer simulation when the input signal to the DM coder is a voiceband data signal. First, the parameter values of three DM systems, linear DM (LDM), constant factor DM (CFDM), and continuously variable slope DM (CVSD) has been optimized for 4800 bits/s differential phase shift keying (DPSK) signal. Then, the performance of the three DM systems have been studied for ideal and noisy channels. It has been found that the peak signal-to-quantization-noise ratio (SQNR) is nearly the same regardless of coding scheme used, but CFDM yields the widest dynamic range. In a noisy channel, however, CFDM is very sensitive to channel bit errors. Considering the overall performance, CVSD appears to be the best among the three DM systems studied. Also, the performances of DM's have been compared with those of PCM and DPCM systems. In addition, we have studied the effect of DM quantization noise on modem bit error rate by the Monte Carlo simulation method. It is possible to transmit a 4800 bits/s DPSK signal at a bit error rate below 10^-5by CVSD with the rate of 32 kbits/s.     

Performance of multi-bit differential SQAM in mobile radio channel

A new multi-bit DSQAM (differential superposed quadrature amplitude modulation) for use in bandwidth and power limited digital mobile radio is proposed. A DSQAM signal is generated by a differentially encoded SQAM processor, and is detected by a multi-bit differential receiver combined with a soft decision Viterbi decoder. The simulated BER result shows that, in an AWGN channel, a 5 bit DSQAM modem achieves a 7.2 dB E_b/N₀ improvement over a conventional 1 bit differential receiver. In Rician fading channels, DSQAM demonstrates a high degree of robustness suffering only a minor loss of signal     

An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks

A Load and Interference aware Resource Allocation strategy (LIRA) is proposed for multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), combining multiple mechanisms that efficiently optimise radio resources (rate, power and channel) to guarantee max–min fair capacity to every aggregating Mesh Access Point (MAP). LIRA is composed of a rate adaptation and power control mechanism, sensitive to the fat-tree traffic specificities of WMNs, using the highest bit rates at MAP gateways and using, for the ramified links, the minimum ones that satisfy their capacity needs. This enables to efficiently reduce the transmitted power and interference, advantageous for channel reutilisation. LIRA also integrates a load and interference aware channel assignment mechanism, allowing the simultaneous operation of all links without interference. When this is not achievable, two auxiliary mechanisms of channel sharing and interference-free channel reuse can be sub-sequentially used, reducing the capacity of certain MAPs to guarantee fairness to all nodes. LIRA’s gateway flow-control mechanism guarantees that all MAPs respect the allocated capacity, guaranteeing that every MAP is able to operate at its max–min fair capacity. The performance of LIRA is evaluated through simulation, considering IEEE 802.11a. For a classical hexagonal deployment of 19 MAPs with an Internet gateway, it is shown how with only 5 channels LIRA guarantees to every MAP a max–min fair capacity of 3.2 Mbit/s, without packet loss, and delay below 6 ms. It guarantees a max–min fair throughput to every MAP, having a capacity usage efficiency of 66.7 %, an energy efficiency of 26.5 Mbit/J and spectrum efficiency of 0.58 bit/s/Hz. For a more challenging scenario with 27 MAPs and 4 gateways, it is shown how LIRA uses its mechanisms in heterogeneous conditions to also guarantee max–min fair throughput to every MAP, between 5 and 11 Mbit/s, without packet loss, and a delay below 12 ms. Any system improvement will enable to reach higher WMN performance levels using the proposed strategy.     

Transmission of 622 Mbit/s spectrum-sliced WDM channel over 60 kmof nondispersion-shifted fibre at 1550 nm

The transmission of a spectrum-sliced WDM channel at 622 Mbit/s over 60 km of nondispersion-shifted fibre using an optical bandwidth of only 0.23 nm is reported. This is the highest single channel bit rate-length product (40 Gbit/s·km) and smallest channel bandwidth reported to date for spectrum-sliced WDM systems. The bit error rate performance is theoretically predicted and experimentally confirmed and limits on the bit rate-length products of spectrum-sliced WDM channels using nondispersion-shifted fibre in the 1550 nm window are given     

16‐QAM OFDM‐Based W‐Band Polarization‐Division Duplex Communication System with Multi‐gigabit Performance

This paper presents a novel 90 GHz band 16‐quadrature amplitude modulation (16‐QAM) orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. The system can deliver 6 Gbps through six channels with a bandwidth of 3 GHz. Each channel occupies 500 MHz and delivers 1 Gbps using 16‐QAM OFDM. To implement the system, a low‐noise amplifier and an RF up/down conversion fourth‐harmonically pumped mixer are implemented using a 0.1‐μm gallium arsenide pseudomorphic high‐electron‐mobility transistor process. A polarization‐division duplex architecture is used for full‐duplex communication. In a digital modem, OFDM with 256‐point fast Fourier transform and (255, 239) Reed‐Solomon forward error correction codecs are used. The modem can compensate for a carrier‐frequency offset of up to 50 ppm and a symbol rate offset of up to 1 ppm. Experiment results show that the system can achieve a bit error rate of 10^–5 at a signal‐to‐noise ratio of about 19.8 dB.     

A high-capacity broadband packet switch architecture based on a multilink approach

Broadband packet networks based on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) are expected to provide a wide range of services, including motion video, voice, data and image. When these networks become prevalent, some applications such as motion video and high-speed LAN interconnections will place a very large bit rate requirement on the channels. Currently, the physical layer supported by the synchronous optical network (SONET) allows the transmission of up to 2.4 Gbit/s with the OC-48 optical interface. However, it is not feasible for the electronic packet switch to route packets at this rate on a single link. In this paper we present a design of a broadband packet switch that uses multiple links in parallel to realize a high-speed channel. This implementation permits the switch to operate at the lower link rate, which can be at 150 Mbit/s, while having the ability to support a virtual circuit at a higher rate (up to 2.4 Gbit/s). The main contribution of the design is that packet sequence on a channel is still maintained even though packets are allowed to use any of the links belonging to the same channel. Besides allowing the switch to function at a slower rate than the transmission channel rate, the implementation of the multilinks benefits from statistical multiplexing gain. Analytical results show the performance advantages of multilink design with respect to delay, throughput and packet loss probability.     

`Nearly instantaneous? digital compandor for transmitting six sound-programme signals in a 2.048 Mbit/s multiplex

A `near-instantaneous? digital compandor for the transmission of high-quality sound signals is described that reduces the bit rate from 416 kbit/s to about 322 kbit/s per channel without noticeable impairment of the sound quality. Hence six audio channels can be multiplexed to form a 2.048 Mbit/s stream including frame synchronisation and transmission error-protection facilities.     

FDM-FSK star network with a tunable optical filter demultiplexer

An optical frequency-division-multiplexed star network is analysed and demonstrated experimentally using two 45Mbit/s frequency-shift-keyed laser channels at 1.5 ?m. A tunable fibre Fabry?Perot filter is used as demultiplexer. The analysis predicts and experiment supports a minimum channel spacing of about six times bit rate B for a single FFP and 3B for a tandem FFP.     

Adaptive Mobile Access Protocol (AMAP) for the Message Service of a Land Mobile Satellite Experiment (MSAT-X)

This paper describes a feasibility study of the adaptive mobile access protocol (AMAP) for MSAT-X, a proposed experimental mobile satellite communication network. The mobiles are dispersed over a wide geographical area and the channel data rate is limited due to the size and cost limitations of mobile antennas. AMAP is a reservation based multiple-access scheme. The available bandwidth is divided into subchannels, which are divided into reservation and message channels. The ALOHA multiple-access scheme is employed in the reservation channels, while the message channels are demand assigned. AMAP adaptively reallocates the reservation and message channels to optimize system performance. It has been shown that if messages are generated at a rate of one message per hour, AMAP can support approximately 2000 active users per 2400 bit/s channel with an average delay of 1.4 s.     

Adaptive mobile access protocol (AMAP) for the message service of a land mobile satellite experiment (MSAT-X)

This paper describes a feasibility study of the adaptive mobile access protocol (AMAP) for MSAT-X, a proposed experimental mobile satellite communication network. The mobiles are dispersed over a wide geographical area and the channel data rate is limited due to the size and cost limitations of mobile antennas. AMAP is a reservation based multiple-access scheme. The available bandwidth is divided into subchannels, which are divided into reservation and message channels. The ALOHA multiple-access scheme is employed in the reservation channels, while the message channels are demand assigned. AMAP adaptively reallocates the reservation and message channels to optimize system performance. It has been shown that if messages are generated at a rate of one message per hour, AMAP can support approximately 2000 active users per 2400 bit/s channel with an average delay of 1.4 s.