Cognitive radio networks for green wireless communications: an overview

As power consumption results in greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs for operators, analyzing power consumption in wireless networks and portable devices is of crutial importance. Due to environmental effects resulted from energy generation and exploitation as well as the cost of surging energy, energy-aware wireless systems attract unprecedented attention. Cognitive Radio (CR) is one of the optimal solutions that allows for energy savings on both the networks and devices. Thus, cognitive radio contributes to increase spectral and energy efficiency as well as reduction in power consumption. In addition, energy consumption of the CR technologies as intelligent technology should be considered to realize the green networks objective. In this article, we look into energy efficiency of the cognitive wireless network paradigms. Moreover, energy efficiency analysis and modelling in these systems are specifically focused on achieving green communications objectives. However, CRs by altering all elements of wireless data communications are considered in this paper, and the energy-efficient operation and energy efficiency enabler perspectives of CRs are also analyzed.

     

Cognitive functionality in next generation wireless networks: standardization efforts [cognitive radio communications]

This article discusses recent standardization efforts related to cognitive radio focusing on the work of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 41, formerly known as IEEE 1900. Some important tasks to be performed by the CR standardization community also are presented. These tasks will expedite the introduction of CR devices to the market while promoting a fair use of scarce radio resources. Some avenues for using the currently available standards for rapid deployment of CR devices, such as ISO standards, also are discussed.     

Future trends in radio resource management for wireless communications

Recent growth in wirelessly connected devices shows no signs of slowing, and indeed with new services and new technologies waiting in the wings, usage of wireless terminals looks set to continue increasing rapidly. However, radio spectrum is finite and in a wirelessly connected future, new approaches to ensuring connectivity and quality of service are going to be needed. Radio resource management has an important part to play in ensuring that the very best is obtained from the finite resources available for radio communications in the future. This paper considers the characteristics of current end emerging wireless networks, and aspects of radio resource management that may offer the performance gains needed to ensure end-to-end quality of service is met.     

Cognitive radio communications and networks [guest editorial]

The seven articles focus on the feature topic of cognitive radio communications and networks. The articles are summarized here.     

ROF在无线宽带移动通信中的应用

文章从光载无线通信(ROF)的基本原理出发,提出了ROF在未来无线宽带移动通信中的多种应用方式,包括ROF技术在多体制无线接入重载中的应用以及ROF在无线移动网络中实现基站与光网络节点设备的互联等.总结了ROF的技术优势,提出了有待解决的关键技术问题.     

Performance limitations of TDD wireless personal communications with asynchronous radio ports

A wireless personal communications system, based on a TDMA architecture, using asynchronous ports (radio base stations) and the TDD (time division duplexing) method is evaluated using computer simulations. It is shown that, without port synchronisation TDD methods cannot achieve the uplink quality obtainable by the FDD (frequency division duplexing) method.<>     

Measurements and models of radio frequency impulsive noise forindoor wireless communications

The authors present the results of average and impulsive noise measurements inside several office buildings and retail stores. The noise measurement system operated at 918 MHz, 2.44 GHz, and 4 GHz with a nominal 40-MHz, 3-dB RF bandwidth. Omnidirectional and directional antennas were used to investigate the characteristics and sources of RF noise in indoor channels. Statistical analyses of the measurements are presented in the form of peak amplitude probability distributions, pulse duration distributions, and interarrival time distributions. Simple first-order mathematical models for these statistical characterizations are also presented. These analyses indicate that photocopiers, printers (both line printers and cash register receipt printers), elevators, and microwave ovens are significant sources of impulse noise in office and retail environments     

Efficient radio resource management for wireless multimedia communications: a multidimensional QoS-based packet scheduler

Future wireless multimedia systems will support a variety of services with diverse range of capabilities and bit rates. For these systems, it is highly desired for real-time conversational and non-real-time services to efficiently share the available channels and bandwidth in an optimized way. The partitioned resource shaping with either fixed or a slow changing dynamic, proposed for conventional packet scheduling techniques, proves difficult and inefficient under fast-changing dynamics of radio channel and traffic. By taking into account almost all the aspects (dimensions) of quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning, the proposed unified fast dynamic multidimensional QoS-based packet scheduler (MQPS) in this paper elegantly and efficiently encapsulates features of many possible packet scheduling strategies. MQPS applies an optimization and tuning mechanism to packet scheduling weights to adopt the most appropriate packet scheduling and channel assignment strategy in response to the varying traffic and radio channel conditions. As an example, the technique is applied to a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system. It is shown that MQPS provides significantly better performance than existing techniques by satisfying all the requirements of a successful QoS provisioning to maximum possible level simultaneously.     

On the radio capacity of TDMA and CDMA for broadband wireless packet communications

Studies of the capacity of cellular systems, stated in terms of the admissible number of remote users, have generally been limited to voice telephony. We address the problem of comparing the interference-limited performance of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) and time-division multiple-access (TDMA) systems in a packet-switched environment. The objective is to determine whether the capacity advantages claimed for circuit-switched CDMA still apply in a packet-switched environment, where the natural time diversity of bursty transmission may be a significant factor. Under a set of specific assumptions about the wireless environment (including path loss, shadow fading, multipath delay spread, cochannel interference, power control, and coding), we evaluate the number of users that can be admitted to the system while maintaining some desired quality-of-service (QoS) level. Four different classes of users with different characteristics and requirements are considered. The system capacity is found to depend significantly on the QoS objectives, which might be stated in terms of availability of some specified signal-to-interference level, packet-loss rate, or mean tolerable delay. The main finding is that strict requirements imposed on the radio access level tend to favor CDMA, whereas if some form of packet recovery is allowed at the higher layers (implying a relaxed set of requirements on the radio interface), then a somewhat higher capacity may be achieved by TDMA.     

Guest editorial: optical wireless communications

Over the last two decades, wireless communications has gained enormous popularity, offering attractive options for many personal and organizational communication needs due to major intrinsic characteristics such as flexibility, cost effectiveness, and mobility.     

Universal portable radio communications

In our highly mobile society, the provision of voice and data communications to people away from their wireline telephones has become a major communications frontier. Some emerging radio systems, e.g., cellular mobile radio, cordless telephone, and radio paging, have begun to penetrate this frontier. However, each of these approaches only partially satisfies portable communication needs. That is, the approaches do not provide overall portable communication service. Some of the problems involved and the technologies and system configurations needed for an advanced radio communications system are discussed. The goal for the system is to provide high quality ubiquitous service to low power portable radiotelephones and data terminals. Frequency reuse radio system configurations applicable to residential and large building environments will be described along with multipath and other 800 MHz radio propagation limitations. The system would use fixed radio ports attached to the telephone network and spaced about 2000 ft in residential areas. The residential ports would have antenna heights of less than 30 ft. The horizontal spacing of ports within large buildings would be 200 ft or more. In service areas, more than 99 percent radio link availability would be provided for 5 mW portable transmitters.     

Cognitive radio as a mechanism to manage front-end linearity and dynamic range - [Topics in radio communications]

Most of the consideration of the benefits and applicability of dynamic spectrum access has been focused on opportunities associated with spectrum availability. This article describes the use of DSA to resolve challenges in achieving wireless and cognitive radio operation in dense or energetic spectrum. It also demonstrates that the use of DSA can significantly reduce requirements for linearity and dynamic range in the radio front-end, and reduce the intermodulation induced noise floor through integration of DSA with the selection of front-end filter settings. This approach could enable DSA and cognitive radios to be more affordable than conventional radios, and addresses spectrum issues that are not practically manageable through manual approaches.     

Turbo-MIMO for wireless communications

This article reviews an important class of MIMO wireless communications, known collectively as turbo-MIMO systems. A distinctive property of turbo-MIMO wireless communication systems is that they can attain a channel capacity close to the Shannon limit and do so in a computationally manageable manner. The article focuses attention on a subclass of turbo-MIMO systems that use space-time coding based on bit-inter-leaved coded modulation. Different computationally manageable decoding (detection) strategies are briefly discussed. The article also includes computer experiments that are intended to improve the understanding of specific issues involved in the design of turbo-MIMO systems.     

Bandwidth-efficient wireless multimedia communications

Commencing with a brief history of mobile communications and the portrayal of the basic concept of wireless multimedia communications, the implications of Shannon's theorems regarding joint source and channel coding for wireless communications are addressed. Following a brief introduction to speech, video, and graphical source coding as well as the cellular concept, a rudimentary overview of flexible, reconfigurable, mobile radio schemes is provided. We then summarize the fundamental concepts of modulation, introduce an adaptive modem scheme, and argue that third-generation transceivers might become adaptively reconfigurable under network control in order to meet backward compatibility requirements with existing systems and to achieve best compromise among a range of conflicting system requirements, complexity and power consumption, robustness against channel errors, etc     

Broadband MIMO-OFDM wireless communications

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a popular method for high data rate wireless transmission. OFDM may be combined with antenna arrays at the transmitter and receiver to increase the diversity gain and/or to enhance the system capacity on time-varying and frequency-selective channels, resulting in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. The paper explores various physical layer research challenges in MIMO-OFDM system design, including physical channel measurements and modeling, analog beam forming techniques using adaptive antenna arrays, space-time techniques for MIMO-OFDM, error control coding techniques, OFDM preamble and packet design, and signal processing algorithms used to perform time and frequency synchronization, channel estimation, and channel tracking in MIMO-OFDM systems. Finally, the paper considers a software radio implementation of MIMO-OFDM.