一种协同分集方案的误码性能分析

协同分集(cooperative diversity)技术通过为网络中某些单天线用户寻找若干个用户作为"伙伴",并共享彼此天线,形成虚拟的多天线阵列,来实现多天线分集,结合分布式空时分组编码(Distributed Space Time Block Code,DSTBC),可以有效地提高系统性能.多载波码分多址(Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access,MC-CDMA)技术将数据调制到各个子载波上发送,可以有效地抵抗信道频率选择性衰落的影响.本文提出了无线网络中频率选择性衰落信道环境下的一种基于分布式空时分组码和MC-CDMA的协同发射分集方案,建立了协同用户间的误码表示模型,基于该模型推导了协同分集方案误码性能的理论表达式,并分析了协同用户间的平均解码差错概率对系统方案误码性能的影响,同时给出了仿真结果.结果表明,DSTBC-MC-CDMA相对于未协同的MC-CDMA系统获得了明显的性能增益,同时仿真也较好地验证了理论结果.     

协同分集技术及其在无线通信中的应用

协同分集是无线网络中的一种新型的分集技术,它能够提高吞吐量、减小发送功率和对抗衰落。由于它具有分布式特点,可以使网络变得相当简单,并可以使单天线系统具有多天线的优点,因此受到广泛关注。文章介绍了不同的协同分集的实现方法,对其在无线通信中使用的可能性进行了分析,指出目前存在的问题和面临的技术挑战。     

无线通信中的协同分集技术

协同分集是无线网络中的一种新型分集技术，它能够提高吞吐量、减小发送功率并对抗衰落。由于它具有分布式特点，可以使网络变得相当简单，并可以使单天线系统具有多天线的优点，因此受到广泛关注。本文主要介绍了不同的协同分集的实现方法，并对其在无线通信中使用的可能性进行分析，指出目前存在的问题和面临的技术挑战。     

分布式天线系统MIMO信道容量分析

结合了分布式天线系统和MIMO信道特点的分布式MIMO系统可以改善覆盖特性,提高系统容量。提出了包含路径损耗、快衰落和阴影衰落的两层分集分布式MIMO系统。对MIMO信道容量的分析表明,分布式MIMO系统具有良好的信道容量均匀覆盖特性。与传统集中式天线系统相比,分布式MIMO系统可以获得更好的小区平均信道容量。对下行信道容量的数值分析表明,由于“充水”方式功率分配可以充分利用MIMO信道信息,此时的分布式MIMO系统可以比等功率分配条件下的分布式天线系统多获得0.25bit/(s·Hz)每发送天线的信道容量增量。     

从功率分配的角度分析三种方案的MIMO信道容量

在移动通信中,空间分集是一种重要的分集方式,MIMO(多入多出)技术作为空间分集的应用得到广泛的关注.本文从功率分配的角度研究了预编码法、等功率分配法和波束成形法这三种方案所获得的MIMO信道容量的本质.在不同的发送天线和接收天线结构下对三种方案的遍历容量和中断容量进行了仿真,并得出结论:预编码法通过在发送端利用信道信...     

基于网络编码的无线网络分布式协作通信机制

 本文提出了一种基于无线网络编码的协作通信机制NCCC.无线网络编码能够在取得合作分集的性能增益的同时,降低网络中断概率.分布式中继节点选择算法是NCCC机制的核心,该算法根据即时信道状态,选择执行网络编码操作的最优中继节点.理论和仿真结果证明, NCCC机制可以提高无线网络双向多信源多信宿传输的性能和鲁棒性.     

空时编码协作中的中继选择与功率分配联合方案

提出了一种空时编码协作中的中继选择与功率分配联合方案,称为DD(Destination Decision)方案.该方案由目的终端根据协作终端的信道状态信息进行中继选择与功率分配,并决定各中继发送STBC编码矩阵的哪一列,从而避免了通过中继之间的信息交互进行中继选择的冲突.理论分析和仿真结果表明,此方案在保证分集阶数和误码率性能的同时,提高了系统容量.     

OFDM闭环发射分集结合自适应功率分配

将自适应功率分配技术应用于多发送多接收天线正交频分复用(MIMO-OFDM)系统,如何在载波和天线间分配能量是个关键问题。该文提出:对不同发射天线的各个子载波采用闭环发射分集方案;接着再进行载波间的功率分配,该算法的目标是使误码率最小。文中用数学方法证明了此方案是使总误码率最小的最佳方案。仿真结果显示:在误码率取0.1%时,对于两根发射天线一根接收天线4个子载波的OFDM系统,与传统的将开环发射分集与OFDM相结合的算法相比,此算法能带来6.5dB的增益。     

一种基于分布式空时码的协作MIMO分集复用折衷新方案

协作MIMO通过多个单天线节点的相互协作构造多发射天线,以此形成一种虚拟MIMO多天线阵列获得空间分集增益。考虑到协作MIMO特点,天线间采用分布式空时编码进行编码协作。文章研究了协作MIMO中基于分布式空时码(DSTC)的分集复用折衷(DMT)新方案,该方案通过推导两种DSTC的中断概率与分集增益表达式,结合两类DSTC的DMT策略,根据改变复用增益阈值自适应获得最佳DMT与中断性能。数值仿真表明,所提的DMT策略可以逼近协作MIMO的DMT上限,协作节点采用该策略的中断性能仅次于上限的中断性能。在多节点构成协作MIMO网络分布式空时编码协作中,提出的DMT新方案可使系统高效地获得协作分集增益与中断性能。     

基于协方差反馈的多天线系统优化发送研究

为了克服多天线信道相关性的影响，提出一种新的自适应发送方案。应用空时分组码特征波束成型技术和格形编码调制（TCM）来获得分集增益和编码增益。针对采用和不采用交织器两种情况，基于成对差错概率（PEP）准则。分析了系统的统计性能，分别得到了使系统编码增益和分集增益最大化的TCM设计准则。根据注水法则和Lagrange乘子法求得波束间功率分配算法最优解。此外，码距作为优化功率加载算法中的权重因子，有效降低了获取波束成形分集的信噪比门限。分析和实验结果表明此方案复杂度低。能有效克服相关衰落。     

Cooperative multicast for maximum network lifetime

We consider cooperative data multicast in a wireless network with the objective to maximize the network lifetime. We present the maximum lifetime accumulative broadcast (MLAB) algorithm that specifies the nodes' order of transmission and transmit power levels. We prove that the solution found by MLAB is optimal but not necessarily unique. The power levels found by the algorithm ensure that the lifetimes of the active relays are the same, causing them to fail simultaneously. For the same battery levels at all the nodes, the optimum transmit powers become the same. The simplicity of the solution is made possible by allowing the nodes that are out of the transmission range of a transmitter to collect the energy of unreliably received overheard signals. As a message is forwarded through the network, nodes will have multiple opportunities to reliably receive the message by collecting energy during each retransmission. We refer to this cooperative strategy as accumulative multicast. Cooperative multicast not only increases the multicast energy-efficiency by allowing for more energy radiated in the network to be collected, but also facilitates load balancing by relaxing the constraint that a relay has to transmit with power sufficient to reach its most disadvantaged child. When the message is to be delivered to all network nodes this cooperative strategy becomes accumulative broadcast (Maric and Yates, 2002). Simulation results demonstrate that cooperative broadcast significantly increased network lifetime compared with conventional broadcast. We also present the distributed MLAB algorithm for accumulative broadcast that determines the transmit power levels locally at the nodes.     

Mitigation of Antenna Displacement with Array Antenna for Data Transmission in Wireless Power Transfer System

Magnetic resonance wireless power transfer is expected to be one of the prevalent schemes because of its high efficiency and long transmission range. However, in this scheme, there is a problem that the characteristics of a transmission channel changes in according with the distance between coil antennas. This paper investigates the performance of data transmission with an array antenna in a wireless power transfer system. In the assumed system, the same antennas for wireless power transfer are used for data transmission. The assumed system uses multiple transmit antennas and beamforming is realized by shifting the phases of signals in a transmitter. Numerical results obtained through computer simulation show that the proposed scheme can mitigate the dependently of a bit error rate (BER) to the distance between the antenna coils. The variation of the performance is suppressed within 1–3 dB at the BER of \(10^{-5}\) in the case of two transmit antennas. In addition, the system with two transmit antennas achieves 2 dB or more improvement in term of the BER performance than that with a single antenna at specific antenna distances.     

无线移动通信中的协作分集技术

介绍了一种可用于蜂窝网等多种无线网络的新型的协作分集技术,在多用户的环境中,它允许具有单天线的移动终端共享彼此的天线,形成虚拟的多发射天线,从而得到分集增益.从系统模型、系统性能、协作方式等方面介绍了这项技术,并分析了存在的问题.     

Detection Probability Estimation of Directional Antennas and Omni-Directional Antennas

This paper studies the problem of detection of directional antennas and omni-directional antennas by hostile detection systems. We present a model for calculating the probability of detecting a transmitter at arbitrary location around the transmitter. Our study shows that, if a directional antenna employs the same transmit power as an omni-directional antenna, the directional antenna can not decrease the probability of being detected. In some scenarios, a directional antenna is more likely to be detected than an omni-directional antenna. However, if a directional antenna provides the same Effective Isotropic Radiated Power in the direction of the receiver as an omni-directional antenna, the transmit power needed by a directional antenna to send data is much less than that of an omni-directional antenna. In this scenario, the probability of detecting a directional antenna is reduced by over 90%. This reveals that directional antennas can be used to build a secure path to send data at low probability of being detected by adversaries.     

Performance Analysis of OSTBC Transmission in Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Relay Networks

A performance analysis is presented for amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative relay networks employing transmit antenna diversity with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs), where multiple antennas are equipped at the transmitter. We develop a symbol-error-rate (SER) and outage performance analysis for OSTBC transmissions with and without cooperative diversity over flat Rayleigh fading channels. We first derive exact probability density functions (pdf's) and cumulative distribution functions (cdf's) for the system SNR without direct transmission with an arbitrary number of transmit antennas and then present the exact closed-form SER and outage probability expressions. Next, we derive the moment-generating function (MGF) for the overall system SNR with direct transmission and present the exact SER and outage probability with joint transmit antenna diversity and cooperative diversity. The theoretical analysis is validated by simulations, which indicate an exact match between them. The results also show how the transmit antenna diversity and the cooperative diversity affect the overall system performance.      

基于叠加调制策略的改进型协作分集方案

在无线传感器网络(WSN)中,协作分集是一种至关重要的技术。采用该技术,可利用WSN中冗余节点多的特性,用户间共享彼此的天线;从而,不仅可获得空间分集增益,而且可提高系统的吞吐量和抗衰落特性。但是,WSN中节点间如何进行协作,尤其是接收端如何译码以达到更高效的数据传输,仍然是一个值得进一步研究的问题。本文在传统传输方案的基础上引入了叠加调制策略。利用该策略,首先从节点间的链路状态和能量匹配的角度设计新型的符号映射算法,然后从信噪比和误码率方面考虑接收端的译码问题。与无协作方式、译码转发协作方式相比,这一优化算法不仅解决了传统协作方式的时隙利用率只有直通方式二分之一的问题,而且减少了误码率。此外,文中还证实了新算法可比传统传输方式最多获得3dB的信噪比增益。仿真结果表明,良好的链路状态在合适能量匹配参数时不仅可以同时传输自己和伙伴的数据,而且可以权衡系统的性能。      

Capacity of multiple-antenna systems with both receiver and transmitter channel state information

The capacity of multiple-antenna systems operating in Rayleigh flat fading is considered under the assumptions that channel state information (CSI) is available at both transmitter and receiver, and that the transmitter is subjected to an average power constraint. First, the capacity of such systems is derived for the special case of multiple transmit antennas and a single receive antenna. The optimal power-allocation scheme for such a system is shown to be a water-filling algorithm, and the corresponding capacity is seen to be the same as that of a system having multiple receive antennas (with a single transmitter antenna) whose outputs are combined via maximal ratio combining. A suboptimal adaptive transmission technique that transmits only over the antenna having the best channel is also proposed for this special case. It is shown that the capacity of such a system under the proposed suboptimal adaptive transmission scheme is the same as the capacity of a system having multiple receiver antennas (with a single transmitter antenna) combined via selection combining. Next, the capacity of a general system of multiple transmitter and receiver antennas is derived together with an equation that determines the cutoff value for such a system. The optimal power allocation scheme for such a multiple-antenna system is given by a matrix water-filling algorithm. In order to eliminate the need for cumbersome numerical techniques in solving the cutoff equation, approximate expressions for the cutoff transmission value are also provided. It is shown that, compared to the case in which there is only receiver CSI, large capacity gains are available with optimal power and rate adaptation schemes. The increased capacity is shown to come at the price of channel outage, and bounds are derived for this outage probability.     

Performance Analysis of Decode-and-Forward Scheme with Relay Ordering for Secondary Spectrum Access

The communication efficiency of primary networks in cognitive radio depends on wireless environments, such as obstacles (e.g. buildings), distances between transmitter and receiver, and limited transmit power. A cooperative model between primary and secondary networks has the potential to overcome these problems. In this paper, we propose and analyze the performance of a decode-and-forward scheme with relay ordering for secondary spectrum access. In this scheme, a primary transmitter communicates with a primary receiver with the help of two secondary transmitters. Each secondary transmitter relays primary signals from the primary transmitter to primary receiver, and follows an optimal order to ensure the best communication capacity of the primary network and to find opportunities to transmit its own signals. The performance of primary and secondary networks is evaluated by theoretical analysis in terms of outage probability. Monte Carlo simulations are presented to verify the theoretical analysis and to compare the performance of the proposed protocol with that of a direct transmission protocol and a decode-and-forward protocol with a relay selection scheme.     

Weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes

In existing grouped multilevel space-time trellis codes (GMLSTTCs), the groups of transmit antennas are predefined, and the transmit power is equally distributed across all transmit antennas. When the channel parameters are perfectly known at the transmitter, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming scheme can achieve the better performance by optimum grouping of transmit antennas and properly weighting transmitted signals based on the available channel information. In this paper, we present a new code designed by combining GMLSTTCs, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming using the channel state information at transmitter (CSIT), henceforth referred to as weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes (WAGMLSTTCs). The CSIT is used to adaptively group the transmitting antennas and provide a beamforming scheme by allocating the different powers to the transmit antennas. Simulation results show that WAGMLSTTCs provide improvement in error performance of 2.6 dB over GMLSTTCs.     

移动通信网络中的协作通信

为了提高移动通信系统的性能,通常需要在发射端进行分集。而移动通信中的发射分集一般需要在发射端使用多根天线,但许多无线设备因受尺寸或硬件复杂度的限制,一般只有单根天线。为此,专家提出了一种新的解决方法——协作通信。该方法使用带有一根天线的移动台,在多用户环境中可以共享其他移动用户的天线,这样可产生多根虚拟发射天线,进而得到相应的分集增益,改善移动通信系统的性能。