Joint detection with coherent receiver antenna diversity in CDMAmobile radio systems

In code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile radio systems, both intersymbol interference and multiple access interference arise which can be combated by using either elaborate optimum or favorable suboptimum joint detection (JD) techniques. Furthermore, the time variation of the radio channels leads to degradations of the receiver performance. These degradations can be reduced by applying diversity techniques. Using coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) is especially attractive because only the signal processing at the receiver must be modified. In the present paper, the application of CRAD to the more critical uplink of CDMA mobile radio systems with suboptimum JD techniques is investigated for maximal-ratio combining. The authors study six different suboptimum JD techniques based on decorrelating matched filtering, Gauss-Markov estimation, and minimum mean square error estimation with and without decision feedback. These six suboptimum JD techniques which are well-known for single antenna receivers are extended for the application to CRAD. A main concern of the paper is the determining of the SNR performance of the presented JD techniques for CRAD and the achievable average uncoded bit error probabilities for the transmission over rural area, typical urban and bad urban mobile radio channels are determined     

Simulation of the uplink of JD-CDMA mobile radio systems with coherent receiver antenna diversity

Due to time variant multipath propagation, both intersymbol interference and multiple access interference occur at CDMA receivers. These degrading effects can be combatted by joint detection (JD) techniques. In order to reduce the performance impairments resulting from time variance, coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) can be used. In the present paper, a system model of CDMA mobile radio systems using various JD techniques in combination with CRAD shall be considered. This system model is an evolution of the pan-European GSM and takes important real world aspects such as imperfect channel estimation, nonlinear amplification and D/A and A/D conversion into account. The viability of JD with CRAD shall be demonstrated by bit error rate simulations of this system model. It is shown that by using JD with two receiver antennas in bad urban areas,E _b/N₀ < 8 dB per antenna is sufficient for a bit error rate of 10^–2, andE _b/N₀ < 11 dB per antenna is required for a bit error rate of 10^–3.List of Abbreviations AWGN Additive white Gaussian noise - A/D Analog-to-digital - BU Bad urban - CDMA Code division multiple access - COST European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research - CRAD Coherent receiver antenna diversity - cdf Cumulative distribution function - DMF Decorrelating matched filter - DMF-BDFE Decorrelating matched filter block decision feedback equalizer - D/A Digital-to-analog - EGC Equal-gain combining - FDMA Frequency division multiple access - GMSK Gaussian minimum shift keying - GSM Global System for Mobile Communications - ISI Intersymbol interference - JD Joint detection - JDC Japanese Digital Cellular - JD-CDMA Joint detection code division multiple access - MA Multiple access - MAI Multiple access interference - MMSE-BLE Minimum mean square error block linear equalizer - MMSE-BDFE Minimum mean square error block decision feedback equalizer - MRC Maximal-ratio combining - RA Rural area - SC Selection combining - SNR Signal-to-noise ratio - TDMA Time division multiple access - TU Typical urban - WSSUS Wide sense stationary uncorrelated scattering - ZF-BLE Zero forcing block linear equalizer - ZF-BDFE Zero forcing block decision feedback equalizer     

On Multicarrier Detection and Coherent CDMA Mobile Receiver Radio Systems with Joint Antenna Diversity

The combination of code division multiple access(CDMA) and multicarrier (MC) transmission techniques,termed MC-CDMA, is considered a promising alternative toconventional DS (direct sequence)-CDMA. For this reason, recent research activities haveconcentrated on the application of MC-CDMA to mobileradio systems. In this paper an MC-CDMA concept which iswell suited for mobile radio applications is described. The described MC-CDMA concept overcomesdisadvantages of previously proposed concepts. InMC-CDMA mobile radio systems, signal reception isimpaired by time-varying multipath propagation. Theimpairments can be reduced by applying diversitytechniques. Coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD)is especially attractive because only the signalprocessing at the receivers must be modified. In thiscommunication, the application of CRAD in combination withjoint detection (JD) techniques to the more criticaluplink of MC-CDMA mobile radio systems is investigated.It is explained that the deployment of JD techniques for CRAD is an effective countermeasure againstthe influence of the mobile radio channel on the systemperformance. Four JD techniques for CRAD which areapplicable to MC-CDMA are presented. Their performances are studied in bad urban, typical urban, andtypical macrocellular environments. It is shown thatMC-CDMA allows a favorable performance compared to otherCDMA concepts.     

Results on turbo-codes for speech transmission in a joint detectionCDMA mobile radio system with coherent receiver antenna diversity

Turbo-codes which are applicable to speech transmission in digital mobile radio systems are treated. Three turbo-codes of different complexity are presented. The proposed turbo-codes are suitable for the application to speech transmission in the joint detection code-division multiple access (JD-CDMA) mobile radio system with coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) which are described concisely. The performance of the designed turbo-codes in terms of bit and frame error rates are shown in the case of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, flat Rayleigh fading channels, and in the uplink of the aforementioned JD-CDMA mobile radio system     

Analysis of a direct-sequence spread-spectrum cellular radio system

The uplink and downlink performance of a digital cellular radio system that uses direct sequence code division multiple access is evaluated. Approximate expressions are derived for the area averaged bit error probability while accounting for the effects of path loss, log-normal shadowing, multipath-fading, multiple-access interference, and background noise. Three differentially coherent receivers are considered: a multipath rejection receiver, a RAKE receiver with predetection selective diversity combining, and a RAKE receiver with postdetection equal gain combining. The RAKE receivers are shown to improve the performance significantly, except when the channel consists of a single faded path. Error correction coding is also shown to substantially improve the performance, except for slowly fading channels     

Multiuser MIMO receivers for space frequency block coded SC‐FDMA systems

Single carrier‐frequency division multiple access (SC‐FDMA) has been adopted as the uplink transmission standard in fourth generation cellular network to enable the power efficiency transmission in mobile station. Because multiuser MIMO (MU‐MIMO) is a promising technology to fully exploit the channel capacity in mobile radio network, this paper investigates the uplink transmission of SC‐FDMA systems with orthogonal space frequency block codes (SFBC). Two linear MU‐MIMO receivers, orthogonal SFBC (OSFBC) and minimum mean square error (MMSE), are derived for the scenarios with limited number of users or adequate receive antennas at base station. In order to effectively eliminate the multiple access interference (MAI) and fully exploit the capacity of MU‐MIMO channel, we propose a turbo MU‐MIMO receiver, which iteratively utilizes the soft information from maximum a posteriori decoder to cancel the MAI. By the simulation results in several typical MIMO channels, we find that the proposed MMSE MU‐MIMO receiver outperforms the OSFBC receiver over 1 dB at the cost of higher complexity. However, the proposed turbo MU‐MIMO receivers can effectively cancel the MAI under overloaded channel conditions and really achieve the capacity of MU‐MIMO channel. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Joint Detection and Diversity Techniques in CDMA Mobile Radio Systems

CDMA mobile radio systems suffer from intersymbol interference (ISI) and multiple access interference (MAI) which can be combated by using joint detection (JD) techniques. Furthermore, the time variation of the radio channels leads to degradations of the receiver performance due to fading. These degradations can be reduced by applying diversity techniques. Three suboptimum detection techniques based on matched filters (MF), zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square-error (MMSE) equalization are considered. For further improvements, switched and equal gain diversity techniques are employed to combat fading. The performance is depicted in terms of the average bit error probability versus the average SNR per bit in a single cell environment showing an appreciable improvement over the non diversity situation. Theoretical results for the SNR at the front end of the receiver and the BER for ideal channel are obtained and compared with the simulation results.     

Fast adaptive equalizers for narrow-band TDMA mobile radio

It is pointed out that the future European cellular digital mobile radio system in the 900 MHz band adopts a narrowband time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme with Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK) modulation and burst type transmission. Consequently, very fast adaptation methods are necessary to cope with the time- and frequency-selective distortions produced by Rayleigh and multipath fading. The authors examine a few theoretical aspects of the application of recursive least squares (RLS) adaptation algorithms to the narrowband TDMA mobile radio system and give the relevant performance results for the fast Kalman algorithm, which turns out to be suitable for the considered application. In particular, signature curves, bit error rate, speed of convergence, steady-state behavior, numerical stability, required accuracy, and hardware complexity are discussed. Linear transversal and nonlinear decision-feedback equalizers are considered     

A soft-output bidirectional decision feedback equalizationtechnique for TDMA cellular ratio

Issues encountered in the design of reliable narrowband time-division multiple access (TDMA) digital cellular mobile communication systems are considered. In particular, the problem of compensating for the harsh multipath fading environment in systems whose transmission bandwidth is commensurate with the coherence bandwidth of the fading channel is considered. A TDMA channel characterization parameter, the slot-normalized fade rate, is introduced, and an adaptive bidirectional equalization technique, which estimates the location of a deep fade within a time slot, is proposed. The simulation results show that the carrier-to-noise ratio requirement is only 15.5 dB when this equalization technique is used. This is achieved without diversity, and with low complexity. An equivalent equalized land mobile radio channel model and the analytical solution for the optimal bit likelihood calculation for π/4-shift quadrature differential phase-shift keying (QDPSK) modulation are also derived under certain channel conditions. The results are used as soft decisions for the convolutional decoder     

Smart Antennas with Two-Dimensional Array Configurations for Performance Enhancement of a Joint Detection CDMA Mobile Radio System

Smart antennas for base stations of cellular mobile radio systems offer the potential of system performance enhancement by taking advantage of the directionally inhomogeneous signal reception at the receiver. In this paper, two-dimensional array configurations employed at the uplink receiver of a joint detection CDMA (JD-CDMA) mobile radio system are investigated. This smart antenna concept can be split up into a novel channel estimator and data detector which incorporate explicitely the information of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of signals emerging from users assigned to the considered base station. Proceeding from channel models that model the directional inhomogeneity of the mobile radio channel with single DOAs, the link level performance of a JD-CDMA mobile radio system using this smart antenna concept is evaluated for the rural propagation environment. The performance evaluation is based on Monte Carlo simulations of data transmission and average bit error rates versus the average signal to noise ratio per net information bit are presented for different array configurations. Although these results should be considered as upper bounds for the link level performance, they reveal the advantages of implementing two-dimensional array configurations at the uplink receiver of a JD-CDMA mobile radio system.     

Performance evaluation of a novel M-detector for coherent receiverantenna diversity in a GSM-type mobile radio system

Powerful adaptive detectors such as the maximum-likelihood (ML) detector based on the Viterbi algorithm (VA) are required at the receivers for GSM type mobile radio systems in order to combat the effect of frequency-selective fading radio channels. The use of diversity techniques like receiver antenna diversity leads to a further improvement of the receiver performance. Hence, ML detectors for coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) have attracted the attention of many authors. However, the complexity of the defector for CRAD can be considerably decreased when the VA is replaced with the M-algorithm, which is a suboptimum tree search algorithm. In the course of this paper, the M-detector is extended to CRAD in the case of maximal-ratio combining (MRC), equal-gain combining (EGC), and selection combining (SC), and its performance in GSM type mobile radio systems is studied by simulations using the radio channel models rural area (RA), typical urban (TU), and bad urban (BU) specified by COST 207. It is demonstrated that this novel M-detector for CRAD can perform similarly to the ML detector for CRAD thus being a favorable alternative     

Performance evaluation of a joint CDMA/NC-PRMA protocol forwireless multimedia communications

A joint code division multiple access and noncollision packet reservation multiple access (CDMA/NC-PRMA) technique is proposed and investigated as an uplink protocol for the third-generation (3G) mobile systems. Being the underlying time division multiple access (TDMA) architecture of the CDMA transmissions, NC-PRMA enables the base station (BS) to have a centralized control over the slot allocation policy. In order to reduce the multiple access interference (MAI) variation in a CDMA transmission, two different slot assignment schemes, referred to as load-balancing (LB) and power-grouping (PG) schemes, are proposed and evaluated. Simulation results show that considerable improvement can be achieved over the joint CDMA/PRMA scheme, in which the MAI variation is reduced by way of a dynamic permission probability for contending terminals. Especially when an imperfect power control mechanism is considered, the proposed PG assignment scheme achieves significant performance advantages     

Analysis of a multiple-cell direct-sequence CDMA cellular mobileradio system

The performance of a multiple-cell direct-sequence code division multiple-access cellular radio system is evaluated. Approximate expressions are obtained for the area-averaged bit error probability and the area-averaged outage probability for both the uplink and downlink channels. The analysis accounts for the effects of path loss, multipath fading, multiple-access interference, and background noise. Two types of differentially coherent receivers are considered: a multipath rejection receiver and a RAKE receiver with predetection selective combining. Macroscopic base station diversity techniques and uplink and downlink power control are also topics of discussion     

A novel adaptive receiver with enhanced channel tracking capabilityfor TDMA-based mobile radio communications

The paper presents a novel fast-adaptive nonlinear receiver which exploits soft statistics for tracking the random fluctuations experienced by time division multiple access (TDMA) mobile radio links impaired by frequency-selective time-variant multipath phenomena. The detection task is accomplished by an Abend-Fritchman-like symbol-by-symbol maximum likelihood (SbS-ML) detector which delivers both hard decisions and soft statistics in form of a posteriori probabilities (APPs) of the states of the intersymbol interference (ISI) channel. In the proposed adaptive receiver, these APPs are employed in place of the conventional hard-detected data to feed an ad hoc developed nonlinear recursive Kalman-type channel estimator. Extensive computer simulations show that the exploitation of soft statistics enhances the tracking capability of the channel estimator so that the proposed receiver generally outperforms the usual ones based on adaptive maximum likelihood sequence estimators (MLSEs) for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values over 12-13 dB. Furthermore, the experienced performance gap with respect to more complex per-survivor processing (PSP)-based multi-estimator detectors appears generally small on slowly and moderately fast time-varying channels characterized by values of the product Doppler bandwidth × signaling period B_DT_S below 5×10^-3     

Information theoretic considerations for cellular mobile radio

We present some information-theoretic considerations used to determine upper bounds on the information rates that can be reliably transmitted over a two-ray propagation path mobile radio channel model, operating in a time division multiplex access (TDMA) regime, under given decoding delay constraints. The sense in which reliability is measured is addressed, and in the interesting eases where the decoding delay constraint plays a significant role, the maximal achievable rate (capacity), is specified in terms of capacity versus outage. In this case, no coding capacity in the strict Shannon sense exists. Simple schemes for time and space diversity are examined, and their potential benefits are illuminated from an information-theoretic stand point. In our presentation, we chose to specialize to the TDMA protocol for the sake of clarity and convenience. Our main arguments and results extend directly to certain variants of other multiple access protocols such as code division multiple access (CDMA) and frequency division multiple access (FDMA), provided that no fast feedback from the receiver to the transmitter is available     

基于延迟输出反馈的上行多小区MIMO蜂窝干扰网络自由度分析

针对具有反馈时延的上行多小区MIMO（Multiple-Input Multiple-Output）蜂窝干扰网络,提出一种基于延迟输出反馈（OF,Output Feedback）的回溯干扰重构（RIR,Retrospective Interference Reconstruction）方案.该方案首先通过在基站构造接收波束成形矩阵,将重构的OF下传至用户.然后用户对延迟的OF预编码并传输至基站,基站利用预编码信息消除小区间干扰.分析了上行任意多小区MIMO蜂窝干扰网络的RIR方案适用条件、系统和速率和可达自由度（DoF,Degrees of Freedom）,并将RIR方案与回溯干扰对齐方案和TDMA方案进行对比仿真分析,结果表明,RIR方案能获得更多自由度.     

The capacity of a spread spectrum CDMA system for cellular mobileradio with consideration of system imperfections

There has been much interest in the use of spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques for cellular mobile radio. To date, spread spectrum has been used mainly for military applications, in which the inherent transmission security and immunity to deliberate jamming are important. Spread spectrum systems, however, possess various other features such as multiple access and multipath rejection capability, which make their use attractive within the mobile radio environment. However, the current interest has been principally motivated by the work of Gilhousen et al. (see IEEE Trans. Vehic. Technol., vol.VT-40, no.2, p.303, 1991) in which it is claimed that the CDMA option may offer capacity improvement over more conventional frequency and time division multiple access, FDMA and TDMA, techniques. Within this paper, the relative capacities of a basic FDMA and CDMA system are examined. It is shown that, in the absence of capacity-enhancing features such as voice activity detection and cell sectorization, the capacity of each system is comparable. The paper then assesses the sensitivity of the CDMA system to typical propagation conditions, power control errors, and realistic antenna patterns and shows that the capacity of a CDMA system may be significantly reduced under nonideal conditions     

Radio Local Distribution System for High-Speed Digital Communications

The radio local distribution system (RLDS) has been proposed to transmit various business information signals. The proposed RLDS uses a 26 GHz band and time division multiple access (TDMA). The main features of the RLDS are the use of radio equipment containing the microwave integrated circuit (MIC) and the adoption of the demand-assigned TDMA (DA/TDMA) technique. The MIC is more suitable than conventional waveguide circuits for mass production because its components are miniaturized. The DA/TDMA system, operating in a fully variable demand-assignment mode, uses simple control systems with a low bit rate. As a result, the RLDS can serve a local distribution system of high-speed digital communications both expeditiously and economically.     

Imperfect channel-state information in MIMO transmission

A especially favorable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-based concept for future mobile radio systems consists of the application of joint detection (JD) in the uplink and joint transmission (JT) in the downlink. By this, all the computational complex signal processing is shifted to the base station (BS), resulting in low-complexity mobile stations. Both JD and JT require channel knowledge at the BS which, if time-division duplexing is applied, can be obtained by training signal-based channel estimation in the uplink. Unfortunately, channel estimates are never perfect, which leads to performance degradations if these channel estimates, instead of perfect channel knowledge, are used for JD or JT. Especially channel errors due to the time variance of the mobile radio channel are often considered to be a severe problem in the application of MIMO techniques in high-mobility scenarios, which requires closer investigation. In this paper, a novel analysis of the performance degradations of zero-forcing JD and JT due to imperfect channel knowledge is presented. The analysis is based on linear Taylor approximation of the data-estimation error due to imperfect channel knowledge.     

Transmitter diversity effect in TDMA/TDD mobile radio transmission

Transmitter diversity, which employs a single transmit/receive antenna at the portable stations and two transmit/receive antennas at the base station, is experimentally investigated for a TDMA/TDD (time division duplex) mobile radio system. Experimental results show that transmitter diversity can significantly improve the BER (bit error rate) performance of the portable station, due to AWGN (additive white gaussian noise), delay spread, and CCI (cochannel interference) in Rayleigh fading environments.<>