Intercarrier interference self-cancellation scheme for OFDM mobilecommunication systems

For orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems, the frequency offsets in mobile radio channels distort the orthogonality between subcarriers resulting in intercarrier interference (ICI). This paper studies an efficient ICI cancellation method termed ICI self-cancellation scheme. The scheme works in two very simple steps. At the transmitter side, one data symbol is modulated onto a group of adjacent subcarriers with a group of weighting coefficients. The weighting coefficients are designed so that the ICI caused by the channel frequency errors can be minimized. At the receiver side, by linearly combining the received signals on these subcarriers with proposed coefficients, the residual ICI contained in the received signals can then be further reduced. The carrier-to-interference power ratio (CIR) can be increased by 15 and 30 dB when the group size is two or three, respectively, for a channel with a constant frequency offset. Although the redundant modulation causes a reduction in bandwidth efficiency, it can be compensated, for example, by using larger signal alphabet sizes. Simulations show that OFDM systems using the proposed ICI self-cancellation scheme perform much better than standard systems while having the same bandwidth efficiency in multipath mobile radio channels with large Doppler frequencies     

Analysis of ICI cancellation scheme in OFDM systems with phase noise

Phase noise in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems destroys the orthogonality of the subcarriers and inter-carrier interference (ICI) is caused. In this paper, the ICI self-cancellation scheme is adopted to combat the ICI caused by phase noise in OFDM systems. Moreover, the error coefficients are defined and the theoretical expressions of carrier to interference ratio (C/I) with and without the ICI self-cancellation scheme are separately derived. From the simulation results, it is verified that the ICI self-cancellation scheme obviously decreases the amount of the ICI caused by phase noise and the improvement of C/I could reach 10 dB when the normalized 3 dB bandwidth of phase noise is 0.4. However, the convolutional coding OFDM (COFDM) system could supply more performance gain at the expense of increasing decoder complexity compared to OFDM system with the ICI self-cancellation scheme in the frequency-selective channel.     

基于差分编码的OFDM系统ICI消除方法的研究

在高速移动通信环境下,OFDM 系统在传输过程中出现的多普勒频移和收发两端本地振荡器之间的频率偏差,形成子载波间干扰(ICI)并造成系统性能降低。该文在分析子载波间干扰机制的基础上,从信道估计的角度提出了一种高效的ICI自消除差分编码方案。该方案提高了传统ICI自消除方案频谱利用率。仿真表明,在系统归一化频率偏差大于0.1时,该方案具有4 的信道估计增益,消除了因ICI带来的地板效应。     

Adaptive subcarrier bandwidth and power in OFDM‐based cognitive radio systems for high mobility applications

OFDM‐based cognitive radio systems are spectrally flexible and efficient, but they are vulnerable to intercarrier interference (ICI), especially in high mobility environments. High mobility of the terminal causes large Doppler frequency spread resulting in serious ICI. Such ICI severely degrades the system performance, which is ignored in the existing resource allocation of OFDM‐based cognitive radio systems. In this paper, an adaptive subcarrier bandwidth along with power allocation problem in OFDM‐based cognitive radio systems for high mobility applications is investigated. This adaptive subcarrier bandwidth method should choose the suitable subcarrier bandwidth not only to balance the tradeoff between ICI and intersymbol interference but also to be large enough to tolerate an amount of Doppler frequency spread but less than the coherence bandwidth. The power budget and interference to primary users caused by cognitive radio users are imposed for primary users' protection. With these constraints, a joint optimization algorithm of subcarrier bandwidth and power allocation is proposed to maximize the bandwidth efficiency of OFDM‐based cognitive radio systems in such conditions. Numerical simulation results show that the proposed algorithm could maximize the system bandwidth efficiency and balance this tradeoff while satisfying the constraints. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Intercarrier interference self-cancellation space-frequency codes for MIMO-OFDM

Space-frequency (SF) codes that exploit both spatial and frequency diversity can be designed using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). However, OFDM is sensitive to frequency offset (FO), which generates intercarrier interference (ICI) among subcarriers. We investigate the pair-wise error probability (PEP) performance of SF codes over quasistatic, frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels with FO. We prove that the conventional SF code design criteria remain valid. The negligible performance loss for small FOs (less than 1%), however, increases with FO and with signal to noise ratio (SNR). While diversity can be used to mitigate ICI, as FO increases, the PEP does not rapidly decay with SNR. Therefore, we propose a new class of SF codes called ICI self-cancellation SF (ISC-SF) codes to combat ICI effectively even with high FO (10%). ISC-SF codes are constructed from existing full diversity space-time codes. Importantly, our code design provide a satisfactory tradeoff among error correction ability, ICI reduction and spectral efficiency. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ISC-SF codes can also mitigate the ICI caused by phase noise and time varying channels. Simulation results affirm the theoretical analysis.     

OFDM系统中载波间干扰抑制方法

在高速移动通信环境下,OFDM系统在传输过程中出现的多普勒频移和收发两端本地振荡器之间的频率偏差,形成子载波间干扰(ICI)并造成系统性能降低。在分析子载波间干扰机制的基础上,讨论了自消除方法和分段均衡方法,并提出一种利用加窗技术改进的分段均衡方法。仿真结果表明,采用该改进的分段均衡方法能更好地改善系统的性能,有约2 dB的信道估计增益。     

Decision Feedback Frequency Offset Estimation and Tracking for General ICI Self-Cancellation Based OFDM Systems

Inter-carrier interference (ICI) self-cancellation schemes were often employed in many OFDM systems as a simple and effective approach to suppress ICI caused by carrier frequency errors. The same procedure, however, can not perform very well at high frequency offsets. We propose a simple decision feedback scheme based on the general ICI self-cancellation scheme to perform estimation and tracking of the carrier frequency offsets. A system with the scheme does not consume additional bandwidth since it used the same data symbols employed for ICI cancellation for the estimation. After an initial estimation is completed, the scheme switches to the tracking mode to carry out the estimation of deviations in the frequency offsets. Finally this fine-tuned estimate is applied to the ICI self-cancellation scheme concurrently for frequency offset correction and hence improved the system performance greatly. Simulation results showed that our scheme allowed up to 9% of random variations in the frequency offset. The effectiveness of our scheme is further verified by calculating the bit error rate performance of various OFDM receivers.     

基于Simulink的窄带OFDM系统设计与仿真

为有效提高短波通信系统的数据传输速率,可采用正交频分复用（OFDM）技术。OFDM是一种特殊的多载波数字调制方案,各子载波之间的正交性使得频谱可重叠从而提高了频带的利用率,同时能有效对抗频率选择性衰落或窄带干扰。采用Simulink建模对窄带OFDM系统进行设计并仿真,仿真结果表明,在3kHz的带宽内,短波通信系统的数据传输速率能够达到12800b／s,而且具有良好的误码性能。     

基于OFDM的无人机雷达通信一体化设计方法

为了最大程度地利用资源和减小电磁干扰,无人机平台的雷达通信一体化设计有着尤为重要的意义。正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)信号具有较高的频谱利用率、较强的抗干扰性能、易于数字化处理等优点,在雷达通信一体化系统备受关注。然而,OFDM信号在雷达和通信系统中对多普勒频偏较为敏感,针对多普勒频偏引起的子载波间干扰(Inter-Carrier Interference,ICI)问题,本文设计出一种RS-OFDM雷达通信一体化信号,并提出一种ICI抑制的信号处理算法,其中基于多普勒估计和校正实现OFDM的无ICI处理。仿真结果表明:所提方法在目标成像性能上优于传统方法,且对多普勒频偏具有较强的鲁棒性,而且并无明显增加计算复杂度。      

Quality of Service Aware Inter Carrier Interference Mitigation and Antenna Selection Schemes for Beyond 4G Systems

Future broadband wireless communication systems demand high quality of service (QoS) for anytime anywhere multimedia applications. The standards which use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) coupled with multi input multi output (MIMO) are expected to rule the future wireless world. Time selective nature of the channel introduces inter carrier interference (ICI), which is the major performance limiting parameter in OFDM based systems. ICI causes loss in spectral efficiency and results in poor bit error rate (BER) performance, affecting the QoS of MIMO-OFDM systems. The conventional single input single output (SISO)-OFDM-flexible subcarrier spacing (FSS) system offers better performance than the fixed subcarrier spacing systems in terms of ICI mitigation. But BER and spectral efficiency performance of SISO-OFDM-FSS is not good enough to satisfy the requirements of future wireless broadband services. To improve the BER performance, SISO-OFDM system is replaced by space frequency block coded (SFBC)-OFDM system, which adds spatial and frequency diversity benefits to the conventional system. More number of antennas in the MIMO scheme increases the hardware cost, computational complexity and percentage of overhead. In the present study, to improve the spectral efficiency and to reduce the complexity and cost, optimal transmit antenna selection (OTAS) is combined with the SFBC-OFDM-FSS scheme. The simulation results prove that the proposed SFBC-OFDM-FSS-OTAS scheme offers better QoS than the conventional SISO-OFDM-FSS scheme.     

Compensation of phase noise in OFDM systems using an ICI reduction scheme

In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems, the local oscillator phase noise introduces two effects: common phase error (CPE) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). The correction of CPE does not suffice always, especially when high data rates are required. Through the creation of a frequency-domain linearized parametric model for phase noise, we generate an ICI reduction scheme to deal with phase noise. The effects of the transmitter high-power-amplifier (HPA) nonlinearity on the phase noise compensation are also investigated. The algorithm performance over AWGN channel is presented for DVB-T 2k and 8k modes. It is shown by the simulation results that the algorithm can significantly reduce the symbol-error rate (SER) floor, caused by the residual phase noise after CPE correction, while sacrificing an acceptable transmission bandwidth.     

An Effective Method to Reduce Sensibility to CFO in OFDM

For orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems, the carrier frequency offset (CFO) in mobile radio channels distort the orthogonality between subcarriers resulting in intercarrier interference (ICI). This paper studies an efficient scheme termed all phase method to combat ICI. The method is implemented by introducing all phase concept into standard OFDM system. By numerical calculations, ICI coefficients with all phase method are much smaller than that of standard OFDM. Simultaneously, in the present of CFO, simulation results exhibit the proposed method makes more remarkable improvement in BER performance. Therefore, all phase method is effective to reduce sensibility to CFO.     

KLT-CRKCN: Hyperspectral Image Classification via Karhunen Loeve Transformation and Collaborative Representation-Based K Closest Neighbor

Nowadays, there is a great demand for ultra-high data rate (UHDR) transmission on most 5th generation wireless networks. In this concern, the multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) scheme is used on a large scale to achieve UHDR transmission with reduced inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). Discrete wavelet transform-based OFDM (DWT-OFDM) provides better orthogonality due to presence of orthogonal wavelets, which mitigates the effects caused by ISI and ICI. Also, it has extended bandwidth than the traditional OFDM systems. But a major drawback in this system is that it suffers from down sampling. The down-sampling effect reduces the actual size of the input bit streams. As a result, the system performance is degraded. For solving this problem, a multilevel redundant discrete wavelet transform (ML-RDWT) is used instead of DWT to achieve improved spectral performance. Here, complex down-sampling operation is eliminated. From the simulation outcomes, it is clearly viewed that effects caused by ICI, ISI and BER are mitigated by improving the performance of CIR. The proposed method employs optimal red deer algorithm (ORDA) to locate the optimized weights for the ICI cancellation system. This algorithm enhances the spectral efficiency by achieving high CIR with reduced BER, ISI and ICI. The BER in the proposed MIMO-ML-RDWT-OFDM-ORDA method is 68%, 76%, 38% and 75%, which is very low when compared to the BER in the existing techniques like MIMO-DWT-OFDM-RDA, MIMO-RNS-OFDM-PNMA, MIMO-OFDM-BMA and MIMO-OFDM-ICIMA. The ISI in the proposed method is 94%, 91%, 95% low when compared to the ISI in the existing techniques. The ICI in the proposed work is 71%, 57%, 73% and 86% low when compared to the ICI in the existing techniques. Therefore, the general performance of the proposed MIMO-ML-RDWT-OFDM-ORDA method is improved in an efficient way with less complexity, error rate and processing delay.

     

Time-Domain Block and Per-Tone Equalization for MIMO–OFDM in Shallow Underwater Acoustic Communication

Shallow underwater acoustic (UWA) channel exhibits rapid temporal variations, extensive multipath spreads, and severe frequency-dependent attenuations. So, high data rate communication with high spectral efficiency in this challenging medium requires efficient system design. Multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO–OFDM) is a promising solution for reliable transmission over highly dispersive channels. In this paper, we study the equalization of shallow UWA channels when a MIMO–OFDM transmission scheme is used. We address simultaneously the long multipath spread and rapid temporal variations of the channel. These features lead to interblock interference (IBI) along with intercarrier interference (ICI), thereby degrading the system performance. We describe the underwater channel using a general basis expansion model (BEM), and propose time-domain block equalization techniques to jointly eliminate the IBI and ICI. The block equalizers are derived based on minimum mean-square error and zero-forcing criteria. We also develop a novel approach to design two time-domain per-tone equalizers, which minimize bit error rate or mean-square error in each subcarrier. We simulate a typical shallow UWA channel to demonstrate the desirable performance of the proposed equalization techniques in Rayleigh and Rician fading channels.     

An Improved ICI Reduction Method in OFDM Communication System

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technique for the broadband wireless communication system. However, the inter-sub-carrier-interference (ICI) produced by the phase noise of transceiver local oscillator is a serious problem. Bit error rate (BER) performance is degraded because the orthogonal properties between the sub-carriers are broken down. In this paper, ICI self-cancellation of data-conjugate method is studied to reduce ICI effectively. CPE (common phase error), ICI and CIR (carrier to interference power ratio) are derived and discussed by the linear approximation of the phase noise. Then, the system performance of the data-conjugate method is compared with those of the original OFDM and the conventional data-conversion method. As results, it can be shown that CPE becomes zero in the OFDM of the data-conjugate method. Besides, in the OFDM system with phase noise, the data-conjugate method can make remarkable improvement of the BER performance and it is better than the data-conversion method and the original OFDM with or without convolution coding.     

基于预编码设计的载频间干扰抑制

针对正交频分复用(OFDM)系统中归一化频偏所引起的载频间干扰(ICI)系数分布特点,设计了一种通用的OFDM预编码传输方案.可将ICI系数更好地集中在较少的子载波位置上,使接收端的干扰矩阵成为稀疏的矩阵,简化信号检测.从理论分析与系统仿真这2方面对这一算法进行了研究.与已有的基于均衡的ICI抑制算法相比,所建议的算法具有更低的计算复杂度;与ICI自身干扰抑制算法相比,具有更高的频带利用率.     

一种新颖的TD-LTE系统上行小区间干扰管理方法

For OFDM based system with Single-Frequency Networking (SFN), ICI (inter-cell interference), especially uplink ICI, becomes a bottleneck to improve system performance. Since the conventional interference management scheme with OI (overload indicator) can not show the instantaneous ICI, this paper proposes a method to reduce ICI by utilizing channel reciprocity of TD-LTE system. In the proposed scheme, UE shall make a decision whether to reduce its power or not after predicting the instantaneous ICI level according to the scheduling results. The system simulation results show that the proposed scheme can reduce the uplink ICI effectively and improve the system performance such as system spectrum efficiency, 10% user throughput, 50% user throughput, packet drop rate etc. significantly while keep 5% cell edge user throughput loss less than 5%. For example, the proposed scheme improved system spectrum efficiency about 50% and 50% user throughput gain is larger than 140%. Meanwhile, the proposed scheme controls the system ICI level and variance effectively. The mean system ICI level and variance are reduced by 4.5dB and 18dB respectively. The proposed scheme can be joint implemented with those existing ICI mitigation methods such as (soft) frequency reuse, power control etc. to further improve the system performance.     

Inter‐carrier Interference Reduction Scheme for SFBC‐OFDM Systems

In this paper, we first analyze carrier‐to‐interference ratio performance of the space–frequency block coded orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (SFBC‐OFDM) system in the presence of phase noise (PHN) and residual carrier frequency offset (RCFO). From the analysis, we observe that conventional SFBC‐OFDM systems suffer severely in the presence of PHN and RCFO. Therefore, we propose a new inter‐carrier interference (ICI) self‐cancellation method — namely, ISC — for SFBC‐OFDM systems to reduce the ICI caused by PHN and RCFO. Through the simulation results, we show that the proposed scheme compensates the ICI caused by PHN and RCFO in Alamouti SFBC‐OFDM systems and has a better performance than conventional schemes.     

一种时频双选信道下OFDM系统的低复杂度迭代干扰抵消算法

为了消除正交频分复用(OFDM)系统在时频双选信道条件下由于信道快时变带来的载波间干扰,本文提出了一种新的低复杂度迭代干扰抵消方法.为了消除载波间干扰,已经提出了不少方法,但这些方法要么因为矩阵求逆运算带来了高计算复杂度,要么以性能退化为代价换来低计算复杂度.利用并行迭代干扰抵消技术,本文算法可以明显改善系统性能,同时借助带状矩阵近似和最小二乘QR分解(LSQR)迭代计算的特点来降低计算复杂度.仿真结果表明,在高信噪比条件下,随着迭代次数的增加,本文所提出的算法可以有效的减少"地板效应",在系统性能和计算复杂度之间取得更好的折中.     

Multi-user selection based on particle swarm optimization and power control scheme in the uplink CoMP-MU-MIMO system

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） which has been adopted in the long-term evolution （LTE） system can improve the system capacity obviously. However, it also brings about severe inter-cell interference （ICI） for cell-edge users （CEUs）. To tackle this problem, multi-user selection and power control （MuS-PC） is proposed as an efficient scheme in uplink coordinated multi-point multi-user multi-input multi-output （CoMP-MU-MIMO） transmission/reception. This paper jointly considers user＇s signal to interference plus noise ratio （S1NR） and proportional fairness （PF） to maximize the total channel capacity in multi-user selection by formulating a penalty function. To simplify the penalty function＇s computation, particle swarm optimization （PSO） algorithm is introduced. In addition, power control is adopted to maximize overall energy efficiency. Simulation results demonstrate that the MuS-PC scheme can not only obtain the optimal total channel capacity while guarantee each user＇s quality of service （QoS） and PF, but also largely reduce computational complexity and improve energy efficiency. As a result, the poor communication quality of CEUs can be enhanced.