Concatenated coded modulation techniques and orthogonal space-time block codes in the presence of fading channel estimation errors

Performance of coding and modulation systems in fading channels is usually analysed under the assumption that the receiver has perfect knowledge of channel condition. However, various shortcomings in practical channel estimation techniques lead to imperfections, resulting in channel estimation errors. The authors analyse a practical coding and modulation scheme for multiple-antenna systems considering channel estimation errors. The novelty of this study resides in providing error probability bounds for concatenated trellis coded modulation (TCM) or bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) schemes with orthogonal space--time block codes (OSTBC) under imperfect channel estimation assumption. Moreover, our analytical results quantify the performance degradation associated with various levels of channel estimation error variance. The authors also show that if channel estimation quality does not improve sufficiently with SNR, there would be error floor in performance, such that the coded system could get outperformed by a system with differential signalling that requires no channel estimation. Simulation results are presented, which confirm the validity of the analytical results.     

Concatenated bit-interleaved coded modulation and orthogonal space-time block codes over fading channels

The authors analyse concatenated bit-interleaved coded modulation and orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) over fading channels in the absence and presence of channel state information (CSI) in receiver. The authors derive analytical expressions for bit and frame error probabilities based on which corresponding designing rules are proposed. The analytical results are for arbitrary rate of constituent STBC and arbitrary convolutional code, and for CSI-aware receiver is for any number of transmit and receive antennas. Simulation results are presented to confirm the validity of the proposed designing rules. Moreover, the simulation results show that the proposed system outperforms concatenated trellis coded modulation and OSTBC.     

Adaptive modulation for limited diversity fading channels

In this study, the authors propose a novel technique for adaptive modulation over limited diversity fading channels with channel state information at the transmitter. Limited diversity channels such as those encountered in indoor orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems are characterised by the fact that achievable diversity orders are limited by the channel and not by code-free distances. The authors first propose a novel analysis technique for the performance of coded modulation on limited diversity block fading channels with different modulation sets on each block. The authors then propose adaptive modulation techniques for maximising the throughput at a fixed bit error probability and also for minimising the bit error probability at a fixed rate. Lastly, the authors show simulation results that support the arguments presented in the paper.     

An improved construction of block‐coded modulation

Abstract

The traditional block‐coded modulation scheme is based on set partitioning of a two‐dimensional signal constellation. In this paper, we propose an improved design of the block‐coded modulation scheme which is based on set partitioning of a block modulation code at some coding levels. With no inferior error performance, the proposed scheme is far superior as regards its reduced decoding complexity.     

Upper bounds on the error probability of coded space?time block coded systems with diversity reception

New union bounds are derived for space-time block coded systems over Rayleigh fading channels. Both maximal ratio combining and generalised selection combining are considered as combining schemes at the receiver. The union bounds are easy to be evaluated using the transfer function of the code. Furthermore, the bounds are general to any coding scheme with a known weight distribution. Results show that the proposed union bounds are tight to simulation results for wide ranges of diversity orders and signal-to-noise ratio values.     

Space?frequency coded cooperation in OFDM multiple-access wireless networks

A cooperative space-frequency (SF) coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system is considered and its performance over quasi-static frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels is evaluated. An expression for exact outage error probability is derived and its tight closed-form lower bound is presented. The tightness of the lower bound is demonstrated through Monte Carlo simulation. Asymptotic analysis indicates that the proposed protocol achieves full spatial and frequency diversities available in the cooperative communication system. The theoretical analysis of the proposed SF coded cooperation protocol is further confirmed by computer simulation using a previously introduced SF block code that is capable of achieving full spatial and frequency diversities.     

Bandwidth efficient concatenated coding schemes

Concatenated coded modulation is a powerful method for constructing coding schemes with large coding gain and low decoding complexity. For the concatenated scheme, the outer code has redundancy and the overall transmission rate is reduced. The problem of bandwidth expansion can be overcome by two procedures. First, the code rate of inner codes is increased with a special coding design. Second, a two-level concatenated scheme is constructed to compensate the rate loss. This way, the low-complexity concatenated coded modulation schemes can be designed without bandwidth expansion as compared with the uncoded scheme.     

瑞利信道下网格酉空时调制的仿真实现

介绍了在酉空时星座下的空时网格码调制的原理,在MATLBA软件环境下,对瑞利衰落信道下的网格酉空时调制的性能进行仿真,并与相同信道下未编码的酉空时码的性能进行比较.结果显示,在10-4比特误码率下相对于未编码得到8~15 dB的编码增益.     

Iterative low-complexity multi-user detection for asynchronous multi-sequence signalling based bit-interleaved coded modulation code division multiple access systems

An uplink direct sequence spread spectrum communications systems employing a multi-sequence model over a quasi-static frequency-selective fading channel is considered. In analogy with bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) technique, a group of bits at the output of a bit-wise interleaver is mapped uniquely to a complex signalling vector belonging to an orthogonal plane sequence modulation signal space, which is constructed over a set of expanded signature sequences. This transmission system provides not only bandwidth efficiency offered by additional signal planes but also time diversity resulting from the BICM technique. It is observed that at high system traffic load error performance could degrade substantially due to user cross-correlations, multi-access asynchronism as well as channel frequency selectivity. The authors employ a 'turbo principle' receiver, consisting of a soft interference cancellation scheme, soft demappers and maximum a posteriori decoders, to avert this capacity loss by exploiting the serially concatenating structure at the transmitter. After simple mathematical manipulation, a soft space-time linear minimum mean-square error multi-user detector could even be explored on the basis of per signal plane per user. Both analytical performance-bound and computer simulation of the proposed framework in terms of bit-error rate (BER) are revealed. Further, performance comparisons with convolutionally coded and conventional bandwidth-efficient coded direct sequence code division multiple access systems under the same system conditions are illustrated. The authors have also investigated the impact of labelling maps on the BER performance.     

Performance comparison of low density parity check codes using square root Kalman equalisation and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing techniques for broadband fixed wireless access systems

Broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) systems enable services such as high-speed data communication, high quality voice/video conferencing and high-speed internet access in areas where a wired link is not possible. However, the BFWA channel is a slow-fading channel having deep frequency-selective fading caused by clusters of scatterers in the environment that introduce inter-symbol interference (ISI) at the receiver. Low density parity check (LDPC) codes, optimised for the single-input single-output BFWA channel, are designed using the structured balance incomplete block design method. The use of both quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) are investigated theoretically. To help overcome the ISI effects of the channel, equalisation techniques are employed separately with LDPC decoding for a system employing QPSK and 16-QAM modulation schemes. The equaliser single carrier approach is then replaced with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and the performance of these two approaches is evaluated in terms of bit-error rate. The simulation results show that equalisation with LDPC coding has a measurable performance gain over LDPC coding with OFDM.     

Bandwidth-efficient code design for coordinate interleaved coded cooperation

A two-user coordinate interleaved coded cooperation scheme is proposed for quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels, where cooperative and modulation diversity techniques are properly combined to take their full advantage. Two selective cooperation schemes are considered related to whether users know the cooperation case or not. Pairwise error probability (PEP) analysis is performed for all cooperation cases and code design criteria are derived from the PEP upper bounds. Bandwidth-efficient 4-, 8- and 16-state rate 2/4 cooperative quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) trellis codes are obtained based on these criteria by means of exhaustive computer search. The error performances of the new codes evaluated by computer simulations show their superiority compared to the corresponding best space-time codes used in cooperation with coordinate interleaving. The simulation results are supported by an upper bound on the bit error probability developed using union bounding technique.     

水下报文通信抗干扰方法

针对水声通信中的衰减信道和多途效应对报文通信的影响,利用混沌编码方式以获取处理增益,并利用拷贝相关器对信道进行估值的基础上,提出了用相干重置的方法对多途效应加以利用,以降低误码率.仿真结果表明,相干重置的方法相对于直接相关解码方法具有更低的误码率.由此可见,以上的方法对减少多途干扰的影响是有明显的效果的.水声通信一般部...     

Experimental demonstration of gray-scale sparse modulation codes in volume holographic storage

We discuss experimental results of a versatile nonbinary modulation and channel code appropriatefor two-dimentional page-oriented holographic memories. An enumerative permutation code is used to provide a modulation code that permits a simple maximum-likelihood detection scheme. Experimental results from the IBM Demon testbed are used to characterize the performance and feasibility of the proposed modulation and channel codes. A reverse coding technique is introduced to combat the effects of error propagation on the modulation-code performance. We find experimentally that level-3 pixels achieve the beet practical result, offering an 11-35% improvement in capacity and a 12% increase in readout rate as compared with local binary thresholding techniques.     

Maximum a posteriori channel estimation for cooperative diversity orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing systems in amplify-andforward mode

Transmit diversity-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems have been proposed to mitigate the detrimental effects of channel fading. However, owing to the space and power limitations, the use of multiple transmit antennas is not practical in certain wireless devices, such as portable terminals and wireless sensors. Therefore cooperation among users at the physical layer has been proposed recently. Here, space-time block coded in amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying mode has been proposed as cooperative diversity for OFDM systems (CO-OFDM) in the presence of perfect channel-state information. Then, the channel estimation techniques for CO-OFDM systems in AF mode based on pilot symbols are investigated over frequency-selective channels. In particular, expectation-maximisation (EM) based maximum a posteriori (MAP) channel estimation is developed and compared with comp-type pilot-aided channel estimation (PACE) based the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator and the least minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) channel estimation techniques for CO-OFDM systems. To overcome the drawback owing to the receiver complexity, the Karhunen-Loeve expansion with the optimal truncation property is also considered. Simulation results that demonstrate the overall performance advantage of the EM-MAP based receiver over the PACE-ML and PACE-LMMSE based receivers are presented.     

Performance of differential pulse-position modulation (DPPM) with concatenated coding over optical wireless communications [optical wireless communications]

The concatenation of marker and Reed-Solomon codes in order to correct insertion/ deletion errors in differential pulse-position modulation (DPPM) over optical wireless communications is presented. The concatenated code decoding algorithms with hard-decision and soft-decision detection are presented. The performance of the hard-decision coded DPPM system is evaluated over both nondispersive and dispersive channels via analysis and simulation. It is shown that the coding gain provided by the concatenated code is approximately 4 dB when the code rate is about 0.7 and the channel is nondispersive. Over a dispersive channel, the coded system performs better than the uncoded system when the ratio of delay spread to bit duration is not high. A soft-decision detector is employed to combat intersymbol interference. The soft- decision decoding algorithm, which has low complexity and can be practically implemented, is described. The performance over nondispersive and dispersive channels is evaluated by analysis and simulation. It is shown that the soft-decision system requires approximately 2 dB less transmit power than the hard-decision system for additive white Gaussian noise and low-dispersive channels. Soft decoding also provides a performance improvement in high-dispersive channels.     

一种应用于FM IBOC DAB系统的比特交织编码调制方案

提出了一种适用于FM IBOC广播系统的比特交织编码调制方案。此方案结合互补增信删余卷积码(CPPC)和基于迭代译码的比特交织编码调制(BICM-ID)算法。互补增信删余卷积码能有效抵抗FM IBOC系统中面对的第一邻频干扰和无线信道噪声、衰落等干扰。同时,运用基于软判决反馈迭代译码的比特交织编码调制算法,可以不通过扩展频带来提高FM IBOC广播系统在瑞利信道中的编码增益。仿真结果表明,本方案能有效提高FM IBOC广播系统的接收性能。     

Error recovery in video transmission over CDMA2000 broadcast networks

Multimedia services over a CDMA2000 broadcast network face a challenge from the unreliable and error-prone nature of the radio channel. Reed-Solomon (RS) coding, integrated with the MAC protocol, is used to cope with this problem. However, performance analysis of RS coding under varying channel conditions shows that it is not always effective, especially for slow-moving nodes which experience relatively long error bursts. Therefore a more efficient scheme is proposed that uses a RS code with reduced parity overhead, and freeing bandwidth can be used flexibly for retransmission. The packets to be retransmitted are prioritised by a utility function derived from the map of the error control block at each mobile node and the number of mobile nodes that require the lost packet. Simulation results show that the gain of retransmission exceeds the loss incurred by reducing the parity, leading to an improvement in the playback quality of MPEG-4 video streams. As a result, service area for high-quality multimedia can be expanded.     

增强现实平视显示行人预警系统的视觉编码设计研究

目的 随着影像和雷达传感器技术的发展,车载预警系统可以更快、更广和更高精度地实现对于行人的识别与追踪。相较于其他预警方式,增强现实平视显示预警(Augmented Reality Head-up Display,AR-HUD)可以为用户提供实时、准确的预警信息并降低用户因视线切换而带来的驾驶风险,具有较大的应用潜力。已有研究表明,预警信息的编码方式对预警效果影响显著,然而目前AR-HUD预警方式的设计标准尚未制定,因此,探究AR-HUD的预警编码方式对其应用具有重要意义。方法 以AR-HUD行人预警为例,基于颜色、边框形状、闪烁等设计元素对预警信息进行编码设计,从眼动指标、行为指标和主观指标对各编码方式进行多模态的量化分析和评估,提出相应的设计建议。结论 采用颜色编码可以显著提升编码可识别性,保持低漏报率的同时有较短的反应时,而非颜色编码利用冗余编码可以增强编码可识别性;采用形状编码会降低编码可理解性,但会减小用户对预警的漏报率;闪烁编码会增大对预警的漏报率和反应时;用户主观上认为冗余编码比单维编码有更强的警示性。研究结论可为AR-HUD的交互设计和实车应用提供相关理论支撑。     

Wireless video transmission using feedback-controlled adaptive h.264 source and channel coding

For wireless video, the present paper demonstrates that combining adaptive source and channel coding can provide a robust service over a wide range of transmission channel conditions. Various feedback-controlled adaptive coding solutions are considered for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing-based systems. At the receiver, the reliabilities of subchannels (SCHs) are estimated and decisions are fed back to the transmitter to adapt modulation modes and channel code-rates to provide reliable transmission and yet avoid over-protection. The resulting available transmission capacity (which can vary widely with channel conditions) can inform an online collaborating source coder which itself exploits the available feedback to reduce error propagation. To ensure further improvement for fading channels, an efficient low-delay retransmission arrangement is also considered in which only the contents of unreliable SCHs within an erroneous packet are retransmitted. Simulation results demonstrate that such collaborative adaptive source and channel coding can provide efficient use of a continuously varying wireless channel.     

Performance of impulse radio direct sequence ultra-wideband system with variable-length spreading sequences

An adaptive transmission scheme using variable-length spreading sequences (VLSS) is proposed. The system is based on an impulse direct sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB) approach for wireless communication where the number of active users is variable. In contrast to the conventional DS-UWB system, which employs a fixed length spreading code, the proposed system changes the length of spreading code according to the system load adaptively, which is proven to be able to reduce the inter-chip interference, inter-symbol interference and multiple-access interference and thus improve the system performance in terms of bit error rate. The proposed system is simulated in multipath channels with a high level of multipath fragments, modelled by the standard IEEE 802.15.3a indoor channel model 1 (CM1) and channel model 2 (CM2). Numerical results demonstrate that when RAKE receivers are employed, the proposed VLSS DS-UWB system outperforms the conventional system by appropriately allocating the spreading sequences.