CDMA/TDD system for wireless multimedia services with trafficunbalance between uplink and downlink

This paper proposes a code division multiple access (CDMA) time division duplex (TDD) system for wireless multimedia services with traffic unbalance between uplink and downlink. In the proposed system, the number of uplink time slots in a TDD frame differs from that of downlink. Moreover, the difference can be reset by the network operator according to the traffic pattern. We evaluate the performance of the proposed system under multimedia environment using Markov analysis and computer simulation. The results show that the frequency utilization is maximized even when the uplink and downlink traffic volumes are unbalanced. This, in turn, reduces drastically the blocking rate of multimedia calls (connections) in the proposed system compared with that in the traditional CDMA systems where the uplink and downlink use equal bandwidth     

Performance study for a microcell hot spot embedded in CDMAmacrocell systems

The code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system can provide more capacity than other systems, and the hierarchical layer of cells is required for system design. However, the problem is whether the same radio frequency (RF) channels used in a CDMA overlayed/underlayed macrocell and microcell structure also obtain a high capacity as in the homogeneous structure. We investigate the interference of uplink and downlink from both the microcell and macrocell under a hierarchical structure. A downlink power control scheme and two power control methods for the uplink are also considered. Performance measures such as blocking probability, C/I, capacity, and service hole area are also obtained by computer simulation. Besides, some extra efforts for a microcell are also noted, such as more power need to be transmitted by a microcell base station (BS) if the same RF channels are used in the hierarchical structure. The capacities of macrocell and microcell in the overlaying/underlaying structure are limited by the uplink and downlink, respectively. With downlink power control, the microcellular capacity can be increased. However, the combination of downlink power control for the microcell and C/I uplink power control for the macrocell causes the overall system capacity to significantly increase     

Potentials of smart antennas in CDMA systems and uplinkimprovements

An overview of the application of smart antennas in DS-CDMA systems, including IS-95 and IS-2000, is presented. Since CDMA systems are interference-limited, adaptive antenna arrays have great potential for improving the performance of such systems in terms of capacity, coverage, and quality of service, In this paper, we study the multiple-access interference that affects a CDMA system, and we describe how smart antennas can be implemented in an IS-2000-based mobile communications system. When smart antennas are used at the base station to transmit in narrow beams, the interference on the downlink is reduced, and C/I is improved. This, in turn, increases the system capacity on the downlink or, alternatively, the quality of service is improved. Such gains will prove very beneficial for asymmetric high-speed data applications, requiring much higher bit rates on the downlink than on the uplink. By reducing the base-station receiver's sensitivity, smart antennas can boost the capacity of the reverse link. Results are presented that outline how this reduction can be employed by the system designer on the uplink to increase capacity, reduce the mobile transmit power, or effect a tradeoff between capacity improvement and coverage or range extension under different system-loading scenarios     

Cellular CDMA capacity with out-of-band multihop relaying

In this paper, we consider the capacity of cellular code division multiple access (CDMA) when there is out-of-band ad hoc traffic relaying. The mobile stations (MSs) are dual-mode, having both ad hoc and cellular CDMA radios. An active MS is free to choose any available relay station (RS) within its ad hoc radio coverage area for dual-hop communication with the CDMA base station (BS). Communications between the RSs and the MSs use bandwidth which is available to the ad hoc radio and does not consume the CDMA capacity. Using this mechanism, CDIVIA interference can be reduced by dynamically selecting RSs which have more favorable CDMA link characteristics. Several relay station selection criteria are considered, namely, ad hoc relaying with low relative interference (ARRI), with best link gain (ARLG), and with shortest distance (ARSD). The relay station selection protocols are compatible with existing wireless local area network (WLAN) standards such as IEEE 802.11. An analytic model is used to compute the effects on uplink and downlink CDMA capacities when out-of-band relaying is added. The results show that very significant capacity improvements are possible by using these criteria compared with conventional CDMA with hard or soft handoff. Ad hoc relaying which dynamically tracks CDMA link quality can achieve greater capacity improvements than that using a distance-based relay station selection. Relaying, which considers both signal and interference conditions, achieves better capacity than that based on signal link quality alone.     

Capacity analysis for underlaying CDMA microcell/macrocell systems

The CDMA system can provide more capacity than the conventional AMPS system and the hierarchical layer of cells is required for system design in the future. However, the problem is whether the same RF channels used in a CDMA underlaying macrocell/microcell structure also obtain high capacity as in the homogeneous structure. This paper investigates the interference of uplink and downlink from both the microcell and macrocell in a hierarchical structure. Downlink power control is also considered. The results show that the capacity of microcell in a hierarchical structure is 23 per cent less than in homogeneous cells. The capacity of macrocell in a hierarchical structure decreases dramatically in proportion to the number of microcells. The capacities of the microcell and macrocell are limited in downlink, and uplink, respectively. In addition, more efforts for microcell should be made, such as more power is transmitted by microcell basestation if the same RF channel is used in a hierarchical structure. The results suggest that different RF channels are used in a two‐tier cellular environment. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multiple-access capacity in mobile user satellite systems

The channel capacity of a satellite direct sequence CDMA system is analyzed including the effects of faded user interference, overlapping antenna beams, imperfect equalization of the antenna pattern across an antenna cell, and diversity reception. Simplified models are used to describe the impact of these effects on the channel capacity of single and multiple cofrequency CDMA systems. In a comparison of the uplink and downlink paths, the uplink of the CDMA system is shown to limit the channel capacity because the downlink can utilize code-orthogonality and coherent demodulation. In a multiple system comparison between band-shared CDMA and band-segmented FDMA/TDMA technologies, FDMA/TDMA is shown to provide about the same capacity for uniformly distributed traffic conditions over many cells and dramatically better capacity when traffic is concentrated in one cell. Due to the peak nature of telephony, this result supports the use of band-segmented systems in mobile user satellite systems     

FDD-WCDMA标准性能研究

本文主要从无线链路预算、移动台发射功率、小区用户最大容量等几个方面对FDD-WCDMA无线接入标准进行了探讨.3G移动通信网应以提供移动因特网业务为主,纯CDMA方式的FDD-WCDMA系统上下行用户容量基本相等,将造成上行频道带宽资源的浪费,并使系统成本上升.ITU选择2GHz频段作为车载移动通信频段是勉为其难的,又将其FDD部分对称分配给上、下行物理信道也是不合理的.     

Effects of diversity power control, and bandwidth an the capacityof microcellular CDMA systems

We evaluate the capacity and bandwidth efficiency of microcellular CDMA systems. Power control, multipath diversity system bandwidth, and path loss exponent are seen to have a major impact on the capacity. The CDMA system considered uses convolutional codes, orthogonal signalling, multipath/antenna diversity with noncoherent combining, and fast closed-loop power control on the uplink (portable-to-base) direction. On the downlink (base-to-portable), convolutional codes, BPSK modulation with pilot-signal-assisted coherent reception, and multipath diversity are employed. Both fast and slow power control are considered for the downlink. The capacity of the CDMA system is evaluated in a multicell environment taking into account shadow fading, path loss, fast fading, and closed-loop power control. Fast power control on the downlink increases the capacity significantly. Capacity is also significantly impacted by the path loss exponent. Narrowband CDMA (system bandwidth of 1.25 MHz) requires artificial multipath generation on the downlink to achieve adequate capacity. For smaller path loss exponents, which are more likely in microcellular environments, artificial multipath diversity of an order of as high as 4 may be needed. Wideband CDMA systems (10 MHz bandwidth) achieve greater efficiencies in terms of capacity per MHz     

多载波CDMA容量的研究

该文对多载波CDMA容量规划进行了详细的理论和数学分析,推导出多载波CDMA上下行链路的容量的表达式,利用拉格朗日乘数求极值的方法,分别得到多载波CDMA话音和数据业务上下行链路最大容量;同时得出一个非常重要的结论:只有当即基站最大发射功率平均分配给每个子载波时,多载波CDMA系统才能获得最大的容量。该文还对影响容量的因素进行了仿真,各业务的容量随平均路径损耗的增加急剧下降。由此揭示了容量和覆盖的内在关系:容量和覆盖是相互制约的一对矛盾,容量的增加就意味着覆盖的减小,反之亦然。无论上下行链路,当功率达到一定程度时,再通过增大功率来提高容量并不是行之有效的方法。最后,通过对GSM,WCDMA,多载波CDMA 3个系统容量的比较,得出多载波CDMA下行链路频谱效率为WCDMA频谱效率的1.7倍,GSM 的2.7倍;上行链路频谱效率为WCDMA频谱效率的2.1倍,GSM 的2.4倍的结论。     

An Integrated Design Approach to 30/20 GHz Trunking Systems

A design procedure for 30/20 GHz trunking systems is presented which permits the joint optimization of the satellite links and the terrestrial links between diversity terminals of individual earth stations. This process involves the generation of uplink and downlink power control functions (PCF's), which depend on 1) the rapidity with which power control can be exercised, relative to the rate of variation of atmospheric attenuation, and 2) the available uplink and downlink HPA power. The PCF's combine to produce a link availability curve (LAC), which describes the uplink/downlink fade combinations for which a specified bit error rate (BER) can be maintained. The set of required terminal separation distances (TSD's) can generally be computed from the LAC, together with the marginal uplink and downlink attenuation distributions. Methods of implementing uplink and downlink power control are discussed. In particular, several alternatives for determination of uplink attenuation and selection of the appropriate transmit terminal are contrasted.     

3G主流标准小区用户最大容量研究

文章根据CDMA系统多用户干扰产生原理导出小区上下行链路用户速率为Rb时的最大用户数公式,据此公式可求出WCDMA、cdma2000和TD-SCDMA标准能提供的小区上下行链路最大用户数,接着导出小区上下行链路可以提供的最大速率Rbmax。文章结果证明只有采用TDMA方式的cdma20001xEV-DO或EDGE方式才能提供合理的高速无线接入Rb。     

Comparison of time slot allocation strategies for CDMA/TDD systems

The traffic (load) asymmetry between uplink and downlink is a remarkable traffic characteristic in cellular mobile multimedia communications. The code division multiple access system with time division duplex mode (CDMA/TDD system), adopting unbalanced slot allocation between uplink and downlink, is a good solution for this traffic asymmetry. However, the level of traffic asymmetry may be significantly different from cell to cell. In this paper, we investigate a slot allocation strategy (DA strategy), by which each cell has its own slot allocation according to the level of traffic asymmetry. We compute the system capacity with DA strategy and find out the optimal slot allocation for the system. We also compare the maximum capacity to that with another strategy (SA strategy), by which all cells have the same slot allocation. As a result, this paper shows that the system with DA strategy outperforms the system with SA strategy in the aspect of capacity     

智能天线在CDMA2000 1x EV-DO中的实现方案

讨论了智能天线技术及其在CDMA2000 1x EV—DO标准中的应用,否定了有关智能天线应用的传统观点：智能天线最适合用于上下行链路同频点的TDD（时分双工）系统。依据1x EV—DO标准支持上下行链路工作于FDDCDMA／TDMA模式和智能天线（SA）的定向收发信原理,对智能天线技术在CDMA2000 1x EV—DO标准中的实现提出了两种实现方案。两种方案需要估计出上行链路用户的DOA后,即可用一副SA实现单一载波上多个CDMA用户的定向接收,再将该DOA及时用于下行高速数据载波多个TDMA用户的定向发信,可大幅度提高上下行链路的频谱和功率的利用率。     

上下行信道不对称性对TDD-MIMO系统的影响

时分双工和多输入多输出技术均是超三代移动通信中的关键技术。在传统的关于时分双工的文献中,发送端信道状态信息均通过上下行信道的对称性获得。然而实际中由于受温度、湿度等影响,射频电路增益会缓慢变化,于是关于上下行信道对称的假设不再成立,这必定会对性能产生影响。本文详细分析了该影响并提出通过采用射频电路参数反馈法来解决这一问题。仿真结果表明,相对于传统的上行信道重用法,采用射频参数反馈法提高了系统信道容量。     

Repeaters for hotspot capacity in DS-CDMA networks

Currently, wireless operators around the world are building code-division multiple-access (CDMA) based radio access networks and big efforts are made to find the most cost effective way to do so. In this paper, the novel use of repeaters in a direct-sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) system such as UMTS to improve capacity in areas with hotspots (small areas with increased traffic volume) is studied through static Monte Carlo simulations. The performance of the repeaters is shown to be sensitive to tuning of the repeater gain. With correct tuning, the simulations show that the repeaters are very beneficial for the downlink, which is the capacity-limiting link. When repeaters covering the hotspots are introduced, the system is thus seen to tolerate more hotspot traffic. For a scenario in which the hotspots are located close to the cell border, the system tolerates approximately twice as high hotspot traffic load. For hotspots located halfway between the base station and the cell border, the system tolerates approximately 80% more hotspot traffic load. Also in the uplink, more hotspot traffic is tolerated when repeaters are introduced. The effect is smaller than for the downlink, however. The results indicate that repeaters are well suited to increase capacity of a WCDMA /UMTS system in hotspot areas.     

3G共存干扰分析

在WCDMA和CDMA2000组成的共存系统中,邻频干扰是影响系统性能的重要因素,分别从上下行链路两个方面理论分析了由CDMA2000系统引起的邻频干扰对WCDMA系统产生的影响。仿真结果表明,基站与移动台之间的距离、干扰移动台数、两系统之间的保护带宽都将不同程度地影响WCDMA基站的最小允许接收功率和WCDMA移动台的SIR,从而导致系统容量的下降。     

Sum Rate Characterization of Joint Multiple Cell-Site Processing

The sum-rate capacity of a cellular system model is analyzed, considering the uplink and downlink channels, while addressing both nonfading and flat-fading channels. The focus is on a simple Wyner-like multicell model, where the system cells are arranged on a circle, and the cell sites are located at the boundaries of the cells. For the uplink channel, analytical expressions of the sum-rate capacities are derived for intra-cell time-division multiple-access (TDMA) scheduling, and a “wideband” (WB) scheme (where all users are active simultaneously utilizing all bandwidths for coding). Assuming individual equal per-cell power constraints, and using the Lagrangian uplink–downlink duality principle, an analytical expression for the sum-rate capacity of the downlink channel is derived for nonfading channels, and shown to coincide with the corresponding uplink result. Introducing flat-fading, lower and upper bounds on the average per-cell ergodic sum-rate capacity are derived. The bounds exhibit an $O(log _{e} K)$ multiuser diversity factor for a number of users per cell $Kgg 1$ , in addition to the array diversity gain. Joint multicell processing is shown to eliminate out-of-cell interference, which is traditionally considered to be a limiting factor in high-rate reliable communications.      

LS码与、Walsh码的上行链路容量比较

该文首先分析了多径衰落信道下CDMA系统上行链路信道容量,文章对单用户接收机、多用户接收机两种情况下的信道容量分别作了讨论.对LS码和Walsh码的上行链路容量进行了比较.通过仿真可以看出在多用户检测条件下,两种扩频码提供的容量相差不大,而在单用户检测条件下,LS码则要大大优于Walsh码。     

Distributed timeslot allocation with crossed slots in CDMA‐TDD systems

Code division multiple access system with time division duplex (CDMA‐TDD) is a promising solution to cope with traffic asymmetry of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) in multimedia services. When a rate of asymmetry is different in each cell, CDMA‐TDD system may employ crossed slots, where a timeslot is used for different links in cells. However, it may suffer from base station (BS)‐to‐BS and mobile station (MS)‐to‐MS interference problem. Zone division scheme is an efficient way to tackle the crossed slot interference by dividing a cell into inner and outer zones and restricting communication in crossed slots only to inner zone. In this paper, we propose distributed crossed slot resource allocation with zone division in multi‐cell CDMA‐TDD system. Two conditions for crossed slot resource allocation are defined and the bound on the size of inner zone is analyzed mathematically based on the conditions. Relationship between the capacity of crossed slot and the size of inner zone is also analyzed. Then, numerical results of the mathematical analysis are presented; showing that the proposed crossed slot allocation is effective for traffic asymmetry problem. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Spatial Capacity of Multiple-Access Wireless Networks

We study the capacity of multiple-access networks both on uplink and downlink. In our model each user requires a given signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and the capacity region is obtained as a solution of a power allocation problem. In this paper, we emphasize the differences between uplink and downlink. The mathematical analysis of the capacity region is given in the framework of ergodic point processes and we show the links between the geometry of the network and its capacity region. On the downlink, we pay attention to various network architectures and levels of cooperation between base stations: macrodiversity, load balancing, and traditional cellular networks