Laboratory Measurements and a Theoretical Analysis of the TCT Fading Channel Radio System

This paper documents the laboratory and theoretical performance of a pilot-aided digital radio system. The technique considered transmits a midband pilot tone to improve the receiver data detection performance in a multipath fading channel and is referred to as the tone calibrated technique (TCT). We report on the performance of a 860 MHz prototype system carrying 2.4 kbit/s data under Rician fading conditions. Both experimental and analytical results show that the error floor experienced with nonpilot-aided transmission methods is effectively removed by the TCT scheme, resulting in significant performance gains at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values. The paper also examines the TCT system performance under typical operating conditions and presents a new analysis of the TCT theoretical error probability.     

Comments on tone calibration in time varying fading

An analysis of tone calibration techniques (TCTs) that examines the validity of the slow fading assumptions is presented. TCT systems previously proposed will produce an error floor, albeit a very low one. The requirements for the elimination of the error floor and the error floor produced in a typical TCT system are examined. Monte Carlo integration techniques are used to evaluate integrals containing the isotropic fading spectrum     

A spread-spectrum based synchronization technique for digitalbroadcast systems

A technique that has been verified experimentally to improve the synchronization efficiency of digital communication systems over present systems without sacrificing reliability is presented. This technique is called the spread-spectrum system pilot technique (SSPT). Incorporated into this technique are elements of tone-calibrated techniques (TCT) and spread-spectrum systems. In the SSPT system, the desired pilot tone is modulated by a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) generator of finite duration and then linearly added to the source (customer) data that is actually being sent. At the receiver, the same finite PRBS sequence is used to decode the received signal. The system works because it provides an accurate version of the actual data carrier to be used in demodulation of the received signal. Based on the research presented, it is expected that this type of system will lead to better performance than currently used transparent-tone-in-band and other techniques used in multipath fading environments, which are especially problematic in mobile broadcast and communication applications     

A dual-tone reference digital demodulator for mobile digitalcommunication

A demodulator applicable to the dual-pilot tone modulation technique is presented. Examination of orthogonal and ISI (intersymbol interference) free pulse shapes leads to the novel demodulator structure. This demodulator is advantageous because the processing is strictly linear, the pilot channel and data channel ideally do not interfere or create self-noise, no differential encoding is required since no phase ambiguity is created with the pilot tone processing, and near ideal bit error probability performance is achieved. This demodulator offers an alternative to the transmitted tone-in-band and the pilot symbol assisted modulation techniques. The author considers π/4-QPSK modulation with 33% excess bandwidth in the isotropic time-varying fading channel as a design example     

Phase-Locked Transparent Tone-in-Band (TTIB): A New Spectrum Configuration Particularly Suited to the Transmission of Data Over SSB Mobile Radio Networks

The paper describes a new pilot tone SSB configuration, transparent tone-in-band (TTIB), which may be used in mobile radio systems from low-band VHF to microwave frequencies. By utilizing audio signal processing techniques in the transmitter and receiver, the pilot reference tone may be positioned centrally within the RF channel bandwidth without losing the property of data transparency and also retains the many system advantages of tone-in-band SSB over the pilot carrier and tone-above-band schemes. Besides speech transmissions, results are presented for noncoherent FSK and DPSK data formats under white noise and Rayleigh fading conditions. Finally, a new technique utilizing TTIB is suggested to facilitate the use of coherent data systems.     

Maximum likelihood sequence detection using a pilot tone

This paper derives, analyzes, and simulates a maximum likelihood (ML) sequence detector (MLSD) for a linearly modulated signal transmitted with a pilot tone (PT-MLSD). The transmitted signal is distorted by a time-varying frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel and corrupted by additive Gaussian noise. The received signal is unsynchronized in that there are residual carrier frequency, carrier phase, and symbol timing offsets. The PT-MLSD treats the channel as a stochastic process, and so symbol sequences are distinguished by their autocovariances. Coherent communication is possible even in overspread channels. As the sequences' autocovariances explicitly account for the channel's time variation, the PT-MLSD's bit error rate (BER) floor is normally lower than the BER floor suffered by receivers that estimate the channel impulse response conventionally. Both the data-bearing signal and pilot tone are used together for synchronization, equalization, and detection. The pilot tone is only needed to remove the constellation's phase ambiguity and provide a stable amplitude reference for QAM constellations. It is not needed for estimating the channel impulse response. The pilot tone does not require a spectral null for its insertion, and it does not significantly degrade the peak-to-average or maximum-to-minimum power ratios. Thus, many of the disadvantages of other pilot tone systems are avoided, as there is no bandwidth expansion, and linear amplification is not made appreciably more difficult     

Artificial Neural Network Channel Estimation Based on Levenberg-Marquardt for OFDM Systems

The many advantages responsible for the widespread application of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are limited by the multipath fading. In OFDM systems, channel estimation is carried out by transmitting pilot symbols generally. In this paper, we propose an artificial neural network (ANN) channel estimation technique based on levenberg-marquardt training algorithm as an alternative to pilot based channel estimation technique for OFDM systems over Rayleigh fading channels. In proposed technique, there are no pilot symbols which added to OFDM. Therefore, this technique is more bandwidth efficient compared to pilot-based channel estimation techniques. Also, this technique is making full use of the learning property of neural network. By using this feature, there is no need of any matrix computation and the proposed technique is less complex than the pilot based techniques. Simulation results show that ANN based channel estimator gives better results compared to the pilot based channel estimator for OFDM systems over Rayleigh fading channel.     

Mobile digital communications via tone calibration

A new digital signaling technique that is particularly suited for channels impaired by multipath fading is presented. The proposed modulation scheme employs a continuous-wave (CW) tone to calibrate the mobile channel against the multipath-induced phase uncertainties. This technique is applicable to quaternary phase shift keying as well as to more complicated signal constellations such as M-ary phase shift keyed schemes. The advantages of tone calibration are: 1) robustness of the receiver and 2) elimination of the link dependent error floor. Furthermore, since the CW tone can also be used for coherent signal demodulation, carrier phase acquisition can be achieved within a bit time. This property is particularly attractive when a burst of data with a short burst length has to be detected. This radio technique is useful for both the terrestrial mobile and the newer satellite-aided mobile communication (SAMC) services.     

Iterative frequency domain channel estimation for dft-precoded ofdm systems using in-band pilots

We consider two techniques of in-band frequency domain multiplexed (FDM) pilots using interleaved frequency domain multiple access (IFDMA) signal with a Chu sequence for DFT-precoded OFDM (or single-carrier (SC)) systems. One, called frequency domain superimposed pilot technique (FDSPT), superimposes pilot tones onto scaled or deleted data tones, which preserves spectral efficiency at the expense of a slight performance loss. The other, called frequency expanding technique (FET), multiplexes pilot tones by displacing data tones, which slightly reduces spectral efficiency. Using FDM pilots in SC systems facilitates flexible and efficient assignment of signals to available spectrum. We propose an iterative frequency domain decision-directed interference cancellation technique to reduce the intersymbol interference level of SC signals with FDSPT pilots (resulting from the suppression of data tones). Moreover, we propose a low complexity frequency domain iterative decision-directed channel estimation (IDDCE) technique for SC systems using FDM pilots. Using IDDCE, the frame error rate (FER) performance for coded SC systems using FET and FDSPT pilots with interference cancellation is found to be about 0.2 dB and about 0.5 dB, respectively, away from the FER performance with known channel frequency response at FER=10^-2. FDSPT pilots can also be used for OFDM systems with channel coding. It is found that an extra 1 dB of SNR is required at FER=10^-2,compared with that using the conventional FET pilots for OFDM systems.     

Pilot Position Selection and Detection for Channel Estimation of SC-FDE

In this letter, we propose a simple pilot position selection/detection technique for channel estimation of single- carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE). Unlike the conventional channel estimation techniques such as frequency domain superimposed pilot technique (FDSPT), the proposed scheme selects the pilot positions to minimize the distortion of original signals caused by the loss of useful data tones in frequency domain. The corresponding receiver structure is also presented, where the pilot positions are blindly detected and the distorted data symbols are iteratively reconstructed. Simulation results show that the proposed system gives better BER performance than the FDSPT and approaches the lower bound of SC-FDE.     

Performance of tone calibration with frequency offset and imperfectpilot filter [mobile radio]

A relatively complete analytical treatment of TCT (tone-calibrated transmission) error rate is presented. It includes the effects of Rice and Rayleigh fading. frequency offsets, and a selection of nonidealities in the receiver's pilot tone filter. Such nonidealities are shown to result in the reappearance of an error floor, which is quantified and shown to be insignificant except for extreme fading rates. Comparison with differentially detected PSK (phase-shift keying) shows that TCT provides a lower bit error rate in the noise-limited region and a much lower (by orders of magnitude) error floor in the random FM limited region     

First-order PMD monitoring for NRZ data using RF clock regeneration techniques

We propose and demonstrate two novel techniques for 10 Gb/s polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) monitoring for NRZ signals that use a regenerated RF clock tone as a monitoring signal. Our techniques regenerate the RF clock tone that is usually absent after square-law detection in the electrical NRZ data spectrum (in the absence of dispersion). Our first technique uses a dispersive element in the monitoring tap-line to put the beat terms between the optical clock sidebands and the carrier in phase and thus regenerates the RF clock tone after detection. Our second technique involves the use of an optical filter that is centered at the bit rate frequency on either the upper or lower sideband of the optical spectrum, removing one of the sidebands and thus preventing the beating that normally cancels the RF clock tone. We show (theoretically, via simulation, and experimentally) the effect that PMD has on these regenerated RF clock tones. We also demonstrate PMD compensation at 10 Gb/s using these techniques for monitoring and show a 6-dB improvement in the 1% power penalty tail. Our techniques are simple, do not require modification at the transmitter, and can be applied to WDM systems via the use of a multichannel dispersive element or a tunable filter swept across all channels.     

Random coding error exponents for flat fading channels withrealistic channel estimation

There has been a considerable interest in determining the limits to communications over multipath fading channels. However, most studies have assumed that the channel is perfectly known at the receiver. In this paper, the random coding error exponent for flat fading channels with realistic channel state information (CSI) is studied. It is assumed that the CSI is obtained via some practical technique which utilizes a linear estimation scheme. Two commonly used techniques for channel estimation are considered in this paper, namely pilot tone extraction and pilot symbol transmission. The degradation in the achievable performance due to partial CSI is assessed and comparison of the different channel estimation methods is made. The focus of this paper is on the Jake's mobile Rayleigh flat fading model. Although Jake's model does not have a Markov property, such as that found in the commonly used exponential correlation model, which is usually attractive from the mathematical tractability point of view, Jake's model has a physical basis. Also, this model is considered herein from the standpoint of the random coding exponent. The results in this paper shed light on the amount of degradation in the achievable performance that is expected when the receiver has partial CSI. Finally, the sensitivity of the loss in achievable performance for the various channel estimation techniques with respect to channel parameters, such as Doppler spread and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), is studied     

On codes with spectral nulls at rational submultiples of the symbol frequency

In digital data transmission (respectively, storage systems), line codes (respectively, recording codes) are used to tailor the spectrum of the encoded sequences to satisfy constraints imposed by the channel transfer characteristics or other system requirements. For instance, pilot tone insertion requires codes with zero mean and zero spectral density at tone frequencies. Embedded tracking/focus servo signals produce similar needs. Codes are studied with spectral nulls at frequenciesf=kf_{s}/n, wheref, is the symbol frequency andk, nare relatively prime integers withk leq n;in other words, nulls at rational submultiples of the symbol frequency. A necessary and sufficient condition is given for a null atfin the form of a finite discrete Fourier transform (DFT) running sum condition. A corollary of the result is the algebraic characterization of spectral nulls which can be simultaneously realized. Specializing to binary sequences, we describe canonical Mealy-type state diagrams (directed graphs with edges labeled by binary symbols) for each set of realizable spectral nulls. Using the canonical diagrams, we obtain a frequency domain characterization of the spectral null systems obtained by the technique of time domain interleaving.     

Pilot symbol assisted coding

Proposed is a novel technique, hereby referred to as pilot symbol assisted coding (PSAC), where a predetermined fraction of binary pilot symbols is interspersed with the channel-coded bits at the channel coding stage, instead of multiplexing the pilots with the data symbols at the modulation stage, as in classic pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM). It is demonstrated that the PSAC succeeds in gleaning more benefits from the pilot overhead investment, than just simply the capability of channel estimation such as in the PSAM technique.     

一种有效的MIMO OFDM信道估计方法

传统的MIMO OFDM信道估计方法总是假设信道在由若干OFDM符号组成的每一帧的传输过程中保持不变,但这个假设在快变信道的条件下就不成立了.本文提出了一种适合快变信道的有效的估计方法.该方法通过在每个OFDM符号中设置若干训练子载波来跟踪快变的信道.首先讨论了在每个OFDM符号中所需的训练子载波的数目及其相应的位置,给出了在多发射天线多接收天线条件下的训练子载波的正交结构,然后在估计出训练子载波处的信道频率响应后.提出了一种不同于根据邻近训练子载波进行线性插值的以获得用于传输数据的子载波的信道频率响应的方法.仿真结果表明了我们所提出的方法的有效性.     

自动交换光网络中的光通路路由状态监测技术

本文介绍了光传送网（OTN）中光通路路由状态监测的概念、要求和意义；系统地介绍了目前发展起来的各种技术，包括间接监测法、局限于节眯内部的标记加载/监测/去除法、全网范围的标记加载/监测法，给出了各方法的典型例子，比较了各自的优缺点；最后，对光通路路由状态监测提出了看法。     

Dynamic wavelet-based pilot allocation algorithm for OFDM-based cognitive radio systems

In a cognitive radio system, the goal is to make better use of the radio electric spectrum, allowing non-licensed users access to those currently unused electromagnetic bands assigned to licensed users (LUs). This can be achieved using OFDM, where the non-licensed users must select the temporarily available subcarriers and turn off those subcarriers used by LUs in order to avoid interference. Hence, only a subset of the subcarriers can be used for data or pilot tone transmission. To this end, some pilot allocation algorithms have been proposed for this dynamic scenario, but they are designed in such away that an equispaced pilot placement is respected (as much as possible) while minimizing the mean squared error of the channel estimate. Nevertheless, this equispaced placement can lead to the use of an increased number of pilots in order to achieve a good channel estimation. In this work, a new pilot allocation algorithm based on wavelet transform is presented. The proposed algorithm uses the discrete wavelet transform to analyze the previous channel state information, taking the knowledge of the available subcarriers into account to provide a suboptimal solution for the pilot positions. This solution leads to a non-equispaced pilot placement, which improves the channel estimation and consequently, the system performance. Likewise, the introduced algorithm allows a reduction of the number of necessary pilots, which aids in increasing the data rate. Finally, simulation results corroborate the effectiveness of the algorithm in dynamic channel scenarios.     

Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring Technique Using Pilot Tone Carried by Broadband Light Source

We propose and demonstrate a simple chromatic dispersion monitoring technique based on the pilot tone generated by a broadband light source (BLS). Previously, the pilot tone has been obtained by directly modulating each transmitter laser with a small sinusoidal current. Thus, for use in the wavelength-division- multiplexed (WDM) network, each transmitter should be modulated with a unique pilot tone. However, we obtain the pilot tone by modulating an additional BLS such as a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier. Thus, there is no need to modulate each transmitter laser. We evaluate the performance of the proposed technique in an 8$, times ,$10 Gb/s WDM system. The result shows that, unlike the conventional pilot-tone-based monitoring technique, the performance of this technique is almost insensitive to the polarization-mode dispersion.      

认知无线电中的稀疏信道估计与导频优化

认知无线电技术能充分利用闲置的频谱进行数据传输,从而提高频谱利用率。而稀疏信道估计能充分发掘无线信道的稀疏性,从而节省导频开销,并进一步提高频谱利用率。因此,该文研究了采用稀疏信道估计的认知无线电系统及导频优化,将信道估计转化为稀疏重建问题,以最小化观测矩阵的互相关为目标进行优化,并提出了一种快速的导频优化算法。该算法通过灵活设置外循环和内循环次数,实现了对导频序列进行逐位置的替换与优化。仿真结果表明,相比于最小二乘信道估计,稀疏信道估计能节省72.4%的导频开销,提高8.2%的频谱利用率;此外,该导频优化算法优于目前的随机优化算法,在相同的0.012误码率性能下,相比后者能节省约5 dB的信噪比。