基于TH-PPM-UWB多径信道下的Rake接收机性能分析

超宽带信号在无线信道中传播会产生严重的衰落和多径干扰等问题,而在抗多径干扰方面采用Rake接收机的方式是一种行之有效的手段.利用IEEE802.15.3a标准信道模型,采用TH-PPM调制方式对信道冲激响应的特性进行了分析,并对标准信道模型下的A-Rake,P-Rake和S-Rake三种接收机模型在不同的支路下的BER进行了对比分析.从仿真结果可以得出A-Rake为理想接收机性能最佳,相同支路下S-Rake接收机的性能要优于P-Rake接收机,但是随着支路数的增加两者的性能差距也越来越小.     

超宽带Rake接收机在密集多径信道下的性能

超宽带信号在室内环境中将经历密集多径传播,产生严重的时间弥敞。采用Rake接收是提高超宽带接收机性能的重要手段。该文针对采用BPSK调制的超宽带系统,推导出密集多径信道下Rake接收机的误码性能计算公式,揭示了Rake接收机性能与多径信道参数以及脉冲波形自相关系数之间的关系。针对典型信道模型和脉冲给出了计算实例。     

一种新的基于特征向量合并的超宽带系统分集方案

针对超宽带系统在室内环境中面临严重的多径衰落问题,通常在接收端需使用RAKE接收机来收集多径能量改善性能。该文提出了一种新的分集方案,在发送端信号进行预处理,在接收端使用RAKE合并收集多径能量,同时给出了基于信道矩阵特征值估计的最佳合并权重和时延参数估计算法。理论分析和仿真结果都表明,该算法得到的输出信噪比总是大于传统的RAKE接收机输出信噪比。     

无线移动信道中Rake接收机的多径分辨系数

本文研究了码分多址移动通信系统中RAKE接收机的特性在无线移动信道中一种新的衡量方式。目前已有的无线移动信道的衡量方式，只侧重于对无线电波传播过程的研究。如大尺寸环境路径损失，小尺寸环境多径衰落等；已有的RAKE接收机特性的衡量方式。即分辨多径个数和，只强调RAKE接收机能处理的多径对其性能的影响。这两种衡量方式已不能很好地衡量信道的特性对目前新型RAKE接收机的影响。本文提出了一种新的联合衡量无线信道及RAKE接收机特性的方式－多径分辨系数，它能很好地衡量无线移动信道对新型RAKE接收机的影响以及新型RAKE接收机算法的先进性。     

60 GHz芯片间无线互连系统的MMSE-RAKE接收机误码性能分析

针对60 GHz芯片间无线互连信道中存在的多径衰落问题,将匹配滤波器和最小均方误差算法应用到60 GHz脉冲通信系统,重点分析多径信道下采用最小均方误差合并算法的RAKE接收机的误码性能。在IEEE 802.15.3c信道模型的基础上,对采用不同合并方式、不同干扰用户数目下的RAKE接收机误码性能进行了研究。仿真结果表明,随着干扰芯片数量的增加,引入匹配滤波器和最小均方误差算法的RAKE接收机不仅降低了接收机的采样率,而且有效提高了系统抗多用户干扰的能力,为芯片间无线互连系统的RAKE接收机设计提供了技术参考。     

UWB信号与系统

对基于超宽带(UWB)信号的无线通信系统中的一些关键概念进行了综述。在无线密集多径信道条件下解释了UWB信号的定义,评价了新近提出的几种多径信道的统计模型,对UWB调制和多址方式、镜像多径信道的估计技术,以及基于最优模版和正弦模板UWB相关器的单用户接收机结构进行了总结。最后介绍了选择式RAKE接收机的最新研究进展。     

抑制DS-UWB多径干扰的RAKE-MLSE接收机

为达到高数据速率，直接序列超宽带（DS-UWB）系统通常使用低扩频增益，在密集多径信道中这可能会增强多径干扰（MPI）从而降低系统的性能。文中将最大序列似然估计（MLSE）引入DS-UWB接收机结构中来抑制MPI。推导了DS-UWB信号的MLSE公式，作为MLSE算法的近似提出采用RAKE-MLSE接收机结构来降低计算复杂度。使用Viterbi算法实现了该接收机，并在IEEE802．15．3a建议的室内信道中对一个DS-UWB系统进行仿真。仿真结果表明该接收机较一般RAKE接收机性能有很大提高。     

超宽带Rake接收机的性能分析

超宽带信号经多径信道传播会产生严重的时间弥散，采用Rake接收是提高超宽带接收机性能的重要手段。文中首先介绍了加性高斯白噪声信道模型和IEEE802．15．3a标准信道模型。通过比较分析几种典型调制的超宽带冲激无线电信号的最佳接收机，推广到Rake接收机的性能分析。重点分析并仿真了不同信道、不同调制方式、不同判决方式、不同合并方式、不同速率的情况下Rake接收机的性能。     

频率复用DS/CDMA系统中自适应盲多用户检测的一种方法

该文给出一种工作于强窄带干扰(NBI)多径衰落信道中DS/CDMA系统盲多用户检测接收机模型。它具有RAKE接收机的基本结构,在每一条并行支路中利用MMSE准则跟踪各路径信号。因此具有抗多径衰落,同时抑制NBI和多址接入干扰(MAI)的能力。模拟结果证明,它的性能优于未考虑NBI抑制的多用户检测接收机。     

60 GHz芯片间无线互连系统中的Rake接收性能

在60 GHz芯片间无线互连信道中存在着多径干扰问题,采用Rake接收是提高系统性能的重要手段。针对脉冲超宽带( IR-UWB)的芯片间无线互连系统,分析了多径信道下Rake接收机的误码性能。在IEEE 802.15.3 c信道模型基础上,对不同分支数以及不同合并方案下的选择Rake ( S-Rake)和部分Rake(P-Rake)接收机误码性能进行了研究。仿真结果表明采用支路数为2的P-Rake在数据速率为10 Gb/s时仍具有良好的抗多径性能,这为芯片间无线互连系统的Rake接收方案提供了技术参考。     

Performance of DS-CDMA receivers with MRC in nakagami-m fading channels with arbitrary fading parameters

The receivers that combine spatial antenna diversity with temporal multipath diversity are known as two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receivers. In this paper, we consider the outage probability and the bit error rate performance of a coherent binary phase shift keying 2-D RAKE receiver in the context of an asynchronous direct sequence (DS)-code division multiple access (CDMA) system operating in a Nakagami-m fading channel with real and arbitrary fading parameters. The closed-form expressions derived for the two wireless performance measures are easily evaluated numerically and enable the link designer to examine the effects of system parameters, such as the number of receive antennas, RAKE fingers per antenna, and asynchronous CDMA users in the cell, as well as channel conditions, such as the amount of fading in the combined paths and the multipath intensity profile of the channel on the link performance. In addition, the diversity loss due to correlated fading among the spatially separated RAKE fingers is quantified.     

A statistical approach to the analysis of DS/CDMA cellular systemsemploying RAKE receivers and sectorized antennas

RAKE receivers and sectorized antennas are used in direct-sequence/code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) cellular systems to improve the system performance. This paper presents a statistical method for analyzing the performance of DS/CDMA cellular radio systems employing RAKE receivers and sectorized antennas. Average bit error rates in the system are estimated considering the multipath fading effects of the environment. (The fast fading is assumed to be Rayleigh distributed, and the distance-dependent means of the multipath components have an exponential power delay profile.) The analysis of RAKE receivers quantifies the performance improvement that could be achieved by increasing the number of RAKE fingers. Sectorized antennas improve the system performance by reducing the interference at the receiver. In a perfectly sectorized system, assuming three sectors per cell, the capacity of the system can be improved by a factor of three. However, due to the imperfection in practical antennas, it is not possible to achieve this improvement. The performance of systems employing practical sectorized antennas (with finite front-to-back ratios and overlapping sectors) is compared with the performance of perfectly sectorized systems. The analysis shows that the incremental performance improvement diminishes with each incremental increase in the number of RAKE fingers. Performance degradation due to finite front-to-back ratio is shown to be insignificant for practical values of the front-to-back ratio of sectorized antennas. However, the reliability of mobile reception can be degraded significantly in areas where adjacent sectors overlap     

Performance of a Multicarrier CDMA System with Rayleigh Fading Multipath Channels

This paper examines the performance of a multicarrier CDMA system in a Rayleigh fading channel without a RAKE receiver. Since the multicarrier technique is a diversity reception technique used in the frequency domain, the signal is transmitted at different frequency bands and undergoes different fading. The superimposed signal of the multipath components after going through the mobile channel will be processed by an Fourier Transform to enter the frequency domain, where the time delays in various paths are converted to the phase shifts in the compound signal. In this paper, we use sounding bits to extract the characteristics of the mobile channel and to partly remove the multipath effect. From the simulation, it is found that the multicarrier technique is simpler than the technique used in the single carrier system with a RAKE receiver while producing a better performance than that of the RAKE receiver.     

Impact of spreading bandwidth on RAKE reception in dense multipathchannels

Spread spectrum (SS) multiple access techniques have been proposed for third generation broadband wireless access. We develop an analytical framework to quantify the effects of spreading bandwidth on SS systems operating in dense multipath environments in terms of the receiver performance, receiver complexity, and multipath channel parameters. In particular, we consider wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) Gaussian channels with frequency-selective fading. The focus of the paper is to characterize the combined signal of the RAKE receiver fingers tracking the strongest multipath components. Closed form expressions for the mean and the variance of the total RAKE receiver output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are derived in terms of the number of RAKE fingers, spreading bandwidth, and multipath spread of the channel. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transforming the physical RAKE paths into the virtual path domain. A representative result indicates that for SS systems with 5 MHz signal bandwidth operating in a channel with constant power delay profile having 5 μs spread, the average SNR gain from increasing the number of RAKE fingers from one to three is 3.8 dB and from three to five is 1.5 dB. Furthermore, the reduction in the variation of SNR is 1.1 dB and 0.4 dB for the same increments in the number of fingers     

Performance analysis of an improved multi‐carrier CDMA system under frequency‐selective Rayleigh fading channels

In this article, an analytical method is proposed to study an improved orthogonal multi‐carrier DS/CDMA system, which uses QPSK for both spreading and carrier modulations without redundant sub‐carriers and time interleavers in each sub‐channel. The article concerns in particular such a system and its performance under frequency‐selective Rayleigh fading channels with various delay‐power profiles. The bit error probabilities under varying multipath‐diversity orders (using maximal ratio combing RAKE reception) and different numbers of resolvable multipaths are derived. It has been shown that the system, despite of its structural simplicity, performs well in mitigating frequency‐selective fading. The performance is also evaluated taking into account various other parameter sets, such as numbers of users and sub‐carriers, lengths of PN codes and the number of fingers in an RAKE receiver, etc. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Conditions and Performance of Ideal RAKE Reception for Ultra-Wideband Signals in Lognormal Fading Channels

In this paper, the conditions and performance of ideal RAKE reception for time hopping Ultra-Wideband (UWB) investigated. Owing to the complex propagation phenomena and specific structure of UWB signals, new problems relevant to the operation of RAKE receivers arise. This motivates us to reconsider the conditions under which a RAKE receiver can work effectively with negligible interference between fingers. Key findings are that the conditions not only relate to the property of time hopping codes, but also modulation methods. An analytical technique is introduced to derive explicit expressions of RAKE performance for various combining methods for a lognormal fading channel. Numerical results show that RAKE reception can largely improve the performance, and equal gain combining has comparable performance to maximum ratio combining.     

A generalized RAKE receiver for interference suppression

Currently, a global third-generation cellular system based on code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is being developed with a wider bandwidth than existing second-generation systems. The wider bandwidth provides increased multipath resolution in a time-dispersive channel, leading to higher frequency-selectivity. A generalized RAKE receiver for interference suppression and multipath mitigation is proposed. The receiver exploits the fact that time dispersion significantly distorts the interference spectrum from each base station in the downlink of a wideband CDMA system. Compared to the conventional RAKE receiver, this generalized RAKE receiver may have more fingers and different combining weights. The weights are derived from a maximum likelihood formulation, modeling the intracell interference as colored Gaussian noise. This low-complexity detector is especially useful for systems with orthogonal downlink spreading codes, as orthogonality between own cell signals cannot be maintained in a frequency-selective channel. The performance of the proposed receiver is quantified via analysis and simulation for different dispersive channels, including Rayleigh fading channels. Gains on the order of 1-3.5 dB are achieved, depending on the dispersiveness of the channel, with only a modest increase in the number of fingers. For a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) system and a realistic mobile radio channel, this translates to capacity gains of the order of 100%     

Combined multiuser detection and diversity reception for wirelessCDMA systems

Code division multiple-access (CDMA) techniques using interference cancellation are being explored for the capacity increase in third-generation universal mobile telecommunications systems. However, multipath fading is a major constraint on the performance of wireless CDMA systems, with multipath propagation worsening the effects of multiple-access interference, and fading on propagation paths leading to the near far problem. Multiuser detection, exploiting the knowledge of other users to cancel multiple-access interference, has the capability of eliminating the near far problem and providing a significant capacity increase in CDMA systems. On the other hand, diversity techniques effectively combat the fading effects of the channel. This paper investigates multiuser receivers that combine explicit antenna diversity, RAKE multipath diversity, and multipath decorrelating detection. Both coherent reception with maximal-ratio combining and differentially coherent reception with equal-gain combining are analyzed. The results demonstrate a significant increase in up-link capacity over the conventional RAKE receiver, at the expense of complexity. In the case of limited receiver complexity, where the number of correlators is less than the number of resolvable paths at the RAKE front-end, antenna diversity is shown to be effective in reducing residual multiple-access interference