Adaptive cochannel interference cancellation in space-time coded communication systems

Space-time coding is a powerful scheme that combines channel coding, modulation, and multiple transmit antennas to achieve higher data rates and combat fading in wireless systems. In this letter, we propose a multiple-input multiple-output minimum mean-square error spatial-filtering-based adaptive antenna arrays method to suppress cochannel interference (CCI) in space-time coded systems. It is shown that the proposed method can effectively suppress CCI while preserving the space-time structure, thereby significantly improving the system's interference suppression ability without significant bit error rate performance degradation.     

Interference suppressing for cellular MIMO system based on turbo receiver

Space-Time Coding （STC）, which combines channel coding, modulation, and multiple transmit antennas, is a powerful scheme to achieve higher data rates and combat fading in wireless systems, in this paper, we propose a soil/cancellation turbo equalization scheme to suppress Co-Channel Interference （CCI） in STC systems. The simulation results show that the proposed method significantly improves the system＇s ability of interference suppression, while preserving the space-time structure.     

Adaptive co-channel interference cancellation in space-time codedcommunication systems

A multi-input-multi-output, minimum mean squared error spatial filtering-based adaptive antenna array method is proposed to suppress co-channel interference (CCI) in space-time coded systems. It is shown that the proposed method can effectively suppress CCI while preserving the space-time structure, thereby significantly improving the system's interference suppression ability     

Transmitter diversity for OFDM systems and its impact on high-ratedata wireless networks

Transmitter diversity and down-link beamforming can be used in high-rate data wireless networks with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for capacity improvement. We compare the performance of delay, permutation and space-time coding transmitter diversity for high-rate packet data wireless networks using OFDM modulation. For these systems, relatively high block error rates, such as 10%, are acceptable assuming the use of effective automatic retransmission request (ARQ). As an alternative, we also consider using the same number of transmitter antennas for down-link beamforming as we consider for transmitter diversity. The investigation indicates that delay transmitter diversity with quaternary phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulation and adaptive antenna arrays provides a good quality of service (QoS) with low retransmission probability, while space-time coding transmitter diversity provides high peak data rates. Down-link beamforming together with adaptive antenna arrays, however, provides a higher capacity than transmitter diversity for typical mobile environments     

Space-time bit-interleaved coded modulation for OFDM systems

Space-time coding techniques significantly improve transmission efficiency in radio channels by using multiple transmit and/or receive antennas and coordination of the signaling over these antennas. Bit-interleaved coded modulation gives good diversity gains with higher order modulation schemes using well-known binary convolutional codes on a single transmit and receive antenna link. By using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), wideband transmission can be achieved over frequency-selective fading radio channels without adaptive equalizers. In this correspondence, we combine these three ideas into a family of flexible space-time coding methods. The pairwise error probability is analyzed based on the correlated fading assumption. Near-optimum iterative decoders are evaluated by means of simulations for slowly varying wireless channels. Theoretical evaluation of the achievable degree of diversity is also presented. Significant performance gains over the wireless local area network (LAN) 802.11a standard system are reported.     

LDPC-based space-time coded OFDM systems over correlated fadingchannels: Performance analysis and receiver design

We consider a space-time coded (STC) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas over correlated frequency- and time-selective fading channels. It is shown that the product of the time-selectivity order and the frequency-selectivity order is a key parameter to characterize the outage capacity of the correlated fading channel. It is also observed that STCs with large effective lengths and ideal built-in interleavers are more effective in exploiting the natural diversity in multiple-antenna correlated fading channels. We then propose a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-code-based STC-OFDM system. Compared with the conventional space-time trellis code (STTC), the LDPC-based STC can significantly improve the system performance by exploiting both the spatial diversity and the selective-fading diversity in wireless channels. Compared with the previously proposed turbo-code-based STC scheme, LDPC-based STC exhibits lower receiver complexity and more flexible scalability. We also consider receiver design for LDPC-based STC-OFDM systems in unknown fast fading channels and propose a novel turbo receiver employing a maximum a posteriori expectation-maximization (MAP-EM) demodulator and a soft LDPC decoder, which can significantly reduce the error floor in fast fading channels with a modest computational complexity. With such a turbo receiver, the proposed LDPC-based STC-OFDM system is a promising solution to highly efficient data transmission over selective-fading mobile wireless channels     

Generalized layered space-time codes for high data rate wireless communications

We present the architecture of generalized layered space-time codes (GLST) as a combination of Bell Labs layered space-time (BLAST) architecture and space-time coding (STC) in multiple-antenna wireless communication systems. This approach provides both spectral and power efficiency with moderate complexity. The framework is to partition all the available transmit antennas into groups and apply STC on each group as component codes. Based on the mappings from coded symbols to transmit antenna groups, we can construct different GLST systems. Particularly, horizontal mapping and diagonal mapping are introduced and referred to as HGLST and DGLST respectively. The basic decoding of GLST, under quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading environments and assuming perfectly known channel state information (CSI) at the receiver, combines group interference suppression and group interference cancellation techniques. As a result, the individual STC on each group is decoded serially. To improve the overall system performance, we derive the optimal power allocation among all space-time codewords without requiring the knowledge of CSI at the transmitter and suitable for all GLST systems. We also derive the optimal serial decoding order based on the channel realizations at the receiver for HGLST systems without power allocation. Simulation results show that both can provide much improvement. To further enhance the system performance, we propose a low complexity hard-decision iterative decoding method. This method efficiently exploits full receive antenna diversity and, hence, dramatically improves the system performance which is confirmed by simulation.     

Adaptive interference suppression in multiuser wireless OFDMsystems using antenna arrays

This paper considers the problem of mitigating fading and interference in wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple access communication systems. Applications include cellular mobile radio, wireless local loop, and wireless local area networks. The effect of interchannel interference (ICI) arising from time-selective fading and frequency offsets and co-channel interference (CCI) is analyzed. A loop-timing method that enables a synchronous uplink between multiple mobile transceivers and a base-station is described. Adaptive antenna arrays are utilized at the base for uplink reception, and optimum array combining based on the maximum SINR criterion is used for each subchannel over slowly time-varying channels. For operation over fast time-varying channels, a novel two-stage adaptive array architecture that incorporates combined spatial diversity and constraint-based beamforming is presented. While ICI alone is most effectively overcome by spatial diversity, combined beamforming and diversity are most effective to combat CCI in the presence of fading. The overall method is suitable for real-time implementation and can be used in conjunction with traditional coding schemes to increase the link-margin     

空时格码和OFDM系统联合建模及性能分析

发射端分集、编码和调制结合空时格码，可以有效地提高信号在无线衰落信道中传输的有效性和可靠性；在正交频分复用调制OFDM(Omiogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)系统中应用空时格码可以有效地对抗多径干扰，提高系统容量，适合于在高速无线数据通信中采用。本文详细地说明了它们结合的基础，进而构造了一个基于空时格码的OFDM系统模型，并分析了在高斯信道下的系统性能。     

Iterative detection and decoding with an improved V-BLAST for MIMO-OFDM systems

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems provide a very promising means to increase the spectral efficiency for wireless systems. By using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), wideband transmission can be achieved over frequency-selective fading radio channels. First, in this paper, we introduce an improved vertical Bell Labs layered space-time (V-BLAST) receiver which takes the decision errors into account. Second, we propose an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme for coded layered space-time architectures in MIMO-OFDM systems. For the iterative process, a low-complexity demapper is developed by making use of both nonlinear interference cancellation and linear minimum mean-square error filtering. Also, a simple cancellation method based on hard decision is presented to reduce the overall complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed IDD scheme combined with the improved V-BLAST performs almost as well as the optimal turbo-MIMO approach, while providing tremendous savings in computational complexity.     

基于OFDM的MIMO-SAR抗多径波形设计

针对雷达多径干扰问题,提出一种基于正交频分复用（OFDM）的多发多收合成孔径雷达（MIMO-SAR）抗多径波形设计方法。该方法基于频率分集原理,设计循环移位OFDM-LFM波形提升OFDM波形有效带宽,并针对该波形设计MIMO平台收发模型,结合多通道正交波形空时编码（STC）方案实现多通道接收信号分离,该波形设计方案对SAR多径干扰抑制有效。该方法可以解决多径干扰导致的目标分辨率低及虚假目标问题,在机载SAR高分辨率成像、车载SAR城市探测与智能驾驶等方面具备广阔应用前景。     

一种结合自适应信道估计的差分TC-OFDM系统

本文结合正交频分复用(OFDM)、格形编码调制(TCM)与差分编码,提出一种使用子信道交织技术的差分TC—OFDM系统,并在此基础上将信道估计引入系统接收机,提出了与解码相联合的SEWRLS自适应信道估计方法。计算机仿真结果表明,本文提出的联合系统能有效地克服宽带无线通信中的多径衰落,并在快衰落环境中具有很强的抗信道干扰能力。     

An efficient space-frequency coded OFDM system for broadband wireless communications

We propose an efficient space-frequency coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system for high-speed transmission over wireless links. The analytical expression for the pairwise probability of the proposed space-frequency coded OFDM system is derived in slow, space- and frequency-selective fading channels. The design criteria of trellis codes used in the proposed system are then developed and discussed. It is shown that the proposed space-frequency coded OFDM can efficiently achieve the full diversity provided by the fading channel with low trellis complexity, while for traditional space-frequency coded OFDM systems, we need to design space-time trellis codes with high trellis complexity to exploit the maximum achievable diversity order. The capacity properties of space-frequency coded OFDM over multipath fading channels are also studied. Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the significant performance improvement obtained by the proposed space-frequency coded OFDM scheme, as well as the excellent outage capacity properties.     

Broadband beamforming using Laguerre filters

Space-time processing is a well-substantiated method for designing broadband beamformers. In the conventional Frost space-time beamformer, tapped delay line (TDL) filters are used in each branch of the array to create a wideband response for interference suppression. In this article a new space-time beamforming method is introduced in which Laguerre filters replace the traditional TDL filters in the Frost beamformer. The Laguerre filters are fundamentally IIR filters but with only one pole in their structure. Unlike other IIR-based space-time beamforming methods, the proposed method does not need an adaptive procedure for the pole adjustment and is inherently stable. Simulation results show superior performance of the proposed method compared to the Frost beamformer and comparable results against other IIR-based beamformers with much less computational complexity and guaranteed stability.     

Iterative space-time soft interference cancellation for UMTS-FDD uplink

Two efficient pilot-aided iterative space-time interference cancellation receivers are studied in order to increase the uplink capacity of the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) in frequency-division duplex (FDD) mode. Both iterative schemes use low-complexity beamforming and path combining techniques associated with soft-input soft-output decoding to mitigate the multiple-access interference in space and time. The difference between the two techniques is in the way they deal with unknown channels: the addition of a space-time channel estimation in each iteration on the one hand and iterative adaptive beamforming and path combining on the other hand. Thanks to the iterative structure, the observation signal used for estimation or adaptation contains less interference from one iteration to the following, and soft estimates of coded bits are available for data-aided estimation or adaptation. A detailed complexity analysis shows that renewing beamforming and path combining in each iteration without a-priori knowledge of the channel has no significant impact on the overall complexity of one iteration. Simulations of true UMTS-FDD uplink communications over a wideband directional channel model reveal that near-single user performance can be obtained for very high system loads, whereas more conventional receivers, such as the interference canceller without beamforming and the two-dimensional RAKE receiver, fail in recovering the transmitted information.     

一种新的GPS接收机宽带干扰抑制方法

该文针对GPS扩频接收机空时自适应处理结构,提出了一种新的极大抑制干扰的波束形成算法。通过估计空时二维功率谱得到各干扰信号的导向矢量矩阵,并求解出该矩阵的一组最接近期望信号导向矢量的正交基,作为空时二维最优权值。仿真结果表明,该算法增强了空时自适应结构方向图的零陷深度,比传统宽带多线性约束LCMV算法更有效地进行干扰抑制,明显提高了信号干扰噪声比。     

高移动环境下利用无线信号空域特征实现OFDM系统的ICI消除

高移动性正交频分复用(OFDM)系统受多普勒扩展影响产生严重的子载波间干扰(ICI)。根据实际场景中无线信号的空域传播特征,采用WINNER II信道模型建模无线信道,提出利用阵列天线作为接收天线从空域角度消除ICI。该方法利用波达方向估计和波束形成网络对接收信号进行分离,并对分离后的各路信号分别做多普勒频偏补偿,最后将各路处理后的信号进行最大比合并获得多波束分集增益。仿真结果表明,所提方法可有效减小ICI和误码率平台,较处理前可获得5~7 dB的信干比增益。     

Space-time coding for MIMO systems with co-channel interference

We consider the design of space-time codes for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems operated in the presence of co-channel interference (CCI). Based on the pairwise probability of error analysis, we develop a new design criterion that determines the code robustness to CCI (CCI diversity gain). We further develop an algebraic framework for constructing space-time codes that jointly optimize the fading and CCI diversity gains. The proposed framework is general for arbitrary numbers of transmit antennas and quadrature amplitude modulation constellations. Numerical results that quantify the performance gains offered by the proposed techniques are also presented.     

Simplified receiver design for STBC binary continuous phase modulation

Existing space-time codes have focused on multiple- antenna systems with linear modulation schemes such as phase- shift keying and quadrature amplitude modulation. Continuous phase modulation (CPM) is an attractive scheme for digital transmission because of its constant envelope which is needed for power efficient transmitters. Recent research has shown that space-time coded CPM can achieve transmit diversity to improve performance while maintaining the compact spectrum of CPM signals. However, these efforts mainly combine space- time coding (STC) with CPM to achieve spatial diversity at the cost of a high decoding complexity. In this paper, we design space-time block codes (STBC) for binary CPM with modulation index h = 1/2 and derive low-complexity receivers for these systems. The proposed scheme has a much lower decoding complexity than STC CPM with the Viterbi decoder and still achieves near-optimum error performances.     

Joint Processing of Zero‐Forcing Detection and MAP Decoding for a MIMO‐OFDM System

We propose a new bandwidth‐efficient technique that achieves high data rates over a wideband wireless channel. This new scheme is targeted for a multiple‐input multiple‐output orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing (MIMO‐OFDM) system that achieves transmit diversity through a space frequency block code and capacity enhancement through the iterative joint processing of zero‐forcing detection and maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. Furthermore, the proposed scheme is compared to the coded Bell Labs Layered Space‐Time OFDM (BLAST‐OFDM) scheme.