Adaptive Transmit Diversity with Quadrant Phase Constraining Feedback

An adaptive transmit diversity scheme with quadrant phase constraining feedback is proposed in this paper. With simple linear operations at both transmitter and receiver, the proposed algorithm can achieve better system performances with only 2M−2 bits of feedback information for systems with M transmit antennas. Theoretical performance bounds of the proposed transmit diversity scheme are derived. Simulation examples and theoretical analyses show that the proposed transmit diversity scheme outperforms not only the conventional open-loop transmit diversity techniques, but also some closed-loop transmit diversity techniques with more information transmitted in the feedback channel.     

Transmit antenna shuffling for quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes with linear receivers

In this letter, we propose a transmit antenna shuffling scheme for quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (QO-STBCs). We show that by adaptively mapping the space-time sequences of the QO-STBC to the appropriate transmit antennas depending on the channel condition, the proposed scheme can improve its transmit diversity with limited feedback information. The performance of the scheme with various numbers of shuffling patterns is analyzed. The bit error probability of the schemes is evaluated by simulations. It is demonstrated that with the linear zero-forcing (ZF) and the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) receivers, the closed-loop QO-STBC using two feedback bits can achieve almost the same performance as the ideal 4-path diversity and it is about 4-5 dB better than the open loop schemes.     

Performance Comparison of MIMO-STBC Systems with Adaptive Semiblind Channel Estimation Scheme

Wireless communication is now a part of everyday life in the urban areas. Wireless LAN is mostly utilized communication system as an example. These wireless devices are data rate and range limited, for which the scientists are spending great efforts on finding ways to overcome these limitations. Multi input multi output (MIMO) antenna systems are the example through which these limitations have been reduced upto great extent which provides multilayer beamforming, diversity, and spatial multiplexing. Analysis of adaptive semiblind channel estimation scheme for MIMO antenna array systems with different code rate space time block coding (STBC) has been performed using the adaptive pilot assisted modulation scheme proposed earlier. Semi blind channel estimation method provides the best trade-off in terms of bandwidth overhead, computational complexity and latency. The result after using MIMO systems shows higher data rate and longer transmit range without any requirement of additional bandwidth or transmit power. This paper presents the detailed analysis of diversity coding techniques using MIMO antenna systems. Different STBC schemes have been explored and analyzed with the different code rate STBC using MATLAB environment and the simulated results have been compared in the semiblind environment which shows the improvement even in highly correlated antenna arrays, and is found close to the condition when channel state information is known to the channel.     

Adaptive precoding and power allocation in distributed antenna systems with limited feedback

This paper introduces the limited feedback precoding into the distributed antenna system and proposes to adapt the predetermined orthogonal space time block codes to the available channel state information at the transmitter. The optimal representation of precoding information, namely the precoder, with least bits therefore becomes the key problem. Inspired by the characteristics of the distributed antenna system, we focus our work on the precoder construction, adaptable in response to the large and small scale fading, such that the symbol error probability is significantly reduced over that of a fixed, non‐adaptive, independent and identically distributed precoder codebook design. Furthermore, a suboptimal power‐loading strategy is presented by minimizing the derived tight upper bound on the average pairwise error probability of the precoded orthogonal space time block codes, which approaches the optimal performance asymptotically without additional channel knowledge other than the available feedback information. We prove that the proposed precoded orthogonal space time transmission scheme can achieve full diversity order. In particular, the robustness of our proposed transmission scheme to channel estimation error and feedback delay is respectively investigated in some detail, and numerical results show that it obviously improves the link reliability and obtains substantial gains even with few bits of feedback in comparison with conventional antenna selection scheme. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications

This paper presents a simple two-branch transmit diversity scheme. Using two transmit antennas and one receive antenna the scheme provides the same diversity order as maximal-ratio receiver combining (MRRC) with one transmit antenna, and two receive antennas. It is also shown that the scheme may easily be generalized to two transmit antennas and M receive antennas to provide a diversity order of 2M. The new scheme does not require any bandwidth expansion or any feedback from the receiver to the transmitter and its computation complexity is similar to MRRC     

Superposition-based adaptive modulated space time block coding for MIMO-OFDM systems

We propose a superposition-based adaptive modulated STBC (SPAM-STBC) for MIMO-OFDM systems to improve adaptive modulation optimization of space time block coding (STBC). When transmit antennas have the different channel conditions, the previous adaptive modulated STBC selects the same modulation based on averaging of the multiple channel gains. If the different modulation is selected to each transmit antenna, the STBC decoding problem occurs. In this letter, we select the optimal modulation corresponding to each channel condition by the superpositioned space time encoding and decoding. Simulation shows the proposed SPAM-STBC scheme outperforms both the fixed and adaptive modulated STBC schemes by the maximum 0.407 bits/sec/Hz in terms of spectral efficiency.     

Adaptive Channel‐Matched Extended Alamouti Space‐Time Code Exploiting Partial Feedback

Since the publication of Alamouti's famous space‐time block code, various quasi‐orthogonal space‐time block codes (QSTBC) for multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) fading channels for more than two transmit antennas have been proposed. It has been shown that these codes cannot achieve full diversity at full rate. In this paper, we present a simple feedback scheme for rich scattering (flat Rayleigh fading) MIMO channels that improves the coding gain and diversity of a QSTBC for 2ⁿ (n = 3, 4,…) transmit antennas. The relevant channel state information is sent back from the receiver to the transmitter quantized to one or two bits per code block. In this way, signal transmission with an improved coding gain and diversity near to the maximum diversity order is achieved. Such high diversity can be exploited with either a maximum‐likelihood receiver or low‐complexity zero‐forcing receiver.     

Adaptive space-time transmission with side information

In this letter, a simple adaptive transmit diversity technique with side information is presented. The proposed scheme has a number of attractive characteristics. First, it is simple to implement. Second, it is efficient in terms of bandwidth requirements for side information feedback. Finally, it adapts to the quality of the side information to accordingly configure the space-time signal set to be transmitted so that additional gain in signal-to-noise ratio can be achieved at the receiver. In effect, it can be viewed as a flexible combination of suboptimal beamforming and space-time block coding.     

Weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes

In existing grouped multilevel space-time trellis codes (GMLSTTCs), the groups of transmit antennas are predefined, and the transmit power is equally distributed across all transmit antennas. When the channel parameters are perfectly known at the transmitter, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming scheme can achieve the better performance by optimum grouping of transmit antennas and properly weighting transmitted signals based on the available channel information. In this paper, we present a new code designed by combining GMLSTTCs, adaptive antenna grouping and beamforming using the channel state information at transmitter (CSIT), henceforth referred to as weighted adaptively grouped multilevel space time trellis codes (WAGMLSTTCs). The CSIT is used to adaptively group the transmitting antennas and provide a beamforming scheme by allocating the different powers to the transmit antennas. Simulation results show that WAGMLSTTCs provide improvement in error performance of 2.6 dB over GMLSTTCs.     

Performance analysis of space-time transmitter diversity techniques for WCDMA using long range prediction

Transmitter diversity in the downlink of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems achieves similar performance gains to the mobile-station receiver diversity without the complexity of a mobile-station receiver antenna array. Pre-RAKE precoding at the transmitter can be employed to achieve the multipath diversity without the need of the RAKE receiver at the mobile station. We examine feasibility of several transmitter diversity techniques and precoding for the third-generation wideband CDMA (WCDMA) systems. In particular, selective transmit diversity, transmit adaptive array and space-time pre-RAKE (STPR) techniques are compared. It is demonstrated that the STPR method is the optimal method to combine antenna diversity and temporal precoding. This method achieves the gain of maximum ratio combining of all space and frequency diversity branches when perfect channel state information is available at the transmitter. We employ the long range fading prediction algorithm to enable transmitter diversity techniques for rapidly time varying multipath fading channels.     

一种基于HARQ反馈的切换合并发送分集技术

本文提出了一种与HARQ相结合的天线选择发送分集方案,该方案利用HARQ的ACK/NAK信号作为天线选择指示,如果反馈ACK则继续使用当前天线,否则切换到下一个天线.仿真表明,在低速情况下,新方案相比单天线系统有显著的分级增益,与传统的选择分集相比,能节约反馈,简化系统,同时性能损失不大.     

Diversity performance of precoded orthogonal space-time block codes using limited feedback

Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are simple space-time codes that can be used for open-loop transmit diversity systems. OSTBCs, however, can only be designed for certain numbers of transmit antennas. Channel-dependent linear precoders have been proposed to overcome this deficiency, but it is not clear what conditions the precoder design must satisfy to guarantee full diversity order. In this letter, we show necessary and sufficient conditions for linear precoded OSTBCs to provide full diversity order. We show that limited feedback precoding can achieve full diversity order using fewer bits than limited feedback beamforming. We also present a simplified version of antenna subset selection for OSTBCs that can provide full diversity order with low complexity and only a small amount of feedback.     

基于差分空时分组码的卡尔曼盲多用户检测

对大容量、高性能蜂窝通信系统的需求引起了人们对先进信号处理技术的极大兴趣，尤其是使用多个发射／接收天线，利用空域分集的处理技术更是受到了广泛关注。使用多个发射天线及差分空时分组码，可用一种新的适用于频率平坦信道的盲自适应多用户接收机。新方法不需要信道估计，它首先利用卡尔曼(Kalman)自适应滤波器抑制多址干扰，然后完成差分空时解码获得分集增益。计算机仿真结果表明该方法具有较强的抗衰落和抑制多址干扰的能力，并能自适应地跟踪信号环境的变化。     

Performance of selective space‐time coding and selection diversity under perfect and imperfect CSI

Selective space‐time coding and selection diversity can be viewed as practical means to reduce the implementation complexity of multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) systems while still taking benefit of the use of multiple antennas. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of selective space‐time block coding (selective‐STBC) and antenna selection diversity, and analyze the performance of both techniques under perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI) available at both ends of the transmission link. Our performance analysis reveals that, under perfect or imperfect CSI and ideal feedback channel, selective‐STBC yields a loss in selection diversity gains and that selecting just a single antenna at the transmitter side is the best transmission strategy. We also show that selective‐STBC and antenna selection diversity have different behaviors when the feedback channel is imperfect. Indeed, it is shown that selection diversity outperforms selective‐STBC when the feedback channel is of high quality, while selective‐STBC yields better performance when the feedback channel is of low quality. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A differential detection scheme for transmit diversity

We present a transmission scheme for exploiting diversity given by two transmit antennas when neither the transmitter nor the receiver has access to channel state information. The new detection scheme can use equal energy constellations and encoding is simple. At the receiver, decoding is achieved with low decoding complexity. The transmission provides full spatial diversity and requires no channel state side information at the receiver. The scheme can be considered as the extension of differential detection schemes to two transmit antennas     

一种面向长期演进的空时分组传输方案

移动基站MS（Mobile Station）在LTE-A（Long Term Evolution-Advanced长期演进）协议中要求上行链路的数据要在双天线和三个时隙中传输,这就使得针对LTE的空时分组码有了一个新的应用点.本文在传统的STBC（Space-Time Block Coding空时分组码）的基础上,通过改进,提出一种新的传输方案,使得数据实现在三个时隙使用双发射天线的传输.该方案特点：（1）它可以实现传输的全速率和全分集;（2）它的最大似然译码（Maximum Likelihood,ML）需要联合三个实信号;（3）它的最小行列式值并没有通过信号星座图的改变而变化;（4）它与单天线传输的模式相兼容.仿真结果显示提出的方案比传统的准正交空时分组码QSTBC方案和Alamouti方案在相同信噪比（SNR）的情况下有着更好的误比特率（BER）.     

Extended Space-Time Block Coding with Transmit Antenna Selection over Correlated Fading Channels

A new space-time block coded transmit antenna selection scheme over spatially correlated fading channels is presented. This scheme allows two or more transmit antennas to simultaneously use one radio frequency frontend. A system with four transmit antennas is considered in particular. The four antennas are selectively grouped into two subsets. Alamouti code is then applied on top of the subsets as if each was a single antenna. This scheme is shown to be more efficient than the conventional transmit antenna selection combined with Alamouti code in correlated channels. Moreover, it lowers the bitrate of the feedback channel.     

Approaching MIMO-OFDM Capacity with Per-Antenna Power and Rate Feedback

This paper presents power-efficient transmission schemes for the multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) block-fading channel under the assumption that the channel during each fading block is known perfectly at the receiver, but is unavailable at the transmitter. Based on the well-known vertical Bell Labs layered space-time (V-BLAST) architecture that employs independent encoding for each transmit antenna and successive decoding at the receiver, this paper presents a per-antenna-based power and rate feedback scheme, termed the "closed-loop" V- BLAST, for which the receiver jointly optimizes the power and rate assignments for all transmit antennas, and then returns them to the transmitter via a low-rate feedback channel. The power and rate optimization minimizes the total transmit power for support of an aggregate transmission rate during each fading block. Convex optimization techniques are used to design efficient algorithms for optimal power and rate allocation. The proposed algorithms are also modified to incorporate practical system constraints on feedback complexity and on modulation and coding. Furthermore, this paper shows that the per-antenna-based power and rate control can be readily modified to combine with the conventional linear MIMO transmit preceding technique as an efficient and capacity-approaching partial-channel-feedback scheme. Simulation results show that the closed-loop V-BLAST is able to approach closely the MIMO-OFDM channel capacity assuming availability of perfect channel knowledge at both the transmitter and the receiver.     

空时编码OFDM与多维波束形成组合方案

针对MIMO-OFDM系统提出了一种简单灵活的空时分组码与多维特征波束形成组合方案,以充分利用MIMO信道的二阶统计信息。该方案在保证空时编码分集度的同时能最大化系统的编码增益,空时分组码的选取并不受实际发射天线数的限制,因此可以在分集度、编码增益以及系统码率之间进行灵活的折中。理论分析和仿真结果同时表明,当实际发射天线数大于空时码所需天线数时,系统的编码增益随着实际发射天线数的增加大致呈线性增长,发射天线阵列间相关性越强,增长速度越快。     

Decision feedback detection with error compensation for hybrid space-time block codes

Spatial division multiplexing (SDM) techniques increase the total throughput by transmitting independent information streams through multiple transmit antennas whereas space time coding (STC) techniques utilize diversity gain. Hybrid space-time block code (STBC) schemes proposed combine the above two techniques to maximize the link performance. We propose a decision feedback detection method to improve the performance of the hybrid STBC scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In this scheme, we take the error propagation effect into account to enhance the detection performance. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional hybrid STBC detection algorithm by more than 3dB at 1% frame error rate for frequency selective fading channels.