A UHF mobile telephone system using digital modulation: Preliminary study

A UHF mobile telephone system using digital modulation is described. The system uses on-off keying of an 836-MHz carrier, the code being supplied by an adaptive delta coder with a clock frequency of 50 kHz. The maximum audio baseband signal-to-noise ratio is approximately 30 dB. The mobile receiver employs space diversity in a maximal-ratio combiner. Due to the use of amplitude modulation of the carrier rather than exponential modulation, the diversity receiver is very simple. The system was tested in the laboratory and in the field. Field tests were made in suburban and urban areas. For the four-branch system, threshold occurred at an average IF signal-to-noise ratio of approximately 12 dB.     

Channel model for satellite indoor communication,system design

In this paper the development of a channel model for wireless indoor communication, specifically with regard to indoor retransmission of satellite signals and reception by fixed and portable receivers in the L band, is described. The study is confined to the channel model, though it does not include the assessment of particular transmission forms. The theories and approaches used in the model are mainly derived from the field of mobile communication. They are combined to a straightforward chain from large- to small-scale variations yielding information about the several stages of fading. One of the features is the evaluation of the complex field distribution across a local area that can be transformed into a time-varying fading when assuming a moving receiver or a non-stationary environment. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DS/CDMAM-ary orthogonal signalling in a shadowed Rayleigh channel for mobile communications

In this paper a modified RAKE receiver is studied for a frequency selective mobile radio channel. The reverse link (Mobile to base station) is analysed, assuming lognormal shadowing and Rayleigh fading andK asynchronous users, withM orthogonal sequences per user. The analysis is based on the consideration of the quadrature components of the signal and noise, taking advantage of the multipath effects. The performance evaluation is carried out in terms of both the bit error rate and outage probability in order to qualify completely the proposed receiver. The positive results assure the possibility of applying this system in a microcellular mobile radio environment.     

240Mbit/s直线运动型无线光通信系统研究

详细分析了直线轨道上运动通信的特点,设计和研制了一种具有双向收发功能的直线运动型无线光通信系统。该系统主要包括1 550 nm半导体激光器、高灵敏度PIN光探测器、球面单透镜式光发射天线和实心光锥耦合式光接收天线等关键部件。130 m运动工作距离的系统性能测试结果表明,在3.5 m/s最高运动速度、240Mbit/s通信传输速率下,运动中的数据丢帧率为零,以太网和视频指标均满足实际应用要求,系统适用于存在直线运动轨道的无线光通信场合。     

Enhanced MDIR receiver for space-time dispersive channels

A particular property of the matched desired impulse response receiver is introduced, namely, the fact that full exploitation of the diversity is obtained with multiple beamformers when the channel is spatially and timely dispersive. This particularity makes the receiver specially suitable for mobile and underwater communications. The new structure provides better performance than conventional and weighted VRAKE receivers, and a diversity gain with no need for additional radio frequency equipment. The baseband hardware needed for this new receiver may be obtained through reconfigurability of the RAKE architectures available at the base station. The proposed receiver is tested through simulations assuming UTRA frequency-division-duplexing mode.     

Performance evaluation of an adaptive GSM receiver with frequency-selective fading and adjacent- and co-channel interference

This study represents the sequel and conclusion of a previous one already published in this Journal a few issues ago.¹ In that article, we tackled the problem of evaluating theoretically the performance of an adaptive MLSE receiver for MSK signals on a frequency-selective stationary radio propagation channel, and we validated the theoretical findings (in the form of upper and lower bounds to the BER of the receiver) by means of computer simulations. In the present paper, we report on the performance of the very same scheme of channel-estimator-plus-Viterbi-equalizer receiver for mobile communications in a more realistic operating environment. In particular, we completely encompass here the groupe spécial mobile (GSM) transmission format, based on the Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) modulation scheme and on narrowband time-division multiple access (TDMA) transmission. Also, we remove the assumption of a time-invariant propagation channel, assuming the recommended standard GSM channels as benchmark transmission conditions. Finally, with the aid of extensive computer simulations, we analyse the sensitivity of the MLSE receiver to unwanted co-channel and adjacent-channel interference coming from other users of the mobile cellular GSM system.     

Multisite throughput of a mobile data radio link

In a single-site system, the uplink channel (from the mobile units to the site) has a throughput of 0.184 if pure ALOHA transmission protocol is used. The downlink channel throughput (from the site to the mobile units) for a single-site system is one because the transmissions are scheduled and no conflict occurs. To widen the service area and to increase system throughput for the single-site system without using additional frequency channels, multiple transmitter/receiver sites can be used. Throughput in both directions (uplink and downlink) and optimal site assignment in the downlink channel are calculated using an iterative method. Formulas are derived for two- and three-site systems. For systems with more than three sites, the three-site formulas can be used in an approximate method. Results produced by this method are within 1 or 2% of those generated by software simulations. For simplicity, FM capture is assumed to depend on the received signal level difference between the two strongest signals. Calculations are given assuming the message error rates are known     

Convolutionally coded multicarrier DS-CDMA systems in a multipathfading channel. I. Performance analysis

This paper presents a multicarrier asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system wherein the output of a convolutional encoder modulates multiple band-limited DS-CDMA waveforms, which are transmitted in parallel at different carrier frequencies. The receiver detects and combines signals for the desired user and feeds a soft-decision Viterbi decoder. The performance of this system is compared to that of a conventional single-carrier DS-CDMA system with a RAKE receiver, assuming a slowly varying frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel and assuming the presence of additive white Gaussian noise and multiple-access interference. Results will demonstrate similar performance at roughly equal receiver complexity     

Innovative chip waveforms in microcellular DS/CDMA packet mobileradio

The impact of innovative chip waveforms on the performance of a direct sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) packet mobile radio network is investigated, assuming either Rayleigh or Nakagami-m frequency selective channels and a differential phase shift keying (DPSK) receiver with selection diversity. A constant improvement of the bit-error rate (BER) and the throughput is presented throughout the study     

T-DMB手机电视的硬件实现方案

概述了T-DMB系统,描述了该系统的传输机制,给出了手机电视接收端的基带硬件框图并分析了信号的处理流程,最后介绍了两款T-DMB基带处理芯片.     

Self-phasing aerial array for f.m. communication links

A self-phasing aerial array using an amplitude-perturbing technique is described, and a method of obtaining the necessary control information is given. The system is intended for use in f.m. mobile radio links, and has the advantage of using an almost completely standard f.m. receiver.     

GPS在移动监控系统中的应用

GPS（全球定位系统）作为一种先进且通用的导航定位技术,被广泛应用于军事、民用等各个方面。另一方面,在硬件开发中,嵌入式Linux系统由于其开放性、廉价性、健壮性和安全性等优点而越来越广泛地成为嵌入式系统的主要开发平台。介绍了一种专门为移动监控设备设计的GPS接收机,以及在嵌入式Linux系统下编写的定位程序。经过调试,接收机可实现定位功能;并且在使用中体现出体积小、精度高、实时性较强等优点,能够满足移动监控设备导航定位的要求。     

Adjacent cell interference in FH-MFSK cellular mobile radio system

The effect of adjacent cell interference in cellular mobile system using FH-MFSK transmission is evaluated quantitatively. The performance of base to mobile communication in the system is analyzed, assuming perfect synchronization between users in all the cells. Analysis of the system employing no power control shows that the number of simultaneous users possible at average bit error probability Pbof less than 1 × 10^-3is reduced greatly from the corresponding figure for the isolated cell (which is about 170). It is then shown that a simple power control strategy could reduce the adjacent cell interference significantly. A reasonable knowledge of the distribution of users within a cell allows the optimization of the receiver threshold with respect to distance from the base. With this optimization, each cell could accomodate ≳ 115 users at Pb< 10^-3, the exact figure being dependent on the user distribution. The power control also helps to reduce the average power transmitted from a base.     

Evaluation of cellular mobile telephone data receivers

Some measurement techniques and results employed to evaluate advanced mobile phone system (AMPS) data receivers being driven by a Rayleigh fading channel are described. These performance measurements were used as a mechanism for comparing the design effectiveness of various bit clock recovery systems. Of five data receiver types evaluated, two models employed a full-wave rectifier in the bit clock recovery system. In this system nominal diode unbalance may cause the derived bit clock to lock 180° from the phase required to properly decode the incoming bit stream. This condition may even occur at high carrier-to-noise ratios when message structures containing long strings of ones or zeros are received. The other data receiver types employed digital signal processing for clock recovery to circumvent this phase ambiguity problem. The performance data of five data receivers are compared to noncoherent frequency-shift keying (FSK) as a model. In most cases, the test results are in good agreement with this model. The performance measurements presented include derived clock jitter and single and average bit error rates as a function of average carrier-to-noise ratios. The implementation of test instrumentation and the interpretation of test results are discussed. The objective is to stress the capability of simulation measurements to evaluate mobile receiver designs in a laboratory environment.     

Error rate performance of digital FM mobile radio withpostdetection diversity

An analysis of bit error rate (BER) in a binary digital FM system with postdetection diversity is presented. Expressions for the average BER due to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), random FM noise and delay-spread in the multipath channel are derived for reception using differential demodulation (DD), and frequency demodulation (FD) assuming independent fading signals. Calculated results for MSK show that the BER performance is strongly dependent on the RMS-delay/bit-duration ratio and that the delay-spectrum shape is of no importance when the receiver predetection filter product is optimized for the effect of AWGN. The effect of fading correlation on the diversity improvement is also analyzed for a two-branch case with multiplicative Rayleigh fading signals. Expressions for the average BER due to AWGN and random FM noise are derived. Calculated results are shown for the average BER due to random FM noise assuming a horizontally spaced antenna system at a mobile station. It is shown that the use of small antenna spacings leads to a diversity improvement greater than that obtainable for the case of independent AWGN     

Channel estimation for OFDM systems with transmitter diversity inmobile wireless channels

Transmitter diversity is an effective technique to improve wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate transmitter diversity using space-time coding for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in high-speed wireless data applications. We develop channel parameter estimation approaches, which are crucial for the decoding of the space-time codes, and we derive the MSE bounds of the estimators. The overall receiver performance using such a transmitter diversity scheme is demonstrated by extensive computer simulations. For an OFDM system with two transmitter antennas and two receiver antennas with transmission efficiency as high as 1.475 bits/s/Hz, the required signal-to-noise ratio is only about 7 dB for a 1% bit error rate and 9 dB for a 10% word error rate assuming channels with two-ray, typical urban, and hilly terrain delay profiles, and a 40-Hz Doppler frequency. In summary, with the proposed channel estimator, combining OPDM with transmitter diversity using space-time coding is a promising technique for highly efficient data transmission over mobile wireless channels     

An Integrated Voice/Data System for VHF/UHF Mobile Radio

This paper presents the basic architecture and performance of a mobile radio multiaccess voice/data system. Natural pauses in conversational speech allow bandwidth saving through interleaving of data packets and talkspurts from different voice sources. A speech detector designed specifically for the mobile environment is presented. Blocking and delay performance of the multiaccess uplink is analyzed for voice traffic, assuming no traffic effects from the low priority data packets. Performance results from simulation are then presented for two downlink strategies in a two-hop virtual circuit in which a base station acts as a relay. The results verify also that the uplink analysis is valid for low voice traffic. For the data traffic, simulation results are presented in terms of data packet transmission delay and probability of collision with talkspurts. The results indicate that data flow may be limited by the collision factor. This work concludes that relative to conventional radio telephoning in which two channels are dedicated to each transmitter/receiver pair, a bandwidth reduction of 30-35 percent can be achieved.     

Computer prediction of service areas for VHF and UHF land mobile radio services

A computer program written to predict the effective service area of a transmitter in a VHF or UHF mobile radio network is described. The computed results enable field strength contours to be determined, and hence provide more useful information than is possible by reference to standard statistical curves. Present manual methods of calculating the attenuation to be expected over transmission paths rely on the laborious extraction of essential ground profile information along the path joining the transmitter to the receiver. This difficulty may be overcome by using a topographical data base in a computerized method of service area prediction. With this scheme each data base entry represents the effective terrain height above sea level within each 0.5-km square. A high-speed computer can access the necessary information from the data base to reconstruct a close approximation of the radio path profile. The reconstructed profile is then processed to calculate the transmission loss. These computations are repeated for numerous points throughout the area and enable field strength contours to be deduced. The propagation model described forms part of a fully automated frequency assignment procedure for the private land mobile radio services in operation in the Directorate of Radio Technology, Home Office, UK.     

A hardware demonstrator for TD-CDMA

TD-CDMA is an air interface concept for third-generation mobile radio systems. It utilizes a combination of the three elementary multiple-access schemes: frequency-division multiple access (FDMA), time-division multiple access (TDMA) and code-division multiple access (CDMA). Multiple-access interference (MAI) and intersymbol interference (ISI) are combated by joint detection of all simultaneous signals of the same cell, achieving a high spectrum efficiency. The authors have been involved in the implementation of a first experimental hardware setup of a TD-CDMA mobile radio system. Important objectives of this project are the demonstration of the economic feasibility of CDMA receivers utilizing joint detection and the performance verification of TD-CDMA by measurement campaigns. The authors present a new way of modeling the TD-CDMA receiver in the form of a data-flow model. This model serves as a starting point for the systematic design of an efficient software architecture for TD-CDMA based on a multiprocessor system. The complete digital signal processing (DSP) of a mobile terminal or of a base station can be implemented on a single Texas Instruments digital signal processor TMS320C80. Measurement results obtained by first field trials are presented. The system parameters of the TD-CDMA demonstrator described are similar but not equal to those chosen for the time-division duplex (TDD) mode of the UMTS terrestrial air interface according to the ETSI decision taken in January 1998.     

Performance of a frequency-hopped differentially modulated spread-spectrum receiver in a Rayleigh fading channel

The performance of a spread-spectrum receiver previously described by the authors is analyzed in detail. Performance curves are given for a wide range of mobile radio channel conditions, including multipath distortion and correlated fading. The use of optimal filters to combat the former and space diversity to combat the latter are investigated. Some errors in the authors' earlier papers are corrected. The form of space diversity suggested has the unusual feature that it can be employed at the fixed station site only and provide diversity in both communication paths, i.e., to and from the mobile. Degradation due to fading and other aberrations is shown to be in the range 3-6 dB for typical mobile channel conditions. In a nonfading channel the receiver is suboptimum by about 3 dB.