Rapid code acquisition algorithm employing PN matched filters

The performance of four algorithms using pseudonoise matched filters (PNMFs), for direct-sequence spread-spectrum systems, is analyzed. They are: parallel search with fix dwell detector (PL-FDD), parallel search with sequential detector (PL-SD), parallel-serial search with fix dwell detector (PS-FDD), and parallel-serial search with sequential detector (PS-SD). The operation characteristic for each detector and the mean acquisition time for each algorithm are derived. All the algorithms are studied in conjunction with the noncoherent integration technique, which enables the system to operate in the presence of data modulation. Several previous proposal using PNMF are seen as special cases of the present algorithms     

CMA-based code acquisition scheme for DS-CDMA systems

In direct-sequence code-division multiple access, a code synchronization must take place before the multiuser detector. As the initial synchronization stage, a code acquisition scheme is used to estimate the relative timing phase for the desired transmission within one chip interval. In this paper, a blind code acquisition scheme using adaptive linear filtering based on a linearly constrained constant modulus algorithm (CMA) is proposed. The uncertainty of a desired user's delay is initially discretized and translated into a number of hypotheses. The lock convergence property of CMA is exploited, where the filter at the steady state can lock onto the desired user while nulling all other interfering users (i.e., a decorrelator). For each delay hypothesis, the filter is initialized as the corresponding shifted spreading sequence of the desired user. It is shown that lock convergence always occurs for the correct hypothesis, while all incorrect hypotheses will be hovered around some saddle regions, given sufficiently small step sizes. Then, the correct hypothesis is the one which has the converged filter to yield the maximum lock onto the desired user, or a maximum output energy     

PN code acquisition using smart antenna for spread-spectrum wireless communications. I

The smart antenna (a blind adaptive antenna array) has brought much attention to its ability to improve the future code-division multiple-access (CDMA) wireless communications systems. However, Adachi et al. (1998), employed only one out of M elements that are in a smart antenna array during the pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition process due to the difficulty in obtaining the weight coefficients of the smart antenna and PN code acquisition jointly and adaptively. Yet, as the PN code is acquired, all M elements are used by Adachi et al. to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at a reverse link. We propose an efficient PN code acquisition scheme where all elements are employed during PN code acquisition. Also, we show that by using all elements, the PN code acquisition time can be shortened by at least 40% for a given signal-to-noise ratio and M=5, compared to the single element case. Furthermore, the power of a random access user signal in the reverse link can be lowered at least 3 dB. The additional computational load and complexity to use the proposed PN code acquisition are insignificant.     

Differentially coherent combining for double-dwell code acquisition in DS-CDMA systems

The use of differentially coherent combining is proposed to improve the performance of a double-dwell acquisition system by increasing the reliability of a decision in the verification stage. The detection and mean acquisition time performance of the acquisition scheme with the proposed combining scheme is analyzed in frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels, and compared with that of two previously published double-dwell acquisition schemes based on long correlation intervals and noncoherent combining. It is shown that the proposed acquisition scheme outperforms the previous ones, and that the performance improvement increases as the frequency offset increases.     

Threshold decision for PN code acquisition in direct-sequencespread-spectrum packet radio systems

A threshold decision for code acquisition in direct-sequence spread-spectrum packet radio systems is described. It is shown that this scheme achieves lower false alarm probability than the acquisition scheme based on the Neyman-Pearson criterion, giving comparable performance for the detection probability     

Effects of multiple threshold values for PN code acquisition inDS-CDMA systems

A decision method using multiple threshold value for PN code acquisition in DS-CDMA systems is describe. This technique is applied to a conventional hybrid search algorithm and analysis in terms of the probability of detection and false alarm. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional scheme in terms of detection probability because multiple threshold values mitigate any possible decline in performance caused by the used of a single threshold     

Serial search code acquisition using smart antennas with single correlator or matched filter

This paper investigates three code acquisition methods for direct sequence spread spectrum systems (DS/SS) utilizing smart antennas. The methods are suitable especially for receivers that consist of a smart antenna followed by a single correlator or a matched filter (IMF). The first method is the known fixed beam strategy where the whole angular uncertainty region is divided into small cells using conventional beamforming techniques. Therein, the receiver searches through all angular and delay cells via a serial search procedure. In the second method, the fixed division is made using advanced beamforming techniques, which provide improved tolerance against interference. In the third strategy, the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of incoming signals are estimated and utilized in the acquisition process. An advantage of this DOA estimation-based strategy, when compared to fixed beamforming methods, is a decrease in the region of uncertainty. Disadvantages are increased computational complexity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) limitations. The acquisition strategies are compared when the serial search acquisition of the code phase is made using either the correlator or the matched filter. The results indicate that a single antenna receiver gives the best acquisition performance when SNR is high. However, single antenna methods are sensitive to interference. On the other hand, DOA estimation-based methods offer shorter mean acquisition times than fixed beam methods, especially when the number of arriving signals is small.     

PN code acquisition using signed-rank-based nonparametric detectorsin DS/SS systems

In this paper, signed-rank based nonparametric detectors are used for pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition in direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DS/SS) systems. We first derive the locally optimum rank (LOR) detector and then propose the locally suboptimum rank (LSR) and modified signed-rank (MSR) detectors using approximate score functions. We compare the single-dwell scheme without the verification mode using the proposed LSR and MSR detectors with that using the conventional squared-sum (SS) and modified sign (MS) detectors. From the simulation results, it is shown that the proposed LSR and MSR detectors perform better than the MS detector by about 2-3 dB and are nearly optimum     

一种快速的PN码同步捕获方法

针对直扩系统中长PN码同步捕获速度慢的问题,利用推导的串接短PN码与长PN码具有相似相关性的结论,对直扩系统中PN码同步捕获的并行匹配滤波捕获方法进行改进,得到了简单可行的串并结合捕获方法。然后,结合一个周期内PN码相关值,采用迭代的方式,选取简单、实用的自适应门限,实现了突发通信中PN码的快速同步捕获。采用该自适应门限的捕获方法无需估计噪声,计算量小。仿真实验表明所提方法捕获概率高,抗噪性能强。     

Investigation of uplink radio resource management schemes for multi-services in TDD-CDMA systems employing smart antennas

In this paper, a theoretical analysis of Time Division Duplex-Code Division Multiple Access （TDD-CDMA） uplink capacity constraint is presented when employing the smart antenna techniques. The evaluation formulations of capacity and load for multi-services are proposed. In order to maximize the throughput, the objective of optimization is proposed, and an advanced uplink resource management algorithm is developed. The proposed algorithm based on the least interference admission control scheme focuses on the maximum throughput for the circuit switched multi-services. The simulation results show that the proposed strategy has a significant improvement in throughput when the optimum admission control threshold is set.     

A differentially coherent PN code acquisition receiver for CDMAsystems

New differentially coherent detectors for acquisition of direct sequence spread-spectrum signals are introduced. These detectors are alternatives to the noncoherent detectors that have been considered almost exclusively in the past. The proposed detectors are suitable for commercial code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems which operate with a relatively large noise floor and provide a surprisingly large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement over the noncoherent detectors of approximately 5 dB. Under the random code sequence assumption, an exact analysis of the differentially coherent detection performance for both full period correlation (FPC) and partial period correlation (PPC) is carried out. The detector performance in terms of detection and false alarm probabilities for both partial and full period correlations is investigated, and the results are compared with those of classical noncoherent detection. The mean acquisition time for both single-dwell and multiple-dwell acquisition schemes are compared with their noncoherent counterparts     

DS-CDMA系统中PN码定时跟踪算法及其实现

定时跟踪是DS-CDMA系统中rake接收的关键技术,性能的好坏直接影响着扩频系统能否正常接收。本文首先对扩频系统中定时跟踪原理做出分析,然后重点介绍了PN码的“基于能量窗重心的定时跟踪”算法,并选择了这个算法来实现CDMA2000-1X行链路的PN码定时跟踪。最后,经过在典型城市环境下的现场实测,误帧率达到CDMA2000-1X的标准要求。     

Noncoherent hybrid parallel PN code acquisition for CDMA mobilecommunications

This paper proposes a noncoherent hybrid parallel pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition scheme for code-division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication systems and analyzes the effect of multiple access interference (MAI) on the code acquisition performance for Rayleigh and Rician fading channels. The hybrid acquisition scheme combines parallel search with serial search to cover the whole uncertainty region of the input code phase. It has a much simpler acquisition hardware structure than the total parallel acquisition and can achieve the mean acquisition time slightly inferior to that of the total parallel acquisition in the case of severe MAI; on the other hand, it provides the flexibility in the tradeoff between the mean acquisition time and system complexity if no MAI is considered. The closed-form expressions of the detection and false-alarm probabilities and mean acquisition time are derived. Numerical analysis quantifies the severe performance degradation of code acquisition due to both MAI and channel fading, and demonstrates the dependence of the increase of mean acquisition time (due to MAI) on the number of users in the CDMA system, system design parameters, and channel fading statistics     

Doppler spread for Gaussian scatter density environments employing smart antennas

In this paper, the effects of actual smart antennas on the Power Doppler Spectrum (PDS) are studied when smart antennas are deployed at the base station (BS), employing a statistical Gaussian Scatter Density Model (GSDM). This proposed approach is general and it can be applied to omnidirectional and sectorized antennas as well, for beam patterns of linear and circular arrays, the results obtained are compared with those for omnidirectional and sectorized antennas. The characterization of PDS is presented for channel scenarios including different motion direction, scatterer spread, and a variety of beam patterns.     

Correlation-aided distributed sample acquisition scheme for fast and robust code synchronization in cellular DS-CDMA systems

We introduce a correlation-aided distributed sample acquisition (CDSA)-based intercell synchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) system for enhancing the robustness of the previously proposed distributed sample acquisition (DSA)-based system. The CDSA system incorporates the state symbol correlation process in the existing DSA process to maintain the fast acquisition performance even under very poor channel environment. For its realization, each CDSA-based mobile station stores in its memory a period of the possible state symbol sequences, which are determined by the long-period scrambling PN sequences used in the system and the sampling time parameters for the state samples. In the first stage of the synchronization procedure, the mobile station (MS) attempts to acquire the psuedo noise (PN) sequence by taking the comparison-correction based synchronization approach of the original DSA scheme. However, if it cannot acquire the synchronization until it collects a predetermined number of state symbols (e.g., a period of the state symbol sequence), then the MS determines the PN sequence timing by correlating the received symbol sequence with each shift of the prestored state symbol sequences. Performance analysis and simulation results reveal strong robustness of the CDSA-based system in low-signal-to-noise ratio, fading, and large frequency-offset channels.     

DSSS系统PN码捕获的相关峰优化及自适应门限检测

针对直接扩频系统的PN码捕获问题提出了一种基于恒虚警概率自适应门限算法的改进方案。方案通过将相邻两个符号长度内接收信号的相关峰值及平均能量对应相乘构造出新的统计量,并用随噪声能量及信噪比变化的自适应门限代替原有的固定门限判决统计量,以达到提高系统检测性能的目的。理论分析和仿真结果表明,改进方案较原方案的PN码捕获性能有很大的提高。     

PN码滑动相关捕获方法的改进

在扩频通信中,PN码的同步一直是研究的重点和难点.同步包括两部分:捕获和跟踪.捕获是实现同步的第一步,为了适应不同的环境,人们研究出了许多捕获的方法,其中,滑动相关捕获法是一种最简单、最实用的方法.针对该方法捕获时间较长的不足,提出了增加一个相位搜索控制器的方法来改进PN码捕获电路.在完全不影响其优点的情况下,缩短了捕获时间,使其捕获时间变为了原来的3/4,在工程中有重要的应用价值.     

Parallel acquisition in mobile DS-CDMA systems

This paper presents the performance of a direct sequence spread spectrum acquisition scheme in a mobile terrestrial communications system. The effects of fading, multipath, power control, shadowing, multiple access interference, out-of-cell interference, vehicle speed, voice activity, and sectorization are examined. The acquisition scheme uses noncoherent detection and a parallel search strategy. The analysis is done for the reverse link of a mobile code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system. The purpose of this paper is to derive the acquisition performance of a mobile communications system under practical assumptions, and give realistic capacity estimates based on acquisition performance criteria     

A two-layer spreading code scheme for dual-rate DS-CDMA systems

This letter considers multiuser detection in variable-spreading-length multi-rate direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems. A two-layer spreading (TLS) code scheme is proposed which facilitates the low-complexity adaptive implementation of linear minimum mean-square error multiuser receivers in a dual-rate system. It is demonstrated via large system analysis and simulation that imposing a TLS structure does not incur loss in terms of the output signal-to-interference ratio performance.