Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation with Enhanced Transition Metric over Rayleigh Fading Channels

This paper investigates the performance of a new Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation scheme over correlated flat fading channels with channel interleaving. The novelty of the scheme is based on the application of a new modified transition metric incorporated in the symbol-by-symbol MAP algorithm. We consider frequency non-selective, slow Rayleigh fading channels. Extensive simulation results together with EXIT chart analysis show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance compared to the conventional transition metric when channel state information is not available at the decoder. Kostas V. Koutsouvelis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on July 16,1970. He received the degree Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1996 and the Master degree in Satellite Communications Engineering from University of Surrey in 1997. From 1998 to 2003 he was involved in the development of V5.2 interface as a senior software designer in Intracom plc. In 2004 joined the research and development division of Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (OTE) and his also PhD candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki working with Turbo codes and Turbo Coded Modulation. Christos E. Dimakiswasborn in Serres, Greece, on July 27, 1955.He received the degree Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. Working in the satellite communications and in the error correcting coding area he received his PhD degree in digital telecommunications from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1994. In 1980 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Division of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a research fellow. Since 1997 he is a lecturer of digital communications at the same University. Presently, his research interests include digital modulations, coding theory, satellite and mobile communications and system simulation. Stamatis S. Kouris was born in Corfu, Greece. He received the degree of Doctor Engineer in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy and the Diploma of Specialization in Telecommunications of the Instituto Superiore, University of Rome, in 1960 and 1963 respectively. In 1971 he was awarded the PhD Degree of the University of Edinburgh, UK. In the 1974 he was awarded a specialization Diploma in administration from the University of Pomona CA, USA. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, URSI, IRI and other organizations. Since 1964 he has been involved in research on radio-propagation, antennas and microwaves, working mainly at the Fondazione Bordoni, Italy, University of Edinburgh, UK and University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has published several papers on radio-propagation, antennas, communication transmission and microwaves and millimeter-waves devices. In 1976 he joined with the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He served as professor of telecommunications from 1978 to 2002. Since 2002 he is an emeritus professor.     

Performance of Hybrid ARQ Schemes with ML Code Combining over a Block-Fading Rayleigh Channel

This paper considers two well-known selective-repeat retransmission schemes, namely, hybrid type-I ARQ and hybrid type-II ARQ, using convolutional coding, in conjunction with maximum-likelihood code combining. Our theoretical analysis, based upon the concept of generalized weight distribution, shows that the use of code combining yields a significant throughput at very high channel error rates not only in constant AWGN channels but also in fading channels. To demonstrate this, we consider a widely-used block-fading Rayleigh channel model, in which the channel is assumed to be constant during each block of data and the fading is assumed to be independent from block to block. A key parameter in designing retransmission protocols for delay-limited applications in such channels is the minimum number of retransmissions, needed to achieve error-free decoding at almost all channel conditions (low outage probability). This number can be reduced significantly when code combining is employed.     

慢瑞利衰落信道下一种变分组长度的自适应ARQ协议

信道的慢瑞利衰落特性导致通信系统的性能——吞吐量的下降。本文基于选择重传(SRARQ)与返回-n(GBN ARQ)相结合的混合ARQ协议(SR GBN ARQ),依据发送方连续收到的确认(ACK)/非确认(NACK)消息的次数,正确评估慢瑞利衰落信道的状况以改变分组长度的一种自适应ARQ协议。仿真结果表明对于慢瑞利衰落、长往返旅程延迟(T)信道,该协议能取得较优的吞吐性能。     

Link Adaptation Based on Explicit Channel Estimation for Throughput Maximization Over Rayleigh Fading Channels

Link Adaptation (LA) has been proposed in the literature as a means of increasing the throughput obtained by each user in wireless communication systems. Due to its significant simplicity, LA has even been adopted as the standard adaptive coding technique for the next generation mobile communication system known as EDGE. In this paper, we present a novel link adaptation technique, valid for use in the case of Rayleigh fading wireless channels. The new technique is based on the blind channel estimation algorithm usually used for combating inter-symbol interference (ISI). The algorithm is presented and its efficiency in providing the maximum available throughput is illustrated by means of computer simulations.     

Performance of Hybrid ARQ Schemes for the Mobile LEO Satellite Channel

This paper investigates the performance of hybrid ARQ schemes for the mobile Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite channel. The proposed schemes adapt their characteristics to the time-varying behavior of the channel. To obtain an unbiased comparison of different ARQ schemes an approximated analytical method is adopted. More precisely, the sphere-packing bound is used to estimate the best possible performance of a hybrid ARQ scheme. To assess the accuracy of the bound, simulation results, based on the use of turbo codes, are also presented. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

衰落信道下Turbo网格编码调制在图像传输中的性能研究

基于Turbo码和网格编码调制的特点,该文分析了TTCM的具体编译码方法,并分析比较了TTCM在8PSK调制下结合两种典型映射方案UP(Ungerboeck Partitioning),BP(BlockPartitioning)在Rayleigh信道中用于静态图像传输时的性能,给出了计算机仿真结果和评价图像传输质量的峰值信噪比(PSNR).     

Adaptive Modulation/TDMA/TDD with Convolutionally Coded Type-II Hybrid ARQ for Wireless Communication Systems

This paper proposes a time divisionmultiple access/time division duplex (TDMA/TDD)-basedadaptive modulation system (AMS) with aconvolutionally coded Type-II Hybrid automatic repeatrequest (ARQ) protocol to achieve high throughput datatransmission in wireless communication systems. First,this paper discusses the cause of throughputlimitation of the conventional fixed-rate quaternaryphase shift keying (QPSK) with ARQ protocol andsuggests that the effective means to improvethroughput performance are the reduction ofre-transmission probability under bad channelcondition and the increase of transmission bit rate perTDMA/TDD slot under good channel condition. Based onthese strategies, this paper discusses an AMS with aconvolutionally coded type-II hybrid ARQ protocol(type-II hybrid ARQ/AMS) and evaluates itsperformance by computer simulation. The resultsconfirm that the proposed type-II hybrid ARQ/AMS candrastically improve throughput performances comparedto the conventional fixed-rate QPSK with selectiverepeat ARQ protocol (SR-ARQ/QPSK) or a simplecombination of SR-ARQ and AMS (SR-ARQ/AMS) under anychannel conditions, especially under severe channelconditions.     

Combined Space Diversity Reception and Trellis Coding for Rayleigh Fading Channels

Space diversity reception, in which several signals received at different antennas are combined, is a well known method that can be used to combat the effects of fading in wireless systems. Also, trellis coded modulation (TCM), when combined with interleaving of sufficient depth, is known to provide some form of time diversity that allows the achievement of good error performance in fading environments. In this paper we consider the analysis of the error performance of reference-based Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) systems when used in conjunction with trellis-coded MPSK modulation techniques over a Rayleigh fading channel. We also consider the analysis of MRC trellis-coded MPSK systems with conventional differential detection. The results are obtained by using a combination of theoretical analysis and simulation. Exact and near-exact expressions for the pairwise error-event probability in Rayleigh fading are derived. Monte-Carlo simulation results, which are more indicative of the exact system performance, are also given.     

A Combined Interleaving Technique for Trellis Coded MPSK Systems in Rayleigh Fading Channels

Freedom of mobility is the latesttrend in the evolution of digital communicationsystems. In these systems bandwidth and powerconstraints limit the mobility of the users. TCM(trellis coded modulation) is a combined coding andmodulation scheme which increases the productivity ofa digital communication system without increasing thetransmitted power or the required bandwidth. A mobilecommunication channel is affected from noise andfading because of the multipath propagation. On aRayleigh fading channel, coding should be used withtechniques which uncorrelate the received energy ofeach consecutive coded symbol. Interleaving is one ofthese techniques and used to make burst errors intorandom errors which can be corrected by errorcorrecting codes. In this paper, the trellis codingsystem which combines a regular convolutional encoder,bit interleaver, coordinate interleaver, and anappropriate decoder is considered. The analytical biterror probability upper bounds are derived for the8-PSK TCM system whose diversity is increased by usinga regular 2/3 rate convolutional code followed bythree bit interleavers and a 8-PSK signal mapperfollowed by two coordinate interleavers. Theanalytical and simulation results show that toincrease the diversity of the trellis coded M-PSKsystems in Rayleigh fading channels is the primary keyfor reliable transmission of high quality voice anddigital data.     

Rayleigh衰落信道中多级编码调制的不等错误保护

本文研究了Rayleigh衰落信道中以信道容量规则为设计准则的多级编码调制系统的不等错误保护性能的实现及其改进.在详细分析了多级编码调制的不等错误保护原理的基础上,设计了一种针对8ASK调制的非均匀信号星座.理论分析与计算机仿真均表明,非均匀信号星座的设计能够增强多级编码调制系统的不等错误保护能力,在不展宽频带的前提下有效地提高Rayleigh衰落环境下数字通信系统的传输质量.     

瑞利信道下的自适应MLSE算法

由于在数字移动通信中要考虑多径和多普勒频移的影响,建立了瑞利时变衰落信道模型,并使用最大似然序列检测算法实现均衡.它的基本思想是在MLSE算法中插入信道估计算法,不断跟踪实时信道变化并及时更新.为降低复杂度,研究了传统的自适应MLSE算法和运幸存MLSE两种经典算法,仿真表明,当多普勒频移较小时,两种算法有相近的性能,...     

瑞利衰落信道MDPSK相位比较解调性能

本文提出一种适合于瑞利衰落信道多进制差分相移键控系统相位比较解调的性能分析方法，推导出符号错误率解析表示式，考虑了瑞利衰落、时间选择性衰落和高斯白噪声对体制性能的影响，并针对衰落功率谱为高斯型和矩形分别对二进制、四进制和八进制情形进行了数值计算。     

Coding Schemes Incorporating Soft-Decision DPSK over HF Rayleigh Fading Channels

A soft-decision 8-DPSK modulation format is introducedin a concatenated coding scheme and the performance of the resultingsystem is evaluated over a slow Rayleigh fading HF ionospheric link inthe presence of Additive White Gaussian noise (AWGN). Well-known UngerboeckTCM techniques are used as inner codes and a Reed–Solomon blockcode as outer code. The coded/modulated signal is differentially encodedbefore transmission to combat random phase changes caused by the channel.Soft-decision demodulator's output is used as an input to a modifiedViterbi decoder that calculates the Euclidean distances of the receivedsignal from an 8-PSK constellation adapted to the signal's amplitudevariations. Block interleaving techniques are necessary to randomise longbursts of errors caused by the fading channel. Simulation results showthat significant coding gains are achieved with a minor bandwidth expansionover uncoded, diversity or other coded systems. Finally, theinteresting effects of interleaving on the performance of the proposedsystems are analysed.     

一种准静态平坦衰落信道下空时编码设计的新方法

空时码在准静态平坦瑞利衰落信道下的设计准则被广泛采用的是秩准则和行列式准则,但这些准则并不是很紧的。为此,提出了准静态平坦瑞利衰落信道下一种新的更紧的设计准则,采用这种准则还大大降低了穷举搜索空时好码的复杂度,仿真结果表明,搜索得到的空时好码性能优于现有的其它好码。     

Joint Data and Kalman Estimation for Rayleigh Fading Channels

Channel estimation is an essential part of many detection techniques proposed for data transmission over fading channels. For the frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel an autoregressive moving average representation is proposed based on the fading model parameters. The parameters of this representation are determined based on the fading channel characteristics, making it possible to employ the Kalman filter as the best estimator for the channel impulse response. For IS-136 formatted data transmission the Kalman filter is employed with the Viterbi algorithm in a Per-Survivor Processing (PSP) fashion and the ove rall bit error rate performance is shown to be superior to that of detection techniques using the RLS and LMS estimators. To allow more than one channel estimation per symbol interval, Per-Branch Processing (PBP) method is introduced as a general case of PSP and its effect on performance is evaluated. The sensitivity of performance to parameters such as fading model order and vehicle speed is also studied.     

自适应Turbo-QAM编码调制及其在 平坦Nakagami衰落信道的吞吐量性能

本文提出了一种通用的自适应编码调制系统吞吐量性能分析方法.基于各固定编码调制方式的误码率(BER)性能,使每种编码调制方案对应于一个信道平均信噪比(SNR)范围,再应用拉格朗日函数法得到使自适应编码调制系统吞吐量性能最大的信噪比转换门限,可得到系统的平均吞吐量性能.数值分析结果表明,相对于自适应M进制正交幅度调制(MQAM),自适应Turbo编码MQAM系统吞吐量性能有显著提高,并且该性能受瞬时误码率要求的影响较小.Nakagami信道中,在相同平均信道信噪比条件下,随着m的增大,系统吞吐量性能提高缓慢.     

A Simple Capacity Formula for Correlated Diversity Rayleigh Fading Channels

1　Introduction　Itiswellknownthatthesystemcapacitycanbeincreasedifweexploittherandomnessofmultipathpropagationappropriately .ThecapacityofMultiple InputMultiple Output (MIMO )isdiscussedinRef.[1 ].Ingeneral,theaveragechannelcapacitydependsonthecharacteristicsoffadingchannelsmostly .Andmostpaperonlyconsiderstheindepen dentandidenticallydistributedGaussianchannelvariable ,underthisassumption[2～3] ,havederived ,respectively ,theaverageandlimitingchannelcapac ity .　Theaimofthispaperistodet…     

一种基于RCPT码的混合ARQ方法及其在衰落信道下的性能

本文基于码率匹配截短Turbo(RCPT-Rate Compatible Punctured Turbo)码,综合利用"码字校验交替重传"方案及Chase组合技术,提出了一种新型混合ARQ(Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest)方法,并进一步在瑞利衰落信道上对该方法的性能进行了仿真验证,同时将其与几种现有基于RCPT码的混合ARQ方法进行了比较.数值结果表明,本文所提方法能以较低的系统实现复杂度获得较好的性能.     

Tradeoffs of Source Coding, Channel Coding and Spreading in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels

This paper investigates the tradeoffs of source coding, channel coding and spreading in CDMA systems. We consider a system consisting of an image source coder, a convolutional channel coder, an interleaver, and a direct sequence spreading module. With different allocations of bandwidth to source coding, channel coding and spreading, the system is analyzed over a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel. The performance of the system is evaluated using the cumulative distribution function of peak signal-to-noise ratio. Tradeoffs of different components of the system are determined through simulations. We show that, for a given bandwidth, an optimal allocation of that bandwidth can be found. Tradeoffs among the parameters allow us to tune the system performance to specific requirements.