Limited feedback unitary precoding for orthogonal space-time block codes

Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are a class of easily decoded space-time codes that achieve full diversity order in Rayleigh fading channels. OSTBCs exist only for certain numbers of transmit antennas and do not provide array gain like diversity techniques that exploit transmit channel information. When channel state information is available at the transmitter, though, precoding the space-time codeword can be used to support different numbers of transmit antennas and to improve array gain. Unfortunately, transmitters in many wireless systems have no knowledge about current channel conditions. This motivates limited feedback precoding methods such as channel quantization or antenna subset selection. This paper investigates a limited feedback approach that uses a codebook of precoding matrices known a priori to both the transmitter and receiver. The receiver chooses a matrix from the codebook based on current channel conditions and conveys the optimal codebook matrix to the transmitter over an error-free, zero-delay feedback channel. A criterion for choosing the optimal precoding matrix in the codebook is proposed that relates directly to minimizing the probability of symbol error of the precoded system. Low average distortion codebooks are derived based on the optimal codeword selection criterion. The resulting design is found to relate to the famous applied mathematics problem of subspace packing in the Grassmann manifold. Codebooks designed by this method are proven to provide full diversity order in Rayleigh fading channels. Monte Carlo simulations show that limited feedback precoding performs better than antenna subset selection.     

Efficient signal processing techniques for exploiting transmitantenna diversity on fading channels

A class of powerful and computationally efficient strategies for exploiting transmit antenna diversity on fading channels is developed. These strategies, which require simple linear processing at the transmitter and receiver, have attractive asymptotic characteristics. In particular, given a sufficient number of transmit antennas, these techniques effectively transform a nonselective Rayleigh fading channel into a nonfading, simple white marginally Gaussian noise channel with no intersymbol interference. These strategies, which we refer to as linear antenna precoding, can be efficiently combined with trellis coding and other popular error-correcting codes for bandwidth-constrained Gaussian channels. Linear antenna precoding requires no additional power or bandwidth and is attractive in terms of robustness and delay considerations. The resulting schemes have powerful and convenient interpretations in terms of transforming nonselective fading channels into frequency- and time-selective ones     

Transmit antennae space-time block coding for generalized OFDM inthe presence of unknown multipath

Transmit antenna diversity has been exploited to develop high-performance space-time coders and simple maximum-likelihood decoders for transmissions over flat fading channels. Relying on block precoding, this paper develops generalized space-time coded multicarrier transceivers appropriate for wireless propagation over frequency-selective multipath channels. Multicarrier precoding maps the frequency-selective channel into a set of flat fading subchannels, whereas space-time encoding/decoding facilitates equalization and achieves performance gains by exploiting the diversity available with multiple transmit antennas. When channel state information is unknown at the receiver, it is acquired blindly based on a deterministic variant of the constant-modulus algorithm that exploits the structure of space-time block codes. To benchmark performance, the Cramer-Rao bound of the channel estimates is also derived. System performance is evaluated both analytically and with simulations     

Combined multiuser detection and diversity reception for wirelessCDMA systems

Code division multiple-access (CDMA) techniques using interference cancellation are being explored for the capacity increase in third-generation universal mobile telecommunications systems. However, multipath fading is a major constraint on the performance of wireless CDMA systems, with multipath propagation worsening the effects of multiple-access interference, and fading on propagation paths leading to the near far problem. Multiuser detection, exploiting the knowledge of other users to cancel multiple-access interference, has the capability of eliminating the near far problem and providing a significant capacity increase in CDMA systems. On the other hand, diversity techniques effectively combat the fading effects of the channel. This paper investigates multiuser receivers that combine explicit antenna diversity, RAKE multipath diversity, and multipath decorrelating detection. Both coherent reception with maximal-ratio combining and differentially coherent reception with equal-gain combining are analyzed. The results demonstrate a significant increase in up-link capacity over the conventional RAKE receiver, at the expense of complexity. In the case of limited receiver complexity, where the number of correlators is less than the number of resolvable paths at the RAKE front-end, antenna diversity is shown to be effective in reducing residual multiple-access interference     

MIMO CDMA antenna system for SINR enhancement

We present a system to enhance signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) communications in the downlink for frequency-selective fading environments. The proposed system utilizes a transmit antenna array at the base station and a receive antenna array at the mobile station with finite-impulse response filters at both the transmitter and receiver. We arrive at our system by attempting to find the optimal solution to a general MIMO antenna system. A single user joint optimum scenario and a multiuser SINR enhancement scenario are derived. In addition, a simplified one-finger receiver structure is introduced. Numerical results reveal that significant system performance and capacity improvement over conventional approaches are possible. We also investigate the sensitivity of the proposed system to channel estimation errors.     

Blind adaptive space-time multiuser detection with multipletransmitter and receiver antennas

The demand for performance and capacity in cellular systems has generated a great deal of interest in the development of advanced signal processing techniques to optimize the use of system resources. In particular, much work has been done on space-time processing in which multiple transmit/receive antennas are used in conjunction with coding to exploit spatial diversity. We consider space-time multiuser detection using multiple transmit and receive antennas for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communications. We compare, via analytical bit-error-probability calculations, user capacity, and complexity, two linear receiver structures for different antenna configurations. Motivated by its appearance in a number of third-generation (3G) wideband CDMA standards, we use the Alamouti (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.16, p.1451-58, Oct. 1998) space-time block code for two-transmit-antenna configurations. We also develop blind adaptive implementations for the two transmit/two receive antenna case for synchronous CDMA in flat-fading channels and for asynchronous CDMA, in fading multipath channels. Finally, we present simulation results for the blind adaptive implementations     

Tradeoff between diversity gain and interference suppression in a MIMO MC-CDMA system

In this paper, the uplink of an asynchronous multi-carrier direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (MC-DS-CDMA) system with multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver is considered. We analyze the system performance over a spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channel with multiple-access interference (MAI), and evaluate the antenna array performance with joint fading reduction and MAI suppression. Assuming perfect channel knowledge available at the transmitter, maximal ratio transmission is employed to weight the transmitted signal optimally in terms of combating signal fading. At the receiver, adaptive beamforming reception is adopted to both suppress MAI and combat the fading. Note that while correlations among the fades of the antennas in the receive array reduce the diversity gain against fading, the array still has the capability for interference suppression. We examine the effect of varying the number of transmit and receive antennas on both the diversity gain and the interference suppression.     

Improvements in W-CDMA: principles and experimental results

This article first reviews the channel structure and spreading code assignment for the physical layer and transport channel multiplexing along with a sophisticated rate-matching scheme that accommodates composite transport channels with various levels of quality of service (QoS) on one physical channel. Then, the key technologies of wideband ds-cdma (w-cdma) wireless access are presented and the results of experiments pertaining to these technologies are evaluated. Flexible system deployment is possible by employing inter-cell asynchronous operation with a three-step fast cell search method. The signal-to-interference power ratio (sir) measurement based fast transmit power control (tpc) guarantees the minimum transmit power according to the channel load and the changes in the link conditions due to fading. Furthermore, various diversity technologies are described such as pilot symbol-assisted (psa) coherent Rake combining, antenna diversity, site diversity (soft/softer handover), and transmit diversity in the forward link that are effective in decreasing the required transmit power, which results in increases system capacity. This article also presents link-capacity enhancing techniques such as using an interference canceller (IC) and adaptive antenna array diversity (AMD) receiver/transmitter. Experimental results are presented for an actual multipath fading channel that indicate the potential of the IC and aaad transceiver to decrease the mobile transmit power in the reverse link and interference from high rate users with high transmit power in the forward link.     

Error probability performance for W-CDMA systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas in correlated Nakagami fading channels

The bit error rate (BER) performance of a two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receiver, in combination with transmit diversity on the downlink of a wide-band CDMA (W-CDMA) system, is presented. The analyses assume correlated fading between receive antenna array elements, and an arbitrary number of independent but nonidentical resolvable multipaths combined by the RAKE receiver in the general Nakagami-m (1960) fading channel framework. The impact of the array configuration (e.g., the number of transmit antennas and receive antennas, the antenna element separation) and the operating environment parameters (such as the fading severity, angular spread and path delay profile) on the overall space-path diversity gain can be directly evaluated. In addition, the exact pairwise error probability of a convolutional coded system is obtained, and the coding gain of a space-path diversity receiver is quantified.     

分布式残余频偏信道中STBC-OFDM的发射功率优化

在分布式残余频偏信道中,考虑多径瑞利衰落,针对采用判决反馈检测的两发射天线STBC-OFDM链路,提出了一种发射功率优化方法:根据平均信道功率增益、残余频偏方差以及噪声方差的大小,以最小化平均误比特率下界为目标,设置两分布发射天线的发射功率,仿真结果表明:相比于传统的各天线满功率发射方法,所提方法能够在节省发射功率的同...     

Space diversity in presence of discrete multipath fading channel

Most analytical studies of the performance of space diversity systems on fading channels assume a very rich multipath environment. In certain wireless applications, however, the number of significant multipath components can be small. In this letter, we consider a multipath channel in which the signal propagates from the transmitter to the receiver via L discrete paths which are uniformly distributed about the transmitter and receiver. For this channel, we study the effects of the number of multipath components and antenna array size on the error probability and outage capacity of space diversity systems. We observe that performance is significantly influenced by the presence of a channel with few multipath components.     

A transmitter diversity scheme for wideband CDMA systems based onspace-time spreading

We present a transmit diversity technique for the downlink of (wideband) direct-sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The technique, called space-time spreading (STS), improves the downlink performance by using a small number of antenna elements at the base and one or more antennas at the handset, in conjunction with a novel spreading scheme that is inspired by space-time codes. It spreads each signal in a balanced way over the transmitter antenna elements to provide maximal path diversity at the receiver. In doing so, no extra spreading codes, transmit power or channel information are required at the transmitter and only minimal extra hardware complexity at both sides of the link. Both our analysis and simulation results show significant performance gains over conventional single-antenna systems and other open-loop transmit diversity techniques. Our approach is a practical way to increase the bit rate and/or improve the quality and range in the downlink of either mobile or fixed CDMA systems. A STS-based proposal for the case of two transmitter and single-receiver antennas has been accepted and will be included as an optional diversity mode in release A of the IS-2000 wideband CDMA standard     

Interference mitigation using transmitter filters in CDMA systems

We consider the use of transmitter filters as pre-equalizers at the base station to mitigate the interference in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems over a multipath fading channel. It is shown that the interference at the receiver of the mobile station can be mitigated by the transmitter filters and, thereby, the capacity of downlink channel can be improved. The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming technique in antenna arrays has been utilized to find the coefficients of the interference mitigation (IM) transmitter filters. To design IM transmitter filters, we assume that the channel information is available. This can be true in the time-division duplexing (TDD) mode because of the channel reciprocity. In the frequency-division duplexing mode, the downlink channel impulse responses (CIRs) shall be be transmitted to the base station. To transmit the CIRs, we consider an encoding method. In addition, to compensate inherent feedback delay, the channel prediction is also utilized     

Receiver Design for Uplink Multiuser Code Division Multiple Access Communication System Based on Neural Network

In this paper, we consider the receiver design problem for the uplink multiuser code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system based on the neural network technique. The uplink multiuser CDMA communication system model is described in the form of space–time domain through antenna array and multipath fading expression. Novel suitable neural network technique is proposed as an effective signal processing method for the receiver of such an uplink multiuser CDMA system. By the appropriate choice of the channel state information for the neural network parameters, the neural network can collectively resolve the effects of both the inter-symbol interference due to the multipath fading channel and the multiple access interference in the receiver of the uplink multiuser CDMA communication system. The dynamics of the proposed neural network receiver for the uplink multiuser CDMA communication system is also studied.     

Transmitter precoding in synchronous multiuser communications

A synchronous multiuser system operating in an additive white Gaussian noise channel, with or without multipath fading, is considered. It is shown that when either a conventional single user receiver or the RAKE receiver is employed, both multiple access and intersymbol interference can be eliminated by means of a suitable transmitter precoding scheme. Transmitter precoding represents a linear transformation of transmitted signals, such that the mean squared errors at all receivers are minimized. Precoding, with both conventional single user receiver and with the RAKE receiver, results in near-far resistant performance and outperforms considerably the respective schemes without precoding. The crucial assumption, in the multipath case, is that the transmitter knows the multipath characteristics of all channels and that channel dynamics are sufficiently slow so that multipath profiles remain essentially constant over the block of precoded bits     

Transmit diversity for arrays in correlated Rayleigh fading

Transmit diversity is usually presented for the case of independently faded channels. In this paper the structure of a linear transmitter that can be optimized for a Rayleigh-fading environment in which the fading may be correlated is derived. The transmitter achieves the best mix of array gain-obtained by beamforming, and diversity gain-obtained by using multiple transmit beamformers and space-time coding. The authors use a multiinput single output (MISO) transmitter and receiver structure to present a detailed performance analysis, that shows the array gain versus diversity gain tradeoff as the fading correlation changes. This analysis is validated by simulation results.     

Intelligent antenna system for cdma2000

Third-generation (3G) cellular code division multiple access (CDMA,) systems can provide an increase in capacity for system operators over existing second-generation (CDMA) systems. The gain in capacity for the base station to mobile (forward) link can be attributed to improvements in coding techniques, fast power control, and transmit diversity techniques. Additional gains in the mobile to base station (reverse) link can be attributed to the use of coherent quadrature phase shift keyed (QPSK) modulation and better coding techniques. While these enhancements can improve the performance of the system, system operators expect that with increased demand for data services, even greater capacity enhancements may be desired. There are essentially three methods, which we describe, based on diversity, spatial beamforming, and a combination of diversity and beamforming, to improve the performance of system through the use of additional antennas at the base station transmitter and receiver. The performance improvements are a function of the antenna spacings and the algorithms used to weight the antenna signals. We focus on the possibilities for the cdma2000 3G system that do not require standards changes. We highlight the performance enhancements that can be obtained on both the reverse and forward links through use of an antenna array architecture that supports a combination of beamforming and transmit diversity. We focus on the performance enhancements for the forward link     

Adaptive transmitter optimization for blind and group-blind multiuser detection

The linear subspace-based blind and group-blind multiuser detectors recently developed represent a robust and efficient adaptive multiuser detection technique for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems. In this paper, we consider adaptive transmitter optimization strategies for CDMA systems operating in fading multipath environments in which these detectors are employed. We make use of more recent results on the analytical performance of these blind and group-blind receivers in the design and analysis of the transmitter optimization techniques. In particular, we develop a maximum-eigenvector-based method of optimizing spreading codes for given channel conditions and a utility-based power control algorithm for CDMA systems with blind or group-blind multiuser detection. We also design a receiver incorporating joint optimization of spreading codes and transmitter power by combining these algorithms in an iterative configuration. We will see that the utility-based power control algorithm allows us to efficiently set performance goals through utility functions for users in heterogeneous traffic environments and that spreading code optimization allows us to achieve these goals with lower transmit power. The signal processing algorithms presented here maintain the blind (or group-blind) nature of the receiver and are distributed, i.e., all power and spreading code adjustments can be made using only locally available information.     

On CDMA with space-time codes over multipath fading channels

We explore code-division multiple-access systems with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas combined with algebraic constellations over a quasi-static multipath fading channel. We first propose a technique to obtain transmit diversity for a single user over quasi-static fading channels by combining algebraic constellations with full spatial diversity and spreading sequences with good cross-correlation properties. The proposed scheme is then generalized to a multiuser system using the same algebraic constellation and different spreading sequences. We also propose a linear multiuser detector based on the combination of linear decorrelation with respect to all users, and the application of the sphere decoder to decode each user separately. Finally, we consider the generalization to multipath fading channels where the additional diversity advantage due to multipath is exploited by the sphere decoder, and a method of blind channel estimation based on subspace decomposition is examined.     

Performance of DS-CDMA receivers with MRC in nakagami-m fading channels with arbitrary fading parameters

The receivers that combine spatial antenna diversity with temporal multipath diversity are known as two-dimensional (2-D) RAKE receivers. In this paper, we consider the outage probability and the bit error rate performance of a coherent binary phase shift keying 2-D RAKE receiver in the context of an asynchronous direct sequence (DS)-code division multiple access (CDMA) system operating in a Nakagami-m fading channel with real and arbitrary fading parameters. The closed-form expressions derived for the two wireless performance measures are easily evaluated numerically and enable the link designer to examine the effects of system parameters, such as the number of receive antennas, RAKE fingers per antenna, and asynchronous CDMA users in the cell, as well as channel conditions, such as the amount of fading in the combined paths and the multipath intensity profile of the channel on the link performance. In addition, the diversity loss due to correlated fading among the spatially separated RAKE fingers is quantified.