A wide-band radial basis function decision feedbackequalizer-assisted burst-by-burst adaptive modem

The performance of radial basis function-based decision feedback equalized (RBF DFE) burst-by-burst adaptive quadrature amplitude modulation (AQAM) is presented for transmissions over dispersive wide-band mobile channels. This scheme is shown to give a significant improvement in terms of the mean bit error rate (BER) and bits per symbol (BPS) performance compared to that of the individual fixed modulation modes. The structural equivalence of the RBF DFE to the optimal Bayesian equalizer enables it to potentially outperform the conventional Kalman-filtered AQAM DFE scheme     

Performance Analysis of Cooperative Communication System with Hierarchical Modulation over Rayleigh Fading Channel

Much attention had been devoted to study the bit error rate (BER) of hierarchical modulation on point-to-point transmissions in recent years. But few mention the error performance of hierarchical modulation on cooperative communication systems. Thus, in this paper, we derive the explicit closed-form expressions of the exact bit error rate computation for cooperative communication systems with hierarchical modulation over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels and Rayleigh fading channels. To obtain the theoretical formulas of error rate performance, an analyzing model is proposed to clearly express all possibilities of each transmission. For error rate performance, the expression for BER is a function of distance parameters. Based on this relationship, a criterion is proposed to choose the optimal distance parameters for minimizing the BER of the refinement bits while guaranteeing the BER requirement of the base bits. Simulation results validate the correctness of the derived BERs of the base bits and the refinement bits. Also from simulation results, the performance with optimal distance parameters is greatly improved compared to the non-optimal distance parameters.     

Improved NSGA-II optimizing coding-link cost trade-offs for multicast routing in WDM networks

The present study proposed a high-data-rate underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) system to propagate the laser blue–green waves through water. The presented study not only focuses on analysis of challenges in UOWC link including attenuation, absorption, scattering and turbulence model, but also investigates the performance of the proposed system using two different methods of balanced modulation schemes. Spectrum efficiency of the system can be improved by using appropriate modulation formats. Return-to-zero differential phase shift keying (RZ-DPSK) and non-return-to-zero differential phase shift keying (NRZ-DPSK) schemes are two modulation formats that we investigate them to improve the characteristics of the proposed UOWC system. The paper explains a real model and exhaustive analysis for advanced UOWC works by using channel model and modulation formats for presented underwater link. Performance of the proposed system under different modulation schemes and physical aspects of UOWC is studied with several parameters like max quality factor, min bit error rate (BER) and eye diagram. For clear ocean, the performance of the proposed system is good and min BER less than 10^?90 for two modulation formats. Generally, results at different condition show that the operation of NRZ-DPSK modulation has better performance than RZ-DPSK scheme.     

Estimation of the Bit Error Rate for Direct-Detected OFDM Signals With Optically Preamplified Receivers

In this paper, we provide a numerical bit error rate (BER) estimation approach for direct-detected orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in the presence of optical preamplified receivers. The individual BER of each subcarrier is first computed by considering their electrical signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and then the ensemble BER is derived simply by taking the average of all the subcarriers' BERs. The calculated BER is verified by the conventional error-counting approach with high precision and is still accurate with higher quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) formats, even under the influences of the optical filtering and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) effects. Based on our simulation approach, the required extra power budget for 16- and 64-QAM relative to 4-QAM format are found to be ${sim}$3.8 and 8.2 dB, respectively, at a BER of 10$^{-9}$. Furthermore, we use this approach to compare the receiving sensitivities and PMD tolerances for the previous proposed gapped and interleaved radio-frequency (RF)-tone-assisted OFDM systems. The results show that the gapped OFDM has a better sensitivity while the interleaved OFDM has a more PMD-tolerable capability.      

OFDM for data communication over mobile radio FM channels. I.Analysis and experimental results

The performance of OFDM/FM modulation for digital communication over Rayleigh-fading mobile radio channels is described. The use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) over mobile radio channels was proposed by Cimini (1985). OFDM transmits blocks of bits in parallel and reduces the bit error rate (BER) by averaging the effects of fading over the bits in the block. OFDM/FM is a modulation technique in which the OFDM baseband signal is used to modulate an FM transmitter. OFDM/FM can be implemented simply and inexpensively by retrofitting existing FM communication systems. Expressions are derived for the BER and word error rate (WER) within a block when each subchannel is QAM-modulated. Several numerical methods are developed to evaluate the overall BER and WER. An experimental OFDM/FM system was implemented and tested using unmodified VHF FM radio equipment and a fading channel simulator. The BER and WER results obtained from the hardware measurements agree closely with the numerical results     

BER performance of anti-multipath modulation scheme PSK-VP and itsoptimum phase-waveform

This paper proposes a new anti-multipath modulation scheme, which the author calls PSK-W (phase-shift-keying with varied phase), in which a time-varying phase-waveform is redundantly imposed on the DPSK timeslot. The relationship between the phase-waveform and BER (bit-error rate) is discussed by using an analytical approach which considers the diversity of received signal components that are continuously varying over a symbol period. A formula-type BER expression obtained by this analytical approach yields a maximum-diversity phase-waveform condition. A convex phase-waveform is considered to be the best choice because of this condition and an additional consideration for spectrum compactness. A numerical evaluation confirms the performance of PSK-VP with a convex phase-waveform and reveals a band-limitation effect. From the numerical evaluation, it is shown that the 4-ary version of PSK-VP with a convex phase-waveform has an excellent BER performance in multipath fading when the delay dissipation is less than 1.7 bits, although requiring about twice the bandwidth due to the imposed phase redundancy     

Optical phase conjugation for ultra long-haul phase-shift-keyed transmission

Nonlinear phase noise (Gordon-Mollenauer phase noise) can limit the transmission distance for phase-shift-keyed modulation formats. In this paper, the compensation of nonlinear phase noise by a midlink optical phase conjugation (OPC) is studied. A proof-of-principle experiment is presented showing an over 4-dB improvement in Q factor when OPC is employed in a differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) system. Also, an ultra long-haul OPC-based differential quadrature phase-shift-keying (DQPSK) transmission experiment is studied to show the impact of self-phase modulation (SPM)-induced impairments, including nonlinear phase noise, in a transmission line. OPC results in a 44% increase in transmission distance when compared to a "conventional" transmission system using dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) for chromatic dispersion compensation.     

Voice-Band Data Modem Performance Over Companded Delta Modulation Channels

This paper reports upon the results of tests of the transmission of data over single- and multiple-hop companded delta modulation (DM) systems. The DM coder-decoder (CODEC) was optimized for voice transmission. Modem bit error rate (BER) achievable over the range of 1200-9600 bits/s is presented. A comparison with the performance of pulse code modulation (PCM) is included. The comparison indicates that the two systems are comparable for error-free digital lines but favors the DM system for lines with errors.     

System Performance of High-Order Optical DPSK and Star QAM Modulation for Direct Detection Analyzed by Semi-Analytical BER Estimation

Recently, higher order modulation formats are intensively investigated to further increase spectral efficiency for building next generation optical transport networks. Direct detection receivers are capable of detecting arbitrary modulation formats with differentially encoded phases such as differentially phase shift keying (DPSK) and star shaped quadrature amplitude modulation (Star QAM) formats. In an earlier publication of the authors (M. Seimetz , “Optical systems with high-order DPSK and star QAM modulation based on interferometric direct detection,” J. Lightw. Technol. , vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1515–1530, Jun. 2007) a system analysis was performed where performance was mainly characterized by eye opening penalties. Here, these investigations are extended. A tool for semi-analytical BER estimation is developed allowing to calculate the BER down to small values such as $10^{-9}$ for a wide range of modulation formats, as well as for different receiver structures. Using this module, the back-to-back OSNR requirements are calculated. CD and SPM tolerances are characterized by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalties at ${hbox {BER}} = 10^{-9}$ . As far as the authors know, this is the first analysis of the transmission characteristics of optical 16DPSK and Star 16QAM based on the BER. Moreover, further novel aspects such as optimization of the optical and electrical receiver filter bandwidths are investigated.      

基于极化码的无线光通信副载波误码性能分析

提出了一种基于极化码的无线光信道副载波调制方法,给出了极化编译码的具体算法过程,并将其应用于无线光通信系统。在不同大气湍流强度下,对系统的差错性能进行了仿真分析,其重对基于极化码的二相相移键控和四相相移键控两种调制方法的误码率进行了对比,结果表明,采用极化码的副载波二相相移键控调制系统的性能优于四相相移键控系统。最后,实验比较分析了极化编码前后副载波调制系统的误比特率,结果表明,在无线光通信大气湍流信道模型下,采用副载波极化码编码调制技术可使误码率性能改善一个量级。     

Wavelength re-generation and re-modulation using optical phase lock loop techniques for 100-Gb/s DQPSK up-stream transmission in DWDM passive optical networks

We demonstrate, by partial experiment and simulation, a re-modulation scheme of the lightwave carrier imbedded in a downstream optical signals under differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) modulation format for upstream transmission over passive optical networks (PONs) at a bit rate of 100 Gb/s. The recovery of the optical carrier with the precise wavelength is implemented using an injection laser incorporating an optical phase locked loop (OPLL). In the computer simulation, the OPLL is implemented by a Simulink model consisting of interconnected system blocks following exactly the physical phenomena of the hardware structures. This model is then integrated with DQPSK modulation formats for up- and down-transmissions in PONs. Pulse shaping of Non-Return-to-Zero and Return-to-Zero (RZ) of 50% duty cycle and 67% duty cycle are used, respectively. Dispersion tolerance of 25 ps/nm with a bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻⁹ is achieved for both down- and upstream transmissions over fully dispersion compensated 80- km standard SMF and 1.5- km SSMF equivalent dispersion with carrier suppressed RZ pulse shaping (CS-RZ 67%). The contribution to BER by the timing synchronization error at the sampling of the optical network unit for re-modulation and related power penalty of these modulation formats is also investigated. It is noted that using the optical phase locking technique it is possible to remove any cross talks which may be generated from nonlinear effects such as cross-phase modulation, self-phase modulation, and four wave mixing.     

Hamming Coding of DCT-Compressed Images Over Noisy Channels

Theoretical and simulation results of using Hamming codes with the two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D-DCT) at a transmitted data rate of 1 bit/pixel over a binary symmetric channel (BSC) are presented. The design bit error rate (BER) of interest is 10^-2. The (7, 4), (15, 11), and (31, 26) Hamming codes are used to protect the most important bits in each 16 by 16 transformed block, where the most important bits are determined by calculating the mean squared reconstruction error (MSE) contributed by a channel error in each individual bit. A theoretical expression is given which allows the number of protected bits to achieve minimum MSE for each code rate to be computed. By comparing these minima, the best code and bit allocation can be found. Objective and subjective performance results indicate that using the (7, 4) Hamming code to protect the most important 2D-DCT coefficients can substantially improve reconstructed image quality at a BER of 10^-2. Furthermore, the allocation of 33 out of the 256 bits per block to channel coding does not noticeably degrade reconstructed image quality in the absence of channel errors.     

Performance of MMSE Receiver Based CDMA System with Higher Order Modulation Formats in a Fading Channel

This paper studies the effect of using higher order modulation formats on the performance of minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver based direct-sequence (DS) code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems at different loading levels in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and slow fading channels. The performance of BPSK, QPSK, and 16QAM modulation formats are compared and analytical and simulation results are presented in terms of the bit error rates (BER) for these different modulation formats. A comparison of the rejection of the near-far effects for each modulation scheme is also presented. The main contribution of this paper is in showing that user capacity may be increased by using higher order modulation schemes to cause the MMSE receiver to operate away from the interference limiting region. In particular it is shown that under high loading levels, 16QAM outperforms QPSK and BPSK for identical bandwidth and information rate, while at moderate loading levels, QPSK represents the best option. A combination of pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM) and linear prediction are used to estimate the fading process. A general structure of the MMSE receiver capable of demodulating a wide range of digital modulation formats in this type of environment is presented.     

Effect of channel estimation error on M-QAM BER performance inRayleigh fading

We determine the bit-error rate (BER) of multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) in flat Rayleigh fading with imperfect channel estimates, Despite its high spectral efficiency, M-QAM is not commonly used over fading channels because of the channel amplitude and phase variation. Since the decision regions of the demodulator depend on the channel fading, estimation error of the channel variation can severely degrade the demodulator performance. Among the various fading estimation techniques, pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM) proves to be an effective choice. We first characterize the distribution of the amplitude and phase estimates using PSAM. We then use this distribution to obtain the BER of M-QAM as a function of the PSAM and channel parameters. By using a change of variables, our exact BER expression has a particularly simple form that involves just a few finite-range integrals. This approach can be used to compute the BER for any value of M. We compute the BER for 16-QAM and 64-QAM numerically and verify our analytical results by computer simulation. We show that for these modulations, amplitude estimation error leads to a 1-dB degradation in average signal-to-noise ratio and combined amplitude-phase estimation error leads to 2.5-dB degradation for the parameters we consider     

Cross‐level PRC transmitter for TH‐PAM UWB systems

A cross‐level pre‐RAKE combining (PRC) scheme for time hopping pulse amplitude modulation ultra wideband (TH‐PAM UWB) transmitter is studied in this paper. A two‐stage cross‐level PRC (CL‐PRC) scheme is proposed. The conventional PRC schemes suppress all the chip‐wise interference. However, the proposed scheme suppresses only the specific frame‐wise inter‐symbol interference (ISI) by exploiting the characteristic that the information bits are transmitted only at ultra short time slots. This results in a low complexity pre‐equalizer without bit error rate (BER) performance degradation. Furthermore, an order selection rule is presented to achieve the tradeoff between signal‐to‐interference ratio (SIR) and computational complexity. Simulation results illustrate the superior SIR and BER performance of our proposal. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Phase-noise effects on turbo trellis-coded over M-ary coherent channels

The effect of the phase noise on the performance of bandwidth-efficient coded modulation is studied. To this end, the average mutual information (AMI) for specific constellations such as 8-phase-shift keying and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation is calculated in the presence of carrier phase error caused by imperfect carrier tracking over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The AMI not only quantifies the effect of the phase noise from an information-theoretic viewpoint, but also serves as an estimate for a permissible amount of the phase noise for a given signal-to-noise ratio. The bit-error rate (BER) performance of a near-optimal turbo trellis-coded modulation scheme is then investigated over such a channel. For this purpose, an optimal branch metric which best fits the channel characteristics is derived. Furthermore, simple branch metrics (referred to as suboptimal, simplified, and Gaussian metrics) are derived, which may offer the tradeoff between BER performance and computational complexity. Numerical analysis shows that a near-optimal coded-modulation scheme renders a transmission system more robust against phase noise than is the case with a conventional trellis-coded modulation scheme.     

Optimisation of switching levels for adaptive modulation in slowRayleigh fading

Multi-dimensional minimisation techniques are used to optimise for specific applications, the upper bound bit error rate (BER) and bits per symbol (BPS) performances of adaptive modulation schemes over Rayleigh channels. This is achieved by modifying the switching criteria for selecting the appropriate modulation scheme     

Power Spectra of Sinusoidal Amplitude-Modulated Binary Signals

Power spectra for binary phase-shift keyed (PSK) and frequency-shift keyed (FSK) signals with combined sinusoidal amplitude modulation by the bit rate clock are presented. Such signal formats have application in "burst" communication systems wherein reliable bit synchronization is provided with relative receiver simplicity. Effects of the clock amplitude modulation index and phase are considered, and corresponding power spectra are illustrated. Further, effects of the clock parameters on the rate of spectral rolloff are given and compared with those of conventional PSK and FSK spectra.     

Decision feedback differential phase detection of M-ary DPSKsignals

Multiple-symbol differential phase detection (DFDPD) based on decision feedback of past detected symbols is presented for M-ary DPSK modulation. Adopting a Gaussian phase noise assumption, we obtain the a posteriori joint probability density function (PDF) of the outputs of L DPD defectors of orders of 1 to L symbols and derive a DF-DPD algorithm which is based on feeding back the L-1 past detected symbols and minimizing the sum of phase errors of L DPD detectors. A practical implementation of the DF-DPD receiver is presented that uses a single conventional (one-symbol) DPD detector. The bit error rate (BER) performance in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is analyzed taking into account decision error propagation. Performance improvements are evaluated by computer simulations in AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels     

Coded Phase/Frequency Modulation

Channel coding combined with expanded signal sets has been shown [1] to improve error performance over uncoded modulation without expanding the bandwidth of the transmitted signals. In this paper, new coded modulation formats defined over an expanded set of signals varying both in phase and frequency are presented. The new schemes combine FSK and PSK modulation and make use of trellis coding and Viterbi decoding to improve error performance over uncoded modulation. The free Euclidean distance is calculated for several classes of codes, and upper bounds and simulation results are also presented for some simple codes. The spectral characteristics of the proposed coded modulation formats are evaluated and compared to conventional two-dimensional modulation formats. Differential encoding and various extensions of the basic scheme are also discussed.