一种快速FH-OFDM通信帧格式及其验证

针对通信中跳频与正交频分复用两种技术结合存在同步困难的技术难点,提出一种快速跳频OFDM无线宽带通信帧格式,并设计了一种占用带宽为10 MHz、跳频速率为2 kHz、基带数据传输速率为14.324 Mbit/s的快速跳频OFDM通信收发系统.该帧格式使用加长循环前缀的方式提供高精度载波同步依据,将伪随机序列隐藏到频域数据中以便利用其完成精确定时同步、采样时钟同步和整数倍频偏估计,并且插入了梳状导频以便接收端进行信道估计.实验结果表明,接收机星座图可以很好地收敛,在信噪比为10 dB情况下,误码率低于10-8.本帧格式可较好地满足视频等数据的无线通信要求.     

An ATSC DTV receiver with improved robustness to multipath and distributed transmission environments

This paper presents the design and implementation of an 8-VSB DTV receiver for indoor and distributed transmission environments. The receiver is designed to handle severe multipath distortion from indoor and Single Frequency Network (SFN) transmission conditions. The architecture of the receiver is first introduced. The adaptive equalizer structure and design are then discussed in detail. A channel-matched filter is employed as a pre-filter such that the signal energies from different echoes are combined optimally and the signal to noise ratio of the equalizer input is maximized. Feedforward and feedback equalizers are used to handle the pre-echo (pre-cursor) and post-echo (post-cursor), respectively. The feedforward filter is designed to minimize the pre-cursors or convert them into post-cursors, while the feedback equalizer is used to eliminate the post-cursors. Initial tap coefficients are computed to speed up the convergence of these two filters based on the channel estimation. Laboratory tests show that the new prototype DTV receiver has very robust performance in multipath environments. 0 dB echoes can be handled with this receiver due to the enhanced design of the equalizer. It can withstand a -10 dB single echo within a -29.5 to +38.5 microsecond range and a 0 dB echo within a 12 microsecond range.     

Bandwidth-efficient pilot-symbol-aided technique formultipath-fading channels

Pilot-symbol-aided (PSA) transmission is one of the effective methods to combat multipath-fading in digital mobile communications systems. In the PSA systems, redundant bandwidth and power are required to transmit the pilot symbols. We propose a novel fading estimation technique that requires a very low bandwidth redundancy in the PSA systems. The proposed technique uses simple linear interpolation on the pilot symbols and the detected data symbols to obtain the estimates of the channel fading effects. Monte Carlo computer simulation has been carried out to study the effects of the technique on the bit error rate performance of 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation in the flat and the frequency-selective Rayleigh-fading channels corrupted with cochannel interference and additive white Gaussian noise. Results have shown that the proposed technique can, at the expense of a little power efficiency, significantly improve the bandwidth efficiency of the PSA systems using receivers with low complexity and latency     

Maximum likelihood sequence detection using a pilot tone

This paper derives, analyzes, and simulates a maximum likelihood (ML) sequence detector (MLSD) for a linearly modulated signal transmitted with a pilot tone (PT-MLSD). The transmitted signal is distorted by a time-varying frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel and corrupted by additive Gaussian noise. The received signal is unsynchronized in that there are residual carrier frequency, carrier phase, and symbol timing offsets. The PT-MLSD treats the channel as a stochastic process, and so symbol sequences are distinguished by their autocovariances. Coherent communication is possible even in overspread channels. As the sequences' autocovariances explicitly account for the channel's time variation, the PT-MLSD's bit error rate (BER) floor is normally lower than the BER floor suffered by receivers that estimate the channel impulse response conventionally. Both the data-bearing signal and pilot tone are used together for synchronization, equalization, and detection. The pilot tone is only needed to remove the constellation's phase ambiguity and provide a stable amplitude reference for QAM constellations. It is not needed for estimating the channel impulse response. The pilot tone does not require a spectral null for its insertion, and it does not significantly degrade the peak-to-average or maximum-to-minimum power ratios. Thus, many of the disadvantages of other pilot tone systems are avoided, as there is no bandwidth expansion, and linear amplification is not made appreciably more difficult     

Adaptive Blocker Rejection Continuous-Time $Sigma Delta $ ADC for Mobile WiMAX Applications

An adaptive blocker-rejection wideband continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta (SigmaDelta) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented. An integrated blocker detector reconfigures the ADC loop architecture to avoid overloading in the presence of strong interferers, improving receiver channel selectivity and sensitivity without increasing its dynamic range (DR) requirements. The adaptive operation relaxes receiver baseband channel filtering requirements for a worldwide inter-operability for microwave access (WiMAX, IEEE 802.16e) receiver. The ADC achieves 71 dB of dynamic range (DR), 65 dB of peak SNDR and 68 dB of peak SNR over a 10 MHz signal bandwidth, consuming 18 mW from a 1.2 V supply. The ADC system reconfigures the loop filter topology within 51 mus, improving receiver selectivity without any transient impact on BER. In the blocker suppression mode, the ADC can withstand 30 dBc blocker at the adjacent channel, achieving - 22 dB error vector magnitude (EVM) with a 24 Mb/s 16-QAM signal. The IC is fabricated on a 130 nm 8-level metal, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor, CMOS technology, occupying 1.5 times 0.9 mm² silicon area.     

On the Definition and Measurement of Occupied Bandwidth

Measurement of the occupied bandwidth is not a simple matter as the term is now defined. This is particularly true for emissions which are measured at a great distance from the transmitter. The emission class studied here is frequency modulation with noise as the modulating signal. The emitted spectrum is first separated into three parts, namely, spurious emissions, harmonic emissions, and the fundamental emission. The first of these is discussed qualitatively, whereas the second and the third are treated quantitatively. An equation is given for computing the maximum expected amplitude of the harmonic emissions. A probability density function has been found that links the Laplacian and the Gaussian probabilities. This function is then used to demonstrate the practicality of a measurement method and to aid in the justification for a modification to the existing definition of occupied bandwidth.     

Channel capacity and bit error rate optimization of the ultra‐wide bandwidth transmitted‐reference receiver

The channel capacity and the bit error rate of ultra‐wide bandwidth transmitted‐reference systems are optimized with respect to time delay between the reference and the adjacent data pulses. Approximate and theoretical expressions for the signal‐to‐interference‐plus‐noise ratio are derived. Numerical results show that optimizing the receiver can provide a significant capacity improvement of up to 2.2 bits/s/GHz and a bit error rate performance gain of up to 2 dB in effective signal‐to‐noise ratio. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Noncoherent detection of preamble-signal-assisted differentiallyphase-encoded APSK signals

A noncoherent detection scheme for differentially encoded amplitude- and phase-shift-keyed data transmission, assisted with differentially phase-shift-keyed preamble signals, is presented and analyzed for an additive white Gaussian noise channel. It is analytically shown that, despite a controllable reduction in bandwidth efficiency, the proposed scheme yields an error performance approaching that of the quadrature amplitude modulation scheme with ideal coherent detection within a loss of approximately 1 dB     

导航接收机中基于反正切鉴别器载波环路的分析及优化设计

该文首次给出了数字反正切鉴别器环路的精确建模和分析,得到了不同信噪比下的等效环路带宽和收敛区间,通过推导可知低信噪比下的等效环路带宽约为高信噪比下的1/3,收敛区间约为高信噪比下的1/2;低信噪比下振荡器短稳和动态应力引起的跟踪误差约为传统理论分析结果的9倍;输入信噪比降低10 dB,热噪声引起的跟踪误差约增加20 dB。通过仿真对等效环路带宽以及鉴别器方差分析的正确性进行了验证。最后,根据总跟踪误差与收敛区间的在不同信噪比下的关系,给出了反正切环路最低可稳定工作的信噪比门限以及对应的环路参数设计方法。该文的结论可用于导航接收机的精确设计。     

A 48–860 MHz CMOS Low-IF Direct-Conversion DTV Tuner

A CMOS low-IF direct-conversion digital TV (DTV) tuner needs no off-chip harmonic rejection and image filters to receive both terrestrial and cable TV channels in the 48 to 860 MHz frequency range. Complex in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) poly-phase mixing together with coarse active RF filtering suppresses the third-harmonic mixing by 72 dB, and a digital LMS image correlation algorithm reduces the image leakage by 61 dB. A global AGC scheme keeps the signal level in the down-conversion mixer constant, and warrants the RF front-end linearity with strong blockers. Anti-aliasing and digital channel filters are made digitally programmable so that DTV standards with 6–8 MHz channel bandwidths can be supported. The measured system noise figure is 4–7 dB over the whole TV band. When measured at 500 MHz, the sensitivity is $-$86 dBm with ATSC-T 8-VSB signal, and the MER is 31.5 dB with actual J.83/B 256-QAM signal from a commercial CATV source. The chip implemented in 0.18 $mu{hbox{m}}$ CMOS occupies 5$times {hbox{5 mm}}^{2}$, and consumes 750 mW at 1.8 V.      

水下复合信道对GMSK无线光通信系统性能的影响

The absorption and scattering of light in seawater channel cause signal attenuation, and the turbulence of seawater causes signal amplitude fluctuation, both of which will reduce the bit error rate (BER) performance of underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system. The effects of the two channel characteristics on the signal performance were considered comprehensively, and a method was proposed to equate the transmission distance and turbulence probability density function to the system signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and turbulence noise, and then the signal attenuation and turbulence noise were combined into the signal waveform to establish the underwater composite channel signal transmission model. According to the experimental system parameters, the signal transmission waveforms of Gaussian minimum frequency shift keying (GMSK) modulation under composite channel were simulated, and the one-bit difference demodulation algorithm was used to compare the demodulated waveforms with the original waveform, and the influence relationships of composite channel on the system BER performance was analyzed. The simulation experiment results show that, compared with on-off keying modulation (OOK), pulse position modulation (PPM), GMSK system can obtain the SNR gain of 3.3 dB, 4.8 dB respectively only in the attenuation channel with seawater attenuation coefficient of 0.151 m?1. Under the composite channel, GMSK modulation performance is superior to OOK modulation and PPM modulation. When the water attenuation coefficient is 0.151 m?1, and turbulence intensity variance is smaller than 0.16, GMSK modulation system has no error rate limit, the system BER is decided by signal attenuation and turbulence noise and Gaussian noise together, GMSK modulation achieves SNR gain of 4.35 dB compared with PPM modulation. Furthermore, turbulence intensity variance is greater than 0.16, system BER arrives limit, which value is determined by the turbulence intensity, and the limit value of BER increases nonlinearly with the increase of turbulence intensity.     

A Noise Spectrum Measurement System Using the Fast Fourier Transform

A portable multichannel battery-operated measurement system was developed to measure the rms magnetic-field noise spectrum in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 375 kHz. During each measurement, the entire spectrum is measured simultaneously through the use of time-domain recordings which are later analyzed by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing. Dynamic ranges of 60 dB in a 125-Hz bandwidth are obtained for spectra covering the range from 100 Hz to 100 kHz. The method also allows a three-dimensional display of the way spectrum occupancy changes with time. Some advantages of the system are portability, rms measurement, 100 percent probability of signal intercept, data gathering times measured in seconds or milliseconds, simultaneous coverage of several decades of frequency, no "picket fence" amplitude uncertainty with the associated potential 3-dB error, and increased frequency measurement resolution. Some examples of electromagnetic noise (measured in and above coal mines) are given, primarily to show the capability of the measuring system.     

Optimum Weighted PCM for Speech Signals

Weighted digital modulation schemes which provide bit error probabilities matched to the PCM bits with respect to their sensitivity to digital errors are analyzed. The channel is additive, white Gaussian. The PCM system has arbitrary code, companding law and input signal density function. Especially optimum weighted PSK/PCM and QAM/PCM are given for speech signals. The average channel signal to noise ratio is kept constant when schemes are compared. We obtain a channel signal to noise ratio gain in threshold extension of 2 dB for standard 8 bit PCM. The performance of suboptimum schemes, where the number of different bit error probability levels are smaller than the number of PCM bits are also studied. Two levels per 8 bit PCM word yield more than half of the achievable gain (in dB) and 4 levels is almost equal to optimum.     

Cramer–Rao bound based mean‐squared error and throughput analysis of superimposed pilots for semi‐blind multiple‐input multiple‐output wireless channel estimation

This work presents a study of the mean‐squared error (MSE) and throughput performance of superimposed pilots (SP) for the estimation of a multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) wireless channel. The Cramer–Rao bound (CRB) is derived for SP based estimation of the MIMO channel matrix. Employing the CRB analysis, it is proved that the asymptotic MSE bound is potentially 3 dB lower than the MSE performance of the existing SP mean based estimation (SPME) schemes. Motivated by this observation, a novel SP semi‐blind scheme is presented for MIMO channel estimation. This scheme asymptotically achieves the CRB and hence has a lower MSE of estimation when compared with SPME schemes. We also derive closed form expressions for the optimal source‐pilot power allocation in SP by maximizing the post‐processing signal‐to‐noise power ratio at the receiver. In the final part, a new result is presented for the worst‐case capacity of a communication channel with correlated information symbols and noise. This framework is employed to quantify the throughput performance of SP and also to demonstrate the bandwidth efficiency of SP compared with that of a conventional pilot based system. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Jitter requirements of the sampling clock in software radio receivers

The effective number of bits of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is not only limited by the quantization step inaccuracy but also by sampling time uncertainty. According to a commonly used model, the error caused by timing jitter, integrated over the whole bandwidth, should not be bigger than the quantization noise, for a full swing input signals at the maximum input frequency. This results in unfeasible phase noise requirements for the sampling clock in software radio receivers with direct RF sampling. However, for a radio receiver not the total integrated error is relevant, but only the error signal in the channel bandwidth. This paper explores the clock jitter requirements for a software radio application, using a more realistic model and taking into account the power spectrum of both the input signal and the spectrum of the sampling clock jitter. Using this model, we show that the clock jitter requirements are very similar to reciprocal mixing requirements of superheterodyne receivers.     

Noise Effects in Time-Domain Systems Involving Three-Axial Field Probes for the Measurement of Nonstationary Radiated Emissions

This paper deals with three-axial systems for time-domain measurement of radiated emissions. A statistical analysis is developed in order to assess the influence of noise on the system measurement uncertainty in the case of nonstationary emissions, for which averaging techniques cannot be exploited. For a vector field with spatial components consisting of multiple sinusoids in additive white or colored noise, the modifications in the statistics of the measured signals due to application of the discrete Fourier transform to the digitized time series are investigated. The analysis is carried out in the frequency domain, and is used for probabilistic detection and maximum likelihood estimation of the amplitude of spectral lines close to the noise floor (i.e., in the typical conditions imposed by short-time measurement windows due to signal nonstationarity). Results are extended to sum, sum of squares, and logarithm of the amplitude of the spectral lines. As an application example, statistical estimates are derived for the safety factor used to assess compliance with the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines, in case of nonionizing radiation exposure to multiple frequency magnetic fields. The theoretical work is validated both versus test signals with known statistical properties and against measurement data obtained with a time-domain system for magnetic field measurement in the bandwidth 100 kHz–1.5 GHz.      

Characteristics of AlGaAs Fabry-Perot cavity type laser amplifiers

Signal gain, saturation power, and noise bandwidth, which are important parameters determining preamplifier and linear repeater system performance [1], were measured for an AlGaAs Fabry-Perot cavity type laser amplifier. The unsaturated signal gain increases with the pumping level and a maximum signal gain as high as 27 dB is obtained near oscillation threshold. The saturation output power, at which the signal gain is decreased from the unsaturated value by 3 dB, is -6 to -8 dBm. The beat noise powers between signal and spontaneous emission components were measured. The error rate characteristics of an AlGaAs laser preamplifier and Si photodiode scheme were studied at a data rate of 100 Mbits/s. The experimental results on noise powers and error rate performance are in reasonable agreement with the theoretical analysis given in an accompanying paper [1].     

FSK Bit Synchronization by Combined AM

A bit-synchronization method in a frequency-shift-keying (FSK) data channel has been investigated experimentally and results are presented. The bit-timing information is conveyed by a square wave, with a frequency of half the data bit rate, modulated onto the signal amplitude. It has been shown that for a system using a peak-peak-to-peak frequency deviation of 0.7 times the bit rate and a receiver bandwidth restricted to 1 times the bit rate, the minimum error rates are obtained for an amplitude modulation index of 0.1. Further, in order for the system to have a performance comparable with an ordinary FSK system with the same values of frequency deviation and receiver predetection bandwidth and with perfect timing available at the receiver, an additional signal power of 0.9 dB is needed.     

A 250-MHz BiCMOS receiver channel with leading edge timing discriminator for a pulsed time-of-flight laser rangefinder

An integrated receiver channel of a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) laser rangefinder for fast industrial measurement applications with the measurement accuracy of a few centimeters in the measurement range from /spl sim/1 m to /spl sim/30 m to noncooperative targets was developed. The receiver channel consists of a fully differential transimpedance amplifier channel, a peak detector, an rms meter and a timing discriminator. In this particular application there is no time to measure the received signal strength beforehand and it is not predictable from previous measurements, so a leading edge timing discriminator with a constant threshold voltage was used. The amplitude of the received pulse is measured with a peak detector and the amplitude information is used to compensate for the resulting walk error. The measured bandwidth of the receiver channel is 250 MHz, the maximum transimpedance 40k/spl Omega/ and the input-referred noise /spl sim/7pA//spl radic/Hz (C/sub photodiode/=2 pF). The timing detection accuracy of the receiver is better than /spl plusmn/35 mm in a single-shot measurement in a dynamic range of 1:4000 and a temperature range of 0/spl deg/C to +50/spl deg/C.     

Baseband performance of a pilot diversity system with simulated Rayleigh fading signals and co-channel interference

Using simulated Rayleigh-fading FM signals, the baseband performance of a diversity system that uses a separate pilot is studied. The effect of various RF/audio bandwidth expansion ratios is included. These results show an approach to a constant asymptotic baseband SNR for large expansion ratios, with diversity increasing this asymptote by 5 dB in the case of moderate to large interference and/or RF noise levels (9 to 15 dB below the carrier), to over 10 dB in the case of lower impairment levels (21 to 27 dB below the signal level). Assuming the usual hex-cell radio coverage plan, and a propagation law of the form r^-n, n = 3 or 4, bandwidth expansion ratios of about three to six seem to yield the most efficient RF spectrum utilization in many practical situations. The number of required channel subsets (cells) is strongly influenced by the propagation law ranging from about 19 for n = 3, to about 7 for n = 4.