Iterative channel estimation and decoding for the multipath channels with RAKE reception

We study an improved receiver with iterative channel estimation and decoding for wireless multipath channels with RAKE reception. To keep the complexity low, iterative channel estimation is done on the equivalent channel at the RAKE output. Output after Turbo decoding iteration(s) is processed to yield a better channel estimate.     

Turbo decoder

We propose an adaptive channel SNR estimation algorithm required for the iterative MAP decoding of turbo decoders. The proposed algorithm uses the extrinsic values generated within the iterative MAP decoder to update the channel SNR estimate toward its optimum value per each decoder iteration or per each turbo code frame     

RAKE reception with unequal power path signals

This letter analytically determines the effects of selective diversity on the performance of a RAKE receiver in dense multipath channels featuring an arbitrary power delay profile. The approach devised permits assessing the symbol-error probability of the RAKE receiver with simple computations, and determining the influence on system behavior of different power delay profiles and number of resolved paths, as well as signal bandwidth.     

Capacity of RAKE reception with energy randomization

We consider a RAKE receiver for coherent binary orthogonal signaling over a frequency selective multipath Rayleigh fading channel. The receiver uses maximal-ratio combining such that the weight estimation errors are not independent of the additive noise. We find the capacity-achieving energy randomization scheme with two energy levels for the cases of imperfect and perfect channel estimates. We observe that the capacity-achieving probability gets closer to 1/2 with increase in the number of paths. We also show that the capacity is higher if channel estimates are perfect and that the channel estimation errors have more pronounced effect on the capacity at low signal-to-noise ratios.     

一种兼容Turbo码的LDPC解码器

提出了一种兼容Turbo码的低密度校验码(LDPC)解码器,它可以将Turbo码完全转化为LDPC码来进行解码,由于采用了校验分裂方法来处理由Turbo码转化而来的LDPC码中所存在的短环,从而使其解码性能优于联合校验置信度传递(JCBP)算法0.8 dB,仅仅比Turbo码专用的BCJR算法损失约为1dB.本文提出的通用解码器,为多系统兼容通信设备的应用提供了一种新的、灵活方便的实现途径.     

基于FPGA的Turbo码译码器的设计

介绍了一种基于现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）的Turbo码译码器的完整的设计方案和设计结果,采用Max-Log-MAP译码算法,用Verilog语言编程,提出了正序运算和逆序运算同时进行,以及采用数组型存储器存储中间运算结果的方案,使译码速度得到提高。文中给出了Turbo码译码原理、Max-Log-MAP算法分析、基于FPGA的设计方案及实现框图、算法时序图及速度分析、仿真波形图及性能分析,结果表明,该方案正确可行,译码/纠错正确无误,且译码速度快。     

Soft handover overhead reduction by RAKE reception with finger reassignment

We propose and analyze in this paper a new finger assignment technique that is applicable for RAKE receivers when they operate in the soft handover (SHO) region. This scheme employs a new version of generalized selection combining (GSC). More specifically, in the SHO region, the receiver uses by default only the strongest paths from the serving base station (BS) and only when the combined signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) falls below a certain pre-determined threshold, the receiver uses more resolvable paths from the target BS to improve the performance. Hence, relying on some recent results on order statistics we attack the statistics of two correlated GSC stages and provide the approximate but accurate closed-form expressions for the statistics of the output SNR. By investigating the tradeoff among the error performance, the path estimation load, and the SHO overhead, we show through numerical examples that the new scheme offers commensurate performance in comparison with more complicated GSC-based diversity systems while requiring a smaller estimation load and SHO overhead.     

Turbo decoder using local subsidiary maximum likelihood decoding in prior estimation of the extrinsic information

A new technique for turbo decoder is proposed by using a local subsidiary maximum likelihood decoding and a probability distributions family for the extrinsic information. The optimal distribution of the extrinsic information is dynamically specified for each component decoder.The simulation results show that the iterative decoder with the new technique outperforms that of the decoder with the traditional Gaussian approach for the extrinsic information under the same conditions.     

一种新颖的Turbo码MAP译码器

根据Turbo码trellis结束的情况及Turbo码的特征本文提出了一种新的Turbo码MAP译码器。这是基于MAP译码器中两个组成译码器性能的不一致所作改进,从分析和仿真结果我们可以看到该方法的优势。     

Impact of spreading bandwidth on RAKE reception in dense multipathchannels

Spread spectrum (SS) multiple access techniques have been proposed for third generation broadband wireless access. We develop an analytical framework to quantify the effects of spreading bandwidth on SS systems operating in dense multipath environments in terms of the receiver performance, receiver complexity, and multipath channel parameters. In particular, we consider wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) Gaussian channels with frequency-selective fading. The focus of the paper is to characterize the combined signal of the RAKE receiver fingers tracking the strongest multipath components. Closed form expressions for the mean and the variance of the total RAKE receiver output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are derived in terms of the number of RAKE fingers, spreading bandwidth, and multipath spread of the channel. The proposed problem is made analytically tractable by transforming the physical RAKE paths into the virtual path domain. A representative result indicates that for SS systems with 5 MHz signal bandwidth operating in a channel with constant power delay profile having 5 μs spread, the average SNR gain from increasing the number of RAKE fingers from one to three is 3.8 dB and from three to five is 1.5 dB. Furthermore, the reduction in the variation of SNR is 1.1 dB and 0.4 dB for the same increments in the number of fingers     

Optimum spreading bandwidth for selective RAKE reception overRayleigh fading channels

Building on the developments in the performance analysis of generalized selection combining (GSC), this paper examines the optimum spreading bandwidth for a fixed-complexity GSC diversity receiver operating over independent identically distributed Rayleigh paths. For this purpose, the study considers three performance criteria: (1) average combined signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the GSC output; (2) average bit error probability (BEP); and (3) outage probability of the instantaneous combined SNR at the GSC output. For the average BEP criterion, results are presented for both coherent and noncoherent combining. For the average combined SNR and some instances of the average BEP optimization problem, an accurate approximate estimate of this optimum bandwidth in the form of a solution of a transcendental equation is provided. In other cases, where the optimization is not easily tractable in an analytic fashion, a numeric-search procedure is used to find this optimum bandwidth for different performance criteria and system parameters of interest. Finally, simplified rule-of-thumb-type formulas are also presented as a good reference for picking the optimum spreading bandwidth given a set of system parameters and a particular performance criterion of interest     

一种基于FPGA的Turbo码译码器的设计

主要论述了一种基于FPGA的Turbo码译码器的设计。首先简单介绍了编码器和交织器的原理;然后介绍了基于Max-Log-MAP算法的译码器原理,详细论述了各个子模块;最后给出了系统仿真的误码率图形。     

Multichannel system with optimal diversity reception anderasures-correction decoder for Rayleigh fading channels

A multichannel (MC) system with optimal diversity reception and erasures correcting decoding of a block code applied to a Rayleigh fading channel is considered. The bit-error rate (BER) as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio has been found. It is shown that the proposed system has a lower BER than both the MC with forward-error correction and the MC with optimal uncoded diversity reception for the same redundancy     

迭代均衡系统中的一种SNR估计方法

该文首先分析了最大后敛概率(Maximum A posterior Probability, MAP)迭代均衡及其简化算法Max-Log- MAP(MLM)、缩放软信息的Max-Log-MAP算法(Scaled Max-Log-MAP,SMLM)对SNR估计误差的敏感性问题,然后利用SMLM算法对SNR估计误差不敏感的特性,提出了一种基于SMLM的软输出信息估计信道SNR的方法。最后,利用该算法,还提出了一种新的迭代均衡算法,并研究了其性能,结果表明该算法不仅不需要任何导引符号开销,还能获得非常接近具有理想的SNR的MAP算法的误码性能。     

Analysis of RAKE reception with MRC and imperfect weight estimationfor binary coherent orthogonal signaling

We consider a RAKE receiver for coherent binary orthogonal signaling employing predetection maximal-ratio combining (MRC), in which the tap weights are estimated by adding two matched filtered outputs using the two reference signals. The weight estimation errors here are not independent of the additive channel noise, and therefore do not fit into the Gaussian error model for MRC. Instead of analyzing the distribution of the weight estimation errors, we find the characteristic function of the decision variable, and from it we obtain a formula for the symbol error probability     

无数据辅助软判决信噪比估计

现有的无数据辅助信噪比估计算法基于接收信号的硬判决信息。在低信嗓比时,这种估计算法出现较大偏差,为此提出了一种基于软判决的估计算法,并通过仿真和原有的算法在估计性能上进行了比较。仿真结果表明,该算法在低信噪比下具有良好的性能。     

Turbo-decoding without SNR estimation

Theoretically, it is necessary to estimate the SNR when using a MAP of the log-MAP constituent decoder. The effect of an SNR mismatch on the bit error rate performance of turbo-codes and the design of good variance estimators have been addressed by several authors. In this letter we study the SNR sensitivity of turbo-decoding with log-MAP and max-log-MAP constituent decoders respectively for AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels. Our theoretical and simulation results indicate that an estimation of the SNR is not necessary from a practical point of view. Our setup is aligned with decoder implementation aspects of future mobile communication systems     

基于DSP处理器的UMTS Turbo MAP解码器高效实现

Turbo码自1993年问世以来,以其出色的性能,在工业和科研领域都引起了广泛的关注.Turbo码性能逼近(信噪比差为0.7dB或更小)由Claude E.Shannon确定的信道容限.     

OFDM信噪比估计分析与设计

本文研究的是OFDM系统中的信噪比估计算法,并利用DSP芯片,通过AD6640和AD6620组成中频接收平台,将其应用到实际的OFDM传输系统中。信噪比估计在许多无线通信系统中发挥着重要的作用,它可以提供自适应传输技术中的功率控制和比特分配算法需要的信道质量信息。DSP是现在主流的信号处理器件,具有强大的数字信号处理性能,利用C语言可以方便的实现系统中各种复杂的算法。     

信噪比估计方法研究

在QPSK调制方式下,分别研究推导了基于辅助数据的极大似然比信噪比估计算法研究、基于矩的信噪比估计算法研究以及基于高阶累积量的信噪比估计算法。通过仿真比较了信噪比估计算法的性能,着重分析比较了采用的迭代次数及数据长度等参数对算法性能的影响,最终根据算法各自的特点给出了相应的适用范围。