Performance analysis of cascade trellis-block space-time codes

This letter concerns the performance assessment of cascade trellis-block space-time codes. We focus on the case where the 2/spl times/2 orthogonal block space-time code is used as the inner code. Either bounding or hybrid bounding/simulation techniques can be used. The proposed work provides some insights into the properties of such codes.     

Performance analysis of concatenated space-time coding with two transmit antennas

In this paper, we show how Alamouti's simple but useful transmit diversity scheme for two antennas can be combined with a standard outer error-correcting code to achieve a stronger concatenated space-time coding scheme. By introducing a matrix formalism that allows us to interpret the transmission channel as a rotation in an Euclidean space, it can be easily shown that this scheme with two transmit (TX) and L/sub r/ receive (RX) antennas is equivalent to a simple RX antenna setup with 2L/sub r/ RX antennas. Analytical formulas for pair error probabilities will be derived for the time and/or frequency flat fading and for the ideally interleaved Rayleigh fading channel as well as for the correlated fading channel. As a practical example, we study how the performance of a Walsh-Hadamard coded multicarrier code-division multiple-access system depends on the correlation bandwidth of the channel and the number of RX and TX antennas.     

Sum-rate analysis of multiuser MIMO system with zero-forcing transmit beamforming

In this letter, we present the exact sum-rate analysis of the multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with zero-forcing transmit beamforming (ZFBF). We develop the analytical expressions of the ergodic sum-rate for two low-complexity user selection strategies for the dual-transmit-antenna scenario. Based on the analytical results, we examine the parameter optimization problem to properly trade off between channel power gain and directional gain in term of maximizing the ergodic sum rate.     

MIMO系统空时特征波束性能分析

针对结合了发射与接收分集技术和空时编码技术的MIM0无线通信系统误比特率性能问题,提出了一种利用信道矩阵的最大奇异值平方的概率密度函数（pdf）,来推导相干接收条件下,基于M-PAM和M-QAM调制的MIM0系统最大比合并精确误比特率显式表达式的方法。以该误比特率表达式为依据,分析了天线数目为可配置资源条件下,发射天线和接收天线的不同配置方案对系统性能的影响。通过计算机的蒙特卡洛仿真验证了理论分析结论。     

智能天线与空时编码技术的性能分析

为了研究智能天线自适应波束形成和空时编码技术(等效于MRRC最大比合并分集技术)这两种无线通信系统的关键技术在3G系统中的选择使用或结合使用的可能性及理论依据,比较了它们各自分别在其适用条件下所能达到的对输入信噪比的最优改善性能,得到了从对平均信噪比的改善的广义角度上讲它们是等效和一致的,它们对信噪比的改善都等于做波束形成的阵元数(或相应的分集支路数)的结论．     

Performance analysis of an adaptive broadband beamformer based on a two-element linear array with sensor delay-line processing

The performance of a two-element broadband beamforming structure with sensor delay-lines (SDLs) attached is studied for two adaptive implementations, in terms of the direction of the interfering signals, the inter-spacing between delay-line sensors and the length of the SDLs. Compared with the conventional broadband beamformers with tapped delay-lines (TDLs), the SDL based structure has a better performance in two aspects: its output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) drops less as the inter-delay within delay-lines increases; with the same number of delays and weights it can achieve a better performance than the TDL one.     

Unsupervised receiver processing techniques for linear space-time equalization of wideband multiple input / multiple output channels

In this paper, we address the problem of unsupervised (blind) space-time equalization of frequency-selective multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The motivation behind this work is that in order to provide the high transmission rates that data-demanding applications require, wireless multiple antenna (MIMO) systems will have to operate in wide bandwidths. In such scenarios, frequency selectivity may induce important intersymbol interference (ISI), in addition to the interuser interference (IUI) that each antenna's transmitted stream of data suffers from the other antennas. Under these conditions, channel estimation of the frequency-selective MIMO channel may become a daunting task that ultimately reduces the effective transmission rate. We present a family of globally convergent blind space-time equalization techniques, developed from multiuser kurtosis output-based criteria, which allow the recovery of the MIMO channel inputs without the training overhead that channel estimation typically requires, thus improving the MIMO channel's spectral efficiency.     

Performance analysis of distributed space-time coded protocols for wireless multi-hop communications

In resource limited, large scale sensor networks, cooperative communication over multiple hops offers opportunities to save power: intermediate nodes between source and destination act as cooperative relays. In order to exploit spatial diversity, protocols coupled with space-time coding strategies are proposed herein and analyzed for distributed cooperative communication. In contrast to prior work, multi-hop (versus two-hop) schemes are developed and analyzed for amplify-andforward type of communication protocols. First, the Alamoutibased two-hop scheme proposed by Hua et al and analyzed by Jing & Hassibi is generalized to an arbitrary number of hops L, and a general approximation for the pairwise error probability (PEP) at high SNR is obtained. This expression is used to provide a close approximation to the achievable diversity gain of the scheme. It is further shown that the diversity decreases with L, for large, but finite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This motivates the subsequent development of new distributed multihop protocols to mitigate the diversity losses and, hence, yield improved performance. This work presents two such strategies as well as their diversity characterization, which are analyzed for the specific case of L = 3 hops and shown to exhibit improved performance at high SNR. These schemes are based on the structure of the rate-half codes proposed by Tarokh and the square-matrix embeddable codes of Tirkkonen & Hottinen.     

Performance analysis of space-time block codes over keyhole Nakagami-m fading channels

In multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) fading environments, degenerate channel phenomena, called keyholes or pinholes, may exist under the realistic assumption that the spatial fading is uncorrelated at the transmitter and the receiver, but the channel has a rank-deficient transfer matrix. In this paper, we analyze the exact average symbol error rate (SER) of orthogonal space-time block codes (STBCs) with M-PSK and M-QAM constellations over Nakagami-m fading channels in the presence of the keyhole. We derive the moment generating function (MGF) of instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) after space-time block decoding (signal combining) in such channels. Using a well-known MGF-based analysis approach, we express the average SER of the STBC in the form of single finite-range integrals whose integrand contains only the derived MGF. Numerical results show that the keyhole significantly degrades the SER performance of the STBC from idealistic behaviors in independent identically distributed MIMO channels.     

LDPC-based space-time coded OFDM systems over correlated fadingchannels: Performance analysis and receiver design

We consider a space-time coded (STC) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system with multiple transmitter and receiver antennas over correlated frequency- and time-selective fading channels. It is shown that the product of the time-selectivity order and the frequency-selectivity order is a key parameter to characterize the outage capacity of the correlated fading channel. It is also observed that STCs with large effective lengths and ideal built-in interleavers are more effective in exploiting the natural diversity in multiple-antenna correlated fading channels. We then propose a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-code-based STC-OFDM system. Compared with the conventional space-time trellis code (STTC), the LDPC-based STC can significantly improve the system performance by exploiting both the spatial diversity and the selective-fading diversity in wireless channels. Compared with the previously proposed turbo-code-based STC scheme, LDPC-based STC exhibits lower receiver complexity and more flexible scalability. We also consider receiver design for LDPC-based STC-OFDM systems in unknown fast fading channels and propose a novel turbo receiver employing a maximum a posteriori expectation-maximization (MAP-EM) demodulator and a soft LDPC decoder, which can significantly reduce the error floor in fast fading channels with a modest computational complexity. With such a turbo receiver, the proposed LDPC-based STC-OFDM system is a promising solution to highly efficient data transmission over selective-fading mobile wireless channels     

Performance analysis for MIMO systems with lattice-reduction aided linear equalization

Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems equipped with multiple antennas have well documented merits in combating fading and enhancing data rates. MIMO V-BLAST transmission is a widely adopted method to achieve high spectral efficiency and low-complexity implementation. When the maximum likelihood (ML) or near-ML detector is employed, receive diversity is collected for MIMO V-BLAST systems to enhance the performance. However, because of its exponential complexity, ML detector may be infeasible for practical systems when the number of antennas and/or the constellation size is large. On the other hand, linear equalizers have much lower complexity but come with inferior performance. In this paper, we analytically quantify the diversity order of linear detectors for MIMO V-BLAST systems. Then, we adopt low-complexity complex lattice-reduction (LR) aided linear equalizers for V-BLAST systems to improve the performance and prove that LR-aided linear equalizers collect the same diversity order as that exploited by the ML detector but with much lower complexity. Relative to the existing real LR-aided equalizers, we illustrate that the complex LR further reduces the complexity while keeping the same performance. Simulation results corroborate our theoretical claims.     

Performance evaluation and analysis of space-time coding in unequalized multipath fading links

This paper investigates the use of space-time (ST) coding for high-speed data transmission, as well as studies the effect of time delay spread on such scheme over unequalized fading channels. Using a random variable decomposition technique, we present an analytical model and obtain an approximate bound of the pairwise-error probability for ST coded systems over multipath and time-dispersive fading channels. It is shown that the presence of multipath does not reduce the diversity gain provided by the original design criteria, which is adopted to construct specific ST codes in quasi-static flat fading, but the coding gain diminishes due to the effect of multipath fading.     

Performance analysis and optimization of a space-time selective PIC for CDMA systems

This paper deals with an efficient receiver for applications in direct sequence-code-division multiple access wireless communication systems. This receiver combines a modified scheme of a parallel interference cancellation detector with antenna arrays with optimum beamforming and is used at the base station for the detection of asynchronous user signals. Each user's transmission channel is assumed to be a multipath frequency-selective independent Rayleigh fading channel. The receiver operates by dividing the signals into reliable and unreliable sets following space-time combining. The reliable signals are detected and canceled from the whole signal received at each sensor. Unreliable signals are then detected to improve the decision reliability. The receiver performance in terms of bit-error probability is analytically derived and optimized. According to the analytical and simulation results, this receiver outperforms previously proposed schemes and, thanks to its low implementation complexity, real-time operation is achieved.     

协方差反馈时空时编码系统的线性预编码设计

本文讨论了在空间相关的多输入-多输出(MIMO)系统中利用发射端已知的信道协方差矩阵最优设计线性预编码矩阵的问题。推导出最优的预编码矩阵的方向与发射相关矩阵和空时编码的结构相关,而最优的功率分配方案与发射相关矩阵、接收相关矩阵和空时编码都相关。仿真结果表明本文推导出的最优功率分配方案的性能优于平均功率分配和单方向波束形成方案。     

Performance analysis of space-time transmitter diversity techniques for WCDMA using long range prediction

Transmitter diversity in the downlink of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems achieves similar performance gains to the mobile-station receiver diversity without the complexity of a mobile-station receiver antenna array. Pre-RAKE precoding at the transmitter can be employed to achieve the multipath diversity without the need of the RAKE receiver at the mobile station. We examine feasibility of several transmitter diversity techniques and precoding for the third-generation wideband CDMA (WCDMA) systems. In particular, selective transmit diversity, transmit adaptive array and space-time pre-RAKE (STPR) techniques are compared. It is demonstrated that the STPR method is the optimal method to combine antenna diversity and temporal precoding. This method achieves the gain of maximum ratio combining of all space and frequency diversity branches when perfect channel state information is available at the transmitter. We employ the long range fading prediction algorithm to enable transmitter diversity techniques for rapidly time varying multipath fading channels.     

Performance analysis of peak power and band-limited OFDM system with linear scaling

The performance of the orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) system over the strictly peak power and band-limited channel is analyzed in terms of the required input back-off, bit-error rate (BER), and channel capacity on the assumption that the power amplifier is perfectly linearized. The peak-power limitation is implemented by linearly scaling the band-limited OFDM signal such that the maximum peak power of each OFDM symbol is always below the saturation level of the amplifier. The theoretical performance analysis requires the knowledge of the distribution of the peak power normalized by the symbol-wise (local) average power, referred to as symbol-wise peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) in the paper, and we also develop a method to numerically calculate its statistical distribution. The analysis of BER performance suggests that the linear scaling causes practically negligible degradation. Furthermore, the benefit of additional application of simple PAR reduction schemes, such as symbol selection and deliberate clipping and filtering, is also examined.     

Performance analysis of Markov modulated 1-persistent CSMA/CA protocols with exponential backoff scheduling

This paper proposes a Markovian model of 1-persistent CSMA/CA protocols with K-Exponential backoff scheduling algorithm. The input buffer of each access node is modeled as a Geo/G/1 queue, and the service time distribution of each individual head-of-line packet is derived from the Markov chain of the underlying scheduling algorithm. From the queueing model, we derive the characteristic equation of network throughput and obtain the stable throughput and bounded delay regions with respect to the retransmission factor. Our results show that the stable throughput region of the exponential backoff scheme exists even for an infinite population. Moreover, we find that the bounded delay region of exponential backoff is only a sub-set of its stable throughput region due to the large variance of the service time of input packets caused by the capture effect. All analytical results presented in this paper are verified by simulations.     

Performance analysis of orthogonal space-time block codes in spatially correlated MIMO Nakagami fading channels

Orthogonal space-time block coding (STBC) is an open-loop transmit diversity scheme that decouples the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel, thereby reducing the space-time decoding into a scalar detection process. This characteristic of STBC makes it a powerful tool, achieving full diversity over MIMO fading channels, and requiring little computational cost for both the encoding and decoding processes. In this paper, we exploit the single-input single-output equivalency of STBC in order to analyze its performance over nonselective Nakagami fading channels in the presence of spatial fading correlation. More specifically, we derive exact closed-form expressions for the outage probability and ergodic capacity of STBC, when the latter is employed over spatially correlated MIMO Nakagami fading channels. Moreover, we derive the exact symbol error probability of coherent M-PSK and M-QAM, when these modulation schemes are used along with STBC over such fading channels. The derived formulae are then used to assess the robustness of STBC to spatial correlation by considering general MIMO correlation models and analyzing their effects on the outage probability, ergodic capacity, and symbol error probability achieved by STBC.     

Performance of space-division multiple-access (SDMA) with scheduling

Efficient exploitation of spatial diversity is fundamentally important to resource critical wireless applications (Tsoulos 1999). In this paper, we first study the performance of intelligent scheduling for space-division multiple-access (SDMA) wireless networks (Suard 1998, Farsakh 1998). Based on the existing scheme, we propose a new medium access protocol (MAC) for multimedia SDMA/time-division multiple-access (TDMA) packet networks (Xu 1994, Ward 1993). The improved protocol performs scheduling based on users' spatial characteristics and quality-of-service parameters to achieve throughput multiplication and packet delay reduction. Performance of SDMA with scheduling is evaluated under mixed audio and data traffic patterns and results show that significant improvement in network performance can be achieved under the new protocol.     

Performance analysis of ONU-wavelength grouping schemes for efficient scheduling in long reach-PONs

Long Reach PONs (LR-PON) were proposed to extend the benefits of Passive Optical Networks (PON) to more users and to a larger area. This paper considers a Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) based on a hybrid combination of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). The time complexity of the DBA algorithm is typically O(n log n), where n denotes the number of ONUs. Since the maximum number of supported ONUs in an LR-PON can be as high as 2048, the computation time required for computing a schedule will be very high and directly impacts the overall network performance. In this paper, we have presented a grouping strategy to reduce the computation requirements. The number of ONUs is split into mutually exclusive groups with the OLT scheduling each group independently and in parallel. With the static grouping strategy every user is assigned to a group and the assignment of wavelength resources is fixed. However, with non-uniform loads, we observed that static grouping was not found to be suitable as the delay variation was significant across the groups. To address this gap, we introduce the concept of dynamic grouping and define three dynamic grouping heuristics that adapt to the current network load conditions and (re)allocate the ONUs and wavelength resources suitably. The proposed schemes have been compared in terms of delay variation and wavelength utilization. Of the three heuristics, ONU to Least Loaded wavelength group (OLL) and Least Wavelength Resources (LWR) heuristics balance the packet delay across ONUs assigned to different groups and Proportional Wavelength Usage (PWU) heuristic reduces power consumption by allocating fewer wavelength resources.