Distributed subchannel and rate assignment for multi-carrier multi-cell networks

A distributed subchannel and rate assignment (DSRA) algorithm, which integrates the subchannel allocation and the rate assignment to minimize the number of subchannels needed for meeting the rate requirements, is proposed for the multi-carrier multi-cell networks. The DSRA algorithm need not measure the channel gains and executes the distributed power control to allocate the subchannel and transmission rate. One can decrease the number of subchannels used in the DSRA algorithm by increasing the number of iterations.     

MU-MIMO下行链路基于关联干扰的先验式用户调度

该文针对MU-MIMO下行(广播)信道提出一种基于空间子信道关联干扰的先验式调度算法。该方法将用户调度转换为子信道的选择问题,通过综合考虑候选子信道的传输增益,以及候选者与已选的和潜在的、将来可能被选中的子信道间的相互干扰,获得一组相互干扰较小的子信道。仿真结果表明,合理地选取关联干扰参数,该算法能够获得计算复杂度与传输性能的良好折中,有效改善系统和速率。     

A Low Complexity Resource Allocation Method for OFDMA System Based on Channel Gain

In orthogonal frequency division with multiple access (OFDMA) systems dynamic radio resource allocation improves overall performance by exploiting the multiuser diversity gains. A key issue in OFDMA is the allocation of the OFDM subcarriers and power among users sharing the channel. This paper proposes a new rate adaptive resource allocation scheme in the OFDMA downlink transmission system. Our proposed algorithm is based on the users’ sensitivity to the subcarrier allocation which means how frequency selective is the channel from the user’s perspective. As a result of frequency selectivity of the channel, different subchannels of the same user experience different levels of fade. However, how different they undergo fading could be measured by difference between maximum and minimum channel gain of that user. Our proposed method is based on difference between maximum channel gain and minimum channel gain for each user and uniform distribution of power among subcarriers. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves higher capacity over fixed TDMA method, and reported suboptimal methods with acceptable rate proportionality.     

OFDM中自适应比特及功率分配的分析

在宽带移动OFDM(正交频分复用)系统中,不同的子信道经受不同的信道衰落,因此具有不同的传输能力。根据子信道的增益对子信道上加载的比特数进行自适应分配,可在满足一定误码率(BER)性能要求下使系统的总传输功率达到最小。本文研究了一种在一定传输速率下的自适应比特及功率分配算法。该算法可适用于多径频率选择性衰落信道。仿真结果表明,采用自适应技术可大大提高OFDM系统的性能。     

Multicarrier CDMA with adaptive frequency hopping for mobile radiosystems

A modified multicarrier (MC) direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system has been proposed for use over slow multipath fading channels with frequency selectivity in the reverse link transmission of a cellular network. Instead of transmitting data substreams uniformly through subchannels, data substreams hop over subchannels with the hopping patterns adaptively adjusted to the channel fading characteristics. The problem of determining the optimal hopping pattern is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem, for which an efficient algorithm, based on the water-filling (WF) principle, is designed to solve the problem practically. Simulation results show that the performance in terms of the average bit-error probability (BEP) (over all users) is better than that of single carrier RAKE receiver systems, conventional MC CDMA systems applying moderate error protection, or diversity systems with different combining techniques     

Generalized linear precoder and decoder design for MIMO channelsusing the weighted MMSE criterion

We address the problem of designing jointly optimum linear precoder and decoder for a MIMO channel possibly with delay-spread, using a weighted minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) criterion subject to a transmit power constraint. We show that the optimum linear precoder and decoder diagonalize the MIMO channel into eigen subchannels, for any set of error weights. Furthermore, we derive the optimum linear precoder and decoder as functions of the error weights and consider specialized designs based on specific choices of error weights. We show how to obtain: (1) the maximum information rate design; (2) QoS-based design (we show how to achieve any set of relative SNRs across the subchannels); and (3) the (unweighted) MMSE and equal-error design for fixed rate systems     

频率选择性衰落信道中多用户OFDM系统的自适应分配算法

本文提出一种适用于多径频率选择性衰落信道中多用户OFDM系统的自适应分配算法.算法根据信道瞬时估计值,自适应地为多用户分配子信道和传输比特数,在给定误比特率的条件下,使系统总的发送功率达到最小.作者根据时分复用的基本思想,提出多用户最佳子信道和比特分配算法,导出系统最小发送功率的下限,并在此基础上,进一步提出次佳自适应分配算法.数值模拟表明:次佳算法所需的发送功率比下限值高约1dB;与等比特分配方案相比自适应分配算法可节省功率约3-4dB;与静态信道分配方案相比,自适应分配算法可节省功率6-8dB.     

Adaptive subcarrier allocation and bit loading for voice/data transmission in multiuser OFDM systems

A new algorithm of adaptive subcarrier allocation and bit loading (A‐SABL) is proposed for simultaneous voice and data transmission in multiuser OFDM systems. The algorithm takes advantage of the frequency diversity and the voice/data transmission requirements to dynamically assign the number of subcarriers and bits/per symbol on each subcarrier for each user in a single cell. Due to the strict delay requirement of voice service, the subcarriers with low channel gains are assigned for voice transmission with a small number of bits per symbol to guarantee its required bit‐error‐rate (BER) and transmission rate. Based on the remaining subcarriers with high channel gains and the transmission power, the throughput of data transmission is then maximized by loading as many bits as possible on each subcarrier to achieve the required transmission bit rate and BER. Theoretical analysis and simulation on the proposed algorithm show that a better performance is obtained than previously reported schemes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

实现不等错误保护的最小发射功率AM-OFDM系统

 本文提出了在OFDM系统中实现数据不等错误保护传输的最小发射功率自适应调制算法.利用OFDM系统各个子载波功率增益不相同的特点,将子载波分组,不同的子载波组满足不同的传输质量和传输速率要求,传输不同重要性的数据,并且通过自适应调制调整每个子载波的发射功率和调制阶数,在实现数据不等错误保护传输的同时使得系统消耗的总发射功率最小.仿真结果表明,该算法能够根据输入数据的QoS要求,为不同重要性的数据提供不同的传输质量,并在保证传输质量和速率要求的前提下,使系统的总发射功率最小.     

下行多用户CoMP系统资源分配算法

针对下行多用户多点协作传输系统(MU-CoMP)边值自适应(MA)的问题,提出了一种快速资源分配算法。该算法首先根据用户的速率要求及平均信道增益估计出每个用户需要的子载波数目,在此基础上设计合理的子载波分配算法进行子载波分配,通过预判并且剔除不适合传输数据的较差空间子信道实现快速比特加载。仿真结果表明,所提算法在满足用户最低速率和误码率要求的前提下有效地降低了总发射功率,以较低的复杂度获得了接近最优算法的性能。     

Structural similarity classifier for facial expression recognition

A novel Gabor filter structural similarity algorithm (GFSSIM) is proposed for facial expression recognition (FER) on noisy images. Low-resolution facial images with low SNRs are specifically dealt with FER system. The features are extracted using 40 Gabor filters, and a feature subset is selected for classification. The test image is classified based on proposed GFSSIM algorithm. The experimental results show that the recognition rate for heavily deteriorated images outperforms the conventional classifier method. In addition, the proposed method is more efficient from the computational complexity point of view.     

Optimal designs for space-time linear precoders and decoders

We introduce a new paradigm for the design of transmitter space-time coding that we refer to as linear precoding. It leads to simple closed-form solutions for transmission over frequency-selective multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, which are scalable with respect to the number of antennas, size of the coding block, and transmit average/peak power. The scheme operates as a block transmission system in which vectors of symbols are encoded and modulated through a linear mapping operating jointly in the space and time dimension. The specific designs target minimization of the symbol mean square error and the approximate maximization of the minimum distance between symbol hypotheses, under average and peak power constraints. The solutions are shown to convert the MIMO channel with memory into a set of parallel flat fading subchannels, regardless of the design criterion, while appropriate power/bits loading on the subchannels is the specific signature of the different designs. The proposed designs are compared in terms of various performance measures such as information rate, BER, and symbol mean square error     

Coordinated transmission for two-pair digital subscriber lines

The performance of two-pair dual-duplex systems is substantially improved if the transmission on one pair is coordinated with that on the other, so that the transmitted signals are two-dimensional vector pulses. The advantages of coordination of transmission in an optimal way are quantified. Signal processing gains of 1.8 dB can be achieved in this way by averaging the SNRs on the two pairs constituting the high rate digital subscriber line (HDSL) and by canceling the near-end crosstalk (NEXT) between them. Exploitation of pair-to-pair correlation of NEXT voltages on the constituent pairs provides an additional source of processing gain. Under reasonable assumptions concerning the distribution of NEXT coupling coefficients between cable pairs, there is a better than 50% chance that the signal processing gain achieved by exploiting pair-to-pair NEXT correlation will be greater than 1.5 dB. Coordinated transmission requires the adaptation of four flat gain amplifiers in transmitters to achieve its optimum system configuration     

Error-resilient image and video transmission over the Internet using unequal error protection

This paper presents a new bit-plane-wise unequal error protection algorithm for progressive bitstreams transmitted over lossy networks. The proposed algorithm protects a compressed embedded bitstream generated by a 3-D SPIHT algorithm by assigning an unequal amount of forward error correction (FEC) to each bit-plane. The proposed algorithm reduces the amount of side information needed to send the size of each code to the decoder by limiting the number of quality levels to the number of bit-planes to be sent while providing a graceful degradation of picture quality as packet losses increase. We also apply our proposed algorithm to transmission of JPEG 2000 coded images over the Internet. To get additional error-resilience at high packet loss rates, we extend our algorithm to multiple-substream unequal error protection. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is simple, fast and robust in hostile network conditions and, therefore, can provide reasonable picture quality for video applications under varying network conditions.     

Asymptotic Capacity of Multicarrier Transmission With Frequency-Selective Fading and Limited Feedback

We study the capacity of multicarrier transmission through a slow frequency-selective fading channel with limited feedback, which specifies channel state information. Our results are asymptotic in the number of subchannels . We first assume independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) subchannel gains, and show that, for a large class of fading distributions, a uniform power distribution over an optimized subset of subchannels, or on-off power allocation, gives the same asymptotic growth in capacity as optimal water filling, e.g., with Rayleigh fading. Furthermore, the growth in data rate can be achieved with a feedback rate as . If the number of active subchannels is bounded, the capacity grows only as with the feedback rate of . We then consider correlated subchannels modeled as a Markov process, and study the savings in feedback. Assuming a fixed ratio of coherence bandwidth to the total bandwidth, the ratio between minimum feedback rates with correlated and i.i.d. subchannels converges to zero with , e.g., as for Rayleigh-fading subchannels satisfying a first-order autoregressive process. We also show that adaptive modulation, or rate control schemes, in which the rate on each subchannel is selected from a quantized set, achieves the same asymptotic growth rates in capacity and required feedback. Finally, our results are extended to cellular uplink and downlink channel models.     

Joint subchannel and power allocation in multiuser OFDM systems with minimal rate constraints

In this paper, we study the adaptive resource allocation in multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We try to maximize the sum capacity of an OFDM system with given transmission power budget, while meeting users' minimal rate requirements. Unlike other resource allocation schemes, which generally separate subchannel allocation and power distribution into independent procedures, our proposed algorithm implements joint subchannel and power allocation. Given a set of subchannels, the required power to satisfy a user's minimal rate constraint is calculated by water‐filling policy. Then, the user who requires the maximum power to meet the rate requirement has a priority to obtain an additional subchannel. The procedure continues until all subchannels are consumed, by which time the consumed power to meet all users' rate requirements is also worked out. Finally, the margin power is allocated among all subchannels in an optimal manner to maximize the sum capacity of the OFDM system. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm performs better than other existing ones. The solution produced by our proposed algorithm is close to the upper bound, while its complexity is relatively lower compared with other methods, which makes it attractive for applications. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种基于OFDM系统的无线图像的有效传输方法

本文提出一种基于OFDM多载波系统的无线图像传输的方法。该方法将基于FFT／IFFT变换的OFDM多载波调制与基于小波变换的SPIHT嵌入式零树编码相结合，首先将SPIHT输出码流分成若干数据块，然后根据各数据块视觉重要性的不同，给其分配相应的子信道和发送功率，使视觉重要性高的码流在较低的误比特率下进行传输，实现对视觉重要性不同的码流的不等错误保护。本文在瑞利平坦衰落信道下的仿真结果表明：在低信噪比下，采用本文提出的不等错误保护方法比等错误保护方法的峰值信噪比增益要高出15dB以上。     

Transmission of analog signals using multicarrier modulation: acombined source-channel coding approach

We have proposed and analyzed a combined source-channel coding scheme using multicarrier modulation. By changing the power and modulation of subchannels carrying different bits of the quantized signal, the channel-induced distortion can be minimized. We derive an algorithm for the allocation of power among subchannels. Analog sources quantized by scalar and vector quantizers are considered. For a Gaussian source scalar-quantized to 8 bit, multicarrier transmission yields a 13 dB improvement of signal-to-distortion ratio over a single-carrier system. Quantizers having a smaller number of bits yield smaller improvements. We consider both full-search and binary tree-search vector quantizers using a natural binary coding scheme. For a vector quantizer using 2 b/sample, multicarrier transmission yields an improvement in signal-to-distortion ratio that lies between 0.3 and 0.8 dB, depending on the quantizer design     

Optimal erasure protection for scalably compressed video streams with limited retransmission.

This paper shows how the priority encoding transmission (PET) framework may be leveraged to exploit both unequal error protection and limited retransmission for RD-optimized delivery of streaming media. Previous work on scalable media protection with PET has largely ignored the possibility of retransmission. Conversely, the PET framework has not been harnessed by the substantial body of previous work on RD optimized hybrid forward error correction/automatic repeat request schemes. We limit our attention to sources which can be modeled as independently compressed frames (e.g., video frames), where each element in the scalable representation of each frame can be transmitted in one or both of two transmission slots. An optimization algorithm determines the level of protection which should be assigned to each element in each slot, subject to transmission bandwidth constraints. To balance the protection assigned to elements which are being transmitted for the first time with those which are being retransmitted, the proposed algorithm formulates a collection of hypotheses concerning its own behavior in future transmission slots. We show how the PET framework allows for a decoupled optimization algorithm with only modest complexity. Experimental results obtained with Motion JPEG2000 compressed video demonstrate that substantial performance benefits can be obtained using the proposed framework.