Receive antenna selection for closely-spaced antennas with mutual coupling

We investigate the achievable rate of receive antenna selection MIMO systems in the presence of mutual coupling and spatial correlation. For that, we assume the antenna array to consist of dipole antennas placed side-by-side in a linear pattern and in a very limited physical space. In a first step, we will assume perfect channel state information at the receiver side only and a negligible training overhead compared with the payload. We will demonstrate that in contrast to what might be expected based on results for cases without mutual coupling, MIMO receive antenna selection can achieve higher data rates than the system using all antennas provided that the total number of receive antennas is larger than a critical value that we will further discuss. We then propose an optimal antenna selection processing that ensures rate maximization regardless of the number of antennas used. In a later step, we will address the impact of training overhead on the system achievable rate when the training overhead is considerable. We will show that such a rate is reduced dramatically due to the large amount of training overhead arising from the presence of mutual coupling. To overcome this problem, we will thus propose a novel channel estimation method, which reduces the training overhead greatly and improves the system achievable rate performance.     

风云三号卫星接收天线过顶盲区跟踪实现

采用12 m A-E天线座架的气象卫星接收系统在跟踪运行于太阳同步轨道的风云三号气象卫星时,方位角误差随着俯仰角的增大而不断增大,到天顶区域已无法满足跟踪要求。为了解决卫星站过顶盲区问题,在接收天线上增加机械倾斜第三轴,通过分析计算,提出了实用的软件处理方法。实际运行情况表明,此方法较好地解决了过顶跟踪的目标丢失问题。     

中波广播天线受无源干扰影响的研究

中波广播天线周围存在的无源干扰,主要来源于场地内其它频率的发射天线和场地周边高压架空输电系统的影响。本文采用矩量法作为计算的数值方法,建立中波广播发射天线和高压输电线路的仿真模型,通过FEKO软件仿真,分析场地内其它频率发射天线和场地外110kV高压输电线路对江苏广播585kHz中波天线的无源干扰影响,为中波广播发射台合理规划天线场地提供理论依据。     

一种全空域球面相控阵天线对非协同目标的过顶跟踪方法

针对天线对非协同目标过顶跟踪时天线角跟踪动态过大的问题,提出了一种应用于全空域球面相控阵天线的角跟踪方法。应用该方法,在球面阵天线对非协同目标的整个跟踪过程中可实现角跟踪系统全程低仰角跟踪,从而避免了球面阵天线在对目标跟踪过程中出现的高仰角过顶跟踪的问题。该方法在航天或航空测控领域有广泛的应用前景。     

FFT-based hybrid antenna selection schemes for spatially correlated MIMO channels

In this letter, we address the antenna subset selection problem in spatially correlated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. To reduce the severe performance degradation of the traditional antenna selection scheme in correlated channels, we propose to embed fast Fourier transform operations in the RF chains. The resulting system shows a significant advantage both for diversity schemes and for the capacity of spatial multiplexing, while requiring only a minor hardware overhead.     

一种移动终端多天线方向图重构快速选择算法与基于滑动时间窗的加速实现

 多输入多输出(MIMO)系统中,天线选择技术可以在降低复杂度的同时,有效地提高系统的性能.但对于天线安装空间受限的小型终端,天线的数目将受到很大限制,本文结合方向图可重构技术,考虑基于线性接收机的空间复用系统,通过在已选择的发射天线上采用等功率分配等增益传输以减少反馈信息量.在此条件下,推导出空间相关衰落信道下自适应发射天线选择的统计容量公式下限,然后,在此基础上提出基于方向图重构的发射天线快速选择方法以最大化该容量值.此外,在实现中提出了一种基于滑动时间窗的梯度更新估计模型,缩短了算法所需时间.     

闭环MIMO的容量损失研究

首先建立了闭环MIMO(multiple-input-multiple-output)的系统模型,推导出了闭环MIMO容量损失与反馈信道速率之间的数学关系。通过仿真这个数学关系,得出了在不同信噪比、天线数、中断概率下,容量损失相对于反馈信道速率变化规律的相关结论。这个数学关系和这些结论,为实际的闭环MIMO系统设计提供了一定的基础依据,对综合考虑信噪比、天线数、中断概率、闭环MIMO容量损失和反馈信道速率的系统设计有参考意义。     

DWT-based joint antenna selection for correlated MIMO channels

This paper proposes a new discrete wavelet transform (DWT)-based joint antenna selection scheme for spatially correlated multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) channels. To reduce the severe performance degradation of the traditional antenna selection schemes in correlated channels, a new scheme which employ joint antenna selection (JAS) at both link ends algorithm and embed DWT operations in the receiver-end RF chains is proposed. Through extensive simulations it is demonstrated that the proposed DWT-based joint antenna selection has significant improvement of the capacity for both i.i.d and correlated MIMO channels, while requiring only a minor hardware overhead and low computational complexity for the DWT operations. Moreover, it is shown that the capacity associated with DWT-based JAS is higher than the system employing DWT-based receive antenna selection (RAS) only. This is achieved in i.i.d. and correlated MIMO channels.     

MIMO的反馈信道研究

该文提出了在闭环MIMO容量研究中引入了率失真理论的研究方法,推导出了反馈信道速率和闭环MIMO容量之间的数学关系。通过理论分析和仿真结果,得出了有关反馈信道速率与信噪比,天线数,闭环MIMO容量之间变化关系的四个重要结论。为实际的闭环MIMO系统设计提供了折衷反馈信道开销和闭环MIMO容量的依据,对系统设计有重要的指导意义.     

基于Visual Basic的天线虚拟实验室的设计与实现

以天线实验室硬件设备的操作流程为基础,利用VisualBasic软件,设计并搭建实现了一套用于天线开发和测试用的虚拟实验室系统。文中介绍了天线实验的硬件设备与天线参数的测量方法,分析了该虚拟实验室系统的框架结构和关键内容的设计流程,以菱形天线为例演示了该系统在天线仿真、设计和测量方面的使用过程。该系统已被应用于课内实验教学和课外创新,增强了学生实践能力,改变了传统实验教学模式。     

毫米波混合波束形成系统的多波束训练方法

针对毫米波通信系统方向性强的特点,提出一种快速波束训练方法。该方法首先建立了二维面阵天线系统模型,推导了多波束预编码矩阵,并在原分层训练协议的基础上,利用混合波束形成系统使发射端同时产生多个并行训练波束并在接收端将训练结果进行反馈。仿真表明,相较于以往单一波束训练算法,该并行多波束训练方法能够有效地减少训练开销,提高训练效率。     

一种基于有限信息反馈的最佳中继选择协议研究

针对多用户的TDMA无线自组织协同通信网络,深入研究了基于有限信息反馈的最佳编码协作中继选择策略,在瑞利和莱斯信道条件下对该协议的中断概率和误码率性能进行了计算机仿真,并对协议做了进一步细化和优化。仿真和分析结果表明,该中继选择策略的中断概率和误比特率性能较传统策略有较大提升,且改进后的方案能明显减少协同交互信息开销。     

时间相关块贝叶斯算法下的大规模MIMO信道估计

因具有高的阵列增益和高的频谱效率,大规模MIMO已成为5G通信系统物理层关键技术,但在频分双工系统基站侧获取大规模MIMO信道准确状态信息的过程中,存在导频开销占用大量频谱资源问题。为此,针对时间相关信道和信道稀疏度未知的情况,提出一种基于时间相关和多测量矢量模型的块贝叶斯压缩感知（TMBB-CS）信道估计方法。因基站端天线发射信号时间相关,所以大规模MIMO系统的时域信道脉冲响应呈块稀疏结构,利用该特性对下行链路中的多用户信道矩阵进行测量估计,可较大幅度减少导频开销,提升性能。实验仿真结果表明,与其他块贝叶斯算法相比,所提出的TMBB-CS算法信道估计性能更好。      

频率选择性衰落信道下长扩频序列CDMA 系统的盲波束成形

本文提出一种适用于频率选择性衰落信道下长扩频序列CDMA系统，基于DMMSE准则的盲波束成形方案。该方案反频率选择性衰落信道分解成若干个非频率选择性衰落子信道，不需要训练符号开销，回避跟踪衰落信道参数，以所需用户的扩频序列作为永久性训练序列。仿真结果验证了其抵抗远近效应、抑制多址干扰的能力。     

多输入多输出广播信道下基于有限反馈的最大输出SINR线性天线合并算法

在基于有限反馈的多天线MIMO广播信道下,由信道量化误差带来的多用户干扰(MUI)会严重地降低系统性能。天线合并技术可以利用多接收天线提供的多维自由度有效地改善系统性能。该文针对最近被证明为最优的反馈资源分配策略,设计了一种线性天线合并算法,该算法在提高反馈精度和增强期望信号增益之间做出合理的折中,可使期望输出信噪干扰比(SINR)最大化。首先导出了线性合并器期望输出SINR的下界闭合表达式,然后利用这个表达式得到使输出SINR最大化的线性合并器。仿真表明该线性合并算法与已有算法相比具有明显的性能提升。     

A design procedure for classical offset dual reflector antennaswith circular apertures

A geometrical optics procedure for designing electrically optimized classical offset dual reflector antennas with circular apertures is presented. Equations are derived that allow the size and spacing of the main and subreflectors of the antenna system, along with the feed horn subintended angle, to be used as input variables of the design procedure. The procedure, together with these equations, yields an optimized design, starting from general system requirements. The procedure is demonstrated by designing both an offset Cassegrain and an offset Gregorian antenna, and is validated by analyzing their radiation patterns using physical optics surface current integration on both the main and subreflectors     

Physical optics analysis of four-reflector antenna

A four-reflector physical optics analysis procedure is presented. Theoretical characteristics of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) 64 m antennas computed from this procedure were found to be in excellent agreement with experimental observations. TheS-band horn fields will subsequently be carried through all four reflectors (resulting in a transmission viewpoint of final antenna system beams) to account fully for all nearfield, cross polarization, and higher order mode generation effects caused by various intentional asymmetries in geometry. This appears to be the first time such a complete and rigorous analysis has been performed on such a complex antenna system. The analysis techniques presented are useful in many ongoing ground station antenna research and development efforts, including high-efficiency shaped reflector and beam waveguide feed designs and microwave metrology (holography) applied to large reflector surface measurements.     

Subcarrier Wise Scheduling Methods for Multi-antenna and Multi-carrier Systems

In this paper, multiuser scheduling algorithms are evaluated for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) networks. These scheduling schemes allocate M [number of transmit antennas at base station (BS)] number of independent data streams from BS to the M most favourable users experiencing the highest signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR). Here, SINR is used to convey the channel state information (CSI) to the BS. We have investigated the system throughput and feedback overhead attained by these scheduling schemes for different scenarios as: (a) the maximum CSI is sent to the BS by every user and (b) the maximum CSI sent to the BS corresponding to every BS antenna. The overall feedback overhead incurred by MIMO-OFDM system increases linearly with number of users, number of subcarriers and number of transmit antennas. Hence, to reduce the feedback overhead, a scheme is proposed where users with SINR values greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value are only allowed to feedback the channel state information to BS. The relation between system throughput and various thresholds is also studied. The achievable system throughput results are validated by comparing the probability density function of achieved SINR values by different scheduling schemes.

     

有源多波束天线方向图测试方法研究

论述了利用高精度三轴天线测试转台,测试有源多波束天线立体方向图的方法。简述了天线立体方向图的测量程序。给出了用二维坐标表示多波束立体方向图的方法,并简述了利用MATLAB软件对测试数据进行处理获得多波束天线立体方向图的方法,对方向图测试误差进行了分析。最后,给出了某工程有源多波束天线方向图的测试结果。实践证明:该方法是切实可行的。