Sparse Approximations of the LMMSE Channel Estimation in OFDM with Transmitter Diversity

The linear minimum mean-squared error (LMMSE) channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems requires a large number of complex multiplications. We evaluate a simplified LMMSE channel estimation algorithm in a transmit diversity environment by applying a significant weight catching (SWC) technique to the LMMSE fixed weighting matrix. The SWC technique itself is based on modifying the smoothing matrix by leaving the Γ largest values in each row and turning the rest to zeros. This allows the computational complexity of the full LMMSE processor to be reduced by more than 50%. In the well known LMMSE by singular value decomposition (SVD) technique the sparse approximation is accomplished by zeroing out all but the r largest singular values. LMMSE by SVD is the preferred approximation technique for low delay spread channels. However, in channels with large delay spreads, LMMSE by SWC is a better choice in terms of computational complexity and estimation accuracy Igor Tolochkoreceived his Dipl.-Eng. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute, Riga, Latvia in 1987 and PhD from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia in 2005. He was a senior and later principal design engineer in mobile communications at the Riga Semiconductor Institute Alpha (1988 – 1993). During 1993 – 1998, he was involved in research and development activities in communications with different companies in Riga and Melbourne, Australia. From 1998 to 2002, he was with Ericsson Australia as a senior design engineer. Currently, he works for NEC Australia Pty. Ltd. as a senior design engineer in 3G Mobile Department. His current research interests include digital signal processing, indoor and outdoor wireless communications and error control coding. Michael Faulkner(M'84) received the B.Sc. (Eng) from Queen Mary College, London University, UK, in 1970, the M.E. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1978, and the PhD from University of Technology Sydney in 1993. From 1972 to 1975 he was with STC (now Alcatel) Australia. From 1975 to 1977 he as with the University of New South Wales, and since then as a lecturer and now professor at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia where he is director of the Telecommunications and Micro-electronics research centre. Between 1988 and 2000 he spent four periods at Lund University, Sweden. He was co-recipient of the IEE's 1997 IERE prize for a paper on amplifier linearisation. His current interests are, signal processing, radio technology, radio systems and MIMO/OFDM.     

MIMO Channel Characterization for Short Range Fixed Wireless Propagation Environments

This paper reports results from wideband MIMO measurements performed in short range fixed wireless environments at 5.2 GHz. The objective is to provide MIMO channel characterization results for the measured environments and contribute to the limited available similar studies. Two kinds of propagation scenarios are investigated, rooftop to rooftop and street to rooftop, at three different sites always under LOS propagation conditions. The analysis of measurement data is performed in the context of non physical modeling, providing insight into the statistics of the measured channels. In particular, the slow time varying nature of the channel is studied and the narrow Doppler spectrum shape is approximated. Furthermore, frequency correlation results are obtained and the typical delay dispersion measures are extracted. Then, the antenna correlation is studied and the error of the Kronecker product approximation is evaluated. Finally, capacity results are provided and the channel measurements are characterized in terms of spatial multiplexing quality and multipath richness through condition number analysis. Nikolaos D. Skentos received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in October 2000. Since January 2001 he has been a research associate at the Mobile Radio Communications Laboratory at the NTUA, and he is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree. His research interests include channel measurements, MIMO channel characterization, MIMO algorithms and space time processing. He has been active in the IST STINGRAY project, the COST 273 Action and the ACE Network of Excellence. He is also a member of the National Technical Chamber of Greece since 2001. Athanasios G. Kanatas received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in Satellite Communication Engineering from the University of Surrey, Surrey, UK in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Mobile Satellite Communications from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in February 1997. From 1993 to 1994 he was with National Documentation Center of National Research Institute. In 1995 he joined SPACETEC Ltd. where he was Technical Project Manager for VISA/EMEA VSAT Project in Greece. In 1996 he joined the Mobile Radio Communications Laboratory as a research associate. From 1999 to 2002 he was with the Institute of Communication & Computer Systems. In 2000 he became a member of the Board of Directors of OTESAT S.A. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems at University of Piraeus. His current research interests include channel characterization and estimation, simulation and modeling for mobile, mobile satellite, and future wireless communication systems. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2002, and is also a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. In 1999 he was elected Chairman of the Communications Society of the Greek IEEE Section. Panagiotis I. Dallas was born 1967 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his diploma and Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1990 and 1997, respectively. Since 1998 he joined with INTRACOM where he currently is Section Manager of Advanced Communications Technologies branch of Emerging Technologies & Markets department, leading the next generation of broadband wireless access systems for internal and EU projects. He runs the relevant standardization activities (IEEE 802.16 and ETSI/BRAN HIPERMAN) in INTRACOM and he represents the company in WiMAX forum. Finally, he has over 30 publications in international journals and conferences. Philip Constantinou received the Diploma in Physics from the National University of Athens in 1972, the Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. From 1976 to 1979 he was with Telesat Canada as a Communications System Engineer. In 1980 he joined the Ministry of Communications in Ottawa, Canada where he was engaged in the area of Mobile Communication. From 1984 to 1989 he was with the National Research Center Demokritos in Athens, Greece where he was involved in several research projects in the area of Mobile Communications. In 1989 he joined the National Technical University of Athens where he is currently a Professor and Director of the Mobile Radio Communications Laboratory. His current research interests include Personal Communications, Mobile Satellite Communications, and Interference Problems on Digital Communications Systems.     

相关衰落信道下的一种层间联合自适应SR-ARQ传输机制

传统自适应传输机制在相关慢衰落信道下有较差的系统性能.针对相关衰落信道,提出了一种层间联合自适应传输机制.利用有限状态马尔可夫链来描述相关衰落信道,同时通过构建一个多状态马尔可夫系统模型来分析系统吞吐性能,并对调制方式和传输分组大小进行优化.另外,推导了系统平均吞吐性能的表达式.仿真结果显示所提出的自适应传输机制在相关衰落信道上能获得更好的系统性能.     

一种针对双衰落信道OFDM的新均衡算法

在OFDM系统中，子载波间的正交性是保证OFDM性能的重要保障。针对双选择性衰落信道下的OFDM系统，该文在分析载波间干扰（ICI）的基础上，提出了一种采用频域迭代消除ICI的均衡算法。分析和仿真结果表明此方法能有效地保证载波间的正交性和改善了OFDM系统的误码率（BER）性能。     

统计/判决电路在CDMA领域中的应用

传统的CDMA技术存在严重的多址干扰现象,使得信道的频谱效率不能达到最佳状态。分析了CDMA通信系统在信道中的性能,并根据香农公式和数字信号最佳接收的知识提出了统计/判决电路,在8分频的前提下,该电路可以在改进CDMA系统通信质量方面起到一定的作用,如改善系统信噪比,降低误码率,提高系统抗干扰性,改善通信质量。     

混沌DCSK抗噪和抗多径干扰的性能分析

目前各种混沌键控调制方案中，混沌差分键控（DCSK）有着最优的抗噪性能。主要研究混沌DCSK调制在加性高斯白噪声（AWGN）信道和两径瑞利衰落延时信道（two—ray Rayleigh fading channel with delay）的误码率公式，并对其误码率特性进行相应的仿真和分析，最后再与CSK系统的性能做比较。     

正交频分复用信道估计的隐藏导频法

正交频分复用系统具有简单的单抽头频域均衡，在均衡之前需要完成信道估计。本文提出一种基于隐藏导频序列的信道估计方法，只要利用接收信号一阶统计信息就可估计出信道信息。这种半盲的信道估计方法具有简单的信道估计和均衡，而且不占用频谱资源。仿真结果表明本方法能有效进行信道估计，并得到了隐藏序列的最佳能量值。     

关于MIMO系统的天线子集选择性能的研究

讨论了有关 MIMO 无线系统中的天线子集选择性能的问题。首先建立了 MIMO 信道模型,对信道模型进行了分析,接着对信道矩阵为非满秩的情况进行了研究,分别采用几种组合对发射、接收天线进行选择,得出不同组合对信道容量的影响。仿真结果表明,选择发射天线可以增加信道容量,选择接收天线虽然无助于增加信道容量,但在不会严重降低信道容量的前提下,可以降低系统的成本。     

Turbo MUD技术在TD-SCDMA系统中的应用

TD-SCDMA已成为第3代移动通信国际标准之一,它采用联合检测技术来抑制符号间干扰(ISI)和多址干扰(MAI)。介绍了Turbo多用户检测(MUD)技术在TD-SCDMA系统中的应用,该技术将Turbo迭代译码思想引入到联合检测,有机结合多用户检测和信道译码2种技术,通过在软MUD和软信道译码间多次进行迭代并及时交换软信息(如后验概率)来提高系统性能。研究表明,采用TurboMUD可使系统性能显著提高。     

RELAY ASSISTED TRANSMISSSION WITH BIT-INTERLEAVED CODED MODULATION

We investigate an adaptive cooperative protocol in a Two-Hop-Relay （THR） wireless system that combines the following： （1） adaptive relaying based on repetition coding; （2） single or two transmit antennas and one receive antenna configurations for all nodes, each using high order constellation; （3） Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation （BICM）. We focus on a simple decoded relaying （i.e. no error correcting at a relay node） and simple signal quality thresholds for relaying. Then the impact of the two simple thresholds on the system performance is studied. Our results suggest that compared with the traditional scheme for direct transmission, the proposed scheme can increase average throughput in high spectral efficiency region with low implementation-cost at the relay.