Statistical modeling of the indoor radio channel at 10 GHz throughpropagation measurements .I. Narrow-band measurements and modeling

The aim of this paper is to report the results of a propagation measurement experiment to reach a statistical model of the indoor radio channel at 10 GHz using directive antennas at both terminals. The measurements were conducted on a floor of a university building. The distribution of the received fading envelope was tested to fit the Rayleigh and Rician distributions, but were not satisfactory. The Nakagami distribution was found to give an excellent fit with its parameter, m, depending on the separation between transmitter and receiver. The results of the level crossing rate (LCR) and the average duration of fades (ADFs) confirmed this result. The effect of using reception diversity to improve the quality of the received fading signal was tested. Frequency, space and polarization diversity were applied and the cross correlation between the envelopes of the received fading signals (magnitude and power) in the diversity branches was evaluated. The diversity gain achieved was also evaluated. The effect of three different combining techniques (selection, equal gain and maximal ratio) and the effect of applying a global or moving means to the recorded data was studied     

Performance of First-Order Digital Phase-Locked Loops in Mobile Radio Channels

The performance of a first-order digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) using nonuniform sampling is studied in the mobile radio environments. The mobile radio channel is characterized by introducing fast Rayleigh fading and random phase variation to the signal envelope and phase, respectively. The nonlinear stochastic difference equation describing the loop operation in fading environments is introduced. The joint probability density function (pdf) of the random variables of this equation is derived by transformation of random variables for fast Rayleigh fading channels. A closed-form expression for the transition probability of the ChapmanKolmogorov (C-K) equation is obtained for phase step plus noise input and for frequency step plus noise input. The probability density function of the steady-state phase error is obtained by solving the C-K equation numerically.     

Low‐complexity robust adaptive generalized sidelobe canceller detector for DS/CDMA systems

A novel low computational complexity robust adaptive blind multiuser detector, based on the minimum output energy (MOE) detector with multiple constraints and a quadratic inequality (QI) constraint is developed in this paper. Quadratic constraint has been a widespread approach to improve robustness against mismatch errors, uncertainties in estimating the data covariance matrix, and random perturbations in detector parameters. A diagonal loading technique is compulsory to achieve the quadratic constraint where the diagonal loading level is adjusted to satisfy the constrained value. Integrating the quadratic constraint into recursive algorithms seems to be a moot point since there is no closed‐form solution for the diagonal loading term. In this paper, the MOE detector of DS/CDMA system is implemented using a fast recursive steepest descent adaptive algorithm anchored in the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) structure with multiple constraints and a QI constraint on the adaptive portion of the GSC structure. The Lagrange multiplier method is exploited to solve the QI constraint. An optimal variable loading technique, which is capable of providing robustness against uncertainties and mismatch errors with low computational complexity is adopted. Simulations for several mismatch and random perturbations scenarios are conducted in a rich multipath environment with near–far effect to explore the robustness of the proposed detector. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Three-dimensional cellular systems for aeronautical mobile radiocommunications

A new technique for designing three-dimensional cellular systems for VHF air/ground communications is proposed to solve the problem of frequency congestion for air traffic control (ATC) and flight services. In VHF air/ground communication systems, a radio line of sight (RLOS) between the aircraft and ground station must exist. The frequency reuse distance is reduced by using the radio horizon to block cochannel interferences. In the proposed system, cells of different sizes to cover different altitude ranges are separated by different reuse distances. With nine groups of channels, the altitude range from 740 ft to 45000 ft can be covered without interference. The proposed system utilizes the spectrum efficiently by covering a certain airspace according to a well-organized plan with the minimum number of frequency channels and cell sites. Thus, it has more frequency reuse than the current systems     

BER improvement of PRCPM in mobile radio channels withdiscriminator detection using decision feedback equalization

The authors investigate the bit error rate (BER) improvement of partial-response continuous-phase modulation (PRCPM) signals in mobile radio channels, when decision feedback equalization (DFE) to cancel the effect of intersymbol interference (ISI) of one adjacent bit is added to the limiter discriminator. A closed-form expression for the average probability of error as a function of the Doppler shift is derived for discriminator detection with decision feedback. Numerical results are presented to compare the BER performance of discriminator detection with and without feedback equalization     

Comments on `GMSK with differential phase detection in thesatellite mobile channel'

The error probability results shown by I. Korn (see ibid., vol.38, no.11, p.1980-6, 1990) indicate that the error floor is higher for systems with decision feedback (DF). It was concluded that DF gives a lower error probability only for smaller values of the normalized bandwidth B_tT of the premodulation Gaussian filter, higher values of the ratio of powers in the direct and diffuse signal components K, and a lower range of signal-to-noise ratio. It is shown that this conclusion is not correct by theoretically analyzing the case of the land mobile channel where K=0 (or -∞ dB) and deriving a simple closed-form expression for the error probability for 1 bit differential detection with DF. It is shown that DF reduces the error probability for all values of B_tT and signal-to-noise ratios. The formula derived can be easily evaluated not only for Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) but for all partial-response continuous-phase-modulation (PRCPM) signals     

Predetection filtering effect on the probability of error of GMSKwith discriminator detection in mobile radio channels

Simple closed-form expressions for the probability of error of Gaussian filtered minimum-shift keying (GMSK) with discriminator detection in a fast-Rayleigh-fading channel were previously derived by the author (see ibid., vol.VT-35, p.71-6, May 1986) by assuming that the intermediate frequency filter does not distort the received signal. The effect of this filter on the probability of error is now investigated. The optimum bandwidth of the filter is calculated for cases of practical interest. The equations used for the computation of the probability of error are derived and the results are discussed     

Performance of multicarrier CDMA with DPSK modulation anddifferential detection in fading multipath channels

Multicarrier (MC) direct sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) with differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) modulation and differential detection is proposed. Transmitted data bits are differentially encoded after serial-to-parallel conversion to a number of parallel streams. On each branch, encoded bits are direct sequence spread spectrum (SS) modulated and transmitted using different carriers. The system is analyzed with a differential detector in static Rayleigh fading multipath channel, in fast Rayleigh fading multipath channel and for variable overlapping between carrier spectra in static fading channel. Closed-form expressions are derived for the error probability and evaluated for many cases. The performance is compared to that of a system using phase-shift keying (PSK) with conventional matched filter (CMF) coherent receiver. For static fading channel, the error probability performance of the differential detector is close to that of CMF receiver. For fast fading, the performance degrades slightly with increasing fading rate. Finally; successive carriers of the system are allowed to overlap with various overlapping percentages. The condition of a single path can be achieved by increasing both the number of carriers and the separation between successive carriers. Also, for each number of carriers, there exists an optimum overlapping percentage at which the system performance is optimized. The performance of the proposed DPSK with differential detection system is close to that of PSK with CMF receiver, but the former is simpler to implement     

Analysis of GMSK with Two-Bit Differential Detection in Land Mobile Radio Channels

The effect of intersymbol interference (ISI) of Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) on the probability of error of twobit differential detection is analyzed theoretically in fast Rayleigh fading characterizing land mobile radio channels. A closed form expression is derived for the probability of error. Numerical results are presented for cases of practical interest to researchers and designers of cellular land mobile radio systems.     

A packet reservation multiple access (PRMA)-based algorithm for multimedia wireless system

The major issue in the wireless multimedia system design is the selection of a suitable channel sharing media access control (MAC) protocol. The design challenge is to identify a wireless "multimedia capable" MAC protocol that provides a sufficient degree of transparency for many different kinds of services. This protocol should guarantee different quality of service (QoS) parameters for different types of traffic while in the same time achieving high throughput. In this paper a MAC protocol to serve different kinds of traffic, namely voice, data, and, real time variable bit rate (rt-VBR) video is proposed. The transmission time scale is divided into frames. Each frame is subdivided into N time slots. In this protocol, a fixed number of slots M out of 150 time slots are reserved at the beginning of every frame to transmit some of the video packets arriving during the frame interval. The rest of the video packets contend with the voice and data packets for the remaining time slots of this frame as in normal packet reservation multiple access (PRMA). One objective of this paper is to find the optimum value of M allowing the maximum number of voice and data users to share the RF channel with one video user. Another objective is to find the optimum permission probabilities of sending contending voice, data, and video packets allowing the maximum number of users sharing the RF channel. The dropping probability requirement for video is examined.