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Implementação e avaliação no system generator de um sistema cooperativo para os futuros sistemas 5G
With the arrival of 5G it is expected the proliferation of services in the
different fields such as healthcare, utility applications, industrial automation,
4K streaming, that the former networks can not provide. Additionally,
the total number of wireless communication devices will escalate in such
a manner that the already scarce available frequency bandwidth won’t be
enough to pack the intended objectives. Cisco’s Annual Internet Report from
2018 predicts that by 2023 there will be nearly 30 billion devices capable of
wireless communication. Due to the exponential expiation of both services
and devices, the challenges upon both network data capacity and efficient
radio resourse use will be greater than ever, thus the urgency for solutions
is grand.
Both the capacity for wireless communications and spectral efficiency are
related to cell size and its users proximity to the access point. Thus,
shortening the distance between the transmitter and the receiver improves
both aspects of the network. This concept is what motivates the
implementation of heterogeneous networks, HetNets, that are composed
of many different small-cells, SCs, overlaid across the same coexisting
area of a conventional macro-cell, shortening the distance between the
cell users and its access point transceivers, granting a better coverage and
higher data rates. However, the HetNets potential does not come without
any challenges, as these networks suffer considerably from communication
interference between cells.
Although some interference management algorithms that allow coexistence
between cells have been proposed in recent years, most of them were
evaluated by software simulations and not implemented in real-time
platforms. Therefore, this master thesis aims to give the first step on the
implementation and evaluation of an interference mitigation technique in
hardware. Specifically, it is assumed a downlink scenario composed by a
macro-cell base station, a macro-cell primary user and a small cell user,
with the aim of implementing an algorithm that eliminates the downlink
interference that the base station may cause to the secondary users. The
study was carried out using the System Generator DSP tool, which is a tool
that generates code for hardware from schematics created in it. This tool
also offers a wide range of blocks that help the creation, and fundamentally,
the simulation and study of the system to be implemented, before being
translated into hardware. The results obtained in this work are a faithful
representation of the behavior of the implemented system, which can be
used for a future application for FPGA.Com a chegada do 5G, espera-se a proliferação de serviços nas mais diversas
áreas tal como assistência médica, automação industrial, transmissão em
4k, que não eram possíveis nas redes das gerações anteriores. Além deste
fenómeno, o número total de dispositivos capazes de conexões wireless
aumentará de tal maneira que a escassa largura de banda disponível não
será suficiente para abranger os objetivos pretendidos. O Relatório Anual
de 2018 sobre a Internet da Cisco prevê que até 2023 haverá quase 30
bilhões de dispositivos capazes de comunicação sem fio. Devido ao aumento
exponencial de serviços e dispositivos, os desafios sobre a capacidade de
dados da rede e o udo eficiente dos recursos de rádio serão maiores que
nunca. Por estes motivos, a necessidade de soluções para estas lacunas é
enorme.
Tanto a capacidade da rede e o uso eficiente do espectro de frequências
estão relacionados ao tamanho da célula e à proximidade dos usuários com
o ponto de acesso da célula. Ao encurtar a distância entre o transmissor e
o recetor ocorre um melhoramento destes dois aspetos da rede. Este é o
principal conceito na implementação de redes heterogéneas, HetNets, que
são compostas por diversas células pequenas que coexistem na área de uma
macro célula convencional, diminuído a distância entre os utilizadores da
célula e os pontos de acesso, garantindo uma melhor cobertura e taxa de
dados mais elevadas. No entanto, o potencial das HatNets não vem sem
nenhum custo, pois estas redes sofrem consideravelmente de interferência
entre as células.
Embora nos últimos anos foram propostos alguns algoritmos que permitem
a coexistência das células, a maioria destes foi só testado em simulações
de software e não em plataformas em tempo real. Por esse motivo, esta
dissertação de mestrado visa dar o primeiro passo na implementação e
a avaliação de uma técnica de mitigação de interferência em hardware.
Mais especificamente no cenário de downlink entre uma estação base de
uma macro célula, um utilizador primário da macro célula e um utilizador
secundário de uma célula pequena, com o principal objetivo de cancelar a
interferência que a estação base possa fazer ao utilizador secundário. O
estudo foi realizado utilizando a ferramenta System Generator DSP, que é
uma ferramenta que gera código para hardware a partir de esquemáticos
criados na mesma. Esta ferramenta também oferece uma vasta gama de
blocos que ajudam a criação, e fundamentalmente, a simulação e o estudo do
sistema a implementar antes de ser traduzido para hardware. Os resultados
obtidos neste trabalho são uma fiel representação do comportamento do
sistema implementado. O quais podem ser utilizados para uma futura
aplicação para FPGA.Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicaçõe
Energy-Efficient NOMA Enabled Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks
Heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (H-CRANs) are envisioned to be
promising in the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks. H-CRANs enable users
to enjoy diverse services with high energy efficiency, high spectral
efficiency, and low-cost operation, which are achieved by using cloud computing
and virtualization techniques. However, H-CRANs face many technical challenges
due to massive user connectivity, increasingly severe spectrum scarcity and
energy-constrained devices. These challenges may significantly decrease the
quality of service of users if not properly tackled. Non-orthogonal multiple
access (NOMA) schemes exploit non-orthogonal resources to provide services for
multiple users and are receiving increasing attention for their potential of
improving spectral and energy efficiency in 5G networks. In this article a
framework for energy-efficient NOMA H-CRANs is presented. The enabling
technologies for NOMA H-CRANs are surveyed. Challenges to implement these
technologies and open issues are discussed. This article also presents the
performance evaluation on energy efficiency of H-CRANs with NOMA.Comment: This work has been accepted by IEEE Network. Pages 18, Figure
TeamUp5G: a multidisciplinary approach to training and research on new RAN techniques for 5G ultra-dense mobile networks
Proceeding of: 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, (CSNDSP), 20-22, July 2020, (online).This paper presents a summary of the main research directions being followed in TeamUp5G European Training Network, teaming up a new generation of researchers and entrepreneurs ready to address complex engineering problems and innovation to work both at university and industry in the 5G field. This project is focused on new radio access network (RAN) techniques for 5G, considering ultradense mobile networks as a key ingredient of the actual mobile networks and their evolution. Research covers a wide spread of topics from physical layer and medium access control to applications, looking at spectrum sharing and energy efficiency as important features.This work has received funding from the European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ETN TeamUp5G, grant agreement No. 813391
User-Centric Interference Nulling in Downlink Multi-Antenna Heterogeneous Networks
In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), strong interference due to spectrum
reuse affects each user's signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), and hence is one
limiting factor of network performance. In this paper, we propose a
user-centric interference nulling (IN) scheme in a downlink large-scale HetNet
to improve coverage/outage probability by improving each user's SIR. This IN
scheme utilizes at most maximum IN degree of freedom (DoF) at each macro-BS to
avoid interference to uniformly selected macro (pico) users with
signal-to-individual-interference ratio (SIIR) below a macro (pico) IN
threshold, where the maximum IN DoF and the two IN thresholds are three design
parameters. Using tools from stochastic geometry, we first obtain a tractable
expression of the coverage (equivalently outage) probability. Then, we analyze
the asymptotic coverage/outage probability in the low and high SIR threshold
regimes. The analytical results indicate that the maximum IN DoF can affect the
order gain of the outage probability in the low SIR threshold regime, but
cannot affect the order gain of the coverage probability in the high SIR
threshold regime. Moreover, we characterize the optimal maximum IN DoF which
optimizes the asymptotic coverage/outage probability. The optimization results
reveal that the IN scheme can linearly improve the outage probability in the
low SIR threshold regime, but cannot improve the coverage probability in the
high SIR threshold regime. Finally, numerical results show that the proposed
scheme can achieve good gains in coverage/outage probability over a maximum
ratio beamforming scheme and a user-centric almost blank subframes (ABS)
scheme.Comment: Transactions on Wireless Communications (under revision). arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:1504.0528
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