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Spectral Efficiency of MIMO Millimeter-Wave Links with Single-Carrier Modulation for 5G Networks
Future wireless networks will extensively rely upon bandwidths centered on
carrier frequencies larger than 10GHz. Indeed, recent research has shown that,
despite the large path-loss, millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies can be
successfully exploited to transmit very large data-rates over short distances
to slowly moving users. Due to hardware complexity and cost constraints,
single-carrier modulation schemes, as opposed to the popular multi-carrier
schemes, are being considered for use at mmWave frequencies. This paper
presents preliminary studies on the achievable spectral efficiency on a
wireless MIMO link operating at mmWave in a typical 5G scenario. Two different
single-carrier modem schemes are considered, i.e. a traditional modulation
scheme with linear equalization at the receiver, and a single-carrier
modulation with cyclic prefix, frequency-domain equalization and FFT-based
processing at the receiver. Our results show that the former achieves a larger
spectral efficiency than the latter. Results also confirm that the spectral
efficiency increases with the dimension of the antenna array, as well as that
performance gets severely degraded when the link length exceeds 100 meters and
the transmit power falls below 0dBW. Nonetheless, mmWave appear to be very
suited for providing very large data-rates over short distances.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Proc. 20th International ITG
Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA2016
Single-Carrier Modulation versus OFDM for Millimeter-Wave Wireless MIMO
This paper presents results on the achievable spectral efficiency and on the
energy efficiency for a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) link
operating at millimeter wave frequencies (mmWave) in a typical 5G scenario. Two
different single-carrier modem schemes are considered, i.e., a traditional
modulation scheme with linear equalization at the receiver, and a
single-carrier modulation with cyclic prefix, frequency-domain equalization and
FFT-based processing at the receiver; these two schemes are compared with a
conventional MIMO-OFDM transceiver structure. Our analysis jointly takes into
account the peculiar characteristics of MIMO channels at mmWave frequencies,
the use of hybrid (analog-digital) pre-coding and post-coding beamformers, the
finite cardinality of the modulation structure, and the non-linear behavior of
the transmitter power amplifiers. Our results show that the best performance is
achieved by single-carrier modulation with time-domain equalization, which
exhibits the smallest loss due to the non-linear distortion, and whose
performance can be further improved by using advanced equalization schemes.
Results also confirm that performance gets severely degraded when the link
length exceeds 90-100 meters and the transmit power falls below 0 dBW.Comment: accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Communication
Feasibility of Using Bandwidth Efficient Modulation to Upgrade the CMS Tracker Readout Optical Links
Plans to upgrade the LHC after approximately 10 years of operation are
currently being considered at CERN. A tenfold increase in luminosity delivered
to the experiments is envisaged in the so-called Super LHC (SLHC). This will
undoubtedly give rise to significantly larger data volumes from the detectors,
requiring faster data readout. The possibility of upgrading the CMS Tracker
analog readout optical links using a bandwidth efficient digital modulation
scheme for deployment in the SLHC has been extensively explored at CERN.
Previous theoretical and experimental studies determined the achievable data
rate using a system based on Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) to be
~3-4Gbit/s (assuming no error correction is used and for an error rate of
~10-9). In this note we attempt to quantify the feasibility of such an upgrade
in terms of hardware implementation complexity, applicability to the high
energy physics (HEP) environment, technological feasibility and R&D effort
required.Comment: CERN CMS Note. 16 pages, 10 figure
Frequency Spreading Equalization in Multicarrier Massive MIMO
Application of filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) as an effective method for
signaling over massive MIMO channels has been recently proposed. This paper
further expands the application of FBMC to massive MIMO by applying frequency
spreading equalization (FSE) to these channels. FSE allows us to achieve a more
accurate equalization. Hence, higher number of bits per symbol can be
transmitted and the bandwidth of each subcarrier can be widened. Widening the
bandwidth of each subcarrier leads to (i) higher bandwidth efficiency; (ii)
lower complexity; (iii) lower sensitivity to carrier frequency offset (CFO);
(iv) reduced peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR); and (iv) reduced latency. All
these appealing advantages have a direct impact on the digital as well as
analog circuitry that is needed for the system implementation. In this paper,
we develop the mathematical formulation of the minimum mean square error (MMSE)
FSE for massive MIMO systems. This analysis guides us to decide on the number
of subcarriers that will be sufficient for practical channel models.Comment: Accepted in IEEE ICC 2015 - Workshop on 5G & Beyond - Enabling
Technologies and Application
Analysis and Performance Comparison of DVB-T and DTMB Systems for Terrestrial Digital TV
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is the most popular
transmission technology in digital terrestrial broadcasting (DTTB), adopted by
many DTTB standards. In this paper, the bit error rate (BER) performance of two
DTTB systems, namely cyclic prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) based DVB-T and time domain
synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) based DTMB, is evaluated in different channel
conditions. Spectrum utilization and power efficiency are also discussed to
demonstrate the transmission overhead of both systems. Simulation results show
that the performances of the two systems are much close. Given the same ratio
of guard interval (GI), the DVB-T outperforms DTMB in terms of signal to noise
ratio (SNR) in Gaussian and Ricean channels, while DTMB behaves better
performance in Rayleigh channel in higher code rates and higher orders of
constellation thanks to its efficient channel coding and interleaving scheme
Coherent Optical DFT-Spread OFDM
We consider application of the discrete Fourier transform-spread orthogonal
frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-spread OFDM) technique to high-speed fiber
optic communications. The DFT-spread OFDM is a form of single-carrier technique
that possesses almost all advantages of the multicarrier OFDM technique (such
as high spectral efficiency, flexible bandwidth allocation, low sampling rate
and low-complexity equalization). In particular, we consider the optical
DFT-spread OFDM system with polarization division multiplexing (PDM) that
employs a tone-by-tone linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer. We
show that such a system offers a much lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR)
performance as well as better bit error rate (BER) performance compared with
the optical OFDM system that employs amplitude clipping.Comment: This idea was originally submitted at Nov. 28th, 2009. After many
times of rejection and resubmission, it was finally accepted by the journal
of Advances in Optical Technologie
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