2,544 research outputs found
Laboratory measurement campaign of DVB-T signal with transmit delay diversity
The requirements for future DVB-T/H networks demand that broadcasters design and deploy networks that provide ubiquitous reception in challenging indoors and other obstructed situations. It is essential that such networks are designed cost-effectively and with minimized environmental impact. The EC funded project PLUTO has since its start in 2006 explored the use of diversity to improve coverage in these difficult situations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of Transmit Delay Diversity (DD) with two antennas to improve the reception of DVB-T/H systems operating in different realistic propagation conditions through a series of tests using a SPIRENT SR5500 dual channel emulator. The relationship between correlation coefficient between channels, receiver velocity and diversity gain is nvestigated. It is shown that transmit delay diversity significantly improves the quality of reception particularly in simulated fast fading mobile broadcasting applications. This paper documents research conducted by Brunel University and Broadreach Systems
The Impact of CSI and Power Allocation on Relay Channel Capacity and Cooperation Strategies
Capacity gains from transmitter and receiver cooperation are compared in a
relay network where the cooperating nodes are close together. Under
quasi-static phase fading, when all nodes have equal average transmit power
along with full channel state information (CSI), it is shown that transmitter
cooperation outperforms receiver cooperation, whereas the opposite is true when
power is optimally allocated among the cooperating nodes but only CSI at the
receiver (CSIR) is available. When the nodes have equal power with CSIR only,
cooperative schemes are shown to offer no capacity improvement over
non-cooperation under the same network power constraint. When the system is
under optimal power allocation with full CSI, the decode-and-forward
transmitter cooperation rate is close to its cut-set capacity upper bound, and
outperforms compress-and-forward receiver cooperation. Under fast Rayleigh
fading in the high SNR regime, similar conclusions follow. Cooperative systems
provide resilience to fading in channel magnitudes; however, capacity becomes
more sensitive to power allocation, and the cooperating nodes need to be closer
together for the decode-and-forward scheme to be capacity-achieving. Moreover,
to realize capacity improvement, full CSI is necessary in transmitter
cooperation, while in receiver cooperation optimal power allocation is
essential.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
Land vehicle antennas for satellite mobile communications
The RF performance, size, pointing system, and cost were investigated concepts are: for a mechanically steered 1 x 4 tilted microstrip array, a mechanically steered fixed-beam conformal array, and an electronically steered conformal phased array. Emphasis is on the RF performance of the tilted 1 x 4 antenna array and methods for pointing the various antennas studied to a geosynchronous satellite. An updated version of satellite isolations in a two-satellite system is presented. Cost estimates for the antennas in quantities of 10,000 and 100,000 unites are summarized
Unified Capacity Limit of Non-coherent Wideband Fading Channels
In non-coherent wideband fading channels where energy rather than spectrum is
the limiting resource, peaky and non-peaky signaling schemes have long been
considered species apart, as the first approaches asymptotically the capacity
of a wideband AWGN channel with the same average SNR, whereas the second
reaches a peak rate at some finite critical bandwidth and then falls to zero as
bandwidth grows to infinity. In this paper it is shown that this distinction is
in fact an artifact of the limited attention paid in the past to the product
between the bandwidth and the fraction of time it is in use. This fundamental
quantity, called bandwidth occupancy, measures average bandwidth usage over
time. For all signaling schemes with the same bandwidth occupancy, achievable
rates approach to the wideband AWGN capacity within the same gap as the
bandwidth occupancy approaches its critical value, and decrease to zero as the
occupancy goes to infinity. This unified analysis produces quantitative
closed-form expressions for the ideal bandwidth occupancy, recovers the
existing capacity results for (non-)peaky signaling schemes, and unveils a
trade-off between the accuracy of approximating capacity with a generalized
Taylor polynomial and the accuracy with which the optimal bandwidth occupancy
can be bounded.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications. Copyright may be transferred without notic
Short Packets over Block-Memoryless Fading Channels: Pilot-Assisted or Noncoherent Transmission?
We present nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum coding rate
achievable when transmitting short packets over a Rician memoryless
block-fading channel for a given requirement on the packet error probability.
We focus on the practically relevant scenario in which there is no \emph{a
priori} channel state information available at the transmitter and at the
receiver. An upper bound built upon the min-max converse is compared to two
lower bounds: the first one relies on a noncoherent transmission strategy in
which the fading channel is not estimated explicitly at the receiver; the
second one employs pilot-assisted transmission (PAT) followed by
maximum-likelihood channel estimation and scaled mismatched nearest-neighbor
decoding at the receiver. Our bounds are tight enough to unveil the optimum
number of diversity branches that a packet should span so that the energy per
bit required to achieve a target packet error probability is minimized, for a
given constraint on the code rate and the packet size. Furthermore, the bounds
reveal that noncoherent transmission is more energy efficient than PAT, even
when the number of pilot symbols and their power is optimized. For example, for
the case when a coded packet of symbols is transmitted using a channel
code of rate bits/channel use, over a block-fading channel with block
size equal to symbols, PAT requires an additional dB of energy per
information bit to achieve a packet error probability of compared to
a suitably designed noncoherent transmission scheme. Finally, we devise a PAT
scheme based on punctured tail-biting quasi-cyclic codes and ordered statistics
decoding, whose performance are close ( dB gap at packet error
probability) to the ones predicted by our PAT lower bound. This shows that the
PAT lower bound provides useful guidelines on the design of actual PAT schemes.Comment: 30 pages, 5 figures, journa
Multipath Multiplexing for Capacity Enhancement in SIMO Wireless Systems
This paper proposes a novel and simple orthogonal faster than Nyquist (OFTN)
data transmission and detection approach for a single input multiple output
(SIMO) system. It is assumed that the signal having a bandwidth is
transmitted through a wireless channel with multipath components. Under
this assumption, the current paper provides a novel and simple OFTN
transmission and symbol-by-symbol detection approach that exploits the
multiplexing gain obtained by the multipath characteristic of wideband wireless
channels. It is shown that the proposed design can achieve a higher
transmission rate than the existing one (i.e., orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM)). Furthermore, the achievable rate gap between the proposed
approach and that of the OFDM increases as the number of receiver antennas
increases for a fixed value of . This implies that the performance gain of
the proposed approach can be very significant for a large-scale multi-antenna
wireless system. The superiority of the proposed approach is shown
theoretically and confirmed via numerical simulations. {Specifically, we have
found {upper-bound average} rates of 15 bps/Hz and 28 bps/Hz with the OFDM and
proposed approaches, respectively, in a Rayleigh fading channel with 32 receive
antennas and signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 15.3 dB. The extension of the
proposed approach for different system setups and associated research problems
is also discussed.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
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