422 research outputs found
Diversity Analysis of Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
For broadband wireless communication systems, Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) has been combined with Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO)
techniques. Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming (BICMB) can achieve both
spatial diversity and spatial multiplexing for flat fading MIMO channels. For
frequency selective fading MIMO channels, BICMB with OFDM (BICMB-OFDM) can be
applied to achieve both spatial diversity and multipath diversity, making it an
important technique. However, analyzing the diversity of BICMB-OFDM is a
challenging problem. In this paper, the diversity analysis of BICMB-OFDM is
carried out. First, the maximum achievable diversity is derived and a full
diversity condition RcSL <= 1 is proved, where Rc, S, and L are the code rate,
the number of parallel steams transmitted at each subcarrier, and the number of
channel taps, respectively. Then, the performance degradation due to the
correlation among subcarriers is investigated. Finally, the subcarrier grouping
technique is employed to combat the performance degradation and provide
multi-user compatibility.Comment: accepted to journa
Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding
Perfect Space-Time Block Codes (PSTBCs) achieve full diversity, full rate,
nonvanishing constant minimum determinant, uniform average transmitted energy
per antenna, and good shaping. However, the high decoding complexity is a
critical issue for practice. When the Channel State Information (CSI) is
available at both the transmitter and the receiver, Singular Value
Decomposition (SVD) is commonly applied for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(MIMO) system to enhance the throughput or the performance. In this paper, two
novel techniques, Perfect Coded Multiple Beamforming (PCMB) and Bit-Interleaved
Coded Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding (BICMB-PC), are proposed,
employing both PSTBCs and SVD with and without channel coding, respectively.
With CSI at the transmitter (CSIT), the decoding complexity of PCMB is
substantially reduced compared to a MIMO system employing PSTBC, providing a
new prospect of CSIT. Especially, because of the special property of the
generation matrices, PCMB provides much lower decoding complexity than the
state-of-the-art SVD-based uncoded technique in dimensions 2 and 4. Similarly,
the decoding complexity of BICMB-PC is much lower than the state-of-the-art
SVD-based coded technique in these two dimensions, and the complexity gain is
greater than the uncoded case. Moreover, these aforementioned complexity
reductions are achieved with only negligible or modest loss in performance.Comment: accepted to journa
Layered Steered SpaceβTime-Spreading-Aided Generalized MC DS-CDMA
AbstractβWe present a novel trifunctional multiple-inputβ multiple-output (MIMO) scheme that intrinsically amalgamates spaceβtime spreading (STS) to achieve a diversity gain and a Vertical Bell Labs layered spaceβtime (V-BLAST) scheme to attain a multiplexing gain in the context of generalized multicarrier direct-sequence code-division multiple access (MC DS-CDMA), as well as beamforming. Furthermore, the proposed system employs both time- and frequency-domain spreading to increase the number of users, which is also combined with a user-grouping technique to reduce the effects of multiuser interference
Near-capacity MIMOs using iterative detection
In this thesis, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques designed for transmission over narrowband Rayleigh fading channels are investigated. Specifically, in order to providea diversity gain while eliminating the complexity of MIMO channel estimation, a Differential Space-Time Spreading (DSTS) scheme is designed that employs non-coherent detection. Additionally, in order to maximise the coding advantage of DSTS, it is combined with Sphere Packing (SP) modulation. The related capacity analysis shows that the DSTS-SP scheme exhibits a higher capacity than its counterpart dispensing with SP. Furthermore, in order to attain additional performance gains, the DSTS system invokes iterative detection, where the outer code is constituted by a Recursive Systematic Convolutional (RSC) code, while the inner code is a SP demapper in one of the prototype systems investigated, while the other scheme employs a Unity Rate Code (URC) as its inner code in order to eliminate the error floor exhibited by the system dispensing with URC. EXIT charts are used to analyse the convergence behaviour of the iteratively detected schemes and a novel technique is proposed for computing the maximum achievable rate of the system based on EXIT charts. Explicitly, the four-antenna-aided DSTSSP system employing no URC precoding attains a coding gain of 12 dB at a BER of 10-5 and performs within 1.82 dB from the maximum achievable rate limit. By contrast, the URC aidedprecoded system operates within 0.92 dB from the same limit.On the other hand, in order to maximise the DSTS systemβs throughput, an adaptive DSTSSP scheme is proposed that exploits the advantages of differential encoding, iterative decoding as well as SP modulation. The achievable integrity and bit rate enhancements of the system are determined by the following factors: the specific MIMO configuration used for transmitting data from the four antennas, the spreading factor used and the RSC encoderβs code rate.Additionally, multi-functional MIMO techniques are designed to provide diversity gains, multiplexing gains and beamforming gains by combining the benefits of space-time codes, VBLASTand beamforming. First, a system employing Nt=4 transmit Antenna Arrays (AA) with LAA number of elements per AA and Nr=4 receive antennas is proposed, which is referred to as a Layered Steered Space-Time Code (LSSTC). Three iteratively detected near-capacity LSSTC-SP receiver structures are proposed, which differ in the number of inner iterations employed between the inner decoder and the SP demapper as well as in the choice of the outer code, which is either an RSC code or an Irregular Convolutional Code (IrCC). The three systems are capable of operating within 0.9, 0.4 and 0.6 dB from the maximum achievable rate limit of the system. A comparison between the three iteratively-detected schemes reveals that a carefully designed two-stage iterative detection scheme is capable of operating sufficiently close to capacity at a lower complexity, when compared to a three-stage system employing a RSC or a two-stage system using an IrCC as an outer code. On the other hand, in order to allow the LSSTC scheme to employ less receive antennas than transmit antennas, while still accommodating multiple users, a Layered Steered Space-Time Spreading (LSSTS) scheme is proposed that combines the benefits of space-time spreading, V-BLAST, beamforming and generalised MC DS-CDMA. Furthermore, iteratively detected LSSTS schemes are presented and an LLR post-processing technique is proposed in order to improve the attainable performance of the iteratively detected LSSTS system.Finally, a distributed turbo coding scheme is proposed that combines the benefits of turbo coding and cooperative communication, where iterative detection is employed by exchanging extrinsic information between the decoders of different single-antenna-aided users. Specifically, the effect of the errors induced in the first phase of cooperation, where the two users exchange their data, on the performance of the uplink in studied, while considering different fading channel characteristics
Multiuser MIMO-OFDM for Next-Generation Wireless Systems
This overview portrays the 40-year evolution of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) research. The amelioration of powerful multicarrier OFDM arrangements with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has numerous benefits, which are detailed in this treatise. We continue by highlighting the limitations of conventional detection and channel estimation techniques designed for multiuser MIMO OFDM systems in the so-called rank-deficient scenarios, where the number of users supported or the number of transmit antennas employed exceeds the number of receiver antennas. This is often encountered in practice, unless we limit the number of users granted access in the base stationβs or radio portβs coverage area. Following a historical perspective on the associated design problems and their state-of-the-art solutions, the second half of this treatise details a range of classic multiuser detectors (MUDs) designed for MIMO-OFDM systems and characterizes their achievable performance. A further section aims for identifying novel cutting-edge genetic algorithm (GA)-aided detector solutions, which have found numerous applications in wireless communications in recent years. In an effort to stimulate the cross pollination of ideas across the machine learning, optimization, signal processing, and wireless communications research communities, we will review the broadly applicable principles of various GA-assisted optimization techniques, which were recently proposed also for employment inmultiuser MIMO OFDM. In order to stimulate new research, we demonstrate that the family of GA-aided MUDs is capable of achieving a near-optimum performance at the cost of a significantly lower computational complexity than that imposed by their optimum maximum-likelihood (ML) MUD aided counterparts. The paper is concluded by outlining a range of future research options that may find their way into next-generation wireless systems
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