460 research outputs found
Improved Spatial Modulation for High Spectral Efficiency
Spatial Modulation (SM) is a technique that can enhance the capacity of MIMO
schemes by exploiting the index of transmit antenna to convey information bits.
In this paper, we describe this technique, and present a new MIMO transmission
scheme that combines SM and spatial multiplexing. In the basic form of SM, only
one out of MT available antennas is selected for transmission in any given
symbol interval. We propose to use more than one antenna to transmit several
symbols simultaneously. This would increase the spectral efficiency. At the
receiver, an optimal detector is employed to jointly estimate the transmitted
symbols as well as the index of the active transmit antennas. In this paper we
evaluate the performance of this scheme in an uncorrelated Rayleigh fading
channel. The simulations results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the
optimal SM and V-BLAST (Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered space-time at high
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For example, if we seek a spectral efficiency of 8
bits/s/Hz at bit error rate (BER) of 10^-5, the proposed scheme provides 5dB
and 7dB improvements over SM and V-BLAST, respectively.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, International Journal of Distributed and
Parallel Systems (IJDPS) Vol.3, No.2, March 201
Experimental study of bit error rate of free space optics communications in laboratory controlled turbulence
This paper reports experimental results for the performance of an free space optical (FSO) communication link employing different modulation schemes under the influence of the atmospheric scintillation. A dedicated experimental atmospheric simulation chamber has been developed where weak and medium turbulence can be generated and its effect on the FSO link is investigated. The experimental data obtained is compared to the theoretical prediction. The paper also shows that the effect on the data transmission performance depends on the position of turbulence source positioned within the chamber
Throughput Maximization in Cloud Radio Access Networks using Network Coding
This paper is interested in maximizing the total throughput of cloud radio
access networks (CRANs) in which multiple radio remote heads (RRHs) are
connected to a central computing unit known as the cloud. The transmit frame of
each RRH consists of multiple radio resources blocks (RRBs), and the cloud is
responsible for synchronizing these RRBS and scheduling them to users. Unlike
previous works that consider allocating each RRB to only a single user at each
time instance, this paper proposes to mix the flows of multiple users in each
RRB using instantly decodable network coding (IDNC). The proposed scheme is
thus designed to jointly schedule the users to different RRBs, choose the
encoded file sent in each of them, and the rate at which each of them is
transmitted. Hence, the paper maximizes the throughput which is defined as the
number of correctly received bits. To jointly fulfill this objective, we design
a graph in which each vertex represents a possible user-RRB association,
encoded file, and transmission rate. By appropriately choosing the weights of
vertices, the scheduling problem is shown to be equivalent to a maximum weight
clique problem over the newly introduced graph. Simulation results illustrate
the significant gains of the proposed scheme compared to classical coding and
uncoded solutions.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Enhancing Physical Layer Security in AF Relay Assisted Multi-Carrier Wireless Transmission
In this paper, we study the physical layer security (PLS) problem in the dual
hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless
communication system. First, we consider a single user single relay system and
study a joint power optimization problem at the source and relay subject to
individual power constraint at the two nodes. The aim is to maximize the end to
end secrecy rate with optimal power allocation over different sub-carriers.
Later, we consider a more general multi-user multi-relay scenario. Under high
SNR approximation for end to end secrecy rate, an optimization problem is
formulated to jointly optimize power allocation at the BS, the relay selection,
sub-carrier assignment to users and the power loading at each of the relaying
node. The target is to maximize the overall security of the system subject to
independent power budget limits at each transmitting node and the OFDMA based
exclusive sub-carrier allocation constraints. A joint optimization solution is
obtained through duality theory. Dual decomposition allows to exploit convex
optimization techniques to find the power loading at the source and relay
nodes. Further, an optimization for power loading at relaying nodes along with
relay selection and sub carrier assignment for the fixed power allocation at
the BS is also studied. Lastly, a sub-optimal scheme that explores joint power
allocation at all transmitting nodes for the fixed subcarrier allocation and
relay assignment is investigated. Finally, simulation results are presented to
validate the performance of the proposed schemes.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted in Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), formerly known as European
Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT
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