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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
Volume diffraction gratings for optical telecommunications applications: design study for a spectral equalizer
The main characteristics required for a diffraction grating
used for demultiplexing functions in spectral equalizing
systems are investigated, both theoretically and experimentally. We show that volume-phase holographic (VPH)
gratings can be used as dispersive elements instead of classic
reflection surface-relief gratings presently employed in
most optical telecommunications devices. A design method
for this type of diffraction grating and experimental results
are presented, confirming that VPH gratings are well suited
to such applications
Optical Asymmetric Modulation for VLC Systems
The explosive growth of connected devices and the increasing number of broadband users have led to an unprecedented growth in traffic demand. To this effect, the next generation wireless systems are envisioned to meet this growth and offer a potential data rate of 10 Gbps or more. In this context, an attractive solution to the current spectrum crunch issue is to exploit the visible light spectrum for the realization of high-speed commutation systems. However, this requires solutions to certain challenges relating to visible light communications (VLC), such as the stringent requirements of VLC-based intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD), which require signals to be real and unipolar. The present work proposes a novel power-domain multiplexing based optical asymmetric modulation (OAM) scheme for indoor VLC systems, which is particularly adapted to transmit high-order modulation signals using linear real and unipolar constellations that fit into the restrictions of IM/DD systems. It is shown that the proposed scheme provides improved system performance that outperforms alternative modulation schemes, at no extra complexity
Calibrating and Stabilizing Spectropolarimeters with Charge Shuffling and Daytime Sky Measurements
Well-calibrated spectropolarimetry studies at resolutions of 10,000 with
signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) better than 0.01\% across individual line
profiles, are becoming common with larger aperture telescopes.
Spectropolarimetric studies require high SNR observations and are often limited
by instrument systematic errors. As an example, fiber-fed spectropolarimeters
combined with advanced line-combination algorithms can reach statistical error
limits of 0.001\% in measurements of spectral line profiles referenced to the
continuum. Calibration of such observations is often required both for
cross-talk and for continuum polarization. This is not straightforward since
telescope cross-talk errors are rarely less than 1\%. In solar
instruments like the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), much more
stringent calibration is required and the telescope optical design contains
substantial intrinsic polarization artifacts. This paper describes some
generally useful techniques we have applied to the HiVIS spectropolarimeter at
the 3.7m AEOS telescope on Haleakala. HiVIS now yields accurate polarized
spectral line profiles that are shot-noise limited to 0.01\% SNR levels at our
full spectral resolution of 10,000 at spectral sampling of 100,000. We
show line profiles with absolute spectropolarimetric calibration for cross-talk
and continuum polarization in a system with polarization cross-talk levels of
essentially 100\%. In these data the continuum polarization can be recovered to
one percent accuracy because of synchronized charge-shuffling model now working
with our CCD detector. These techniques can be applied to other
spectropolarimeters on other telescopes for both night and day-time
applications such as DKIST, TMT and ELT which have folded non-axially symmetric
foci.Comment: Accepted to A&
Area spectral efficiency of soft-decision space–time–frequency shift-keying-aided slow-frequency-hopping multiple access
Slow-frequency-hopping multiple access (SFHMA) can provide inherent frequency diversity and beneficially randomize the effects of cochannel interference. It may also be advantageously combined with our novel space-time–frequency shift keying (STFSK) scheme. The proposed system’s area spectral efficiency is investigated in various cellular frequency reuse structures. Furthermore, it is compared to both classic Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK)-aided SFHMA and GMSK-assisted time- division/frequency-division multiple access (TD/FDMA). The more sophisticated third-generation wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) and the fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems were also included in our comparisons. We demonstrate that the area spectral efficiency of the STFSK-aided SFHMA system is higher than the GMSK-aided SFHMA and TD/FDMA systems, as well as WCDMA, but it is only 60% of the LTE system
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