Reducing Multiple Access Interference in Broadband Multi-User Wireless Networks

This dissertation is devoted to developing multiple access interference (MAI) reduction techniques for multi-carrier multi-user wireless communication networks. In multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems, a full multipath diversity can be achieved by transmitting one symbol over multiple orthogonal subcarriers by means of spreading codes. However, in frequency selective fading channels, orthogonality among users can be destroyed leading to MAI. MAI represents the main obstacle to support large number of users in multi-user wireless systems. Consequently, MAI reduction becomes a main challenge when designing multi-carrier multi-user wireless networks. In this dissertation, first, we study MC-CDMA systems with different existing MAI reduction techniques. The performance of the studied systems can be further improved by using a fractionally spaced receivers instead of using symbol spaced receivers. A fractionally spaced receiver is obtained by oversampling received signals in a time domain. Second, a novel circular-shift division multiple access (CSDMA) scheme for multi-carrier multi-user wireless systems is developed. In CSDMA, each symbol is first spread onto multiple orthogonal subcarriers in the frequency domain through repetition codes. The obtained frequency-domain signals are then converted to a time-domain representation. The time-domain signals of different users are then circularly shifted by different numbers of locations. The time-domain circular shifting enables the receiver to extract signals from different users with zero or a small amount of MAI. Our results show that the CSDMA scheme can achieve a full multipath diversity with a performance outperforms that of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). Moreover, multipath diversity of CSDMA can be further improved by employing the time-domain oversampling. Performance fluctuations due to a timing offset between transmitter and receiver clocks in MC-CDMA and CSDMA systems can be removed by employing the time-domain oversampling. Third, we study the theoretical error performance of high mobility single-user wireless communication system with doubly selective (time-varying and frequency-selective) fading channel under impacts of imperfect channel state information (CSI). Throughout this dissertation, intensive computer simulations are performed under various system configurations to investigate the obtained theoretical results, excellent agreements between simulation and theoretical results were observed in this dissertation

Multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) delta-sigma modulators for wideband and multi-standard applications

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On the performance and capacity of space-time block coded multicarrier CDMA communication systems

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

A Survey of Blind Modulation Classification Techniques for OFDM Signals

Blind modulation classification (MC) is an integral part of designing an adaptive or intelligent transceiver for future wireless communications. Blind MC has several applications in the adaptive and automated systems of sixth generation (6G) communications to improve spectral efficiency and power efficiency, and reduce latency. It will become a integral part of intelligent software-defined radios (SDR) for future communication. In this paper, we provide various MC techniques for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in a systematic way. We focus on the most widely used statistical and machine learning (ML) models and emphasize their advantages and limitations. The statistical-based blind MC includes likelihood-based (LB), maximum a posteriori (MAP) and feature-based methods (FB). The ML-based automated MC includes k-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), decision trees (DTs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) based MC methods. This survey will help the reader to understand the main characteristics of each technique, their advantages and disadvantages. We have also simulated some primary methods, i.e., statistical- and ML-based algorithms, under various constraints, which allows a fair comparison among different methodologies. The overall system performance in terms bit error rate (BER) in the presence of MC is also provided. We also provide a survey of some practical experiment works carried out through National Instrument hardware over an indoor propagation environment. In the end, open problems and possible directions for blind MC research are briefly discussed

MC-DS-CDMA System based on DWT and STBC in ITU Multipath Fading Channels Model

 في هذه الورقة، تم تحسين أداء النفوذ المتعدد بالتقسيم لرمز السلسلة المباشر متعدد الموجات (MC-DS-CDMA) في تطبيقات MC-DS-CDMA الثابتة والتطبيقات MC-DS-CDMA  المتنقلة باستعمال تعويضات التشفير الزمنية الفضائية وتحويل فورير السريعة المنفصلة (FFT) أو تحويل المويجات المنفصلة DWT. وقد تمت محاكاة أنظمة MC-DS-CDMA  باستخدام ماتلاب 2015a. من خلال محاكاة النظام المقترح، يمكن تغيير المعالم المختلفة واختبارها. ويتم الحصول على معدل خطأ البيانات (BER) لهذه الأنظمة على مدى واسع من نسبة الإشارة إلى الضوضاء. وقد قورنت جميع نتائج المحاكاة مع بعضها البعض باستخدام حجم الموجة الحاملة الفرعية المختلفة FFT أو DWT مع ل STBC 1،2،3 و 4 هوائيات في المرسل وفي مختلف قنوات الخبو في متعددة الممرات ITU ومختلف ترددات دوبلر (fd).In this paper, the performance of multicarrier direct sequence code division multiple access (MC-DS-CDMA) in fixed MC-DS-CDMA and Mobile MC-DS-CDMA applications have been improved by using the compensations of space time block coding and Discrete Fast Fourier transforms (FFT) or Discrete Wavelets transform DWT. These MC-DS-CDMA systems had been simulated using MATLAB 2015a. Through simulation of the proposed system, various parameters can be changed and tested. The Bit Error Rate (BERs) of these systems are obtained over wide range of signal to noise ratio. All simulation results had been compared with each other using different subcarrier size of FFT or DWT with STBC for 1,2,3 and 4 antennas in transmitter and under different ITU multipath fading channels and different Doppler frequencies (fd). The proposed structures of STBC-MC-DS-CDMA system based on (DWT) batter than based on (FFT) in varies Doppler frequencies and subcarrier size. Also, proposed system with STBC based on 4 transmitters better than other systems based on 1 or 2 or 3 transmitters in all Doppler frequencies and subcarrier size in all simulation results

Inter-carrier interference suppression in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems uplink

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Cyclic Prefix-Free MC-CDMA Arrayed MIMO Communication Systems

The objective of this thesis is to investigate MC-CDMA MIMO systems where the antenna array geometry is taken into consideration. In most MC-CDMA systems, cyclic pre xes, which reduce the spectral e¢ ciency, are used. In order to improve the spectral efficiency, this research study is focused on cyclic pre x- free MC-CDMA MIMO architectures. Initially, space-time wireless channel models are developed by considering the spatio-temporal mechanisms of the radio channel, such as multipath propaga- tion. The spatio-temporal channel models are based on the concept of the array manifold vector, which enables the parametric modelling of the channel. The array manifold vector is extended to the multi-carrier space-time array (MC-STAR) manifold matrix which enables the use of spatio-temporal signal processing techniques. Based on the modelling, a new cyclic pre x-free MC- CDMA arrayed MIMO communication system is proposed and its performance is compared with a representative existing system. Furthermore, a MUSIC-type algorithm is then developed for the estimation of the channel parameters of the received signal. This proposed cyclic pre x-free MC-CDMA arrayed MIMO system is then extended to consider the effects of spatial diffusion in the wireless channel. Spatial diffusion is an important channel impairment which is often ignored and the failure to consider such effects leads to less than satisfactory performance. A subspace-based approach is proposed for the estimation of the channel parameters and spatial spread and reception of the desired signal. Finally, the problem of joint optimization of the transmit and receive beam- forming weights in the downlink of a cyclic pre x-free MC-CDMA arrayed MIMO communication system is investigated. A subcarrier-cooperative approach is used for the transmit beamforming so that there is greater flexibility in the allocation of channel symbols. The resulting optimization problem, with a per-antenna transmit power constraint, is solved by the Lagrange multiplier method and an iterative algorithm is proposed

Precoded Large Scale Multi-User-MIMO System Using Likelihood Ascent Search for Signal Detection

Multiple antennas at each user equipment (UE) and/or thousands of antennas at the base station (BS) comprise the extremely spectrum efficient large scale multi-user multiple input multiple output system (BS). Due to space constraints, the closely spaced numerous antennas at each UE may cause inter antenna interference (IAI). Furthermore, when one UE comes into contact with another UE in the same cellular network, multi-user interference (MUI) may be introduced to the received signal. To mitigate IAI, efficient precoding pre-coding is necessary at each UE, and the MUI present at the BS can be canceled by efficient Multi-user Detection (MUD) techniques. The majority of earlier literature deal with one or more of these interferences. This paper implements a joint pre-coding and MUD, Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) based Lattice Reduction (LR) assisted likelihood accent search (LAS) (LLL-LR-LAS), to mitigate IAI and MUI simultaneously LLL-based LR pre-coding mitigates IAI at each UE, and the LAS algorithm is a neighborhood search-based MUD that cancels BS MUI. The proposed approaches' performance was evaluated using Bit Error Rate analysis, and their complexity were determined using multiplication and addition.Dr. Mohammad Alibakhshikenari acknowledges support from the CONEX-Plus programme funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant agreement No. 801538. Also, this work was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Gobierno de España (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional-FEDER-, European Union) under the research Grant PID2021-127409OB-C31 CONDOR. Funding for APC: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Read & Publish Agreement CRUE-CSIC 2022)