Enhanced analysis of WCDMA networks with repeaters deployment

This paper addresses the analysis of WCDMA systems with repeaters deployment. A generic and compact expression for up- and downlinks evaluation has been mathematically derived so that transmission powers and other radio resource management parameters can be calculated without simplifications. In particular, the real different path delays, taking into account the repeaters presence and the finite nature of the time window of Rake receivers are considered. This allows an enhanced analysis with respect to classical approaches from a system level viewpoint. Furthermore, higher reliable and accurate predictions on network performance can be obtained, which can be remarkably useful for network planning and management. By using these expressions, relevant network parameters have been evaluated and compared with the ones obtained using the classical approximations. The differences in the obtained metrics are highlighted, putting in evidence the improvement provided by the proposed analysis.Peer Reviewe

Laajakaistaisen CDMA solukkoverkon kapasiteetti makrosoluympäristössä

Tämän diplomityön tarkoitus on tutkia kuormitetun laajakaistaiseen koodijakomenetelmään perustuvan makrosoluverkon kapasiteettia. Työn tavoitteena on selvittää simulointien avulla, miten solukkoverkon palvelemien matkaviestinten käyttäjien eri tiedonsiirtonopeudet ja liikkumisnopeudet vaikuttavat järjestelmän kokonaiskapasiteettiin. Tehonsäädön ja samalla taajuudella olevien solujen välisen kanavananvaihdon toiminnallisuuksien ja parametrien vaikutuksia tutkitaan verkon kapasiteetin kannalta Tutkimus alkaa hajaspektriteknologian perusteiden ja UMTS:n (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) osan esittelyillä. Laajakaistaisen koodijakoon perustuvan verkon kapasiteetin ominaisuudet esitellään. Makrosoluympäristö määritellään ja sen perusominaisuudet esitellään. Laajakaistaista koodijakoon perustuvaa UMTS-järjestelmää mallintava simulointiohjelmisto kuvaillaan ennen tämän diplomityön simulointien ja tulosten esittelyä ja analysointia. Tämän tutkimuksen simuloinnit suoritetaan yksinkertaisessa esikaupunkityyppisessä makrosoluympäristössä. Laajakaistaisen koodijakoon perustuvan järjestelmän kapasiteetti käyttäytyy hyvin dynaamisesti. Kapasiteetti riippuu käyttäjien jakaumasta verkossa, tiedonsiirtonopeuksista, liikkumisnopeudesta, häiriön määrästä ja tehonsäädön ja samalla taajuudella olevien solujen kanavanvaihdon parametrien valinnasta. Puhekäyttäjien lisäys vaikuttaa enemmän suuria tiedonsiirtonopeuksia kuin alhaisia tiedonsiirtonopeuksia käyttävien tilaajien palvelun laatuun. Solujen väliset häiriöt vaikuttavat merkittävästi verkon kapasiteettiin. Alhaiset tehonsäädön virheet eivät vaikuta merkittävästi hitaasti liikkuvien käyttäjien saamaan palvelun laatuun. Samalla taajuudella olevien solujen kanavanvaihdon kynnysarvo tulisi optimoida, jotta voitaisiin saavuttaa verkon suurin mahdollinen kapasiteetti ja minimoida häiriöt

Use of RNS Based Pseudo Noise Sequence in DS-CDMA and 3G WCDMA

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) based on Spread Signal (SS) has emerged as one of the most important multiple access technologies for Second Generation (2G) and Third Generation (3G) wireless communication systems by its wide applications in many important mobile cellular standards. CDMA technique relies on spreading codes to separate dierent users or channels and its properties will govern the performance of the system. So many of the problems of communication systems based on CDMA technology stem from the spreading codes/sequences, which includes two sub-categories, one being the orthogonal codes, such as Walsh Hadamard (WH) codes and Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes, and the other being pseudo-noise or Pseudo Random (PN) sequences, such as Gold sequences, Kasami sequences, m-sequences, etc. In this thesis a PN sequence generation based on Residue Arithmetic is investigated with an eort to improve the performance of existing interference-limited CDMA technology for mobile cellular systems. This interference-limited performance is due to the fact that all the existing CDMA codes used in mobile cellular standards does not consider external interferences, multipath propagation, Doppler eect etc. So the non-ideal correlation properties of the pseudo-random CDMA codes results in MAI when used in a multi-user system. The PN codes appear random yet they are completely deterministic in nature with a small set of initial conditions. Consequently this work focuses on CDMA code design approach based on Residue Number System (RNS) which should take into account as many real operational conditions as possible and to maintain a suciently large code set size.First, the thesis reviews RNS, DS-CDMA and CDMA codes that are already implemented in various mobile cellular standards. Then the new PN Sequencegenerator design based on RNS is discussed. Comparison of the generated PN sequence with respect to other standard sequence is done in terms of number of codes and correlation properties. Monte-Carlo simulations with the generated sequence are carried out for performance analysis under multi-path environment. The system has been evaluated in AWGN, Rayleigh Fading channel and dierent Stationary Multipath Channels for dierent cross-correlation threshold. It is known that orthogonal Codes are used to multiplex more than one signal for downlink transmission over cellular networks. This downlink transmission is prone to self interference caused by the loss of orthogonality between spreading codes due to multipath propagation. This issue is investigated in detail with respect to WCDMA standards, which is very good representative for CDMA based 3G mobile cellular systems where the channelization code is OVSF code. The code assignment blocking (CAB) (If a particular code in the tree is used in a cell, then all its parent codes and child codes should not be used in the same cell to maintain orthogonality among the users) problem of OVSF codes restricts the number of available codes for a given cell. Since the 3rd generation WCDMA mobile communication systems apply the same multiple access technique, the generated sequence can also be the channelization code for downlink WCDMA system to mitigate the the same. The performance of the system is compared with Walsh Hadamard code over multipath AWGN and dierent Fading channels. This thesis work shows that RNS based PN sequence has enhanced performance to that of other CDMA codes by comparing the bit error probability in multi- user and multipath environment thus contributing a little towards the evolution of next generation CDMA technology

Modelling and performances assessment of OFDM and fast-OFDM wireless communication systems.

This thesis is mainly concerned with the design, modelling and performance assessment of modulation techniques for use in wireless communication systems. The work is divided, broadly in three areas; a multimode system proposal, an assessment of a new modulation scheme and a system optimisation technique. A multimode system architecture employing GSM and EDGE systems and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is proposed. The OFDM system is designed to have similar frame structure, channel allocation and spectrum shape to those of the GSM and EDGE systems. The multimode system is evaluated under typical multipath fading environments specified for GSM/EDGE and adjacent-channel and co-channel interference. The results indicated that the proposed OFDM system can be perfectly integrated within the GSM/EDGE network core. Furthermore, a novel modulation technique is investigated. Fast-OFDM (FOFDM) is a variation of OFDM, which offers twice the bandwidth efficiency when compared to OFDM. However, the bandwidth efficiency only applies to one dimensional modulation schemes (BPSK or M-ASK). The suitability of FOFDM for wireless communications is assessed by studying its performance under receiver front-end distortions and multipath fading environments. The performance of the FOFDM system is compared with the performance of a similar OFDM system. The results indicated that under small distortion conditions, the performance of FOFDM and OFDM is comparable. Finally, the effect of interpolation filtering on OFDM systems in noise limited and interference limited environments is investigated. The aim of this study is to highlight that interference should be taken into consideration when designing systems for wireless communications. In addition, this study can be utilised in software defined radio schemes, offering optimised performance. Overall, this thesis presents work over a range of research areas, providing system proposals, modulation comparisons and system optimisation techniques that can be used by developers of future mobile systems

Radio network management in cognitive LTE-Femtocell Systems

This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University London.There is a strong uptake of femtocell deployment as small cell application platforms in the upcoming LTE networks. In such two-tier networks of LTEfemtocell base stations, a large portion of the assigned spectrum is used sporadically leading to underutilisation of valuable frequency resources. Novel spectrum access techniques are necessary to solve these current spectrum inefficiency problems. Therefore, spectrum management solutions should have the features to improve spectrum access in both temporal and spatial manner. Cognitive Radio (CR) with the Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is considered to be the key technology in this research in order to increase the spectrum efficiency. This is an effective solution to allow a group of Secondary Users (SUs) to share the radio spectrum initially allocated to the Primary User (PUs) at no interference. The core aim of this thesis is to develop new cognitive LTE-femtocell systems that offer a 4G vision, to facilitate the radio network management in order to increase the network capacity and further improve spectrum access probabilities. In this thesis, a new spectrum management model for cognitive radio networks is considered to enable a seamless integration of multi-access technology with existing networks. This involves the design of efficient resource allocation algorithms that are able to respond to the rapid changes in the dynamic wireless environment and primary users activities. Throughout this thesis a variety of network upgraded functions are developed using application simulation scenarios. Therefore, the proposed algorithms, mechanisms, methods, and system models are not restricted in the considered networks, but rather have a wider applicability to be used in other technologies. This thesis mainly investigates three aspects of research issues relating to the efficient management of cognitive networks: First, novel spectrum resource management modules are proposed to maximise the spectrum access by rapidly detecting the available transmission opportunities. Secondly, a developed pilot power controlling algorithm is introduced to minimise the power consumption by considering mobile position and application requirements. Also, there is investigation on the impact of deploying different numbers of femtocell base stations in LTE domain to identify the optimum cell size for future networks. Finally, a novel call admission control mechanism for mobility management is proposed to support seamless handover between LTE and femtocell domains. This is performed by assigning high speed mobile users to the LTE system to avoid unnecessary handovers. The proposed solutions were examined by simulation and numerical analysis to show the strength of cognitive femtocell deployment for the required applications. The results show that the new system design based on cognitive radio configuration enable an efficient resource management in terms of spectrum allocation, adaptive pilot power control, and mobile handover. The proposed framework and algorithms offer a novel spectrum management for self organised LTE-femtocell architecture. Eventually, this research shows that certain architectures fulfilling spectrum management requirements are implementable in practice and display good performance in dynamic wireless environments which recommends the consideration of CR systems in LTE and femtocell networks

Orthogonality factor in WCDMA downlinks in urban macrocellular environments

Multipath dispersion leads to the loss of orthogonality between signals transmitted simultaneously on a wide-band code division multiple access (WCDMA) downlink. The orthogonality factor (OF), which models its impact in the link signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) equation, depends - to a large extent - on the power delay profile of the multipath channel between the mobile and its serving base station. We use the comprehensive and general COST259 channel model for urban cellular environments to evaluate the impact on the OF of multipath clusters and distance-dependence of the multipath delay decay time constant, both of which have been observed in several channel measurements. The observed large standard deviation of the OF indicates that using a single value for all users in downlink capacity analyses and simulations, as has been the practice, may lead to erroneous conclusions. We also propose an empirical model to analytically characterize the observed statistics of the OF

Orthogonality Factor in WCDMA Downlinks in Urban Macrocellular Environments

Multipath dispersion leads to the loss of orthogonality between signals transmitted simultaneously on a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) downlink. The orthogonality factor (OF), which models its impact in the link signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) equation, depends-to a large extent-on the power delay profile of the multipath channel between the mobile and its serving base station. We use the comprehensive and general COST259 channel model for urban cellular environments to evaluate the impact on the OF of multipath clusters and distance-dependence of the multipath delay decay time constant, both of which have been observed in several channel measurements. The observed large standard deviation of the OF indicates that using a single value for all users in downlink capacity analyses and simulations, as has been the practice, may lead to erroneous conclusions. We also propose an empirical model to analytically characterize the observed statistics of the OF