Subcarrier Filtering For Spectrally Efficient Multicarrier Modulation Schemes and Its Impact on PAPR: A Unified Approach

Multicarrier modulation (MCM) based schemes have been a major contributing factor in revolutionizing cellular networks due to their ability to overcome fading. One of the popular scheme orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), having been part of 4G, is also adapted as part of 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB).  Though it has several advantages, spectral efficiency (SE) and peak to average power ratio (PAPR) have been two major concerns which have attracted lot of attention resulting in proposals of several other MCM schemes.  But most of these studies have treated the two issues independently. This paper in particular studies the subcarrier filtering approach to improve the spectral efficiency of MCM scheme and its impact on the overall PAPR of such schemes. The analysis shows that the PAPR improvement is also achieved by such filters meant for spectral confinement and the simulation results validate the same provoking a unified research direction less explored till now

Subcarrier Filtering For Spectrally Efficient Multicarrier Modulation Schemes and Its Impact on PAPR: A Unified Approach

Multicarrier modulation (MCM) based schemes have been a major contributing factor in revolutionizing cellular networks due to their ability to overcome fading. One of the popular scheme orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), having been part of 4G, is also adapted as part of 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB).  Though it has several advantages, spectral efficiency (SE) and peak to average power ratio (PAPR) have been two major concerns which have attracted lot of attention resulting in proposals of several other MCM schemes.  But most of these studies have treated the two issues independently. This paper in particular studies the subcarrier filtering approach to improve the spectral efficiency of MCM scheme and its impact on the overall PAPR of such schemes. The analysis shows that the PAPR improvement is also achieved by such filters meant for spectral confinement and the simulation results validate the same provoking a unified research direction less explored till now

Crest factor reduction techniques for OFDM telecommunication systems

Two popular Crest Factor Reduction techniques applicable to OFDM signals have been studied and implemented within this project. To provide adequate background, a brief description of OFDM communication systems is included in the first sections, and the problem of high Peak to Average Power Ratio in multi-carrier transmission schemes is presented. An overview of the most relevant Crest Factor Reduction techniques is performed, and the Clipping and Filtering and Peak Windowing algorithms are selected as implementation candidates due to their protocol agnostic nature. Several implementation architectures have been discussed, and the most computationally efficient one has been used to implement both algorithms within srsRAN, an open source, full software radio implementation of an LTE network with all of its components. In order to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the developed algorithms, an extensive measurement campaign has been designed and carried out, comprised of synthetic testing, as well as experimental physical signal measurements in a laboratory setting, and an outdoor measurement campaign. To speed up the measurement process, an automated measurement system has been designed in MATLAB, which remotely operates a signal analyser to perform spectrum and statistical power measurements, as well as IQ sample collection of the generated LTE signals. This measurement system has been used to carry out unwanted emissions tests following the LTE conformance testing procedures, which are also discussed within this document. For the outdoor measurements, an LTE single cell network has been deployed using a software radio transceiver and an LTE phone, with the aim of assessing the end to end quality of service improvements provided by the developed algorithms. The gathered results illustrate that the implemented Crest Factor Reduction techniques can provide significant network performance gains in situations with limited available transmission power. Additional gains provided by these techniques include increased efficiency in the operation of power amplification stages, and reduced network deployment costs.Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::9 - Indústria, Innovació i Infraestructur

Peak-to-average power ratio reduction for DCO-OFDM underwater optical wireless communication system based on an interleaving technique

In underwater direct current-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) system, high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) brings in-band distortion and out-of-band power. It also decreases the signal-to-quantization noise ratio of the analog-to-digital converter and the digital-to-analog converter. A time–frequency-domain interleaved subbanding scheme is proposed to reduce the PAPR of underwater DCO-OFDM system with low computation complexity and bit error rate (BER). The system BER is evaluated by the distances of the underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC), as well as by the signal attenuation of the UOWC channel. A least-square channel estimation method is adopted for adaptive power amplification at the receiver side, to further decrease the system BER

OFDM 시스템을 위한 새로운 저 복잡도 SLM 방식 및 클리핑 잡음 제거 기법 연구

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 전기·컴퓨터공학부, 2015. 2. 노종선.In this dissertation, several research results for the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction schemes for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are discussed. First, the basic principle and implementation of the OFDM systems are introduced, where high PAPR of OFDM signal is one of main drawbacks of OFDM systems. Thus, many PAPR reduction schemes to solve this problem have been studied such as clipping, selected mapping (SLM), partial transmit sequence (PTS), and tone reservation. In the first part of this dissertation, a low-complexity SLM scheme is proposed, where the proposed SLM scheme generates alternative OFDM signal sequences by cyclically shifting the connections in each subblock at an intermediate stage of inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT). Compared with the conventional SLM scheme, the proposed SLM scheme achieves similar PAPR reduction performance with much lower computational complexity and no bit error rate (BER) degradation. The performance of the proposed SLM scheme is analyzed mathematically and verified through numerical analysis. Also, it is shown that the proposed SLM scheme has the lowest computational complexity among the existing low-complexity SLM schemes exploiting the signals at an intermediate stage of IFFT. In the second part of this dissertation, an efficient selection (ES) method of the OFDM signal sequence with the minimum PAPR among many alternative OFDM signal sequences is proposed, which can be used for various SLM schemes. The proposed ES method efficiently generates each component of alternative OFDM signal by utilizing the structure of IFFT and calculates its power, and such generation procedure is interrupted if the calculated power is larger than the given threshold. By using the proposed ES method, the average computational complexity of considered SLM schemes is substantially reduced without degradation of PAPR reduction performance, which is confirmed by analytical and numerical results. In the third part of this dissertation, a clipping noise cancellation scheme using compressed sensing (CS) technique is proposed for OFDM systems. The proposed scheme does not need reserved tones or pilot tones, which is different from the previous works using CS technique. Instead, observations of the clipping noise in data tones are exploited, which leads to no loss of data rate. Also, in contrast with the previous works, the proposed scheme selectively exploits the reliable observations of the clipping noise instead of using whole observations, which results in minimizing the bad influence of channel noise. From the selected reliable observations, the clipping noise in time domain is reconstructed and cancelled by using CS technique. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs well compared to other conventional clipping noise cancellation schemes and shows the best performance in the severely clipped cases.1. Introduction 1 1.1. Background 1 1.2. Overview of Dissertation 4 2. OFDM Systems 6 2.1. OFDM System Model 7 2.2. Peak-to-Average Power Ratio 8 2.2.1. Definition of PAPR 9 2.2.2. Distribution of PAPR 9 3. PAPR Reduction Schemes 11 3.1. Clipping 11 3.1.1. Clipping at Transmitter 11 3.1.2. A Statistical Model of Clipped Signals 13 3.1.3. Conventional Receiver without Clipping Noise Cancellation Scheme 15 3.2. Selected Mapping 16 3.3. Low-Complexity SLM Schemes 18 3.3.1. Lims SLM Scheme [25] 18 3.3.2. Wangs SLM Scheme [22] 19 3.3.3. Baxleys SLM Scheme [27] 19 3.4. Tone Reservation 20 4. A New Low-Complexity SLM Scheme for OFDM Systems 22 4.1. A New SLM Scheme with Low-Complexity 23 4.1.1. A New SLM Scheme 23 4.1.2. Relation Between the Proposed SLM Scheme and the Conventional SLM Scheme 26 4.1.3. Good Shift Values for the Proposed SLM Scheme 28 4.1.4. Methods to Generate Good Shift Values 31 4.1.5. Computational Complexity 33 4.2. Simulation Results 36 4.3. Conclusions 37 5. An Efficient Selection Method of a Transmitted OFDM Signal Sequence for Various SLM Schemes 42 5.1. ES Method and Its Application to the Conventional SLM Scheme 43 5.1.1. Sequential Generation of OFDM Signal Components in the Conventional SLM Scheme 43 5.1.2. Application of the ES Method to the Conventional SLM Scheme 45 5.1.3. Complexity Analysis for Nyquist Sampling Case 47 5.1.3.1. Characteristics of a Nyquist-Sampled OFDM Signal Sequence 48 5.1.3.2. Derivation of KN(b) 49 5.1.3.3. Distribution of pBu(bu) 51 5.1.4. Complexity Analysis for Oversampling Case 52 5.1.4.1. Characteristics of a Four-Times Oversampled OFDM Signal Sequence 52 5.1.4.2. Derivation of K4N(b) 53 5.1.4.3. Distribution of pBu(bu) 54 5.1.5. Comparison between Analytical and Simulation Results 55 5.2. Application of the ES Method to Various Low-Complexity SLM Schemes 57 5.2.1. Lims SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 57 5.2.2. Wangs SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 58 5.2.3. Baxelys SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 58 5.3. Simulation Results 59 5.3.1. Simulation Results for the Conventional SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 59 5.3.2. Simulation Results for Low-Complexity SLM Schemes Aided by the ES Method 60 5.4. Conclusions 62 6. Clipping Noise Cancellation for OFDM Systems Using Reliable Observations Based on Compressed Sensing 68 6.1. Preliminaries 71 6.1.1. Notation 71 6.1.2. Compressed Sensing 71 6.2. Clipping Noise Cancellation for OFDM Systems Based on CS 73 6.2.1. Sparsity of c 73 6.2.1.1. Sparsity of c for Clipping at the Nyquist Sampling Rate 73 6.2.1.2. Sparsity of c for Clipping and Filtering at an Oversampling Rate 74 6.2.2. Reconstruction of the Clipping Noise c by CS 75 6.2.3. Construction of the Compressed Observation Vector Y 77 6.2.3.1. Which Observations Should Be Selected 78 6.2.3.2. Estimation of θ(k) Based on H1(k)Y (k) 78 6.2.3.3. Selection Criterion of Observations 81 6.2.4. Computational Complexity 81 6.3. Simulation Results 82 6.3.1. AWGN Channel 82 6.3.2. Rayleigh Fading Channel 83 6.4. Conclusion 86 7. Conclusions 93 Bibliography 96 초록 104Docto

PAPR reduction in multicarrier modulation techniques based visible light communication systems

Visible light communication (VLC) is an optical wireless communication (OWC) technology that has the potential to provide high data rate transmission for indoor applications. VLC is a promising alternative technology with a large and unlicensed spectrum to complement the congested radio frequency (RF) based communication in order to meet the exponential growth and popularity of smart devices, data intensive services and applications. The use of low-cost commercially available front-end devices further highlights the attraction of VLC system. However, nonlinear dynamic range of front-end devices and optical channel impairments limit full exploitation of VLC available modulation bandwidth. To fully benefit from the inherent resources and mitigate these limitations, multicarrier modulation (MCM) techniques are adopted. However, these techniques are affected by high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) which imposes constraints on the limited dynamic range of the front-end devices and the average radiated optical power. The main focus throughout this thesis is to reduce the high PAPR of MCM modulation techniques-based VLC system by implementing pilot-assisted (PA) technique. Additionally, performance of PAPR reduced modulation techniques is investigated through analytical, simulation, and experimentally. This thesis first presents background of VLC system principles including the front-end devices, VLC channel, system impairments and challenges, and employed solutions. The principles, limitations, and performance of MCM modulation variants that are implemented in this work are presented. Moreover, principles of PAPR challenge in MCM based VLC, PAPR evaluation, impact on the transmitted signal as well as the existing PAPR reduction techniques are discussed. Looking at the gap, a PA is implemented as PAPR reduction technique which is presented in this work including its implementation and performance. Following that, multiple experimental studies on PAPR reduction of PA technique are presented. Two experimental demonstrations on the efficacy of PA PAPR reduction for PAM-DMT and DCO-OFDM based VLC using a single blue LED are presented. These studies are comparing the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the proposed systems with conventional counterparts over a range of sampling rate. This shows that, the proposed systems perform better than conventional systems without PAPR reduction. The results are validated through simulation. Other two experimental studies on the previous systems with parameters optimisation and available modulation bandwidth utilisation are presented, which show that the proposed systems outperform the conventional systems in terms of BER. This is followed by investigating the PA PAPR reduction effect on the achievable data rate of a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based VLC system using three different LEDs for PAPR reduced DCO-OFDM and PAM-DMT systems. The proposed systems have achieved more than 8% data rate higher than that of conventional systems without BER performance degradation. Finally, analytical investigation of clipping noise that leads to distortion in a VLC system due to front-end devices limitations is presented. To mitigate the clipping noise, PAPR of the system is reduced by the PA technique. The analytical BER performance of the system with PAPR reduction is verified through simulation and then compared to that of the conventional system without PAPR reduction at similar clipping levels. The PA proposed system shows better BER performance at all clipping levels

Techniques en appui des formats de modulation avancés pour les futurs réseaux optiques

Les systèmes de communication optique avec des formats de modulation avancés sont actuellement l’un des sujets de recherche les plus importants dans le domaine de communication optique. Cette recherche est stimulée par les exigences pour des débits de transmission de donnée plus élevés. Dans cette thèse, on examinera les techniques efficaces pour la modulation avancée avec une détection cohérente, et multiplexage par répartition en fréquence orthogonale (OFDM) et multiples tonalités discrètes (DMT) pour la détection directe et la détection cohérente afin d’améliorer la performance de réseaux optiques. Dans la première partie, nous examinons la rétropropagation avec filtre numérique (DFBP) comme une simple technique d’atténuation de nonlinéarité d’amplificateur optique semiconducteur (SOA) dans le système de détection cohérente. Pour la première fois, nous démontrons expérimentalement l’efficacité de DFBP pour compenser les nonlinéarités générées par SOA dans un système de détection cohérente porteur unique 16-QAM. Nous comparons la performance de DFBP avec la méthode de Runge-Kutta quatrième ordre. Nous examinons la sensibilité de performance de DFBP par rapport à ses paramètres. Par la suite, nous proposons une nouvelle méthode d’estimation de paramètre pour DFBP. Finalement, nous démontrons la transmission de signaux de 16-QAM aux taux de 22 Gbaud sur 80km de fibre optique avec la technique d’estimation de paramètre proposée pour DFBP. Dans la deuxième partie, nous nous concentrons sur les techniques afin d’améliorer la performance des systèmes OFDM optiques en examinent OFDM optiques cohérente (CO-OFDM) ainsi que OFDM optiques détection directe (DDO-OFDM). Premièrement, nous proposons une combinaison de coupure et prédistorsion pour compenser les distorsions nonlinéaires d’émetteur de CO-OFDM. Nous utilisons une interpolation linéaire par morceaux (PLI) pour charactériser la nonlinéarité d’émetteur. Dans l’émetteur nous utilisons l’inverse de l’estimation de PLI pour compenser les nonlinéarités induites à l’émetteur de CO-OFDM. Deuxièmement, nous concevons des constellations irrégulières optimisées pour les systèmes DDO-OFDM courte distance en considérant deux modèles de bruit de canal. Nous démontrons expérimentalement 100Gb/s+ OFDM/DMT avec la détection directe en utilisant les constellations QAM optimisées. Dans la troisième partie, nous proposons une architecture réseaux optiques passifs (PON) avec DDO-OFDM pour la liaison descendante et CO-OFDM pour la liaison montante. Nous examinons deux scénarios pour l’allocations de fréquence et le format de modulation des signaux. Nous identifions la détérioration limitante principale du PON bidirectionnelle et offrons des solutions pour minimiser ses effets.Optical communication systems with advanced modulation formats are currently one of the major research focuses of the optical communication community. This research is driven by the ever-increasing demand for higher data transmission rates. In this thesis, we investigate efficient techniques for advanced modulation with coherent detection, and optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and discrete multi-tone (DMT) for both direct detection and coherent detection to improve the performance of optical networks. In the first part, we investigate digital filter back-propagation (DFBP) as a simple semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) nonlinearity mitigation technique in coherent detection systems. For the first time, we experimentally demonstrate effectiveness of DFBP in compensating for SOA-induced nonlinearities in a 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) singlecarrier coherent detection system. We compare performance of DFBP with Runge-Kutta fourth-order method. We examine sensitivity of DFBP performance to its parameters. Afterwards, we propose a novel parameter estimation method for DFBP. Finally, we demonstrate successful transmission of 22 Gbaud 16-QAM signals over 80 km fiber with the proposed parameter estimation technique for DFBP. In the second part, we concentrate on techniques to improve performance of optical OFDM systems, examining both coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) and direct-detection optical OFDM (DDO-OFDM). First, we propose a combination of clipping and predistortion technique to compensate for CO-OFDM transmitter nonlinear distortions. We use piecewise linear interpolation (PLI) for characterizing the transmitter nonlinearity. At the transmitter, we use inverse of the PLI estimate to pre-compensate the nonlinearities induced at the COOFDM transmitter. Second, we design optimized non-square constellations for short-reach DDO-OFDM systems based on two channel noise models. We experimentally demonstrate 100 Gb/s+ OFDM/DMT with direct detection using the optimized QAM constellations. In the third part, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a passive optical network (PON) architecture with DDO-OFDM for the downlink and CO-OFDM for the uplink. We examine two scenarios for the occupied frequency and modulation format of the signals. We identify main limiting impairments of the bidirectional PON and provide solutions to minimize their effects

Nonlinear Distortion in Wideband Radio Receivers and Analog-to-Digital Converters: Modeling and Digital Suppression

Emerging wireless communications systems aim to flexible and efficient usage of radio spectrum in order to increase data rates. The ultimate goal in this field is a cognitive radio. It employs spectrum sensing in order to locate spatially and temporally vacant spectrum chunks that can be used for communications. In order to achieve that, flexible and reconfigurable transceivers are needed. A software-defined radio can provide these features by having a highly-integrated wideband transceiver with minimum analog components and mostly relying on digital signal processing. This is also desired from size, cost, and power consumption point of view. However, several challenges arise, from which dynamic range is one of the most important. This is especially true on receiver side where several signals can be received simultaneously through a single receiver chain. In extreme cases the weakest signal can be almost 100 dB weaker than the strongest one. Due to the limited dynamic range of the receiver, the strongest signals may cause nonlinear distortion which deteriorates spectrum sensing capabilities and also reception of the weakest signals. The nonlinearities are stemming from the analog receiver components and also from analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). This is a performance bottleneck in many wideband communications and also radar receivers. The dynamic range challenges are already encountered in current devices, such as in wideband multi-operator receiver scenarios in mobile networks, and the challenges will have even more essential role in the future.This thesis focuses on aforementioned receiver scenarios and contributes to modeling and digital suppression of nonlinear distortion. A behavioral model for direct-conversion receiver nonlinearities is derived and it jointly takes into account RF, mixer, and baseband nonlinearities together with I/Q imbalance. The model is then exploited in suppression of receiver nonlinearities. The considered method is based on adaptive digital post-processing and does not require any analog hardware modification. It is able to extract all the necessary information directly from the received waveform in order to suppress the nonlinear distortion caused by the strongest blocker signals inside the reception band.In addition, the nonlinearities of ADCs are considered. Even if the dynamic range of the analog receiver components is not limiting the performance, ADCs may cause considerable amount of nonlinear distortion. It can originate, e.g., from undeliberate variations of quantization levels. Furthermore, the received waveform may exceed the nominal voltage range of the ADC due to signal power variations. This causes unintentional signal clipping which creates severe nonlinear distortion. In this thesis, a Fourier series based model is derived for the signal clipping caused by ADCs. Furthermore, four different methods are considered for suppressing ADC nonlinearities, especially unintentional signal clipping. The methods exploit polynomial modeling, interpolation, or symbol decisions for suppressing the distortion. The common factor is that all the methods are based on digital post-processing and are able to continuously adapt to variations in the received waveform and in the receiver itself. This is a very important aspect in wideband receivers, especially in cognitive radios, when the flexibility and state-of-the-art performance is required