258 research outputs found
Adaptive space-time processing for digital mobile radio communication systems
The performance of digital mobile radio communication systems is primarily limited by cochannel interference and multipath fading. Antenna arrays, with optimum combining (OC), have been shown to combat multipath fading of the desired signal and are capable of reducing the power of interfering signals at the receiver through spatial filtering. With OC, the signals received by several antenna elements are weighted and combined to maximize the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SLNR). We derive new closed-form expressions for (1) the probability density function (PDF) of the SINR at the output of the optimum combiner, (2) the average probability of bit error rate (BER) and its upper bound, and (3) the outage probability in a Rayleigh fading environment with multiple cochannel interferers. The study covers both the case when the number of antenna elements exceeds the number of interferers and vice versa. We consider independent fading at each antenna element, as well as the effect of fading correlation. The analysis is also extended to processing using maximal ratio combining (MRC). The performance of the optimum combiner is compared to that of the maximal ratio combiner and results show that OC performs significantly better than MRC.
We investigate the performance of OC in a microcellular environment where the desired signal and the cochannel interference can have different statistical characteristics. The desired signal is assumed to have Rician statistics implying that a dominant multipath reflection or a line-of-sight (LOS) propagation exists within-cell transmission. Interfering signals from cochannel cells are assumed to be subject to Rayleigh fading due to the absence of LOS propagation. This is the so called Rician/Rayleigh model. We also study OC for a special case of the Rician/Rayleigh model, the Nonfading/Rayleigh model. We derive expressions for the PDF of the SJNR, the BER and the outage probability for both Rician/Rayleigh and Nonfading/Rayleigh models. Similar expressions are derived with MRC.
Another area in which space-time processing may provide significant benefits is when wideband signals (such as code division multiple access (CDMA) signals) are overlaid on existing narrowband user signals. The conventional approach of rejecting narrowband interference in direct-sequence (DS) CDMA systems has been to sample the received signal at the chip interval, and to exploit the high correlation between the interference samples prior to spread spectrum demodulation. A different approach is space-time processing. We study two space-time receiver architectures, referred to as cascade and joint, respectively, and evaluate the performance of a DS-CDMA signal overlaying a narrowband signal for personal communication systems (PCS). We define aild evaluate the asymptotic efficiency of each configuration. We develop new closed-form expressions for the PDF of the SINR at the array output, the BER and its upper bound, for both cascade and joint configurations. We also analyze the performance of this system in the presence of multiple access interference (MAJ)
Performance of Optimum Combining in a Poisson Field of Interferers and Rayleigh Fading Channels
This paper studies the performance of antenna array processing in distributed
multiple access networks without power control. The interference is represented
as a Poisson point process. Desired and interfering signals are subject to both
path-loss fading (with an exponent greater than 2) and to independent Rayleigh
fading. Using these assumptions, we derive the exact closed form expression for
the cumulative distribution function of the output
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio when optimum combining is applied. This
results in a pertinent measure of the network performance in terms of the
outage probability, which in turn provides insights into the network capacity
gain that could be achieved with antenna array processing. We present and
discuss examples of applications, as well as some numerical results.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communication (Jan. 2009
Performance of generalized selection combining for mobile radio communications with mixed cochannel interferers
The performance of generalized selection combining (GSC) space diversity for mobile radio systems in the presence of multiple cochannel interferers is studied. Two cochannel interference models are considered: 1) L cochannel interferers consisting of L-N Nakagami-m interferers and N Rayleigh interferers and 2) L cochannel interferers in which each interferer follows Nakagami-m distribution for a fraction of time and Rayleigh distribution for the remaining of time. The fading parameters of the Nakagami-m interferers are limited to integer values only. The desired signal is assumed to be Rayleigh faded. Also, all the desired signals and the cochannel interferers received on each branch are independent of each other. Closed-form expressions are derived for the probability density functions (pdfs) of the instantaneous signal-to-interference power ratio (SIR) at the output of the GSC for the two cochannel interference models. Using these SIR pdfs, closed-form expression for evaluating the outage probability and the average bit error probability (BEP) are subsequently derived. A differential phase-shift keying scheme is considered in the derivation. Numerical results showing the influences of various system parameters on the outage probability and the average BEP are then presented.published_or_final_versio
Maximal Ratio Transmission in Wireless Poisson Networks under Spatially Correlated Fading Channels
The downlink of a wireless network where multi-antenna base stations (BSs)
communicate with single-antenna mobile stations (MSs) using maximal ratio
transmission (MRT) is considered here. The locations of BSs are modeled by a
homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) and the channel gains between the
multiple antennas of each BS and the single antenna of each MS are modeled as
spatially arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh random variables. We first present
novel closed-form expressions for the distribution of the power of the
interference resulting from the coexistence of one intended and one unintended
MRT over the considered correlated fading channels. The derived expressions are
then used to obtain closed-form expressions for the success probability and
area spectral efficiency of the wireless communication network under
investigation. Simulation results corroborate the validity of the presented
expressions. A key result of this work is that the effect of spatial
correlation on the network throughput may be contrasting depending on the
density of BSs, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) level, and
the background noise power.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, IEEE GLOBECOM 201
Performance evaluation for communication systems with receive diversity and interference
Optimum combining (OC) is a well-known coherent detection technique used to combat fading and suppress cochannel interference. In this dissertation, expressions are developed to evaluate the error probability of OC for systems with multiple interferers and multiple receiving branches. Three approaches are taken to derive the expressions. The first one starts from the decision metrics of OC. It facilitates obtaining closed-form expressions for binary phase-shift keying modulation. The second approach utilizes the moment generating function of the output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) and results in expressions for symbol and bit error probability for multiple phaseshift keying modulation. The third method uses the probability density function of the output SINR and arrives at expressions of symbol error probability for systems where the interferers may have unequal power levels. Throughout the derivation, it is assumed that the channels are independent Rayleigh fading channels. With these expressions, evaluating the error probability of OC is fast, easy and accurate.
Two noncoherent detection schemes based on the multiple symbol differential detection (MSDD) technique are also developed for systems with multiple interferers and multiple receiving branches. The first MSDD scheme is developed for systems where the channel gain of the desired signal is unknown to the receiver, but the covariance matrix of the interference plus noise is known. The maximum-likelihood decision statistic is derived for the detector. The performance of MSDD is demonstrated by analysis and simulation. A sub-optimum decision feedback algorithm is presented to reduce the computation complexity of the MSDD decision statistic. This suboptimum algorithm achieves performance that is very close to that of the optimum algorithm. It can be shown that with an increasing observation interval, the performance of this kind of MSDD approaches that of OC with differential encoding.
The second MSDD scheme is developed for the case in which the only required channel information is the channel gain of the interference. It is shown that when the interference power level is high, this MSDD technique can achieve good performance
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