123 research outputs found
Space time transceiver design over multipath fading channels
Imperial Users onl
I/Q Imbalance in Multiantenna Systems: Modeling, Analysis and RF-Aware Digital Beamforming
Wireless communications has experienced an unprecedented increase in data rates, numbers of active devices and selection of applications during recent years. However, this is expected to be just a start for future developments where a wireless connection is seen as a fundamental resource for almost any electrical device, no matter where and when it is operating. Since current radio technologies cannot provide such services with reasonable costs or even at all, a multitude of technological developments will be needed. One of the most important subjects, in addition to higher bandwidths and flexible network functionalities, is the exploitation of multiple antennas in base stations (BSs) as well as in user equipment (UEs). That kind of multiantenna communications can boost the capacity of an individual UE-BS link through spatial antenna multiplexing and increase the quality as well as robustness of the link via antenna diversity. Multiantenna technologies provide improvements also on the network level through spatial UE multiplexing and sophisticated interference management. Additionally, multiple antennas can provide savings in terms of the dissipated power since transmission and reception can be steered more efficiently in space, and thus power leakage to other directions is decreased. However, several issues need to be considered in order to get multiantenna technologies widely spread. First, antennas and the associated transceiver chains are required to be simple and implementable with low costs. Second, size of the antennas and transceivers need to be minimized. Finally, power consumption of the system must be kept under control. The importance of these requirements is even emphasized when considering massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems consisting of devices equipped with tens or even hundreds of antennas.In this thesis, we consider multiantenna devices where the associated transceiver chains are implemented in such a way that the requirements above can be met. In particular, we focus on the direct-conversion transceiver principle which is seen as a promising radio architecture for multiantenna systems due to its low costs, small size, low power consumption and good flexibility. Whereas these aspects are very promising, direct-conversion transceivers have also some disadvantages and are vulnerable to certain imperfections in the analog radio frequency (RF) electronics in particular. Since the effects of these imperfections usually get even worse when optimizing costs of the devices, the scope of the thesis is on the effects and mitigation of one of the most severe RF imperfection, namely in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) imbalance.Contributions of the thesis can be split into two main themes. First of them is multiantenna narrowband beamforming under transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) I/Q imbalances. We start by creating a model for the signals at the TX and RX, both under I/Q imbalances. Based on these models we derive analytical expressions for the antenna array radiation patterns and notice that I/Q imbalance distorts not only the signals but also the radiation characteristics of the array. After that, stemming from the nature of the distortion, we utilize widely-linear (WL) processing, where the signals and their complex conjugates are processed jointly, for the beamforming task under I/Q imbalance. Such WL processing with different kind of statistical and adaptive beamforming algorithms is finally shown to provide a flexible operation as well as distortion-free signals and radiation patterns when being under various I/Q imbalance schemes.The second theme extends the work to wideband systems utilizing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based waveforms. The focus is on uplink communications and BS RX processing in a multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) scheme where spatial UE multiplexing is applied and further UE multiplexing takes place in frequency domain through the orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) principle. Moreover, we include the effects of external co-channel interference into our analysis in order to model the challenges in heterogeneous networks. We formulate a flexible signal model for a generic uplink scheme where I/Q imbalance occurs on both TX and RX sides. Based on the model, we analyze the signal distortion in frequency domain and develop augmented RX processing methods which process signals at mirror subcarrier pairs jointly. Additionally, the proposed augmented methods are numerically shown to outperform corresponding per-subcarrier method in terms of the instantaneous signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). Finally, we address some practical aspects and conclude that the augmented processing principle is a promising tool for RX processing in multiantenna wideband systems under I/Q imbalance.The thesis provides important insight for development of future radio networks. In particular, the results can be used as such for implementing digital signal processing (DSP)-based RF impairment mitigation in real world transceivers. Moreover, the results can be used as a starting point for future research concerning, e.g., joint effects of multiple RF impairments and their mitigation in multiantenna systems. Overall, this thesis and the associated publications can help the communications society to reach the ambitious aim of flexible, low-cost and high performance radio networks in the future
Near-Instantaneously Adaptive HSDPA-Style OFDM Versus MC-CDMA Transceivers for WIFI, WIMAX, and Next-Generation Cellular Systems
Burts-by-burst (BbB) adaptive high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) style multicarrier systems are reviewed, identifying their most critical design aspects. These systems exhibit numerous attractive features, rendering them eminently eligible for employment in next-generation wireless systems. It is argued that BbB-adaptive or symbol-by-symbol adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modems counteract the near instantaneous channel quality variations and hence attain an increased throughput or robustness in comparison to their fixed-mode counterparts. Although they act quite differently, various diversity techniques, such as Rake receivers and space-time block coding (STBC) are also capable of mitigating the channel quality variations in their effort to reduce the bit error ratio (BER), provided that the individual antenna elements experience independent fading. By contrast, in the presence of correlated fading imposed by shadowing or time-variant multiuser interference, the benefits of space-time coding erode and it is unrealistic to expect that a fixed-mode space-time coded system remains capable of maintaining a near-constant BER
Smart Beamforming for 5G and LTE Legacy Systems
The new generation of wireless communication systems is expected to provide many features and advances for a variety of use cases. In addition, the basis of 5G, being the Long Term Evolution (LTE) will be developed in parallel, meaning that further improvements need to be done in both technologies. In this work we propose two novel schemes, one for each generation, that provide potential benefits for the scenarios in which we are focused, in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER), Probability of Collision and/or achievable Rate as we will see. Firstly, massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) is a multi-user and multi-service air interface which will be key in the next generation of communications. In this work, we propose a frame structure and signal processing techniques at the receiver needed to create the beamformers whose final objective is reducing the probability of collision between devices trying to get the resources. In the end, this will imply that more users can access to the media, as the receiver would be able to manage the collisions that will occur in the frequency domain, being the case of a Non-Orthogonal-Multiple-Access. Second, as there is an increasing interest in rapidly varying channels, we focus on this aspect proposing a frame structure for LTE in which we are able to track better the channel in case it has a low coherence time, that in combination with beamforming techniques will help the system to null interferences from other users and to increase the Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) yielding to a lower BER. In the same chapter, in addition, we try to figure out which is the best power allocation with respect to the SNR to mix both training and data to even increase more the rate with respect to LTE without degrading the BER so much. We expect this work will be useful for the development of the technologies which are said that will improve our lifestyles
Beamforming for OFDM based hybrid terrestrial satellite mobile system
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
SYNCHRONIZATION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN DOWNLINK OFDM SYSTEMS
The next generation (4G) wireless systems are expected to provide
universal personal and multimedia communications with seamless connection
and very high rate transmissions and without regard to the users’ mobility and
location. OFDM technique is recognized as one of the leading candidates to
provide the wireless signalling for 4G systems. The major challenges in
downlink multiuser OFDM based 4G systems include the wireless channel, the
synchronization and radio resource management. Thus algorithms are required
to achieve accurate timing and frequency offset estimation and the efficient
utilization of radio resources such as subcarrier, bit and power allocation.
The objectives of the thesis are of two fields. Firstly, we presented the
frequency offset estimation algorithms for OFDM systems. Building our work
upon the classic single user OFDM architecture, we proposed two FFT-based
frequency offset estimation algorithms with low computational complexity.
The computer simulation results and comparisons show that the proposed
algorithms provide smaller error variance than previous well-known algorithm.
Secondly, we presented the resource allocation algorithms for OFDM
systems. Building our work upon the downlink multiuser OFDM architecture,
we aimed to minimize the total transmit power by exploiting the system
diversity through the management of subcarrier allocation, adaptive
modulation and power allocation. Particularly, we focused on the dynamic
resource allocation algorithms for multiuser OFDM system and multiuser
MIMO-OFDM system. For the multiuser OFDM system, we proposed a lowiv
complexity channel gain difference based subcarrier allocation algorithm. For
the multiuser MIMO-OFDM system, we proposed a unit-power based
subcarrier allocation algorithm. These proposed algorithms are all combined
with the optimal bit allocation algorithm to achieve the minimal total transmit
power. The numerical results and comparisons with various conventional nonadaptive
and adaptive algorithmic approaches are provided to show that the
proposed resource allocation algorithms improve the system efficiencies and
performance given that the Quality of Service (QoS) for each user is
guaranteed.
The simulation work of this project is based on hand written codes in the
platform of the MATLAB R2007b
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