A simple importance sampling technique for orthogonal space-time block codes on Nakagami fading channels

In this contribution, we present a simple importance sampling technique to considerably speed up Monte Carlo simulations for bit error rate estimation of orthogonal space-time block coded systems on spatially correlated Nakagami fading channels

Efficient BER simulation of orthogonal space-time block codes in Nakagami-m fading

In this contribution, we present a simple but efficient importance sampling technique to speed up Monte Carlo simulations for bit error rate estimation of orthogonal space-time block codes on spatially correlated Nakagami-m fading channels. While maintaining the actual distributions for the channel noise and the data symbols, we derive a convenient biased distribution for the fading channel that is shown to result in impressive efficiency gains up to multiple orders of magnitude

Application of MIMO DF equalization to high-speed off-chip communication

In this contribution, we present a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) equalizer with decision feedback (DF) for high-speed chip-to-chip communication. We derive an elegant closed-form expression for the minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalization filters and show that the application of MIMO DF equalization (DFE) allows to significantly improve the reliability of high-speed communication over low-cost electrical interconnects

MIMO pre-equalization and DFE for high-speed off-chip communication

In this contribution, we present a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver scheme for high-speed chip-to-chip communication over low-cost electrical interconnects. Linear MIMO pre-equalization at the transmitter is combined with decision feedback equalization (DFE) at the receiver to counteract the adverse effect of inter symbol interference (ISI) and crosstalk (XT). Considering an energy constraint at the transmit side, we derive elegant closed-form expressions for the equalization filters under a minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. Numerical analysis shows that the combination of linear MIMO pre-equalization and MIMO DFE allows to significantly improve the reliability of future high-speed off-chip communication

Performance analysis of pre-equalized multilevel partial response schemes

In order to achieve high speed on electrical interconnects, channel attenuation at high frequencies must be dealt with by proper transceiver design. In this paper we investigate finite-complexity MMSE pre-equalization under an average transmit power constraint, to compensate for channel distortion in the case of both full-response and precoded partial response signaling with L-PAM mapping, and consider the resulting error performance for symbol-by-symbol detection and sequence detection. For a representative electrical interconnect, we point out that the constellation size (2-PAM or 4-PAM), the type of signaling (full response or partial response), the detection method (symbol-by-symbol detection or sequence detection) and the number of pre-equalizer taps should be carefully selected in order to achieve satisfactory error performance at high data rates. For several scenarios, precoded duobinary 4-PAM is found to yield the best error performance for given average transmit power

People tracking by cooperative fusion of RADAR and camera sensors

Accurate 3D tracking of objects from monocular camera poses challenges due to the loss of depth during projection. Although ranging by RADAR has proven effective in highway environments, people tracking remains beyond the capability of single sensor systems. In this paper, we propose a cooperative RADAR-camera fusion method for people tracking on the ground plane. Using average person height, joint detection likelihood is calculated by back-projecting detections from the camera onto the RADAR Range-Azimuth data. Peaks in the joint likelihood, representing candidate targets, are fed into a Particle Filter tracker. Depending on the association outcome, particles are updated using the associated detections (Tracking by Detection), or by sampling the raw likelihood itself (Tracking Before Detection). Utilizing the raw likelihood data has the advantage that lost targets are continuously tracked even if the camera or RADAR signal is below the detection threshold. We show that in single target, uncluttered environments, the proposed method entirely outperforms camera-only tracking. Experiments in a real-world urban environment also confirm that the cooperative fusion tracker produces significantly better estimates, even in difficult and ambiguous situations

Radar and video as the perfect match : a cooperative method for sensor fusion

Accurate detection and tracking of road users is essential for driverless cars and many other smart mobility applications. As no single sensor can provide the required accuracy and robustness, the output from several sensors needs to be combined. Especially radar and video are a good match, because their weaknesses and strengths complement each other. Researchers from IPI – an imec research group at Ghent University – developed a new technique to optimize radar-video fusion by exchanging information at an earlier stage

Accurate BER analysis of square OSTBCs with imperfect channel estimation in arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading

In this contribution, we present a novel closed-form approximation of the bit error rate (BER) for square orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) under arbitrarily correlated Rayleigh fading with imperfect channel estimation. Although derived for a mismatched maximum-likelihood receiver that obtains the channel state information through pilot-based linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) channel estimation, the presented expression is shown to yield very accurate BER results for both LMMSE and least-squares channel estimation, over a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios. The information symbols are assumed to belong to a pulse amplitude modulation or square quadrature amplitude modulation constellation