快速时变信道下的OFDM信道估计方法

为解决正交频分复用(OFDM)系统在快速时变信道下引入的子载波间干扰(ICI)导致性能急剧下降的问题,提出一种基于带状矩阵的数据辅助型信道估计算法。通过分析由多普勒频偏引入的子载波间干扰矩阵,运用线性模型对信道冲击响应算法进行建模,对每个子载波设计带状补偿矩阵以最大程度消除ICI。数值仿真结果表明,该信道估计算法较最小均方误差(MMSE)算法复杂度大大减小,便于实现,满足快速时变信道下的估计精度需要。     

时频双选信道OFDM系统的ICI消除与均衡

在正交频分复用（OFDM）系统中,因高速移动造成的多普勒效应导致子载波间正交性的破坏并产生载波间干扰（ICI）。为了消除ICI,本文通过分析ICI分布特性及带状矩阵特性,提出了低复杂度的迭代干扰抵消算法和基于最小均方误差准则的排序串行干扰抵消(MMSE-OSIC)算法。仿真结果表明,与传统子载波间干扰频域均衡算法相比,新算法在计算复杂度和性能之间取得了良好的平衡,且MMSE-OSIC算法可以利用时变信道的时间分集特性在高信噪比情况下有效地消除“地板效应”。      

MIMO-OFDM最优导频设置与优化的信道估计方法

从系统设计的角度，根据最小化MSE原则，推导出一种基于MIMO—OFDM多发射天线优化的导频值插入方法，并提出一种健壮性的FDTC的信道估计处理方法。与已有的导频交替传输方法相比，这种优化的导频值能均布于各发射天线所有发射时段，尤其在时变信道中，具有更小的估计误差；在信道估计方法中，提出的频域分集时域合并的方法，通过仿真，表明这种方法能够更进一步的提高估计的精度，同时具有较好的健壮性和较低的计算复杂度。     

基于EM算法的改进OFDM时变信道估计

针对正交频分复用（OFDM）系统中的信道时变,基于时变信道的分段线性近似模型,提出一种改进的OFDM时变信道估计方案。该方案通过采用期望最大化（EM）迭代算法来提高符号平均信道脉冲响应的估计精度,从而提高时变信道估计的性能;此外,在迭代过程中进行带状子载波间干扰抑制,不仅进一步提高了时变信道估计的性能,而且降低了实现复杂度。理论分析和仿真结果表明,该算法以较低的复杂度代价有效提高了时变信道OFDM系统的性能。     

MIMO-OFDM快时变信道下的一种低复杂度的检测算法

OFDM系统中信道的快速变化会破坏载波间的正交性,产生载波间干扰(ICI)。该文基于快变信道的统计特性,分析了载波间干扰的频域表达式,设计了一种针对快时变OFDM系统载波间干扰的载波间干扰对消检测方案。它可以有效地补偿由于信道快速变化所产生的载波间干扰,从而提高系统性能。实验表明,该文提出的检测方案可以在计算复杂度很小的情况下,有效地抑制由于载波间干扰所产生的误码率性能的下降,并利用载波间分集提高系统性能。     

发射分集OFDM系统中一种基于Turbo迭代的判决反馈信道估计

本文对频率选择性衰落信道条件下发射分集OFDM系统的信道估计进行了研究,提出了一种基于Turbo迭代的判决反馈信道估计方法.该方法充分利用Turbo迭代信息来改善信道估计性能,且因无需求逆运算,使得整个系统的复杂度增加不多.仿真结果表明,所提方法在较高信噪比条件下,明显提高了系统信道估计的性能,且适合于高速移动的信道环境.     

无人机宽带数据链信道均衡技术研究

信道均衡技术是解决无人机宽带数据链码间干扰问题的关键技术之一。针对无人机宽带数据链的信道特点,在分析单载波频域均衡(SC-FDE)的基础上,提出一种时域、频域相结合的信道均衡方案,相比于SC-FDE,可以有效降低数据帧较长情况下均衡处理的整体实现复杂度。对该方案进行了仿真,结果表明,该方案可以有效抑制多径效应产生的码间干扰,具有很好的鲁棒性。基于FPGA数字信号处理平台进行了软件设计,验证了其工程应用的可行性。     

基于DHT的低复杂度UWB系统及性能仿真

实现复杂度和功耗是超宽带(UWB)系统设计中的关键问题.本文提出一种利用离散Hartley变换(DHT)进行调制/解调的超宽带系统,并推导了信道估计与均衡算法.与基于传统OFDM的方案相比,该系统降低了算法复杂度、硬件复杂度和功耗,且具有内在的频率分集特征.针对超宽带信道严重的频率选择性衰落,采用卷积编码与频域扩频和交织相结合的方式提高系统传输可靠性.根据典型超宽带信道模型进了系统参数设计,并通过计算机仿真验证了系统性能.     

线性预编码OFDM系统的迭代接收机

线性预编码是OFDM系统在频率选择性衰落信道中利用频率分集的有效方法.为了进一步提高性能,本文提出了一种线性预编码OFDM系统的迭代接收机,该迭代接收机采用基于线性最小均方误差准则(LMMSE)的turbo均衡算法及其简化方法,具有很低的计算复杂度.本文同时还提出通过使用长度不小于等效离散时间信道的时延扩展长度的线性预编码器和迭代接收机,可获得完全的频率分集增益.仿真表明本文提出的方法在多径干扰严重的信道条件下的误码率性能接近AWGN下界.     

单载波频域均衡在地空高速数据链的应用

地空数据链的信道属于低仰角的多径信道,存在较严重的符号间干扰。正交频分复用(OFDM)是得到认可的有效抗多径方案,单载波频域均衡(SC-FDE)采用与OFDM相似的频域均衡方式,具有与OFDM相近的性能和复杂度,并克服了OFDM的一些不足。在比较SC-FDE和OFDM相似性、分析SC-FDE的信道估计与均衡基础上,提出了采用SC-FDE的地空高速数据链解调器结构,该结构在保留单载波处理的优点条件下实现高效的频域均衡。     

Bit Interleaved Time-Frequency Coded Modulation for OFDM Systems Over Time-Varying Channels

Bit Interleaved Time-Frequency Coded Modulation for OFDM Systems Over Time-Varying Channels Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technology in broadband wireless communications with its ability in transforming a frequency selective fading channel into multiple flat fading channels. However, the time-varying characteristics of wireless channels induce the loss of orthogonality among OFDM sub-carriers, which was generally considered harmful to system performance. In this paper, we propose a bit interleaved time–frequency coded modulation (BITFCM) scheme for OFDM to achieve both time and frequency diversity inherent in broadband time-varying channels. We will show that the time-varying characteristics of the channel are beneficial to system performance. Using the BITFCM scheme and for relatively low maximum normalized Doppler frequency, a reduced complexity Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding approach is proposed to achieve good performance with low complexity as well. For high maximum normalized Doppler frequency, the inter-carrier interference (ICI) can be large and an error floor will be induced. To solve this problem, we propose two ICI mitigation schemes by taking advantage of the second order channel statistics and the complete channel information, respectively. It will be shown that both schemes can reduce the ICI significantly.     

Bounding performance and suppressing intercarrier interference in wireless mobile OFDM

While rapid variations of the fading channel cause intercarrier interference (ICI) in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), thereby degrading its performance considerably, they also introduce temporal diversity, which can be exploited to improve performance. We first derive a matched-filter bound (MFB) for OFDM transmissions over doubly selective Rayleigh fading channels, which benchmarks the best possible performance if ICI is completely canceled without noise enhancement. We then derive universal performance bounds which show that the time-varying channel causes most of the symbol energy to be distributed over a few subcarriers, and that the ICI power on a subcarrier mainly comes from several neighboring subcarriers. Based on this fact, we develop low-complexity minimum mean-square error (MMSE) and decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) receivers for ICI suppression. Simulations show that the DFE receiver can collect significant gains of ICI-impaired OFDM with affordable complexity. In the relatively low Doppler frequency region, the bit-error rate of the DFE receiver is close to the MFB.     

Interference Cancellation with Space Diversity for Downlink MC-CDMA Systems

Modern wireless communications require an efficient spectrum usage and high channel capacity and throughput. Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), Linear equalizers, multi-user detection and multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) are possible solutions to achieve spectral efficiency, high channel capacity, eliminate multiple access interference (MAI), eliminate Inter symbol interference (ISI) and robustness against frequency selective fading. In this paper, we combine all these techniques and investigate BER performance. We propose a low complexity receiver structure for Single-input Multiple-output (SIMO) downlink MC-CDMA systems. It employs an interference cancellation scheme to suppress the interference caused by the multipath fading channel. Also, the proposed scheme is developed for MIMO MC-CDMA system. The performance analysis of Downlink MIMO MC-CDMA systems with V-BLAST over frequency selective fading channel is investigated under various number of transmit and receive antennas. The simulation results show proposed SIMO equalization with parallel interference cancellation scheme is effective in reducing the ISI and the MAI. It improves the performance significantly and the simulation results show that MIMO MC-CDMA with V-BLAST multi-user detection provides high data rate and the BER significant improvement.     

MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道的稀疏自适应感知估计

在多输入多输出（MIMO）-正交频分复用（OFDM） 系统中,怎样在较高频谱利用率的情况下对快时变信道进行较为准确的估计是一个具有挑战性的课题。该文在利用压缩感知理论可提高系统频谱利用率的基础上,提出了一种适合于快时变环境下MIMO-OFDM 系统的稀疏自适应信道估计方法。该方法不再受到奈奎斯特采样频率条件约束,避免了传统导频辅助信道估计方法频谱利用率低的缺点。该文方法通过构建多天线群时频结构特征稀疏基,利用多天线间和群时变OFDM符号内信道冲激响应具有更强稀疏性的特点,对MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道进行稀疏变换。由于实际MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道往往处于频率选择性、时变性和多种干扰并存的复杂环境,受到干扰的信道参数对系统而言是未知,采用该方法克服了现有基于压缩感知理论的信道估计方法需要预先知道信道冲激响应稀疏度才能重构信道参数的不足,在信道稀疏度未知道的情况下,运用稀疏自适应的方法来对不同时频结构特征的信道参数进行估计。仿真结果表明所提估计方法具有对快时变信道参数估计的鲁棒性和较高频谱利用率,且均方误差小。      

SINR analysis of FFH/OFDM over frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel

Fast frequency hopping/orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (FFH/OFDM) has been previously proposed to achieve frequency diversity over frequency selective channels. However, the performances of the FFH/OFDM scheme have been usually calculated using simulations over empirical channel models in earlier works. The main aim of this paper is to theoretically expose the diversity of the FFH/OFDM signal over statistical models, specifically Rayleigh distributed, for frequency selective fading channels. In order to achieve this aim, we first derive the decision variables and the signal‐to‐interference noise ratios of the FFH/OFDM signal at the output of minimum mean square error and zero forcing receivers. For various levels of quadrature amplitude modulation used in FFH/OFDM, the performances are calculated and validated via simulations. The results show that FFH/OFDM in case of zero forcing equalization does not provide any diversity gain even over a frequency selective channel. However, in case of minimum mean square error equalization, it brings significant diversity gain at high signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) values with the rise of number of sub‐carriers. Moreover, the FFH/OFDM with four quadrature amplitude modulation scheme provides better performance than that of the conventional OFDM even at low SNR values, as well as a significant diversity gain at high SNR values. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance analysis of two-branch transmit diversity block-coded OFDM systems in time-varying multipath Rayleigh-fading channels

Based on Alamouti code, Lee and Williams proposed two-branch transmit diversity block-coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (TDBC-OFDM) systems, namely, space-time block-coded OFDM (STBC-OFDM) and space-frequency block-coded OFDM (SFBC-OFDM). However, they employed the simple maximum-likelihood (SML) detector, which was designed under the assumption that the channel is static over the duration of a space-time/frequency codeword. Therefore, STBC-OFDM/SFBC-OFDM suffers from the high time/frequency selectivity of the wireless mobile fading channel. In this paper, besides the original SML detector, three detectors proposed by Vielmon et al. are applied to improve the two-branch TDBC-OFDM systems. Additionally, assuming sufficient cyclic prefix, the performances of all systems in spatially uncorrelated time-varying multipath Rayleigh-fading channels are evaluated by theoretical derivation and computer simulation, as well. According to the derived bit-error rate (BER), we further derive the bit-error outage (BEO) to provide a more object judgment on the transmission quality within a fading environment. Numerical results have revealed that significant performance improvement can be achieved even when the systems are operated in highly selective channels.     

Joint Time-Domain Tracking of Channel and Frequency Offsets for MIMO OFDM Systems

In this paper we address the problem of joint channel and frequency offset estimation and tracking in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) OFDM systems for mobile users. The proposed method stems from extended Kalman filtering and is suitable for time-frequency-space selective channels. Separate offset for each MIMO channel branch is considered because of the mobility and rich scattering. The channel taps and the frequency offsets are estimated in time-domain while the equalization is performed in frequency domain. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method tracks time-varying channels and frequency offsets with high fidelity. Realistic channel models are used in mobile scenarios. The proposed time-domain approach has improved performance and robustness in comparison to purely frequency domain processing. Computational complexity is lower as well.     

频率选择性信道下高速数据传输中的单载波频域均衡技术

本文利用空时联合检测的方法，提出了在频率选择性信道下多天线发送的单载波频域均衡方案，它可以提供和一个发送天线多个接收天线单载波系统相同的分集增益，和单载波时域均衡相比具有低的复杂度。分析了信道估计误差对系统的影响，类似于基于迫零算法的线性均衡器的情形，在低信噪比下，信道估计误差对系统影响很大，给出了一种简单的克服方法。在不增加发射功率的情况下，使用信道编码可以进一步改善系统的性能。本方案的系统性能在6径典型城市信道模型下进行了评估，仿真的结果证明了本方案的有效性。     

Receiver Design for Single-Carrier Block Transmission Over Doubly Selective Channels

Single-carrier block transmission is an alternative scheme to orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) for wireless broadband communications. In this paper, a receiver is designed for single-carrier block transmission with cyclic prefix for mobile broadband communications. As the wireless transmission is over doubly selective channels, a basis expansion model is used to capture both the time- and frequency-selectivity of the channel and is parameterized for the receiver design. The receiver estimates the channel model coefficients in the time domain and uses these coefficients for equalization in the frequency domain. The channel estimation is assisted by time-domain pilot insertion. The structure of the frequency-domain channel matrix is exploited and a linear minimum mean-square error equalizer is used for the equalization. When the basis expansion model well matches the physical channel, simulation results show superior receiving performance of the proposed system compared with the OFDM system with a similar complexity.