Adaptive modulation with constrained variable power for space–time coded MIMO systems

Practically, the maximum transmission power of transmission systems is limited. This power constraint causes the variable power control derived from no maximum power limitation suffering from performance degradation. In this paper, a constrained variable‐power adaptive M‐ary quadrature amplitude modulation scheme for MIMO systems with space–time coding is developed. Convex optimization is used to derive the switching thresholds of the instantaneous signal‐to‐noise ratio for power control (PC) and adaptive modulation under the constraints of maximum power, average power, and target BER. In the derivation of the relation between modulation and power, the exact BER expression of binary phase shift keying modulation and a tight bound for higher order quadrature amplitude modulation are used to make the PC scheme fulfill the target BER even at low signal‐to‐noise ratio where the previous PC schemes fail to meet the target BER. Numerical results show that the derived control scheme under the power constraints can obtain the spectrum efficiency and BER performance close to the previous control scheme without power limitation. Moreover, it can satisfy the requirements of power limitation and target BER and can effectively avoid the excessive power consumption of previous PC scheme in poor channel condition. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

自适应Turbo-QAM编码调制及其在 平坦Nakagami衰落信道的吞吐量性能

本文提出了一种通用的自适应编码调制系统吞吐量性能分析方法.基于各固定编码调制方式的误码率(BER)性能,使每种编码调制方案对应于一个信道平均信噪比(SNR)范围,再应用拉格朗日函数法得到使自适应编码调制系统吞吐量性能最大的信噪比转换门限,可得到系统的平均吞吐量性能.数值分析结果表明,相对于自适应M进制正交幅度调制(MQAM),自适应Turbo编码MQAM系统吞吐量性能有显著提高,并且该性能受瞬时误码率要求的影响较小.Nakagami信道中,在相同平均信道信噪比条件下,随着m的增大,系统吞吐量性能提高缓慢.     

Enhancing spectral efficiency of FSO system using adaptive SIM/M‐PSK and SIMO in the presence of atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors

This paper proposes an adaptive transmission modulation (ATM) technique for free‐space optical (FSO) links over gamma‐gamma turbulence channels.The ATM technique provides efficient utilization of the FSO channel capacity for improving spectral efficiency, by adapting the order of the phase‐shift keying modulation scheme, according to the channel conditions and the required bit error rate (BER). To overcome the channel degradation resulting from the turbulence effects as well as the pointing errors (PEs), single‐input multiple‐output (SIMO) system with maximal ratio combining (MRC) is proposed. Exact closed‐form expressions of BER and upper bound of the capacity are derived and verified by Monte Carlo simulations. The numerical results show that the proposed adaptive technique improves the spectral efficiency (SE) five times higher than the nonadaptive technique at the same BER threshold (10^?3).This improvement is achieved at signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) equals 27 and 42  dB in the case of atmospheric turbulence without and with PE, respectively. Furthermore, this SE could be obtained while the SNR = 30  dB by using ( 1 × 4 ) SIMO scheme with MRC and PE and having the same transmitting optical power.     

New Relay Protocols with AMC Scheme for Throughput Enhancement in LTE-Advanced System

We propose an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme using relay protocols AF, DF and DMF. The AMC scheme is used for improving the throughput and reliability of a communication system, using different modulation and coding schemes. We analyze the performance of relay protocols with the AMC scheme and observe that relay protocols with the AMC scheme are capable of providing better average throughput at a lower signal to noise ratio (SNR) level as compared to the conventional scheme with no AMC. We perform Monte Carlo simulations based on 3GPP long term evolution-advanced parameters to prove the performance comparison of adaptive modulation and coding scheme (MCS) relay protocols with non-adaptive MCS relay protocols. The simulation results of the proposed system with adaptive MCS prove that among the amplify-and-forward (AF), decode-and-forward (DF) and de-modulate-and-forward (DMF), the DMF protocol performs best, at a lower SNR value and higher average throughput.     

A simplified adaptive modulation scheme for D-STTD systems with linear receivers

In this letter, we consider D-STTD (Double Space Time Transmit Diversity) with an adaptive modulation (AM) scheme. The simple criteria for AM are proposed according to linear receivers and the corresponding AM schemes are derived to minimize bit error rate under the constraint of the total data rate and total transmit power. The D-STTD system using the proposed AM scheme requires low computational complexity and small feedback information. The performance of D-STTD system using the proposed scheme is improved by 7 dB or more in signal to noise ratio corresponding to 10/sup -4/ bit error rate.     

一种小型化C波段线性调频T/R组件

采用模拟调频方案,设计了一种小型化线性调频微波收发(T/R)组件。该微波T/R组件在实现所需的调频中心频率和带宽的同时,保证了调频稳定度。T/R组件的调频中心频率为(4 300±15) MHz,调制带宽为(150±1) MHz,调制线性度小于1.2,发射功率大于20 dBm,接收噪声系数小于3 dB,收发隔离度大于80 dB。此T/R 组件的尺寸仅为 50 mm×40 mm×12.3 mm,在同类型产品中具有较明显优势。     

基于认知无线电的自适应小波调制

为了解决小波调制频带利用率不高的缺点，提出了一种基于认知无线电的自适应小波调制方案。通过实时感知信道频谱占用情况，运用基于着色理论的贪婪算法，并以均方误差达到最小值为准则，调整权值，控制信源中各种不同的噪声敏感度信号的功率，实行动态频谱分配。在高斯白噪声信道中对其进行了仿真，仿真结果表明，在传递不同的噪声敏感度信号时，自适应小波调制方案的性能优于传统平均功率分配的小波调制。     

Evaluation of mixed permutation codes in PLC channels,using Hamming distance profile

We report a new concept involving an adaptive mixture of different sets of permutation codes (PC) in a single DPSK–OFDM modulation scheme. Since this scheme is robust and the algorithms involved are simple, it is a good candidate for implementation for OFDM-based power line communication (PLC) systems. By using a special and easy concept called Hamming distance profile, as a comparison tool, we are able to showcase the strength of the new PC scheme over other schemes reported in literature, in handling the incessant noise types associated with PLC channels. This prediction tool is also useful for selecting an efficient PC codebook out of a number of similar ones.     

Performance Comparison of M-QAM Communications for (S + N) and (S/N) Channel State Estimation Schemes

Channel estimation at the receiver side is essential for adaptive modulation schemes, prohibiting low complexity systems from using variable rate (VR) and/or variable power transmissions. This problem can be solved using variable-rate M-QAM modulation scheme for communications over fading channels in the absence of channel gain estimation at the receiver. It is shown that signal plus noise (S + N) sampling value can serve as a much better criterion compared to signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) for determining modulation order in VR systems. In this way, low complexity transceivers use VR transmissions to improve spectrum efficiency under an error performance constraint. Two kinds of fading channels: Weibull fading and α–μ fading are considered. Spectrum efficiency of (S + N) based systems are compared to that of S/N systems and the advantage of (S + N) scheme over (S/N) scheme is shown. The symbol error rates of two schemes are also studied. As an application, the proposed VR modulation scheme is shown to work with a maximum ratio combining diversity receiver.     

Cross layer design in multi-hop networks with adaptive modulation along with constellation rearrangement

Distributed nature of wireless sensor network raises a number of design challenges, especially when energy-efficiency and Quality of Service requirements are to be taken into consideration. These challenges can only be met by allowing closer cooperation and mutual adaptation between the protocol layers, referred to as a cross-layer design paradigm. In this paper, we explain the operating stages for adaptive sleep with adaptive modulation based on the MAC layer protocol. By using adaptive sleep with adaptive modulation the total time for completing one packet is adaptively reduced. Therefore, not only the transmission time is adapted by adaptive modulation, but also the sleep time is varied by adaptive sleep. A cross-layer, optimization scheme, based on adaptive sleep with adaptive modulation along with constellation rearrangement and power control, is proposed in this paper for minimizing energy cost and enhancing the network longevity. The adaptive sleep with adaptive modulation along with constellation rearrangement algorithm changes the modulation scheme dynamically by using constellation rearrangement while adjusting the node sleep periods and power levels. The paper considers several variations of these schemes and analyzes and compares their performance under various traffic intensity based on extensive computer simulations. Finally the proposed scheme is evaluated through NS2 simulations in terms of throughput.

     

Multi-dimensional adaptive transmission technique for shortto-medium reach optical fiber communication system

According to the features of short-to-medium reach optical fiber communication systems,three high performance adaptive modulation and coding schemes were investigated.In the first one,a new dimension,forward error correction (FEC),was introduced to the traditional bit and power loading (BPL) scheme,and the three-dimensional adaptive modulation and coding were achieved.The modulation format and FEC code were allocated based on look-up table (LUT).The proposed algorithm has lower complexity and higher data rate compared to the BPL scheme.The second one was also based on LUT method where one similar data rate with the BPL scheme was achieved using partitioned precoding,but peak-to-average power ratio was reduced up to two dB,and the power efficiency was improved.In the last scheme,probabilistic shaping QAM was adopted as the modulation format,and shaping gain and almost indefinitely fine modulation granularity were achieved at the expense of certain complexity.With adaptive partitioned precoding,without decreasing data rate the number of PS-QAM was limited to reduce the complexity.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the BPL scheme in terms of data rate and receiver sensitivity.     

一种基于硅基MEMS三维异构集成技术的T/R组件

基于硅基微电子机械系统(MEMS)三维异构集成工艺,设计并制作了用于相控阵天线系统的三维堆叠式Ku波段双通道T/R组件。该组件由两层硅基结构通过球栅阵列(BGA)植球堆叠而成,上下两层硅基封装均采用5层硅片通过硅通孔(TSV)、晶圆级键合工艺实现。组件集成了六位数控移相、六位数控衰减、串转并、电源调制、逻辑控制等功能,最终组件尺寸仅为15 mm×8 mm×3.8 mm。测试结果表明,在Ku波段内,该组件发射通道饱和输出功率大于24 dBm,单通道发射增益大于20 dB,接收通道增益大于20 dB,噪声系数小于3.0 dB。该组件性能好,质量轻,体积小,加工精确度高,组装效率高。     

On the Performance of Speech Waveform Coders with Noise Spectral Shaping

The performance of speech waveform coders that incorporate a noise spectral shaping filter is discussed. The coders studied are adaptive pulse code modulation (APCM), adaptive differential PCM (ADPCM), and adaptive delta modulation (ADM). For APCM and ADPCM, the noise shaping filter is designed to minimize the C-message weighted quantization noise power. As for ADM, the noise shaping filter is used to move some portion of in-band noise outside the signal band. Simulation results show that the performance improvement of these waveform coders with spectral shaping is about 0.5-3 dB over the systems without noise shaping. Although this improvement is relatively small, the waveform coders with noise spectral shaping yield subjectively more pleasing and intelligible sound than those without it.     

Adaptive modulation systems for predicted wireless channels

When adaptive modulation is used to counter short-term fading in mobile radio channels, signaling delays create problems with outdated channel state information. The use of channel power prediction will improve the performance of the link adaptation. It is then of interest to take the quality of these predictions into account explicitly when designing an adaptive modulation scheme. We study the optimum design of an adaptive modulation scheme based on uncoded M-quadrature amplitude modulation, assisted by channel prediction for the flat Rayleigh fading channel. The data rate, and in some variants the transmit power, are adapted to maximize the spectral efficiency, subject to average power and bit-error rate constraints. The key issues studied here are how a known prediction error variance will affect the optimized transmission properties, such as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) boundaries that determine when to apply different modulation rates, and to what extent it affects the spectral efficiency. This investigation is performed by analytical optimization of the link adaptation, using the statistical properties of a particular, but efficient, channel power predictor. Optimum solutions for the rate and transmit power are derived, based on the predicted SNR and the prediction error variance.     

一种大功率X波段T/R组件的设计

本文设计了一种大功率 T/R 组件,对其原理和方案进行了阐述,并对发射峰值功率、 接收增益和噪声系数等主要指标进行了计算。单通道可实现发射峰值功率 45.6 dBm,接收增益约 30 dB,噪声系数略大于 3 dB,为大功率 T/R 组件的设计提供一种参考。     

Adaptive coded modulation for fading channels

We apply coset codes to adaptive modulation in fading channels. Adaptive modulation is a powerful technique to improve the energy efficiency and increase the data rate over a fading channel. Coset codes are a natural choice to use with adaptive modulation since the channel coding and modulation designs are separable. Therefore, trellis and lattice codes designed for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels can be superimposed on adaptive modulation for fading channels, with the same approximate coding gains. We first describe the methodology for combining coset codes with a general class of adaptive modulation techniques. We then apply this methodology to a spectrally efficient adaptive M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) to obtain trellis-coded adaptive MQAM. We present analytical and simulation results for this design which show an effective coding gain of 3 dB relative to uncoded adaptive MQAM for a simple four-state trellis code, and an effective 3.6-dB coding gain for an eight-state trellis code. More complex trellis codes are shown to achieve higher gains. We also compare the performance of trellis-coded adaptive MQAM to that of coded modulation with built-in time diversity and fixed-rate modulation. The adaptive method exhibits a power savings of up to 20 dB     

Turbo-coded optical PPM communication systems

A number of parallel concatenated convolutionally coded (PCCC) photon communication systems is introduced and investigated. It is assumed that the optical channel is an intensity modulated (IM) channel and that the received optical signal is detected using a direct-detection (DD) scheme. Two modes of operation are considered. In one scenario, it is assumed that the receiver is limited by shot noise (i.e., negligible receiver thermal noise, or Poisson channel). In the other case, we consider a nonnegligible receiver thermal noise where an avalanche photodetector (APD) is employed to detect the received optical signal. It is also considered that the modulation scheme is the binary pulse-position modulation (PPM). With the aid of the best available upper bounds, the performance of the rate 1/n PCCC encoded optical PPM systems is assessed in terms of the upper bound on the system bit error rate (BER) for the shot-noise-limited IM/DD systems with nonnegligible background noise and for the thermal-noise-limited systems with APD detectors when a uniform interleaver is used. Numerical results for the rate 1/3 PCCC encoded PPM channels are presented. The numerical results demonstrate the enormous potential of this novel coding scheme in enhancing the performance of the aforementioned optical channels by a sizeable margin across the board     

Optimisation of switching levels for adaptive modulation in slowRayleigh fading

Multi-dimensional minimisation techniques are used to optimise for specific applications, the upper bound bit error rate (BER) and bits per symbol (BPS) performances of adaptive modulation schemes over Rayleigh channels. This is achieved by modifying the switching criteria for selecting the appropriate modulation scheme     

基于天线阵元功率限制MIMO系统的自适应调制

本文研究了天线阵元的发射功率受限MIMO系统。在信道准静态和系统发端已知信道信息的假设下,我们研究了该受限MIMO系统性能。在系统优化分析基础上,设计了一种简单的Bit分配方案进行系统自适应调制逼近系统容量。仿真结果表明该系统能更好接近真实环境,调制方案有较好性能。     

A generalized Chinese remainder theorem-based proactive multi-secret sharing scheme for global wide area network

Adaptive communication for is one of the hottest areas of research in the telecommunication systems including wireless broadcast systems. This is primarily accomplished for sake of boosting the transmission throughput with enhanced quality of service and ideal link utilization. In adaptive communication, various radio transmission parameters like modulation symbol, code-rate and power etc. are carefully chosen according to the erratic channel state information on the link. Digital video broadcast—second generation (DVB-S2) has an inbuilt support for adaptive coding and modulation (ACM). However, power adaptation is still a necessity because of power constraint in downlink where satellite has a limited power bank. Moreover, different downlinks have distinct transmit power requirements due to diverse ambient on earth receivers like rainy, foggy, stormy and with clear sky etc., hence flat transmit power distribution among all the ground receivers may not be a good idea at all. To utilize the ACM feature in DVB-S2 and to additionally adapt power, in this paper, an adaptive modulation, coding (MODCOD) and power scheme is proposed. By investigating a fuzzy system and differential evolution algorithm, to select the set of MODCODs and optimum power vector, respectively, for the next transmission interval. From the simulation results it is apparent that the proposed scheme is promising in terms of efficient link and transmit power utilization as well as quality of service compared to the schemes in the literature with flat power distribution.