On the feedback error compensation for adaptive modulation and coding scheme

In this paper, we consider the effect of feedback error on the performance of the joint adaptive modulation and diversity combining (AMDC) scheme which was previously studied with an assumption of perfect feedback channels. We quantify the performance of two joint AMDC schemes in the presence of feedback error, in terms of the average spectral efficiency, the average number of combined paths, and the average bit error rate. The benefit of feedback error compensation with adaptive combining is also quantified. Selected numerical examples are presented and discussed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed feedback error compensation strategy with adaptive combining. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance Analysis of Joint Adaptive Modulation and Diversity Combining Over Fading Channels

Both adaptive modulation and diversity combining represent important enabling techniques for future generations of wireless communication systems. In this paper, capitalizing on recent developments in adaptive combining, we propose three joint adaptive modulation and diversity combining (AMDC) schemes. With these schemes, the modulation mode and diversity combiner structure are adaptively determined based on the fading channel condition and error-rate requirement. We accurately analyze these three AMDC schemes in terms of processing power consumption, spectral efficiency, and error-rate performance. Selected numerical examples show that the proposed AMDC systems meet the target error-rate requirement while achieving high spectral efficiency with low processing power consumption     

Joint Adaptive Modulation and Diversity Combining With Downlink Power Control

We consider the problem of finding low-complexity, bandwidth-efficient, and processing-power-efficient transmission schemes for a downlink scenario under the framework of diversity combining. Capitalizing on recent results for joint adaptive modulation and diversity combining (AMDC) schemes, we design and analyze two AMDC schemes that utilize power control to reduce the radiated power and, thus, the potential interference to other systems/users. Based on knowledge of channel fading, the proposed schemes adaptively select the signal constellation, diversity combiner structure, and transmit power level. We show that the novel schemes also provide significant average transmit power gains compared to existing joint adaptive quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) and diversity schemes. In particular, over a large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range, the transmitted power is reduced by 30%-50%, yielding a substantial decrease in interference to coexisting systems/users, while maintaining high average spectral efficiency, low combining complexity, and compliance with bit-error-rate constraints.     

Adaptive precoding and power allocation in distributed antenna systems with limited feedback

This paper introduces the limited feedback precoding into the distributed antenna system and proposes to adapt the predetermined orthogonal space time block codes to the available channel state information at the transmitter. The optimal representation of precoding information, namely the precoder, with least bits therefore becomes the key problem. Inspired by the characteristics of the distributed antenna system, we focus our work on the precoder construction, adaptable in response to the large and small scale fading, such that the symbol error probability is significantly reduced over that of a fixed, non‐adaptive, independent and identically distributed precoder codebook design. Furthermore, a suboptimal power‐loading strategy is presented by minimizing the derived tight upper bound on the average pairwise error probability of the precoded orthogonal space time block codes, which approaches the optimal performance asymptotically without additional channel knowledge other than the available feedback information. We prove that the proposed precoded orthogonal space time transmission scheme can achieve full diversity order. In particular, the robustness of our proposed transmission scheme to channel estimation error and feedback delay is respectively investigated in some detail, and numerical results show that it obviously improves the link reliability and obtains substantial gains even with few bits of feedback in comparison with conventional antenna selection scheme. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MC-CDMA系统中自适应调制算法的性能分析

自适应调制能提高系统的频谱利用率和改善系统的误码率性能。该文提出了一种将自适应调制算法与MC-CDMA技术相结合的方案。采用这种方案的自适应MC-CDMA系统在获得频率分集增益和有效频谱利用率的同时,还能获得很好的误码率性能。文章分析了提出的自适应MC-CDMA系统的性能,并通过仿真结果说明了合并方式和信道环境都将影响自适应调制算法在MC-CDMA中应用的有效性。     

Combined adaptive RAKE diversity (ARD) and coding for DPSK DS/CDMAmobile radio

A diversity combining scheme, adaptive RAKE diversity (ARD), is proposed for a differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) direct sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) mobile communications system. The ARD scheme minimizes the mean squared errors in the diversity combiner output. This suppresses the effects of the interference only paths in the time window for path diversity combining. Bit error rate (BER) performances with the proposed ARD and conventional equal gain combining (EGC) schemes are evaluated through laboratory experiments and compared. Block error rate (BKER) performance with the ARD scheme is also evaluated experimentally. Based upon the BKER evaluation results, an error correction scheme is proposed that is suitable for error occurrence characteristics of ARD output     

一种基于错误传播补偿的V—BLAST自适应比特和功率分配算法

本文探讨了V-BLAST系统在总发射功率受限和一定目标误码率要求的前提下,基于自适应调制时间块的比特、功率分配问题,分析和比较了系统在采用不同串行干扰抵消顺序时的抗信道时变性能和抗错误传播性能,找出了在BER和速率两方面性能最优的串行干扰抵消顺序。针对错误传播对系统BER性能的冲击,提出了一种新的基于错误传播补偿的V-BLAST自适应比特、功率分配方案。仿真结果表明,该方案能显著提高系统在时变信道下的BER性能,有效增大自适应调制块长度,减小反馈开销。     

Alamouti-codes based four-antenna transmission schemes with phase feedback

We present a new transmit scheme based on Alamouti codes for four transmit antenna systems with phase feedback. We propose a pre-processor for combining two Alamouti codes in terms of Frobenius norm maximization. For the proposed scheme, full diversity is achieved by the combining effect at the pre-processor. Also the phase feedback is utilized to increase an array gain. Simulation results show that the performance degradation due to the quantized feedback in the proposed scheme is small, and thus the proposed scheme exhibits a performance gain over existing closed-loop schemes with the same number of feedback bits.     

Cross-layered retransmission schemes for TCP-based services

Various retransmission schemes for wireless communication systems have been used to improve performance such as reliability and throughput. Each retransmission scheme is designed to improve the performance according to characteristics of each layer of protocol stacks, such as delay components and error control. Especially, a cross-layered retransmission scheme has been proposed to maximize the spectral efficiency by combining a retransmission scheme and adaptive modulation and coding (AMC). However, the cross-layered retransmission scheme is designed for performance improvement at the wireless access networks. The end-to-end performance is not taken into account for modeling of the cross-layered retransmission schemes. It is difficult to design retransmission schemes for the end-to-end performance improvement. In this paper, we analyze the delay and the throughput at the transport layer for the end-to-end performance when a system uses a cross-layered retransmission scheme and the transmission control protocol as the reliable transmission protocols. We also propose a cross-layered retransmission strategy, AMC combined with automatic repeat request (ARQ) and hybrid ARQ (HARQ), to improve end-to-end throughput. From the evaluation results, it is shown that the proposed cross-layered retransmission strategy is suitable for delay insensitive services that require high throughput.     

Complexity reduction and performance improvement of a decisionfeedback equalizer for 16QAM in land mobile communications

This paper proposes a complexity-reduced decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) using tap gain interpolation, bi-directional equalizing (BDE) and space diversity combining (SDC) to achieve high spectral efficiency and high quality data transmission over frequency-selective fading channels in land mobile communications. To reduce the amount of computation required for BDE and SDC, we propose a tap gain interpolation scheme and pre-decision schemes for both processes. Computer simulation of a (16QAM/TDMA system) confirms that the proposed scheme improves frequency-selective fading compensation performance by 6 dB or more while using only 27% of the computation of conventional single branch DFE receivers     

Channel‐estimate‐based frequency‐domain equalization (CE‐FDE) for broadband single‐carrier transmission

A channel‐estimate‐based frequency‐domain equalization (CE‐FDE) scheme for wireless broadband single‐carrier communications over time‐varying frequency‐selective fading channels is proposed. Adaptive updating of the FDE coefficients are based on the timely estimate of channel impulse response (CIR) to avoid error propagation that is a major source of performance degradation in adaptive equalizers using least mean square (LMS) or recursive least square (RLS) algorithms. Various time‐domain and frequency‐domain techniques for initial channel estimation and adaptive updating are discussed and evaluated in terms of performance and complexity. Performance of uncoded and coded systems using the proposed CE‐FDE with diversity combining in different time‐varying, multi‐path fading channels is evaluated. Analytical and simulation results show the good performance of the proposed scheme suitable for broadband wireless communications. For channels with high‐Doppler frequency, diversity combining substantially improves the system performance. For channels with sparse multi‐path propagation, a tap‐selection strategy used with the CE‐FDE systems can significantly reduce the complexity without sacrificing the performance. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An analytical study for an efficient multi‐branch switched diversity receiver

The development of new hybrid diversity methods has been demanded by the continuous growth of information rates. These schemes achieve improved balance between hardware complexity and performance, in relation to conventional ones. In this paper, a new hybrid switched diversity system is proposed. It is called generalized multi‐branch switch and examine combining. The new scheme is a generalization of the classic one known as switch and examine combining with considerably improved performance. The performance of this scheme is analyzed over independent and identically distributed Nakagami‐m fading channels using well‐known performance and complexity measures. More specifically, important performance metrics, such as the outage probability, the average bit error rate, and the capacity under different adaptive transmission policies, have been analytically studied. It is shown that the proposed approach offers an important improvement on the performance, without considerably affecting the complexity.     

Combining Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes with Adaptive Sub-group Antenna Encoding

An adaptive space time transmit diversity scheme with simple feedback is proposed for the next generation wireless communication systems. By combining orthogonal space time block codes with adaptive sub-group antenna encoding, this new diversity scheme can effectively exploit the diversity potential provided by multiple antenna arrays without introducing interference among the signals transmitted at different antennas. In order to reduce the amount of feedback information as well as the computational complexity, a new quadrant phase constraining method is introduced to formulate the feedback information. With simple operations at both the transmitter and the receiver, the new adaptive diversity scheme outperforms not only open loop space time block encoding techniques, but also some close loop transmit diversity techniques with the same amount of feedback.     

Impact of Spatial Correlation on Adaptive Coded Modulation Performance in Rayleigh Fading

A performance analysis of an adaptive coded modulation (ACM) scheme operating on identically distributed and spatially correlated Rayleigh flat-fading channels is presented. In particular, we study a single-input multiple-output system where spatial diversity is exploited at the receiver by using a maximum ratio combining scheme. The ACM scheme consists of a set of multidimensional trellis codes originally designed for additive white Gaussian noise channels, with codes being based on quadrature amplitude modulation signal constellations of varying size. Rate adaptation is achieved by providing the transmitter with channel state information as predicted by the receiver. Approximate closed-form expressions for the average bit error rate and the average spectral efficiency are derived, and numerical examples are given for the case of Jakes correlation profile and maximum a posteriori optimal predictor coefficients     

Cross-Layer Design for Multiuser MIMO MRC Systems With Feedback Constraints

Cross-layer techniques represent efficient means to enhance throughput and increase the transmission reliability of wireless communication systems. In this paper, a cross-layer design of aggressive adaptive modulation and coding (A-AMC), truncated automatic repeat request (T-ARQ), and user scheduling is proposed for multiuser multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) maximal ratio combining (MRC) systems, where the impacts of feedback delay (FD) and limited feedback (LF) on channel state information (CSI) are also considered. The A-AMC and T-ARQ mechanism selects the appropriate modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to achieve higher spectral efficiency while satisfying the service requirement on the packet loss rate (PLR), profiting from the feasibility of using different MCSs to retransmit a packet, which is destined to a scheduled user selected to exploit multiuser diversity and enhance the system's performance in terms of both transmission efficiency and fairness. The system's performance is evaluated in terms of the average PLR, average spectral efficiency (ASE), outage probability, and average packet delay, which are derived in closed form, considering transmissions over Rayleigh-fading channels. Numerical results and comparisons are provided and show that A-AMC combined with T-ARQ yields higher spectral efficiency than the conventional scheme based on adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), while keeping the achieved PLR closer to the system's requirement and reducing delay. Furthermore, the effects of the number of ARQ retransmissions, numbers of transmit and receive antennas, normalized FD, and cardinality of the beamforming weight vector codebook are studied and discussed.      

Performance of multiuser diversity reception in Rayleigh fadingCDMA channels

Error probability of an adaptive multiuser diversity receiver is evaluated in terms of channel fading rate and the number of code-division multiple access users. Fading-induced performance loss, which leads to the error probability floor, is established for the proposed coherent combining scheme and compared to that of the differentially coherent receiver with equal-gain combining     

Analysis of Transmit Antenna Selection/Maximal-Ratio Combining in Rayleigh Fading Channels

In this paper, we investigate a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) scheme combining transmit antenna selection and receiver maximal-ratio combining (the TAS/MRC scheme). In this scheme, a single transmit antenna, which maximizes the total received signal power at the receiver, is selected for uncoded transmission. The closed-form outage probability of the system with transmit antenna selection is presented. The bit error rate (BER) of the TAS/MRC scheme is derived for binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) in flat Rayleigh fading channels. The BER analysis demonstrates that the TAS/MRC scheme can achieve a full diversity order at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), as if all the transmit antennas were used. The average SNR gain of the TAS/MRC is quantified and compared with those of uncoded receiver MRC and space-time block codes (STBCs). The analytical results are verified by simulation. It is shown that the TAS/MRC scheme outperforms some more complex space-time codes of the same spectral efficiency. The cost of the improved performance is a low-rate feedback channel. We also show that channel estimation errors based on pilot symbols have no impact on the diversity order over quasi-static fading channels.     

Performance analysis of a rate-adaptive dual-branch switched diversity system

In this letter, a performance analysis of a dualbranch switched diversity system operating on statistically independent and identically distributed Nakagami-m flat-fading channels is presented. An adaptive coded modulation (ACM) scheme is employed to increase the spectral efficiency of the system. The ACM scheme consists of a set of multidimensional trellis codes originally designed for additive white Gaussian noise channels, where the codes are based on quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal constellations of varying size. The performance is evaluated by assuming perfect channel knowledge at both transmitter and receiver and instantaneous feedback of channel state information, conveyed from the receiver to the transmitter on an error-free feedback channel. The optimal switching threshold of the switched diversity combiner, maximizing the average spectral efficiency, is identified for spatially uncorrelated antenna branches.     

Performance of DSWC diversity system using suboptimum adaptive switching threshold in independent and correlated nakagami‐m fading channels

The use of dual switched combining (DSWC) diversity reception scheme, for combating the detrimental effects of fading on digital transmissions, is popular due to its simpler implementation. The performance of switched diversity strategy is dependent on the selection of the switching threshold. But, for the analysis and design of the DSWC diversity system, the closed form analytical solution for optimum adaptive switching threshold is not possible for most of the modulation schemes in correlated fading environment. This letter presents an approximate, but simple and closed form, generic expression for adaptive switching threshold, called in this case as suboptimum adaptive switching threshold, in independent and correlated Nakagami‐m fading channels for a wide range of binary and M‐ary modulation schemes. It is shown that the average symbol error rate (ASER) performance obtained using this suboptimum adaptive switching threshold is almost same as obtained using optimum adaptive switching threshold. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.