Low-complexity multiuser detectors for time-hopping impulse-radio systems

Impulse radio (IR) and especially time-hopping IR (TH-IR) systems have attracted considerable attention since their introduction in the context of ultra wide-band (UWB) systems in the early 1990s. Recently, with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission actions allowing for the wide-spread use of UWB radio systems, the interest in these systems has grown further. These systems promise to deliver high data rates in multiple access communication channels with very simple transmitter and receiver designs. The importance of multiuser detection for achieving high data rates with these systems has already been established in several studies. This paper studies several low-complexity multiuser detectors specifically designed for TH-IR radio systems. It is demonstrated that many multiuser detectors developed primarily for direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems can be used essentially without any change in TH-IR receivers. Further, several novel, low-complexity multiuser detectors that exploit the special signal structure used for transmission by TH-IR systems are developed. These novel detectors are analyzed both theoretically and via simulations. It is shown that a very simple iterative multiuser detector yields performance that is similar to that of a single-user system.     

An optimum power management scheme for wireless video service in CDMA systems

An optimum power management scheme is proposed for intra-frame refreshed image sequences of the wireless video service in code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems. The end-to-end distortion of H.263 video data is first modeled when the error concealment schemes are employed. This distortion model takes into account the error propagation effects caused by the motion compensation. Then, based on the model, the target bit-error rates (BERs) of the image frames are optimized in such a way that the consumed power could be minimized under the constraint of maximum distortion. To satisfy the specified target BER requirement, an optimum power management scheme is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme considerably outperforms the conventional scheme in the sense of the decoded image quality. Additionally, the effects of the imperfect power control on the performance are also investigated.     

A CDMA‐based radio interface for third generation mobile systems

This paper deals with the use of a CDMA-based radio interface in third generation mobile systems (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System – UMTS, and Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System – FPLMTS). The paper is not intended as a detailed analysis of the radio interface performance, but as an overview of the main issues arising in a typical CDMA-based mobile system, discussing the different available technical solutions. First of all, the basic requirements of the radio interface in a third generation mobile system are outlined. In particular, the support of variable bit rate transmission, the adaptability to the different propagation and service environments and the flexibility are felt to be important topics to be discussed. Then, the main characteristics of the CDMA access technique are depicted, in relation with the above mentioned requirements, focusing in particular on the DS-CDMA radio interface designed within the RACE II – CODIT Project. In that context the paper describes some of the technical solutions proposed for the provision of advanced features such as macrodiversity, multibearer transmission and variable bit rate services. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

多业务CDMA蜂窝移动通信系统的功率控制

本文提出了多业务CDMA蜂窝移动通信系统的一种下行链路功率控制策略，系统的最优功率分配可以归结为求解归一化链路增益矩阵在有约束条件下的最大实特征值。在对系统的最优功率分配进行理论分析的基础上，给予了相应的仿真结果，并针对实际系统负载过重的情形，提出了按照业务优先级别逐步去除小区用户的功率控制策略。     

Novel multimedia traffic modeling based CAC scheme for CDMA communication systems

As the radio spectrum is a very scarce resource, the Call Admission Control （CAC） is one of the most important parts in radio resource management. The Code Division Multiple Access （CDMA） based next generation wireless communications systems will support the transmission of multimedia traffic, such as voice, video and data, thus the CAC, which can support the multimedia traffic and guarantee the Quality of Service （QoS） of different traffic, has gained broad attention. In this paper, a novel multimedia traffic modeling method and a corresponding dynamic QoS based CAC are proposed. The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed CAC scheme can guarantee the QoS to different traffic demand, and improve the system performance significantly.     

CDMA系统上行链路的分数间隔频域均衡接收方案

提出一种应用于单载波CDMA系统异步上行链路的分数间隔频域均衡接收方案。针对异步上行链路各用户到达基站的信号具有任意随机时延的特性,为了提高CDMA系统上行链路的抗干扰能力,降低接收机检测复杂度。同时与现有单载波系统空中接口兼容,接收方案采用基于重叠截取技术的单载波分数间隔频域均衡器对抗频率选择性衰落所引起的各种干扰;用时域多阶并行干扰消除器减小用户间严重的多址干扰。仿真结果表明,这种分数间隔频域均衡接收方案比传统的码片级均衡接收方案在性能上有很大的提高,并且复杂度也比较低。     

Potential of the GSM air interface to support CDMA operation

The ongoing development of third generation systems sets the path for evolution of the existing second generation systems. Important issues are the need for compatibility and the establishment of a path of migration from the current operative mobile systems. This paper considers the feasibility of supporting CDMA capabilities within the GSM air interface in order to provide UMTS services. It produces performance estimates for two specific examples: Joint Detection CDMA channels, and Multicarrier DS‐CDMA channels. It is shown that a number of advantages can be obtained by using a hybrid CDMA scheme. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Optimal resource management in wireless multimedia wideband CDMA systems

This paper proposes a scheme of optimal resource management for reverse-link transmissions in multimedia wideband code-division multiple-access (WCDMA) communications. It is to guarantee quality-of-service (QoS) by resource (transmit power and rate) allocation and to achieve high spectral efficiency by base-station assignment. This approach takes the form of a nonlinear-programming large-scale optimization problem: maximizing an abstraction for the profit of a service provider subject to QoS satisfaction. Solutions for both single-cell and multicell systems are investigated. The single-cell solution has the advantage of low complexity and global convergence in comparison with the previous work. Maximum achievable throughput (capacity) of a single cell is mathematically evaluated and used as the benchmark for performance measure of multicell systems. For multicell systems, due to its max-max structure, solving the optimization problem directly entails a high-computational complexity. Instead, the problem is reformulated to a mixed integer nonlinear-programming (MINLP) problem. Then, binary variables indicating base-station assignments are relaxed to their continuous analogs to make a computer solution feasible. Furthermore, approximations can be made to make the resource-management scheme less computationally complex and allow its partial decentralization. The sensitivity of the proposed scheme to path-gain estimation error is studied. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme and the throughput improvement achieved by combining resource allocation with base station assignment.     

A transmitter diversity scheme for wideband CDMA systems based onspace-time spreading

We present a transmit diversity technique for the downlink of (wideband) direct-sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The technique, called space-time spreading (STS), improves the downlink performance by using a small number of antenna elements at the base and one or more antennas at the handset, in conjunction with a novel spreading scheme that is inspired by space-time codes. It spreads each signal in a balanced way over the transmitter antenna elements to provide maximal path diversity at the receiver. In doing so, no extra spreading codes, transmit power or channel information are required at the transmitter and only minimal extra hardware complexity at both sides of the link. Both our analysis and simulation results show significant performance gains over conventional single-antenna systems and other open-loop transmit diversity techniques. Our approach is a practical way to increase the bit rate and/or improve the quality and range in the downlink of either mobile or fixed CDMA systems. A STS-based proposal for the case of two transmitter and single-receiver antennas has been accepted and will be included as an optional diversity mode in release A of the IS-2000 wideband CDMA standard     

Direction-of-arrival tracking scheme for DS/CDMA systems: direction lock loop

In this paper, a new direction-of-arrival (DOA) tracking algorithm, direction lock loop (DiLL), is proposed for wireless direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems. It has a similar concept to the delay lock loop that is used for timing synchronization. It may track the DOA of sources by iterations. Its computational requirements are NK+O(K) for coherent DiLL and 2NK+O(K) for noncoherent DiLL, where N is the number of antenna elements and K is the number of signal sources, which is less than that of the projection approximation subspace tracking with deflation algorithm. The DOA tracking accuracy is demonstrated by analysis and computer simulations.     

Mobile access to an ATM network using a CDMA air interface

The paper presents a possible integrated system concept for a direct sequence spread spectrum CDMA radio access system suitable for third-generation mobile radio. The system has been conceived to take account of such diverse services as low bit rate voice and quasi-broadband services at rates of up to 256 kb/s. Broadband services imply the use of the ATM transmission technique, and particular attention is paid to the mutual impact of CDMA and ATM. An efficient automatic repeat request technique is described which gives a suitably low overall error rate and a soft capacity limit. The proposed solution represents a quantum advance on today's CDMA solutions and integrates well with the ATM fixed network     

Optimal sequences and sum capacity of synchronous CDMA systems

The sum capacity of a multiuser synchronous CDMA system is completely characterized in the general case of asymmetric user power constraints-this solves the open problem posed by Rupf and Massey (see ibid., vol.40, p.1261-6, 1994) which had solved the equal power constraint case. We identify the signature sequences with real components that achieve sum capacity and indicate a simple recursive algorithm to construct them     

Frame time-hopping patterns in multirate optical CDMA networks using conventional and multicode schemes

A class of generalized optical orthogonal codes (OOCs), namely, frame time-hopping (FTH) patterns with an extremely large cardinality, are studied for implementing multirate and multiservice (MR/MS) optical CDMA (OCDMA) networks. Conventional MR/MS methods, namely variable spreading rate and parallel mapping, are considered. Using FTH patterns, the problem of low OOC code cardinality in conventional MR/MS schemes is removed. Moreover, several new multicode methods, using subcode concatenation scheme, are proposed for MR/MS OCDMA. The proposed multicode schemes present flexibility for supporting MR/MS applications such as lower implementation complexity and cost, less need for service synchronization, and finally lower link power budget. Multiple-access performances of the systems are evaluated using saddle-point approximation methods considering photodetector shot-noise, dark current, and circuit thermal noise. The results show that the conventional parallel mapping outperforms the other schemes in high received powers, and the proposed multicode method, using Walsh subcode along with difference modulation, presents the best performance in low received powers for the cases considered.     

Interleaving scheme for multicarrier CDMA system

In MultiCarrier Code-Division Multiple-Access (MC-CDMA) system,the received signals scattered in the frequency domain are combined to get frequency diversity gain.However,the frequency diversity gain is limited because of correlation between subcarriers.A novel interleaving scheme for MC-CDMA system is proposed in this paper.A circular shifting register is introduced into each subcarrier branch to decrease the correlation between subcarriers.By using interleaving,frequency diversity gain of system is increased.System structure and model with interleaver are discussed.In the case of multiple users,Parallel Interference Cancellation (PIC) technique is also introduced.Computer simulations demonstrate the performance of proposed scheme,and the performance comparison of MC-CDMA with interleaver and conventional MC-CDMA system is shown as well.     

The effect of NBI on UWB time-hopping systems

This letter presents an analysis of the effect of narrowband interference (NBI) on ultrawideband (UWB) time-hopping (TH) systems in the presence of multipath fading using both analytical derivations and simulations. Our analysis demonstrates that NBI may be an issue in some instances. In addition, we suggest three NBI suppression schemes for combating NBI in UWB TH systems. Single-link performance of these schemes in conjunction with a Rake-type receiver structure is estimated for both the ideal all-Rake receiver and the simpler partial-Rake receiver in an indoor environment. Two UWB pulse shapes that meet the Federal Communications Commission rules for UWB communications are considered in the investigation.     

Throughput and energy performance of TCP on a wideband CDMA air interface

In this paper, we present a study on the performance of TCP, in terms of both throughput and energy consumption, in the presence of a wideband CDMA radio interface typical of third generation wireless systems. The results show that the relationship between throughput and average error rate is largely independent of the network load, making it possible to introduce a universal throughput curve, empirically characterized, which gives throughput predictions for each value of the user error probability. Furthermore, the study of the energy efficiency shows the possibility to select an optimal power control threshold to maximize the trade‐off between throughput and energy, thereby potentially achieving very significant energy gains. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Physical-layer air interface solutions for broadband high-speed wireless cellular systems

We propose the physical-layer (PHY) air interface solutions for downlink and uplink transmissions in broadband high-speed wireless cellular systems. A system based on low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) time-division multiple-accessing (TDMA) (with scheduling) is proposed for downlink transmission; and a system based on orthogonal space-time block coded (STBC) multi-carrier code-division multiple-accessing (MC-CDMA) is proposed for uplink transmission. The proposed scheme can support ∼100 Mbps peak rate over 25 MHz bandwidth downlink channels and ∼30 Mbps sum rate of multiple users over 25 MHz uplink channels. Moreover, the proposed solutions provide excellent performance and reasonable complexity for mobile station and for base station. Ben Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1994 and 1997; the Ph.D. degree from Texas A & M University in 2002. From 1994 to 1997, he was a Research Assistant with National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory at Southeast University, China. From 1997 to 1998, he was with the CDMA Research Department of Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Co., Shanghai, China. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for the project of high-speed wireless packet data transmission (4G prototype) at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, New Jersey. He is now with Silicon Laboratories. His research interests include the signal processing and error-control coding for mobile and wireless communication systems. Xiaodong Wang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (with the highest honor) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1992; the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1995; and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1998. From July 1998 to December 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University. In January 2002, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Dr. Wang’s research interests fall in the general areas of computing, signal processing and communications. He has worked in the areas of digital communications, digital signal processing, parallel and distributed computing, nanoelectronics and bioinformatics, and has published extensively in these areas. Among his publications is a recent book entitled “Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception”, published by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, in 2003. His current research interests include wireless communications, Monte Carlo-based statistical signal processing, and genomic signal processing. Dr. Wang received the 1999 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2001 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Mohammad Madihian (S’78-M’83-SM’88-F’98) received his Ph.D in electronic engineering from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1983. He is presently the Chief Patent Officer and Department Head, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, where he conducts Microwave as well as PHY/MAC layer signal processing activities for high-speed wireless networks and personal communications applications. He holds 35 Japan/US patents and has authored/co-authored more than 130 technical publications including 25 invited talks. He has received 8 NEC Distinguished R&D Achievement Awards, the 1988 IEEE MTT-S Best Paper Microwave Prize, and 1998 IEEE Fellow Award. He has served as Guest Editor to the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Japan IEICE Transactions on Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is currently serving on the IEEE Speaker’s Bureau, IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium Executive Committee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium Executive Committee, IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Program Committee, IEEE MTT-6 Subcommittee, IEEE MTT Editorial Board, and Technical Program Committee of International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials. Dr. Madihian is an Adjunct Professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.     

大规模跳时脉冲无线电系统中的一种低复杂度多用户检测算法

该文提出一种适用于大规模跳时脉冲无线电系统的低复杂度多用户检测算法。该算法采用了似然上升搜索的策略,即朝着似然函数值增加的方向进行搜索,进而得到近优的接收信号解。仿真结果表明对于大规模跳时脉冲无线电系统,该检测算法不仅能够逼近单用户系统的优异性能,而且复杂度极低,其检测每个比特的平均复杂度与用户数仅呈线性关系。     

A truncated adaptive transmission scheme for hybrid multicarrier CDMA/FDM systems in forward link

A truncated adaptive transmission scheme for the hybrid multicarrier CDMA/FDM system is considered in forward link. In the proposed scheme, a data substream is transmitted over the subchannels of which the channel gains are greater than a given threshold, based on the feedback information from the mobile station. We analyze the performance of the proposed system when orthogonal and random signature sequences are used in single- and multiple-cell environment. In the single-cell environment, when orthogonal signature sequences are used, the proposed scheme outperforms the adaptive FH/DS system as well as the conventional MC DS/CDMA system, and accommodates more users than the adaptive FH/DS system while maintaining the orthogonality between users. In the multiple-cell environment also, the proposed scheme has better performance characteristics than the adaptive FH/DS system when orthogonal or random codes are used as spreading sequences.     

Optimal sequences and sum capacity of symbol asynchronous CDMA systems

The optimal signature sequences that maximize the sum capacity of a direct sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system are characterized in the general case of symbol delay profile and user power constraints. It is shown that the optimal sum capacity of the symbol asynchronous system equals that of the symbol synchronous system with the same user power constraints. With the optimal signature sequence set, the maximum sum capacity is achieved with white Gaussian input signals. The existence of the optimal signature sequence set is proved by the proposal of an explicit construction method for arbitrary user delay profiles and power constraints.