Frequency-selective Multipath Rayleigh Fading Research Articles

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Coded and Uncoded Decision Fusion under Correlated Shadowed Fading Report Channels.

This article addresses the impact of forward error correction when applied to the report channel transmissions of a centralized decision fusion cooperative spectrum sensing scheme designed to detect idle orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) subchannels. The OFDMA signal is transmitted over slow frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels and sensed using the maximum eigenvalue detection test statistic. The decisions on the OFDMA subchannel occupancy are transmitted to a fusion center over report channels represented by a shadowed fading model combining a three-dimensional spatially correlated shadowing with a slow and flat multipath Rayleigh fading. Binary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hochquenghem (BCH) and Repetition codes are used to protect these decisions. Results show that shadowing correlation severely deteriorates the overall spectrum sensing performance and that error correction may not be able to protect the report channel transmissions. It can be even worse with respect to the system performance especially at low signal-to-noise regimes. In the situations in which error correction is effective, the Repetition code is capable of outperforming the BCH, meaning that the diversity gain may be more relevant than the coding gain when the spectrum sensing decisions are subjected to correlated shadowing.

Performance analysis of wavelet channel coding in COST207-based channel models on simulated radio-over-fiber systems at the W-band

Millimeter wave communications based on photonic technologies have gained increased attention to provide optic fiber-like capacity in wireless environments. However, the new hybrid fiber-wireless channel represents new challenges in terms of signal transmission performance analysis. Traditionally, such systems use diversity schemes in combination with digital signal processing techniques to overcome effects such as fading and inter-symbol interference (ISI). Wavelet Channel Coding (WCC) has emerged as a technique to minimize the fading effects of wireless channels, which is a mayor challenge in systems operating in the millimeter wave regime. This work takes the WCC one step beyond by performance evaluation in terms of bit error probability, over time-varying, frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. The adopted propagation model follows the COST207 norm, the main international standard reference for GSM, UMTS, and EDGE applications. The results show how WCC can be efficient against ISI. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time WCC is considered on Radio-over-Fiber transmissions at mm-wave range.

Comparative Study of Bit Error Rate with Channel Estimation in OFDM System for M-ary Different Modulation Techniques

In this paper we investigate the bit error rate performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with channel estimation through least square error (LSE) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) algorithms. In this paper we are implementing the M-ary phase shift keying (M- PSK) and M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) digital modulation techniques for mapping the signal in OFDM system for bit error rate evaluation with the employment of comb-type pilot symbol-assisted channel estimation algorithm over frequency selective multi-path Rayleigh fading channel. Here the performance of Least Squares method depends on not only on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) but also on the pilot ratio. Simulation results show that applying the LSE and MMSE channel estimation algorithm, they produce the best BER performance over the fading channel. We can consider the OFDM system as either a modulation technique or a multiplexing technique. In a single carrier system, a single fade or interferer can cause the entire link to fail, but in a multicarrier system, only a small percentage of the subcarriers will be affected [1]. Here we are using the pilot symbols as a guard band to eliminate the Inter Symbol Interference, and cyclic prefix eliminates the Inter Subcarrier Interference. Keywords Channel estimation, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), least square error (LSE), minimum mean square error (MMSE), pilot symbol, bit error rate (BER).

Optimal Periodic Training Signal for Frequency Offset Estimation in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels

This paper addresses an optimal periodic training signal design for frequency offset estimation in frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. For a fixed transmitted training signal energy within a fixed-length block, the optimal periodic training signal structure (the optimal locations of identical training subblocks) and the optimal training subblock signal are presented. The optimality is based on the minimum Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) criterion. Based on the CRB for joint estimation of frequency offset and channel, the optimal periodic training structure (optimality only in frequency offset estimation, not necessarily in joint frequency offset and channel estimation) is derived. The optimal training subblock signal is obtained by using the average CRB (averaged over the channel fading) and the received training signal statistics. A robust training structure design is also presented in order to reduce the occurrence of outliers at low signal-to-noise ratio values. The proposed training structures and subblock signals achieve substantial performance improvement

Capacity of RAKE reception with energy randomization

We consider a RAKE receiver for coherent binary orthogonal signaling over a frequency selective multipath Rayleigh fading channel. The receiver uses maximal-ratio combining such that the weight estimation errors are not independent of the additive noise. We find the capacity-achieving energy randomization scheme with two energy levels for the cases of imperfect and perfect channel estimates. We observe that the capacity-achieving probability gets closer to 1/2 with increase in the number of paths. We also show that the capacity is higher if channel estimates are perfect and that the channel estimation errors have more pronounced effect on the capacity at low signal-to-noise ratios.

Performance of various multistage interference cancellation schemes for asynchronous QPSK/DS/CDMA over multipath Rayleigh fading channels

The performance of multistage interference cancellation (MIC) and three combining techniques, i.e., multipath decorrelating (MIC-DECO), optimum combining (MIC-OPTM), and RAKE combining (MIC-RAKE) for asynchronous quadrature phase-shift keying/direct-sequence code-division multiple access over frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels is studied. The analytical bit-error probabilities of the MIC-DECO and MIC-OPTM are derived and shown to be in a good agreement with simulation results. Both analytical and simulation results show that the MIC-DECO, MIC-OPTM, and MIC-RAKE in a multiuser environment provide a good performance close to the ideal performance in a single-user system even in the presence of channel estimation error.

Serial acquisition of DS-CDMA signals in multipath fading mobile channels

This paper compares the mean acquisition time (MAT) performance of two serial search acquisition schemes over frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Both the conventional cell-by-cell detection and the novel joint two-cell detection are characterized. In contrast to the majority of published results considering only one correct timing state (H/sub 1/ cell) in the uncertainty region of the pseudonoise (PN) sequence, this paper analyzes the MAT performance of the serial search acquisition schemes with multiple timing states in the uncertainty region. The MAT performance comparison between the conventional cell-by-cell detection and the joint two-cell detection shows that the latter can achieve an improved acquisition performance at almost the same complexity.

Multistage interference cancellation with diversity reception for asynchronous QPSK DS/CDMA systems over multipath fading channels

This paper introduces a multistage interference cancellation (MIC) technique with diversity reception for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) asynchronous direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) systems over frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Unlike the previous MIC, which tries to remove the lump sum of the multiple-access interference (MAI) and self-interference (SI), this introduced MIC attempts to cancel only the MAI and part of the SI due to the intersymbol interference, while treating the remaining SI created by the current symbol as useful information for symbol decision. In this technique, the RAKE combining is used to collect signal replicas over multiple fading paths. Upper and lower bounds on the bit error probability are derived using a Gaussian approximation and the characteristic function method. Furthermore, effects of channel estimation error on the performance are studied. Analytical and simulation results show that the introduced MIC can provide a performance extremely close to that in an ideal single-user environment and outperforms the previous MIC even in the presence of channel estimation error.