Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Modems Multiplexing. Mobile communication systems'

OFDM is a promising technique for high-data-rate wireless communications because it can combat inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by the dispersive fading of wireless channels. The proposed research focuses on techniques that improve the performance of OFDM-based wireless communications and its commercial and military applications. In particular, we address the following aspects of OFDM: inter-channel interference (ICI) suppression, interference suppression for clustered OFDM, clustered OFDM based anti-jamming modulation, channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM, MIMO transmission with limited feedback. For inter-channel interference suppression, a frequency domain partial response coding (PRC) scheme is proposed to mitigate ICI. We derive the near-optimal weights for PRC that is independent on the channel power spectrum. The error floor resulting from ICI can be reduced significantly using a two-tap or a three-tap PRC. Clustered OFDM is a new technique that has many advantages over traditional OFDM. In clustered OFDM systems, adaptive antenna arrays are used for interference suppression. To calculate weights for interference suppression, we propose a polynomial-based parameter estimator to combat the severe leakage of the DFT based estimator due to the small size of the cluster. An adaptive algorithm is developed to obtain optimal performance. For high data rate military communications, we propose a clustered OFDM base spread spectrum modulation to provide both anti-jamming and fading suppression capability. We analyze the performance of uncoded and coded system. Employing multiple transmit and receive antennas in OFDM systems (MIMO-OFDM) can increase the spectral efficiency and link reliability. We develop a minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimator that takes advantage of the spatial-frequency correlations in MIMO-OFDM systems to minimize the estimation error. We investigate the training sequence design and two optimal training sequence designs are given for arbitrary spatial correlations. For a MIMO system, the diversity and array gains can be obtained by exploiting channel information at the transmitter. For MIMO-OFDM systems, we propose a subspace tracking based approach that can exploit the frequency correlations of the OFDM system to reduce the feedback rate. The proposed approach does not need recalculate the precoding matrix and is robust to multiple data stream transmission.

Wideband measurements of the mobile-to-mobile channel, especially of the harshest channels, are necessary for proper design and certification testing of mobile-to-mobile communications systems. A complete measurement implies that the Doppler and delay characteristics are measured jointly. However, such measurements have not previously been published. The main objective of the proposed research is to develop channel models for specific scenarios from data obtained in a wideband mobile-to-mobile measurement campaign in the 5.9 GHz frequency band. For this purpose we developed a channel sounding system including a novel combined waveform. In order to quantify and qualify either the recorded channel or the proposed generated channel, we developed a simulation test-bed that includes all the characteristics of the proposed digital short range communications (DSRC) standard. The resulting channel models needed to comply with the specifications required by hardware channel emulators or software channel simulators. From the obtained models, we selected one to be included in the IEEE 802.11p standard certification test. To further aid in the development of software radio based receivers, we also developed an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) synchronization algorithm to analyze and compensate synchronization errors produced by inaccessible system clocks.

Orientador: Celso de Almeida<br>Tese (doutorado) - Umiversidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T06:29:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hoefel_RogerPierreFabris_D.pdf: 16131215 bytes, checksum: 8d67fff6992c05fd8d2eac683e4a1f9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000<br>Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é o de analisar, caracterizar e apresentar soluções para o excitante desafio de projetar protocolos de acesso para o transporte de pacotes multimídia no enlace reverso de sistemas celulares terrestres que empregam interface do ar do tipo TD/DS-CDMA (Time Division/Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access). Os estudos relativos aos aspectos inerentes à transmissão de pacotes em sistemas TD/DS-CDMA são particularizados na análise dos protocolos CDMA/PRMA (Code Division Multiple Access/ Packet Reservation Multiple Access) e Slotted CDMA/ALOHA. CDMA/PRMA é um protocolo de múltiplo acesso híbrido, no qual se aplicam os conceitos de multiplexação no tempo~por código e de alocação de recursos por meio de reserva. O acesso controlado ao canal do protocolo CDMA/PRMA permite a redução da variação da carga instantânea do canal e, conseqüentemente, redução da interferência de múltiplo acesso em relação ao protocolo Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA, onde os terminais acessam no próximo slot de tempo tão logo tenham pacotes a transmitir. Utiliza-se simulação computacional de maneira intensiva para à obtenção de resultados concernentes ao desempenho dos protocolos CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA em distintas condições operacionais. Estes resultados são validados por análises numéricas. Entre outros aspectos deste trabalho, destaca-se: (i) o modelo do ponto de equilíbrio proposto para os protocolos CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA; (ii) as expressões numéricas propostas para uma análise de desempenho do protocolo CDMA/PRMA; (iii) o desenvolvimento de um simulador de rede de pacotes para a investigação dos efeitos da interferência externa nas redes de pacotes CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA; (iv) efeitos dos parâmetros de projeto no desempenho dos protocolos CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALORA; (v) estudo do desempenho dos protocolos CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALORA com tráfego de vídeo com taxa variável e tráfego de dados WWW; (vi) a investigação dos efeitos do controle de potência, do desvanecimento rápido e do desvanecimento lento no desempenho dos protocolos CDMA/PRMA e Slotted CDMA/ ALORA com tráfego multimídia; (vii) o projeto integrado do protocolo CDMA/PRMA com receptor de detecção conjunta descorrelacionadora<br>Abstract: This thesis has the objective of to analyze, to characterize and to propose solutions to the challenge of design medium access control protocols for transmission of multimedia packets over the reverse channel of land mobile cellular systems based on TD/DS-CDMA (Time Division/Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access) air interface. Some inherent aspects of packet transmission over the reverse link of TD/DS-CDMA systems are particularized in the analysis of the CDMA/PRMA (Code Division Multiple Access/Packet Reservation Multiple Access) and Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA protocols. The joint CDMA/PRMA protocol is a hybrid multiple-access technique that combines time-division, code-division and Reservation ALOHA concepts. The CDMA/PRMA medium access control brings to reduction of the users variance on the channel, so a larger capacity is obtained in relation to the Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA protocol, where a mobile station accesses a time slot as soon as it has packets to transmit. It is used intensely computational simulation techniques to obtain some performance results concerning to CDMA/PRMA Slotted and CDMA/ ALOHA behavior over distinct operational conditions. It is utilized numerical techniques to validate some of obtained results. It is emphasized the following aspects of this Thesis: (i) a equilibrium point analysis model for the CDMA/PRMA and Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA protocols; (ii) some numerical expressions that permits to analyze the CDMA/PRMA behavior on voice-only traffic; (iii) a system level network simulator developed to assess and to compare the intercell interference effects on the CDMA/PRMA and Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA protocols performance; (iv) the design parameters effects on the performance of CDMA/PRMA and Slotted CDMA/ALOHA systems; (v) some studies of CDMA/PRMA and Slotted CDMA/ALOHA behavior on mixed voice/variable bit rate video and voice/WWW browsing traffic; (vi) some analysis of the imperfect power control effects, slow and fast fading effects on the capacity of CDMA/PRMA and Slotted CDMA/ ALOHA protocols; (vii) a integrated design of CDMA/PRMA protocol and a multiuser decorrelator detector<br>Doutorado<br>Telecomunicações e Telemática<br>Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

Huang Yi.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-98).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>摘要 --- p.iii<br>Acknowledgments --- p.iv<br>Contents --- p.v<br>Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter 1.1 --- CTDMA for Multicarrier Communication Systems --- p.2<br>Chapter 1.2 --- Contributions of This Thesis --- p.4<br>Chapter 1.3 --- Outline of This Thesis --- p.6<br>Chapter Chapter 2 --- Multicarrier Communication Systems --- p.8<br>Chapter 2.1 --- Multicarrier Modulation (MCM) Scheme versus Single Carrier Modulation (SCM) Scheme --- p.9<br>Chapter 2.2 --- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Systems --- p.12<br>Chapter 2.3 --- Multicarrier CDMA --- p.16<br>Chapter Chapter 3 --- Data Rate Guaranteed CTDMA for Multicarrier Communication Systems --- p.21<br>Chapter 3.1 --- Code Time Division Multiple Access (CTDMA) --- p.22<br>Chapter 3.2 --- Mathematical Programming --- p.28<br>Chapter 3.3 --- Near Optimal CTDMA Approach --- p.32<br>Chapter 3.4 --- Ad Hoc CTDMA Approach --- p.48<br>Chapter 3.5 --- Lower Bound on Optimization --- p.61<br>Chapter 3.6 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.64<br>Chapter Chapter 4 --- Code Assignment for Multicarrier Communication Systems with Quantized Feedback --- p.73<br>Chapter 4.1 --- Code Assignment for Fully Loaded Systems --- p.74<br>Chapter 4.2 --- Random Orthogonal Codes --- p.76<br>Chapter 4.3 --- Wireless Fading Channel Model --- p.78<br>Chapter 4.4 --- Performance Evaluation of One-to-one Assignment --- p.80<br>Chapter 4.5 --- Code Assignment for Non-fully Loaded Systems --- p.89<br>Chapter 4.6 --- Performance Evaluation of Multiple-to-one Assignment --- p.90<br>References --- p.97

The aim of this dissertation was the design, implementation and performance evaluation of a Recursive Least Squares (RLS), lattice based, adaptive, multidimensional, decision feedback equaliser (DFE) for the spectrally efficient four-dimensional digital modulation technique, re¬ferred to as Quadrature-Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying, Q2pSK. Q2PSK constitutes a relatively new modulation technique, and the application of adaptive equalisation to this technique has not yet been considered in the open literature. This dissertation represents an in depth study into the Q2PSK modulation technique, as well as the optimal implementation, in simulation, of such a modem to aid the inclusion of the adap¬tive lattice DFE, for application to high speed mobile digital communication over the V /UHF channel in the presence of multi path propagation. Specific aspects of synchronization applicable to this modem platform are also addressed. An in depth study was also conducted into the realisation of a V /UHF channel simulation, capable of producing a Ricean and/or Rayleigh fad¬ing multipath propagation environment for the evaluation of the modem platform and adaptive equaliser structure. The theoretical analysis of the effect of multi path on a Q2PSK signal led to the correct design of the adaptive lattice structure, as well as the correct interfacing of the equaliser to the receiver platform. The performance of the proposed synchronisation strategies, in tandem with the equalisation technique were evaluated for several static, as well as fading multipath channels. The simulation results obtained show the equaliser operates correctly, and can give large performance gains over the static matched filter (matched to the transmitted waveform) implementation of the modem platform. Several simulations were specifically designed to highlight the performance limitations of the adaptive equalisation technique.<br>Dissertation (MEng (Digital Communication))--University of Pretoria, 2006.<br>Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering<br>unrestricted

Modern networks carry a wide range of different data types, each with its own individual requirements. The scheduler plays an important role in enabling a network to meet all these requirements. In wired networks a large amount of research has been performed on various schedulers, most of which belong to the family of General Processor Sharing (GPS) schedulers. In this dissertation we briefly discuss the work that has been done on a range of wired schedulers, which all attempt to differentiate between heterogeneous traffic. In the world of wireless communications the scheduler plays a very important role, since it can take channel conditions into account to further improve the performance of the network. The main focus of this dissertation is to introduce schedulers, which attempt to meet the Quality of Service requirements of various data types in a wireless environment. Examples of schedulers that take channel conditions into account are the Modified Largest Weighted Delay First (M-LWDF), as well as a new scheduler introduced in this dissertation, known as the Wireless Fair Largest Weighted Delay First (WF-LWDF) algorithm. The two schemes are studied in detail and a comparison of their throughput, delay, power, and packet dropping performance is made through a range of simulations. The results are compared to the performance offour other schedulers. The fairness ofM-LWDF and WFLWDF is determined through simulations. The throughput results are used to establish Chernoff bounds of the fairness of these two algorithms. Finally, a summary is given of the published delay bounds of various schedulers, and the tightness of the resultant bounds is discussed.<br>Thesis (M.Sc. Eng.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.

Multiuser and cooperative orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) systems are being actively researched and adopted in wireless standards, owing to their advantages of robustness to multipath fading, modularity, and ability to achieve high data rates. In OFDM based systems, perfect frequency and timing synchronization is essential to maintain orthogonality among the subcarriers at the receiver. In multiuser OFDM on the uplink, timing offsets (TOs) and/or carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) of different users, caused due to path delay differences between different users, Doppler and/or poor oscillator alignment, can destroy orthogonality among subcarriers at the receiver. This results in multiuser interference (MUI)and consequent performance degradation. In this thesis, we are concerned with the analysis and mitigation of the effect of large CFOs and TOs in multiuser OFDM systems, including uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA),uplink single-carrier frequency division multiple access(SC-FDMA), and cooperative OFDM. Uplink OFDMA: In the first part of this thesis, we analytically quantify the effect of large CFOs and TOs on the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio(SINR) and uncoded bit error rate(BER) performance of uplink OFDMA on Rayleigh and Rician fading channels, and show analytical results to closely match with simulation results. Such an SINR/BER analysis for uplink OFDMA in the presence of both large CFOs as well as TOs has not been reported before. We also propose interference cancelling(IC) receivers to mitigate the performance degradation caused due to large CFOs and TOs of different users. SC-FDMA versus OFDMA: An issue with uplink OFDMA is its high peak-to-average power ratio(PAPR).Uplink SC-FDMA is proposed in the standards as a good low-PAPR alternative to uplink OFDMA; e.g., SC-FDMA has been adopted in the uplink of 3GPP LTE. A comparative investigation of uplink SC-FDMA and OFDMA from a sensitivity to large CFOs and TOs view point has not been reported in the literature. Consequently, in the second part of the thesis, we carry out a comparative study of the sensitivity of SC-FDMA and OFDMA schemes to large CFOs and TOs of different users on the uplink. Our results show that while SC-FDMA achieves better performance due to its inherent frequency diversity advantage compared to OFDMA in the case of perfect synchronization, its performance can get worse than that of OFDMA in the presence of large CFOs and TOs. We further show that use of low-complexity multistage IC techniques, with the knowledge of CFOs and TOs of different users at the receiver, can restore the performance advantage of SC-FDMA over OFDMA. Cooperative OFDM: Cooperative OFDM is becoming popular because of its ability to provide spatial diversity in systems where each node has only one antenna. In most studies on cooperative communications, perfect time synchronization among cooperating nodes is assumed. This implies that the transmissions from different cooperating nodes reach the destination receiver in orthogonal time slots. In practice, however, due to imperfect time synchronization, orthogonality among different nodes’ signals at the destination receiver can be lost, causing inter-symbol interference(ISI).In the third part of the thesis, we investigate cooperative OFDM communications using amplify-and-forward(AF) protocol at the relay, in the presence of imperfect timing synchronization. We derive analytical expressions for the ISI as function of timing offset for cooperative OFDM with AF protocol, and propose an IC receiver to mitigate the effects of timing offset induced ISI.