Heunchul Lee

New Approach for Error Compensation in Coded V-BLAST OFDM Systems

In this paper, we investigate coded layered space-time architectures for frequency-selective fading multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) channels. By computing outage capacity formulas, we will show that the capacity of the vertical Bell Labs layered space-time (V-BLAST) architecture can closely approach the Shannon capacity in the frequency-selective OFDM environment. Motivated by the capacity analysis, we propose pragmatic approaches which preserve the optimality of the layered space-time concept. We present methods to prevent the error propagation from catastrophically affecting the signal detection in subsequent layers. First, we start with a comprehensive signal modeling which includes error propagation. We derive an improved signal detector and describe the optimal soft-bit log-likelihood ratio value-computation method by taking decision errors into account for soft-input channel decoding. Then, to further enhance the V-BLAST performance, we show that cancellation using decoded decisions from previous layers makes the decision errors almost completely disappear, so that the layered space-time architecture can approach the attainable channel capacity. Finally, simulations confirm that the proposed schemes show a significant performance improvement over the conventional methods

Orthogonalized Spatial Multiplexing for Closed-Loop MIMO Systems

In this paper, we propose a novel spatial multiplexing (SM) scheme for transmission over flat-fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, which allows simple maximum-likelihood decoding at the receiver with small feedback information. We begin with a real-valued representation of the complex-valued system model, and show that we can achieve orthogonality between transmitted signals by applying a proper rotation to transmitted symbols. Compared with other closed-loop methods, the proposed scheme significantly reduces the processing complexity at both transmitter and receiver as well as the feedback overhead. We also combine the proposed orthogonalization method with antenna-selection techniques, and then discuss a criterion based on the minimum Euclidean distance between received vectors for selecting the optimal subset of multiple transmit antennas. Using geometrical properties of the receive constellations, we also present a simple antenna-selection metric for the proposed SM systems. Simulation results demonstrate that our SM system performs close to the optimum closed-loop system with much-reduced complexity

Lack of association between the -759C/T polymorphism of the 5-HT2c receptor gene and olanzapine-induced weight gain among Korean schizophrenic patients

Background:  Weight gain can be an adverse effect of antipsychotics that significantly affects long‐term health and treatment compliance. Many reports have suggested that the 5‐HT2C receptor gene (HTR2C) is related to appetite and eating behaviours associated with body weight change. We hypothesized that there was a relationship between the HTR2C −759C/T polymorphism and olanzapine‐induced weight gain.

A Practical Cooperative Multicell MIMO-OFDMA Network Based on Rank Coordination

An important challenge of wireless networks is to boost the cell edge performance and enable multi-stream transmissions to cell edge users. Interference mitigation techniques relying on multiple antennas and coordination among cells are nowadays heavily studied in the literature. Typical strategies in OFDMA networks include coordinated scheduling, beamforming and power control. In this paper, we propose a novel and practical type of coordination for OFDMA downlink networks relying on multiple antennas at the transmitter and the receiver. The transmission ranks, i.e. the number of transmitted streams, and the user scheduling in all cells are jointly optimized in order to maximize a network utility function accounting for fairness among users. A distributed coordinated scheduler motivated by an interference pricing mechanism and relying on a master-slave architecture is introduced. The proposed scheme is operated based on the user report of a recommended rank for the interfering cells accounting for the receiver interference suppression capability. It incurs a very low feedback and backhaul overhead and enables efficient link adaptation. It is moreover robust to channel measurement errors and applicable to both open-loop and closed-loop MIMO operations. A 20% cell edge performance gain over uncoordinated LTE-A system is shown through system level simulations.

Optimal precoding for orthogonalized spatial multiplexing in closed-loop MIMO systems

In this paper, we propose a new precoding algorithm for orthogonalized spatial multiplexing (OSM) systems over flat-fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The OSM scheme was recently introduced for closed-loop MIMO systems which allows single symbol decodable maximum likelihood detection. To further improve the performance of the OSM system, we propose a new precoding method by maximizing the minimum Euclidean distance between constellation points in the effective channel. In order to efficiently identify the parameters of a precoder which maximizes the minimum distance, we introduce a partitioning approach. Through analysis, it is shown that one real value parameter and two bits are required for feedback information for precoding in 16-QAM systems. Simulation results demonstrate that our algorithm provides 9 dB and 7.5 dB gains at a bit error rate (BER) of 10-4 over the conventional OSM systems for 4-QAM and 16-QAM, respectively. We also confirm that the performance of the proposed scheme is the same as that of the optimum closed-loop MIMO systems in terms of the minimum distance. Consequently, our precoding algorithm significantly improves the system performance with a small increase of feedback amount.

Design of unequal error protection for MIMO-OFDM systems with hierarchical signal constellations

Most multimedia source data exhibit unequal bit error sensitivity. Therefore, it is desirable to design a system where important data should be recovered with high priority. In this paper, we present unequal error protection (UEP) schemes, which exploit differences in bit error protection levels of M-ary QAM symbols, in order to support multimedia transmission in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over frequency selective fading channels. We introduce an UEP scheme which significantly improves the performance with multiple transmit antennas. Also, we propose a receiver based on two stage maximum likelihood detection (MLD) schemes which can approach the performance of a full search MLD receiver with much reduced computational complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes achieve a significant performance gain over the conventional equal error protection (EEP) scheme.

Iterative Detection and Decoding with an Improved V-BLAST for MIMO-OFDM systems

This paper proposes an improved vertical Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) with iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme for coded layered space-time architectures in MIMO-OFDM systems. For the iterative process, a low-complexity demapper is developed by making use of both nonlinear interference cancellation and linear filtering. Also a simple cancellation method based on hard decision is presented to reduce the overall complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed V-BLAST with IDD scheme offers the performance close to the optimal turbo-MIMO approach, while providing tremendous savings in computational complexity.

A flexible space-time coding system with unequal error protection

Most multimedia source coders exhibit unequal bit error sensitivity. Efficient transmission system design should therefore incorporate the use of matching unequal error protection (UEP). In this paper, we present and evaluate a flexible space-time coding system with unequal error protection. Multiple transmit and receive antennas and bit-interleaved coded modulation techniques are used combined with rate compatible punctured convolutional codes. A near optimum iterative receiver is employed with a multiple-in multiple-out inverse mapper and a MAP decoder as component decoders. We illustrate how the UEP system gain can be achieved either as a power or bandwidth gain compared to the equal error protection system (EEP) for the identical source and equal overall quality for both the UEP and EEP systems. An example with two/three transmit and two receive antennas using 8PSK modulation is given for the block fading channel.

New approach for coded layered space-time OFDM systems

In this paper, we investigate coded layered space-time architectures for frequency-selective fading MIMO-OFDM channels. We start with a comprehensive signal model including error propagations. Based on the signal model, we derive an improved signal detector in the mean-square-error criterion. We also describe the optimal soft bit log-likelihood ratio (LLR) value computation method by taking the decision errors into account for soft-input Viterbi decoder. We compare the proposed scheme with the conventional V-BLAST system and show that significant performance improvement at high data rates can be attained.

A new beamforming structure based on transmit-MRC for closed-loop MIMO systems

This paper proposes an efficient beamforming scheme which attains optimality as singular value decomposition (SVD) based systems with low complexity utilizing transmit maximum-ratio combining (TMRC) techniques. The TMRC scheme is the optimum structure for single beamforming systems in terms of received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in multiple-input single-output (MISO) channels. In this paper, we generalize the TMRC scheme to multiple beamforming multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems which support more than one data stream in coded systems. We express each beamforming vector as a linear combination of TMRC vectors whose coefficients are optimized in a successive manner. Optimization of the beamforming vector is followed by the decorrelation process. All TMRC vectors used as a basis of the remaining beamforming vectors are made orthogonal to previously computed beamforming vectors. Exploiting the concept of the gradient ascent algorithm, we propose a simple non-iterative method of computing the precoder which obtains the near optimal performance. Also we derive a closed form expression of the output SNR distribution for the proposed scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves the almost identical link performance as the SVD-based system for arbitrary configurations with reduced complexity.