Wei-ling Wu

Detection efficiency of cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio network

Sensing the spectrum in a reliable and efficient manner is crucial to cognitive radio. To combat the channel fading suffered by the single radio, cooperative spectrum sensing is employed, to associate the detection of multiple radios. In this article, the optimization problem of detection efficiency under the constraint of detection probability is investigated, and an algorithm to evaluate the required radio number and sensing time for maximal detection efficiency is presented. To show the effect of cooperation on the detection efficiency, the proposed algorithm is applied to cooperative sensing using the spectral correlation detector under the Rayleigh flat fading channel.

Reduced-Complexity Turbo Equalization for Turbo Coded MIMO/OFDM Systems

Abstract This paper derives a low-complexity turbo equalization algorithm for turbo coded multiple input multiple output/orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. This algorithm consists of soft-output decision-feedback equalization with a probabilistic data association algorithm and a soft-input soft-output turbo channel decoder using iterative operations. In each iteration, extrinsic information extracted from the probabilistic data association algorithm detector and from the channel decoder is used as the prior information for the next iteration to realize iterative channel equalization and channel decoding. Our simulation results show that the algorithm improves the signal noise ratio around 1 dB with bit error rate reaching 10 −6 when the E b /N O = 4 dB compared to minimum mean square error and match filter, and can greatly reduce the intersymbol interference at a low overall complexity of O(N 3 ) after 2 iterations.

Coverage and capacity optimization in LTE network based on non-cooperative games

Abstract As to provide the optimal coverage and capacity performance, support high-data-rate service and decrease the capital expenditures and operational expenditures (OPEX) (CAPEX) for operator, the coverage and capacity optimization (CCO) is one of the key use cases in long term evolution (LTE) self-organization network (SON). In LTE system, some factors (e.g. load, traffic type, user distribution, uplink power setting, inter-cell interference, etc.) limit the coverage and capacity performance. From the view of single cell, it always pursuits maximize performance of coverage and capacity by optimizing the uplink power setting and intra-cell resource allocation, but it may result in decreasing the performance of its neighbor cells. Therefore, the benefit of every cell conflicts each other. In order to tradeoff the benefit of every cell and maximize the performance of the whole network, this paper proposes a multi-cell uplink power allocation scheme based on non-cooperative games. The scheme aims to make the performance of coverage and capacity balanced by the negotiation of the uplink power parameters among multi-cells. So the performance of every cell can reach the Nash equilibrium, making it feasible to reduce the inter-cell interference by setting an appropriate uplink power parameter. Finally, the simulation result shows the proposed algorithm can effectively enhance the performance of coverage and capacity in LTE network.

Multicast resource allocation with min-rate requirements in OFDM systems

Abstract This article addresses the multicast resource allocation problem with min-rate requirement constraints in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Due to the prohibitively high complexity for nonlinear and combinatorial optimization, the original problem is relaxed and reformulated to form a standard optimization problem. By theoretical derivation according to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, two propositions are presented as the necessary criteria for optimality. Furthermore, a two-step resource allocation scheme, including subcarrier assignment and power allocation, is proposed on a basis of the propositions for practical implementation. With the min-rate based multicast group order, subcarriers are assigned in a greedy fashion to maximize the capacity. When subcarrier assignment is determined, the proposed power allocation can achieve the optimal performance for the min-rate constrained capacity maximization with an acceptable complexity. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme approximates to optimal resource allocation obtained by exhaustive search with a negligible capacity gap, and considerably outperforms equal power distribution. Meanwhile, multicast is remarkably beneficial to resource utilization in OFDM systems.

Performance analysis of cooperative diversity for two-way multi-relay system with channel estimation error

Abstract In this work, we consider an amplify-and-forward two-way multi-relay system for wireless communication and investigate the effect of channel estimation error on the error rate performance. With the derivation of effective signal-to-noise ratio at the transceiver and its probability density function, we can get approximate expression for average bit error rate. Simulation results are performed to verify the analytical results.

Call admission control scheme for real-time services in packet-switched OFDM wireless networks

A call admission control scheme is proposed for real-time services in packet-switched orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless cellular networks. The main idea of the proposed scheme is to use maximum acceptance ratio to maintain maximum channel utilization for real-time services according to the desired packet-level and call-level quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. The acceptance ratio is periodically adjusted by using a time discrete Markov chain and Wiener prediction theory according to the varying traffic load. Extensive simulation results show that this algorithm maintains high channel utilization, even as it guarantees packet-level and call-level QoS requirements for real-time services.

Particle filter based automatic frequency control scheme by combining the two-step structure

Abstract In this paper a new automatic frequency control (AFC) scheme was proposed, which could be used for the receiver of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system in continuous transmitting scenario. By employing the time varying characteristic of particle filter technique, the new scheme combined the preamble based estimating step and data based estimating step to provide initial probability density recursively. Theoretical analysis proved that the proposed AFC scheme could provide better performance than the two-step scheme. The same conclusion was achieved by computer simulations with the criteria of root-mean square (RMS) frequency estimating performance and bit error rate performance.

Resource allocation based on genetic algorithm for multi-hop OFDM system with non-regenerative relaying

This article investigates resource allocation in multi-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with amplifying-and-forwarding relaying to maximize the end-to-end capacity. Most existing methods for multi-hop system focus on power allocation or subcarrier selection separately, but joint resource allocation is rarely considered due to the absence of effective interaction schemes. In this work, a novel joint resource allocation methodology is proposed based on Partheno genetic algorithm (PGA), which produces excellent subcarrier allocation set (referred to as individual in PGA) with higher capacity by evolution operator generation by generation. In addition, an adaptive power allocation is also designed to evaluate the fitness of PGA and further enhance the system capacity. Both theoretical analysis and simulated results show the effectiveness of the proposed joint strategy. It outperforms the traditional method by as much as 40% capacity improvement for 3-hop relaying system when system power is high, and obtains much more capacity enhancement percent under conditions of low system power.

Decentralized beamforming design and power allocation for limited coordinated multi-cell network

Abstract Multi-cell processing (MCP) is capable of providing significant performance gain, but this improvement is accompanied by dramatic signaling overhead between cooperative base stations. Therefore, balancing the performance gain and overhead growth is crucial for a practical multi-base cooperation scheme. In this paper, we propose a decentralized algorithm to jointly optimize the power allocation and beamforming vector with the goal of maximizing the system performance under the constraint of limited overhead signal and backhaul link capacity. In particular, combined with calculating the transmission beamforming vector according to the local channel state information, an adaptive power allocation is presented based on the result of sum capacity estimation. Furthermore, by utilizing the concept of cell clustering, the proposed framework can be implemented in a practical cellular system without major modification of network architecture. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme improves the system performance in terms of the sum capacity and cell-edge capacity.

Phase noise correction for OFDM signal based on DCT approach and variational inference

Abstract A novel scheme to joint phase noise (PHN) correcting and channel noise variance estimating for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal was proposed. The new scheme was based on the variational Bayes (VB) method and discrete cosine transform (DCT) approximation. Compared with the least squares (LS) based scheme, the proposed scheme could overcome the over-fitting phenomenon and thus lead to an improved performance. Computer simulations showed that the proposed VB based scheme outperforms the existing LS based scheme