Yejun He

Enabling device-to-device communications in millimeter-wave 5G cellular networks

Millimeter-wave communication is a promising technology for future 5G cellular networks to provide very high data rate (multi-gigabits-per-second) for mobile devices. Enabling D2D communications over directional mmWave networks is of critical importance to efficiently use the large bandwidth to increase network capacity. In this article, the propagation features of mmWave communication and the associated impacts on 5G cellular networks are discussed. We introduce an mmWave+4G system architecture with TDMA-based MAC structure as a candidate for 5G cellular networks. We propose an effective resource sharing scheme by allowing non-interfering D2D links to operate concurrently. We also discuss neighbor discovery for frequent handoffs in 5G cellular networks.

A Non-Stationary 3-D Wideband Twin-Cluster Model for 5G Massive MIMO Channels

This paper proposes a novel theoretical non-stationary three dimensional (3-D) wideband twin-cluster channel model for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems with carrier frequencies on the order of gigahertz (GHz). As the dimension of antenna arrays cannot be ignored for massive MIMO, near field effects instead of far field effects are considered in the proposed model. These include the spherical wavefront assumption and a birth-death process to model non-stationary properties of clusters such as cluster appearance and disappearance on both the array and time axes. Their impacts on massive MIMO channels are investigated via statistical properties including correlation functions, condition numbers, and angular power spectra. Additionally, the impact of elevation angles on correlation functions is discussed. A corresponding simulation model for the theoretical model is also proposed. Finally, numerical analysis shows that the proposed channel models are able to serve as a design framework for massive MIMO channel modeling.

A Wideband Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna

This letter introduces a wideband circularly polarized (CP) cross-dipole antenna fabricated on a double-layered printed circuit board (PCB) substrate for 2.45-GHz ISM band wireless communications. Unlike conventional cross-dipole antennas, the proposed cross dipole is designed with wide open ends such that both impedance and axial-ratio (AR) bandwidths are enhanced. In addition, to excite the CP radiation effectively, a curved-delay line providing an orthogonal phase difference among the cross-dipole elements is attached at the corners of the sequentially rotated elements. By choosing a proper radius of the curved-delay line, a wide input impedance of the antenna can be realized. The antenna is center-fed by a 50- Ω coaxial cable and is placed above a square reflector to obtain a directional CP radiation pattern. With the advantage of centered feed, symmetric CP radiation patterns can be achieved across the entire operating bandwidth. Simulated and measured results confirm the proposed antenna produced good CP characteristics. An impedance bandwidth (for VSWR ≤ 2) of about 50.2% (1.99-3.22 GHz) and the 3-dB AR bandwidth of about 27% (2.30-2.9 GHz) around the center frequency of 2.45 GHz were measured. The antenna has an average CP gain of 6.2 dBic across the operating bandwidth and the maximum gain of 6.8 dBic at the center frequency. The size of antenna is 0.45λ×0.45λ×0.24λ.

Sliding Window Tone Reservation Technique for the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction of FBMC-OQAM Signals

The filter bank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC-OQAM) has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we address the problem of PAPR reduction for FBMC-OQAM systems using Tone Reservation (TR) technique. Due to the overlapping structure of FBMC-OQAM signals, directly applying TR schemes of OFDM systems to FBMC-OQAM systems is not effective. We improve the tone reservation (TR) technique by employing sliding window for the PAPR reduction of FBMC-OQAM signals, called sliding window tone reservation (SW-TR) technique. The proposed SWTR technique uses the peak reduction tones (PRTs) of several consecutive data blocks to cancel the peaks of the FBMC-OQAM signal inside a window. Furthermore, we propose a method to overlap the sliding windows to control the out-of-window peak regrowth caused by the peak-canceling signal.

Prototype Filter Optimization to Minimize Stopband Energy With NPR Constraint for Filter Bank Multicarrier Modulation Systems

Recently, filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulations have attracted increasing attention. The filter banks of FBMC are derived from a prototype filter that determines the system performance, such as stopband attenuation, intersymbol interference (ISI) and interchannel interference (ICI). In this paper, we formulate a problem of direct optimization of the filter impulse-response coefficients for the FBMC systems to minimize the stopband energy and constrain the ISI/ICI. Unfortunately, this filter optimization problem is nonconvex and highly nonlinear. Nevertheless, observing that all the functions in the optimization problem are twice-differentiable, we propose using the

An ALOHA-based improved anti-collision algorithm for RFID systems

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MAC-Layer Concurrent Beamforming Protocol for Indoor Millimeter-Wave Networks

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Spectral Sculpting for OFDM Based Opportunistic Spectrum Access by Extended Active Interference Cancellation

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Proactive Caching for Mobile Video Streaming in Millimeter Wave 5G Networks

BB) algorithm to obtain the optimal solution. However, the convergence time of the algorithm is unacceptable because the number of unknowns (i.e., the filter coefficients) in the optimization problem is too large. The main contribution of this paper is that we propose a method to dramatically reduce the number of unknowns of the optimization problem through approximation of the constraints, so that the optimal solution of the approximated optimization problem can be obtained with acceptable computational complexity. Numerical results show that, the proposed approximation is reasonable, and the optimized filters obtained with the proposed method achieve significantly lower stopband energy than those with the frequency sampling and windowing based techniques.

3D Wideband Non-Stationary Geometry-Based Stochastic Models for Non-Isotropic MIMO Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channels

Tag collision arbitration is considered as one of the critical issues in RFID system design. In order to further improve the identification efficiency of tag anti-collision algorithms in RFID systems, several types of dynamic framed slotted ALOHA (DFSA) anti-collision algorithms are analyzed, and a new anti-collision algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm has the ability of identifying the time slot distribution which is selected by the tags within a readers interrogation range in advance. Then the free time slots will be skipped when the reader queries each time slot. Also, the colliding tags will be immediately processed with additional time slots. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm takes fewer total number of time slots and has a higher efficiency of tag identification compared to the other four DFSA anti-collision algorithms.