A semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is proposed for wireless systems that employ high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signalling. A minimum number of training symbols, equal to the number of receiver a...A semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is proposed for wireless systems that employ high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signalling. A minimum number of training symbols, equal to the number of receiver antenna arrayts elements, are first utilised to provide a rough initial least squares estimate of the beamformer＇s weight vector. A concurrent constant modulus algorithm and soft decision-directed scheme is then applied to adapt the beamformer. This semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is capable of converging fast to the minimum mean-square-error beamforming solution, as demonstrated in our simulation study.展开更多
An analysis process is described for adaptive quadrature amplitude modulation(AQAM)of constant-power constant-symbol-rate over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels with inter symbol interference(ISI)and Gaussi...An analysis process is described for adaptive quadrature amplitude modulation(AQAM)of constant-power constant-symbol-rate over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels with inter symbol interference(ISI)and Gaussian noise.The delay spread resistance of the AQAM scheme is put forward by studying its average throughput and average bit-error-rate(BER),both of which can be expressed as functions of two variables,the ratio of root mean square(RMS)delay spread to symbol period and the ratio of average symbol energy to noise.Average throughput reacts regularly to the latter,whereas it does not react to the former.The AQAM scheme is highly superior in the delay spread resistance in comparison with the fixed modulation modes.Gains of the AQAM scheme over the fixed modes become more significant as the delay spread becomes severer or the average throughput decreases.展开更多
文摘A semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is proposed for wireless systems that employ high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation signalling. A minimum number of training symbols, equal to the number of receiver antenna arrayts elements, are first utilised to provide a rough initial least squares estimate of the beamformer＇s weight vector. A concurrent constant modulus algorithm and soft decision-directed scheme is then applied to adapt the beamformer. This semi-blind adaptive beamforming scheme is capable of converging fast to the minimum mean-square-error beamforming solution, as demonstrated in our simulation study.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61071087)Research contract from Shandong University of Scienceand Technology(Chun Lei2009BWZ037)
文摘An analysis process is described for adaptive quadrature amplitude modulation(AQAM)of constant-power constant-symbol-rate over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels with inter symbol interference(ISI)and Gaussian noise.The delay spread resistance of the AQAM scheme is put forward by studying its average throughput and average bit-error-rate(BER),both of which can be expressed as functions of two variables,the ratio of root mean square(RMS)delay spread to symbol period and the ratio of average symbol energy to noise.Average throughput reacts regularly to the latter,whereas it does not react to the former.The AQAM scheme is highly superior in the delay spread resistance in comparison with the fixed modulation modes.Gains of the AQAM scheme over the fixed modes become more significant as the delay spread becomes severer or the average throughput decreases.
