Design of concatenated turbo-SPC coded space-time systems

Multiple antenna wireless systems can provide larger channel capacity and enable spatial diversity to combat fading. In this paper we conduct an investigation into the design of coded space-time system obtained by serially concatenating channel code module and space-time code module with an interleaver in between. As an example, the system is constructed by employing low decoding complexity turbo-SPC （single parity check） code as outer module and linear complex field space-time code as inner module, which achieves full diversity and lossless equivalent channel capacity. Simulation results prove that our designed system performs well and it only loses 0.8 dB from multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） capacity at BER = 10^-5 in the case of information bit length 6048. Compared with turbo code-based systems, it also has lower error floor.

Component fault diagnosis for nonlinear systems

In the field of fault diagnosis, the state equation of nonlinear system, including the actuator and the component, has been established. When the faults in the system appear, it is difficult to observe the fault isolation between the actuator and the component. In order to diagnose the component fault in the nonlinear systems, a novel strategy is proposed. The nonlinear state equation with only the component system is built on mathematical equations. The nonlinearity of the component equation is expanded and estimated with Taylor series. If the actuator is perfect, the anomaly of the state equations reflects the component fault. The fault feature index is defined to detect the component fault and the initial fault. The numerical examples of the component faults are simulated for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)nonlinear systems. The results show that the component faults,as well as the incipient faults, can be detected. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified. This method can also provide a foundation for the component fault reconfiguration control.

Iteration-stopping scheme of turbo receiver in turbo-MIMO systems

The iteration-stopping scheme of turbo receiver, consisting of an inner multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） detector and an outer turbo decoder, was studied in this paper. In the inner MIMO detector, only the reliabilities of bits in those channel slots which included unreliable information bits were updated when the outer turbo code was a systematical one. In conjunction with the trigger events for stopping the turbo decoding, an iteration-stopping scheme of turbo receiver was proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme has lower complexity, but almost the same error performance compared to the scheme with predetermined maximum iterations.

Inter-carrier Interference Analysis for MIMO-OFDM Systems in High-Speed Train Environment

The orthogonality between the subcarriers of multipleinput multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing( MIMO-OFDM) systems is destroyed due to the Doppler frequency offset,particularly in the high-speed train( HST) environment,which leads to severe inter-carrier interference( ICI). Therefore,it is necessary to analyze the mechanism and influence factor of ICI in HST environment. In this paper, by using a non-stationary geometry-based stochastic model( GBSM) for MIMO HST channels, ICI is analyzed through investigating the channel coefficients and the carrier-to-interference power ratio( CIR). It is a fact that most of signal energy spreads on itself and its several neighborhood subcarriers. By investigating the amplitude of subcarriers, CIR is used to evaluate the ICI power level. The simulation results show that the biggest impact factor for the CIR is the multipath number L and the minimum impact factor K; when the train speed υR> 400 km / h,the normalized Doppler frequency offset ε > 0. 35,the CIR tends to zero,and the communication quality will be very poor at this condition. Finally,bit error rate( BER) is investigated by simulating a specific channel environment.

Robust MSE precoder for imperfectly known MIMO wireless correlated channel

Aimed at that only one form of channel statistic information is utilized in traditional robust precoder schemes: either the channel mean or the transmit antenna correlation in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system, this paper proposes robust precoder designs which exploit both of statistic information to minimize the equalization mean-square error (MSE) with power constraint. Two different power constraints are studied. Besides the usual sum power constraint over all antennas, the per-antenna power constraint is imposed at transmitter in this paper. Since each antenna has its own amplifier, individual power constraint on each antenna is more realistic. Especially in MIMO-OFDM systems, the Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) is one of main practical problems. Simulations show that the proposed schemes have better performance than traditional normalized zero forcing schemes for imperfectly known correlated channel. Moreover, per-antenna power constraint can efficiently decrease the demand of dynamic range of power amplifier on each transmit antenna, especially in MIMO-OFDM systems.

Channel Capacity Estimation in TDMS-Based MIMO Measurements

Time-division multiplexed switching （TDMS）-based multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） channel sounders are widely used for wireless channel measurements due to their effective costs. However, meas- urement noise such as phase noise in the local oscillators as well as additive white Gaussian noise （AWGN） can result in significant errors in channel capacity estimates. This study analyzes the impact of phase noise and AWGN on channel capacity in TDMS-based MIMO measurements, with a channel capacity estimator presented that reduces the impact of noise on both the spatial multiplexing gain and on the power gain. Simulations demonstrate that the estimator consistently obtains the true capacity for various MIMO channel scenarios, even if only a limited number of observations are available.