A Receiver Structure for Frequency-Flat Time-Varying Rayleigh Channels and Performance Analysis

This paper proposes a wavelet based receiver structure for frequency-flat time-varying Rayleigh channels, consisting of a receiver front-end followed by a Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) detector. Discretization of the received continuous time signal using filter banks is an essential stage in the front-end part, where the Fast Haar Transform (FHT) is used to reduce complexity. Analysis of our receiver over slow-fading channels shows that it is optimal for certain modulation schemes. By comparison with literature, it is shown that over such channels our receiver can achieve optimal performance for Time-Orthogonal modulation. Computed and Monte-Carlo simulated performance results over fast time-varying Rayleigh fading channels show that with Minimum Shift Keying (MSK), our receiver using four basis functions (filters) lowers the error floor by more than one order of magnitude with respect to other techniques of comparable complexity. Orthogonal Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) can achieve the same performance as Time-Orthogonal modulation for the slow-fading case, but suffers some degradation over fast-fading channels where it exhibits an error floor. Compared to MSK, however, Orthogonal FSK provides better performance.

A sign-function receiving scheme for sine signals enhanced by stochastic resonance

To address the problem that it is difficult to detect an intermediate frequency(IF)signal at the receiving end of a communication system under extremely low signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)conditions,we propose a stochastic resonance(SR)-enhanced sine-signal detection method based on the sign function.By analyzing the SR mechanism of the sine signal and combining it with the characteristics of a dual-sequence frequency-hopping(DSFH)receiver,a periodic stationary solution of the Fokker-Planck equation(FPE)with a time parameter is obtained.The extreme point of the sine signal is selected as the decision time,and the force law of the electromagnetic particles is analyzed.A receiving structure based on the sign function is proposed to maximize the output difference of the system,and the value condition of the sign function is determined.In order to further improve the detection performance,in combination with the central-limit theorem,the sampling points are averaged N times,and the signal-detection problem is transformed into a hypothesis-testing problem under a Gaussian distribution.The theoretical analysis and simulation experiment results confirm that when N is 100 and the SNR is greater than 20 dB,the bit-error ratio(BER)is less than 1.5×10^(-2) under conditions in which the signal conforms to the optimal SR parameters.

Wide angle space laser communication receiver based on asymmetric array structure

In this paper, an asymmetric array structure of space laser communication receiver is proposed. This structure can greatly reduce alignment requirement, and lighten the signal strength jitter caused by atmospheric turbulence. A prototype of the proposed structure is fabricated and a 2.5 Mbit/s on-off keying(OOK) modulated demonstration link over 40 m free space is built. This asymmetric array structure can effectively collect optical signal while rotating in a window angle of ±17°, and the bit error ratio(BER) keeps zero.