As an alternative to satellite communications,multi-hop relay networks can be deployed for maritime long-distance communications.Distinct from terrestrial environment,marine radio signals are affected by many factors,...As an alternative to satellite communications,multi-hop relay networks can be deployed for maritime long-distance communications.Distinct from terrestrial environment,marine radio signals are affected by many factors,e.g.,weather conditions,evaporation ducting,and ship rocking caused by waves.To ensure the data transmission reliability,the block Markov superposition transmission(BMST)codes,which are easily configurable and have predictable performance,are applied in this study.Meanwhile,the physical-layer network coding(PNC)scheme with spatial modulation(SM)is adopted to improve the spectrum utilization.For the BMST-SMPNC system,we propose an iterative algorithm,which utilizes the channel observations and the a priori information from BMST decoder,to compute the soft information corresponding to the XORed bits constructed by the relay node.The results indicate that the proposed scheme outperforms the convolutional coded SM-PNC over fast-fading Rician channels.Especially,the performance can be easily improved in high spatial correlation maritime channel by increasing the memory m.展开更多
In this paper, the problem of channel estimation for superposition coded modulation-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SCM-OFDM) systems over frequency selective channels is investigated. Assuming that the pa...In this paper, the problem of channel estimation for superposition coded modulation-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SCM-OFDM) systems over frequency selective channels is investigated. Assuming that the path delays are known, a new channel estimator based on modified Kalman filter algorithms is introduced for the estimation of the multipath Rayleigh channel complex gains (CG). In the simulation, the mean square error (MSE) and bit-error-rate (BER) performances are given to verify the effectiveness of the Kalman estimation algorithms for SCM-OFDM systems.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFE0112600)the National Science Foundation of China[No.61971454,No.91438101&No.61771499]the National Science Foundation of Guangdong,China[No.2016A030308008].
文摘As an alternative to satellite communications,multi-hop relay networks can be deployed for maritime long-distance communications.Distinct from terrestrial environment,marine radio signals are affected by many factors,e.g.,weather conditions,evaporation ducting,and ship rocking caused by waves.To ensure the data transmission reliability,the block Markov superposition transmission(BMST)codes,which are easily configurable and have predictable performance,are applied in this study.Meanwhile,the physical-layer network coding(PNC)scheme with spatial modulation(SM)is adopted to improve the spectrum utilization.For the BMST-SMPNC system,we propose an iterative algorithm,which utilizes the channel observations and the a priori information from BMST decoder,to compute the soft information corresponding to the XORed bits constructed by the relay node.The results indicate that the proposed scheme outperforms the convolutional coded SM-PNC over fast-fading Rician channels.Especially,the performance can be easily improved in high spatial correlation maritime channel by increasing the memory m.
文摘In this paper, the problem of channel estimation for superposition coded modulation-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SCM-OFDM) systems over frequency selective channels is investigated. Assuming that the path delays are known, a new channel estimator based on modified Kalman filter algorithms is introduced for the estimation of the multipath Rayleigh channel complex gains (CG). In the simulation, the mean square error (MSE) and bit-error-rate (BER) performances are given to verify the effectiveness of the Kalman estimation algorithms for SCM-OFDM systems.
