A Precoding Scheme to Reduce the Effect of Channel Correlation for MIMO-PLC System

MIMO technique can provide higher information throughput and transmission reliability for the PLC system.However,the MIMO-PLC system based on three-conductor cable has a high correlation among its sub-channels.Spatial multiplexing technology will be affected by the spatial correlation between MIMO-PLC sub-channels.To reduce the system bit error rate caused by MIMO-PLC correlation among sub-channels,this paper proposed a phase rotation precoding scheme for the 2×2 closed-loop MIMO-PLC system.According to the channel transfer function of high correlation MIMO-PLC system,the phase rotation precoding matrix F is calculated,and the transmission signal matrix S is modulated with the F,the code distance at the receiving point with smallest code distance is increased by phase rotation.Simulation results show that the scheme can effectively reduce the bit error rate of the 2×2 MIMO-PLC system based on ML detection,and significantly improve the system performance.

Mitigation of spectral leakage for single carrier, block-processing cognitive radio receivers

Cognitive Radio （CR） is a multiuser, wireless communication concept that allows for a dynamic and adaptive assignment of spectral resources. The coexistence of multiple users, often transmitting at significantly different power levels, makes CR receivers vulnerable to spectral leakage caused by components＇ nonlinearities and timetruncation of the processed signal records. In this work we propose a method for mitigating the latter with an adaptive choice of the length of the processing block size. With simulations we show that a significant leakage reduction that leads to receiver dynamic range improvement of around 10 dB can be achieved with the proposed method.

SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF SINGLE CARRIER OVERLAP FREQUENCY DOMAIN EQUALIZATION

This paper proposes a systematic design method of overlap frequency domain equalization(FDE) for single carrier (SC) transmission without a guard interval (GI).Based on the analysis of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the equalizer output for each symbol,the authors adaptivelydetermine the block of the overlap FDE,where the block is defined as a set of symbols at the equalizeroutput with sufficiently low error rate,for a certain fixed sliding window size,which corresponds toa fast Fourier transform (FFT) window size.The proposed method takes advantage of the fact thatthe utility part of the equalized signal is localized around the center of the FFT window.In addition,the authors also propose to adjust the block size in order to control the computational complexity ofthe equalization per processed sample associating with the average bit error rate (BER) of the system.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve comparable BER performance to theconventional SC-FDE scheme with sufficient GI insertion for both the coded and uncoded cases withvarious modulation levels,while requiring lower computational complexity compared to the SC overlapFDE transmission with the fixed block.

Proposal of Single Sideband Modulation Scheme Using Frequency Domain Filtering

With the rapid development of wireless systems,the demand for frequency resources has been increasing in recent years.Therefore,it is necessary to consider the high-quality communication method that efficiently utilizes finite frequency resources.In this paper,Single Sideband 16 Pulse Amplitude Modulation(SSB 16PAM)scheme for the uplink communication is proposed.It transmits data in only Lower Sideband(LSB)without extra Hilbert components.Under Additive White Gaussian Noise(AWGN)channel environment,Bit Error Rate(BER)performance of the proposed scheme is superior by 3 dB in terms of Carrier-to-Noise Ratio(CNR)to 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation(256QAM)scheme with the same frequency efficiency and the same Peak-to-Average Power Ratio(PAPR).Our proposed scheme employs the original frequency domain filter on the transmitter side to form an ideal spectrum.The configuration of its process is almost similar to Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access(SC-FDMA),moreover,half of the input data on the frequency domain is removed.The proposed frequency domain filter produces the SSB-modulated spectrum with a roll-off rate of zero without degrading the BER performance.