BLIND SYMBOL RATE ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SIGNAL BY HAAR WAVELET TRANSFORM

As the raised cosine shaping filter is often employed in practical satellite communication system,the envelope fluctuation at the symbol transition point is decreased which leads to the failure of the common wavelet algorithm under low SNR.Accordingly,a method of blind symbol rate estimation using signal preprocessing and Haar wavelet is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the effect of filter shaping can be reduced by the signal preprocessing.Then,the optimal scale factor is searched and the signal is processed and analyzed by the Haar wavelet transform.Finally,the symbol rate line is extracted and a nonlinear filter method is inducted for improving the estimation performance.Theoretical analysis and computer simulation show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm under low SNR and small roll-off factor.

A SURVEY OF DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS

Deep space communications has played an important role in deep space exploration. Compared with common satellite and terrestrial communications, deep space communications faces more challenging environment. The paper investigated the unique features of deep space communica-tions in detail, discussed the key technologies and its development trends for deep space communica-tions.

Adaptive dynamic reconfiguration mechanism of unmanned swarm topology based on an evolutionary game

Autonomous cooperation of unmanned swarms is the research focus on“new combat forces”and“disruptive technologies”in military fields.The mechanism design is the fundamental way to realize autonomous cooperation.Facing the realistic requirements of a swarm network dynamic adjustment under the background of high dynamics and strong confrontation and aiming at the optimization of the coordination level,an adaptive dynamic reconfiguration mechanism of unmanned swarm topology based on an evolutionary game is designed.This paper analyzes military requirements and proposes the basic framework of autonomous cooperation of unmanned swarms,including the emergence of swarm intelligence,information network construction and collaborative mechanism design.Then,based on the framework,the adaptive dynamic reconfiguration mechanism is discussed in detail from two aspects:topology dynamics and strategy dynamics.Next,the unmanned swarms’community network is designed,and the network characteristics are analyzed.Moreover,the mechanism characteristics are analyzed by numerical simulation,focusing on the impact of key parameters,such as cost,benefit coefficient and adjustment rate on the level of swarm cooperation.Finally,the conclusion is made,which is expected to provide a theoretical reference and decision support for cooperative mode design and combat effectiveness generation of unmanned swarm operations.

Local-State Routing in Satellite Constellation Networks from the Perspective of Complex Network

Routing algorithms in satellite constellation networks usually make use of the local state information to adapt to the topology and traffic dynamics,since it’s difficult to obtain the global states in time due to the spatial large-scale feature of constellation networks.Furthermore,they use different range of local states and give these states distinct weights.However,the behind design criterion is ambiguous and often based on experience.This paper discusses the problem from the perspective of complex network.A universal local-state routing model with tunable parameters is presented to generalize the common characteristics of local-state routing algorithms for satellite constellation networks.Based on this,the impacts of localstate routing algorithms on performance and the correlation between routing and traffic dynamics are analyzed in detail.Among them,the tunable parameters,the congestion propagation process,the critical packet sending rate,and the network robustness are discussed respectively.Experimental results show that routing algorithms can achieve a satisfactory performance by maintaining a limited state awareness capability and obtaining the states in a range below the average path length.This provides a valuable design basis for routing algorithms in satellite constellation networks.

Blind receiver for OFDM systems via sequential Monte Carlo in factor graphs

Estimation and detection algorithms for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems can be de-veloped based on the sum-product algorithms, which operate by message passing in factor graphs. In this paper, we apply the sampling method (Monte Carlo) to factor graphs, and then the integrals in the sum-product algorithm can be approximated by sums, which results in complexity reduction. The blind receiver for OFDM systems can be derived via Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) in factor graphs, the previous SMC blind receiver can be regarded as the special case of the sum-product algorithms using sampling methods. The previous SMC blind receiver for OFDM systems needs generating samples of the channel vector assuming the channel has an a priori Gaussian distribution. In the newly-built blind receiver, we generate samples of the virtual-pilots instead of the channel vector, with channel vector which can be easily computed based on virtual-pilots. As the size of the vir-tual-pilots space is much smaller than the channel vector space, only small number of samples are necessary, with the blind de-tection being much simpler. Furthermore, only one pilot tone is needed to resolve phase ambiguity and differential encoding is not used anymore. Finally, the results of computer simulations demonstrate that the proposal can perform well while providing sig-nificant complexity reduction.

A proof of maximum contention-free property of interleavers for Turbo codes using permutation polynomials over integer rings

It is well known that interleavers play a critical role in Turbo coding/decoding schemes, and contention-free inter-leaver design has become a serious problem in the parallelization of Turbo decoding, which is indispensable to meet the demands for high throughput and low latency in next generation mobile communication systems. This paper unveils the fact that inter-leavers based on permutation polynomials modulo N are contention-free for every window size W, a factor of the interleaver length N, which, also called maximum contention-free interleavers.

An improved channel estimation with multipath search for MIMO-OFDM systems

This paper addresses the problem of channel estimation for broadband MIMO-OFDM systems. An improved channel estimator with multipath time delay detection and channel gain estimation is proposed. In the algorithm, we used the correlation of the channel taps and a well-designed adjustment scheme to increase the accuracy of the time delay detection. The most attractive advantage is that the complicated matrix calculation is replaced by search steps which can acquire the channel order and estimate the channel parameters without significantly increasing the complexity of the system. Computer simulation showed that the proposed algorithm can track the time delays adaptively and, consequently, improve the channel estimation performance.

High stable power control of alaser diode

In this paper,the low and the high frequency noises of a laser diode have been analyzed. Based on the analysis a novel scheme that adapts analog and digital hybrid techniques is proposed to stabilize the output power of a laser diode. With the hybrid controller,the low and the high frequency noises of a laser diode are conspicuously reduced.By accurate calculation,the short-term stability of the output power of laser diode reaches ±0.55‰, and the long-term stability is ±0.7‰.

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF VARIOUS BURST TIME PLAN GENERATION METHODS IN BROADBAND SATELLITE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

The Burst Time Plan(BTP) generation is the key for resource allocation in Broadband Satellite Multimedia(BSM) system.The main purpose of this paper is to minimize the system response time to users' request caused by BTP generation as well as maintain the Quality of Service(QoS) and improve the channel utilization efficiency.Traditionally the BTP is generated periodically in order to simplify the implementation of the resource allocation algorithm.Based on the analysis we find that Periodical BTP Generation(P-BTPG) method cannot guarantee the delay performance,channel utilization efficiency and QoS simultaneously,especially when the capacity requests arrived randomly.The Optimized BTP Generation(O-BTPG) method is given based on the optimal scheduling period and scheduling latency without considering the signaling overhead.Finally,a novel Asynchronous BTP Generation(A-BTPG) method is proposed which is invoked according to users' requests.A BSM system application scenario is simulated.Simulation results show that A-BTPG is a trade-off between the performance and signaling overhead which can improve the system performance insensitive to the traffic pattern.This method can be used in the ATM onboard switching satellite system and further more can be expended to Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel Satellite(DVB-RCS) system or IP onboard routing BSM system in the future.

A NOVEL MODULATION FOR MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

It is a challenging problem to design a high performance modulation for mobile satellite communications due to the limited power and bandwidth resource.The paper improves Feher patented Quadrature Phase Shift Keying(FQPSK) by redefining the waveform.The novel FQPSK,with con-stant envelope,can be used to improve the power efficiency and frequency efficiency of mobile satellite communication.The study shows that the improved FQPSK outperforms conventional FQPSK over AWGN and is immune to the non-linearity of high power amplifier.At last,the impact of flat fading and multi-path fading of channel on the BER performance of improved modulation is analyzed.

Microstructures of Fe_(77-x)Ni_(x)Cu_(1)Nb_(2)P_(14)B_(6) Soft Magnetic AlloysStudied by X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure

Local structures of the mechanically alloyed Fe_(77-x)Ni_(x)Cu_(1)Nb_(2)P_(14)B_(6)soft magnetic materials have been in vestigated by x-ray absorption fine structure.The results show that mechanical alloying(MA)can drive theFe_(77-x)Ni_(x)Cu_(1)Nb_(2)P_(14)B_(6)powder mixture to produce amorphous alloy when the atomic concentration of Fe ele ment is about and over 40%.On the contrary,the MA Fe_(77-x)Ni_(x)Cu_(1)Nb_(2)P_(14)B_(6)is a solid solution with an fcc-like structure in the region of lower Fe atomic concentration(<22%),preserving a medium-range order around Ni and Fe atoms.Moreover,we have found that the local structure geometry of Fe atom is similar to that of Ni atom for all the MA Fer7-xNixCu1 Nb2P14B6 samples.It indicates that the local structures of Fe and Ni atoms in a Fe_(77-x)Ni_(x)Cu_(1)Nb_(2)P_(14)B_(6)sample only depend on the x value of element Ni after ball milling.

SER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DECODE-AND-FORWARD COOPERATIVE SCHEME IN SATELLITE MOBILE CHANNEL

In this paper,Symbol-Error-Rate(SER) performance analysis is provided for a Decode-and-Forward(DF) cooperative scheme in satellite mobile channel environment.We present a satellite mobile cooperative communication system model and derive two generalized error probability ex-pressions with Cyclical Redundancy Check(CRC) or not.We also derive and simulate SER of the proposed system over different satellite mobile channels.The results show that the analytical results are in great accordance with the ones obtained by simulation.Also,it was shown that,whether or not adopt CRC depends on the channel link quality between the source node and the relay node.

COVERAGE PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS ON COMBINED-GEO-IGSO SATELLITE CONSTELLATION

The Combined-GEO-IGSO constellation is the combination of Geostationary Earth Orbit(GEO) satellite and Inclining GeoSynchronous Orbit(IGSO) satellite.The Combined-GEO-IGSO constellation can integrate the advantages of GEO and IGSO to achieve regional coverage.In order to discuss the performances of the Combined-GEO-IGSO constellation,the performances of coverage,elevation,diversity,and transmission are simulated in China and surrounding regions by Satellite Tool Kit(STK).The simulation results show that:the combined constellation can reach higher multi-satellite coverage and higher communication elevation in China and surrounding areas;the Doppler shift,delay,and propagation loss of this constellation have little impact on the system.As regional coverage constellation,the Combined-GEO-IGSO is feasible.

Small Target Extraction Based on Independent Component Analysis for Hyperspectral Imagery

A small target detection approach based on independent component analysis for hyperspectral data is put forward. In this algorithm, firstly the fast independent component analysis(FICA) is used to collect target information hided in high-dimensional data and projects them into low-dimensional space.Secondly, the feature images are selected with kurtosis .At last, small targets are extracted with histogram image segmentation which has been labeled by skewness.

Energy-Efficient User Association in Heterogeneous Networks with M2M/H2H Coexistence under QoS Guarantees

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient user association scheme for uplink heterogeneous networks with machine-to-machine(M2M) and human-to-human(H2H) coexistence. A group based random access protocol is designed for massive number of machine-typecommunications(MTC) user equipments'(UEs) transmissions. A user association problem for UEs' energy efficiency maximization is formulated considering the HTC UEs' quality of service(QoS) guarantees and load balance among multiple BSs, simultaneously. A distributed iterative algorithm is developed to solve the optimization problem. In addition, the convergence of the proposed algorithm is proved. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme outperforms other schemes in terms of energy efficiency and QoS guarantees.

Collaborative Error Registration Algorithm for Radar System

Affected by common target selection,target motion estimation and time alignment,the radar system error registration algorithm is greatly limited in application. By using communication and time synchronization function of a data link network,a collaborative algorithm is proposed,which makes use of a virtual coordinates constructed by airplane to get high precision measurement source and realize effective estimation of the system error. This algorithm is based on Kalman filter and does not require high capacities in memory and calculation. Simulated results show that the algorithm has better convergence performance and estimation precision,no constrain on sampling period and accords with transfer characteristic of data link and tactical internet perfectly.

A ROBUST PHASE-ONLY DIRECT DATA DOMAIN ALGORITHM BASED ON GENERALIZED RAYLEIGH QUOTIENT OPTIMIZATION USING HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM

A robust phase-only Direct Data Domain Least Squares (D3LS) algorithm based on gen- eralized Rayleigh quotient optimization using hybrid Genetic Algorithm (GA) is presented in this letter. The optimization efficiency and computational speed are improved via the hybrid GA com- posed of standard GA and Nelder-Mead simplex algorithms. First, the objective function, with a form of generalized Rayleigh quotient, is derived via the standard D3LS algorithm. It is then taken as a fitness function and the unknown phases of all adaptive weights are taken as decision variables. Then, the nonlinear optimization is performed via the hybrid GA to obtain the optimized solution of phase-only adaptive weights. As a phase-only adaptive algorithm, the proposed algorithm is sim- pler than conventional algorithms when it comes to hardware implementation. Moreover, it proc- esses only a single snapshot data as opposed to forming sample covariance matrix and operating matrix inversion. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has a good signal recovery and interferences nulling performance, which are superior to that of the phase-only D3LS algorithm based on standard GA.

TURBO AIDED CYCLIC PREFIX RECONSTRUCTION FOR CODED SINGLE-CARRIER SYSTEMS WITH FREQUENCY-DOMAIN EQUALIZATION (SC-FDE)

In this paper, a Turbo aided Cyclic Prefix (CP) reconstruction scheme, termed Turbo- CPR, is proposed for Single-Carrier systems with Frequency-Domain Equalization (SC-FDE) that employ insufficient CP in the transmitter. In Turbo-CPR, the decoder output is incorporated in the process of equalization, i.e. Turbo equalizer is employed. It is shown in the simulation results that Turbo-CPR not only recovers the performance loss due to insufficiency of CP, but also provides extra gains over the lower bound of performance for conventional CP reconstruction schemes.

Beam shaping with limited amplitude weight values for satellite active phased array antenna

To gain the tradeoff between lower sidelobe and higher power amplifiers efficiency,a transmitting beam shaping scheme with limited amplitude weight values for satellite active phased array antenna is presented. The scheme is implemented by a dual coding genetic algorithm(GA). Phase and amplitude of array weight vectors for beam shaping are encoded by real coding and finite length binary coding,respectively,which,maintaining accuracy of results,reduces the amplitude dynamic range and improves the efficiency of power amplifiers. The presented algorithm,compared with complex-coded GA,increases the convergence rate due to the search space's decrease. In order to overcome the prematurity and obtain better global optimization or quasi-global optimization,a new dual coding GA based on "species diversity retention" strategy and adaptive crossover and mutation probability are presented.

Multiple description coding with spatial-temporal hybrid interpolation for video streaming in peer-to-peer networks

In this paper, we present an innovative design of multiple description coding with spatial-temporal hybrid interpola- tion (MDC-STHI) for peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming. MDC can be effective in P2P networks because the nature of overlay routing makes path diversity more feasible. However, most MDC schemes require a redesign of video coding systems and are not cost-effective for wide deployment. We base our work on multiple state video coding, a form of MDC that can utilize standard codecs. Two quarter-sized video bit streams are generated as redundancies and embedded in the original-sized streams. With MDC-STHI, the nodes in P2P network can adjust the streaming traffic to satisfy the constraints of their devices and network environment. By design, the redundancies are used to compensate for missing frames, and can also be streamed independently to fulfill certain needs of low rate, low resolution applications. For better error concealment, optimal weights for spatial and temporal interpolation are determined at the source, quantized, and included in redundancies.