Data Compression Scheme for Fronthaul Based on Vector Quantization

This thesis presents two original ontributions on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The first is a thorough investigation of the error performance and channel capacity of asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM). ACO-OFDM is a modulation scheme designed specifically for optical communications. The second concerns the use of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) OFDM in radio frequency (RF) systems. A new scheme which uses polynomial cancellation coding (PCC) OFDM with time offsets is proposed. This new scheme is robust to both carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation errors. OFDM has been used extensively to reduce the effect of dispersion in wired and wireless RF systems. Although dispersion is also a problem in optical wireless systems, OFDM has not until recently been considered for use in these. This is because optical wireless systems use intensity modulation (IM) and so the transmitted signals must be nonnegative and as a result conventional OFDM signals which are bipolar cannot be used directly. ACO-OFDM and DC biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) are two non-negative forms of OFDM developed for optical systems. Both are robust to ISI but ACO-OFDM is in most cases much more power efficient. In this thesis results are presented for the performance of ACO-OFDM, DCO-OFDM and conventional optical modulation schemes such as on-off keying (OOK) and pulse position modulation (PPM) for both dispersive and non-dispersive channels. These show that ACO-OFDM is more tolerant to dispersion and requires less optical power than the other modulation schemes. To investigate the theoretical limits of an ACO-OFDM system, closed form analytical expressions for the channel capacity of ACO-OFDM are derived both for a flat channel and for representative dispersive optical wireless channels. The capacity of ACO-OFDM cannot be compared with the general case of an intensity modulated signal, because no general solution for this has yet been found. Instead the mutual information of an ACO-OFDM signal is calculated and compared with two other signal distributions: an exponential distribution and a clipped-Gaussian distribution. The combination of OFDM and MIMO has been used in several radio standards. However, MIMO OFDM systems like single-input single-output (SISO) OFDM systems are very sensitive to CFO. An improved MIMO PCC OFDM system is proposed in this thesis. In this system, the signals transmitted from different antennae have different time offsets. At the receiver, OFDM symbols are demodulated by using each of these time offsets in a matched detection window. This system shows better performance than a MIMO PCC OFDM system without time offsets in two cases: when there are channel estimation errors and in MIMO systems with more transmit antennae than receive antennae.

14 - LTE radio access: An overview

Rapid developments and emergence of diverse wireless systems call for radio frontends with agile and multistandard properties. Within this publication the performance of a direct RF digitizing ΣΔ-modulator based analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is evaluated based on orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system simulation on the bitstream layer. The necessary transmit and receive building blocks are introduced as well as the previously developed reconfigurable ADC under test. The proposed approach allows flexible testing of different ADCs by analyzing the influence of the ADC's noise shaping on performance indicators like error vector magnitude (EVM) and symbol error rate (SER). The necessary steps for the combination of the OFDM signal generation and the system level simulation of the ΣΔ-modulator-ADC into a multi-domain simulation are introduced and discussed.

This paper proposed a Guard Interval Less (GI-less) transmission on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for Long Term Evolution (LTE). The system will utilise the application of parallel packet transmission and the useful operation of the characteristics of IFFT. In addition with perfect frequency equalizer FEQ, the intersymbol and interchannel interference can be eliminated. Therefore, the proposed system offered the similar performance of QOS at a reasonable complexity enhancement. In this paper, an in-depth overview of OFDM with focus on physical layer will be examined.

Light emitting diode (LED) nonlinearities have a significant impact on the performance of optical wireless (OW) communication systems based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. In this paper, different techniques to compensate for the induced nonlinearity distortions are presented and analyzed. First, single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) is proposed instead of OFDM for OW systems. In SC-FDMA, some of the major OFDM problems such as high peak-to-average power ratio are inherently resolved. It is shown that the performance of OW OFDM systems and their counterpart SC-FDMA systems are traded off for certain input signal powers and modulation orders. Second, OW OFDM systems with hard, soft, and turbo channel coding techniques are considered. It is reported that significant performance gains can be achieved through channel coding. Finally, a novel method to reduce signal clipping distortion through the use of iterative signal clipping (ISC) and multiple transmit LEDs is proposed. The ISC technique is based on iterative clipping of the time domain OFDM signal and transmission from a multiple LED transmitter. Transmit LEDs are synchronized, located close to each other, and placed to emit light in the same direction. Hence, the channel path gains from each LED to the receiver photodiode are similar. The received signals from the different LEDs add coherently at the receiver. Reported results demonstrate that the effect of distortion is eliminated or significantly reduced based on the considered number of transmit LEDs.

Handover is an essential process in wireless networks where mobile node changes its access points during the call. Due to heterogeneity in the networks and coexistence of various wireless technologies like wireless fidelity (WiFi), long-term evolution (LTE), wireless interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), etc., the vertical handover is essential for mobile unit. Vertical handover (VHO) happens to be amongst heterogeneous technologies. Media-independent handover (MIH) is an IEEE 802.21 framework that defines the horizontal and vertical handover process amongst IEEE and non-IEEE standards. MIH suggests an intermediate layer in the technology stack just above physical and media access control (PHY-MAC) layer and greatly relies on PHY-MAC for events and triggers for handover. The handover delays and subsequent packet loss decide quality of service in heterogeneous networks. The various triggers received from PHY-MAC layer rely on hardware/software design of underlying technology. The PHY layer of technologies like WiFi, WiMAX, and LTE relies on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM is an advanced version of multicarrier modulation system with high spectral efficiency, resistant to inter-symbol interference, high data rate, and less complex in design. In this paper, we propose design of OFDM transreceiver in GNU radio from our future perspective of MIH implementation in software defined radio (SDR) platform like Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP).Our design is based on various signal processing blocks and can successfully transfer the text in GNU radio platform.

5th generation systems (5G) will be based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) multicarrier modulation technique. This modulation has a very high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This high PAPR is a drawback when nonlinear Power Amplifiers (PA) are operated near the saturation region, for energy efficiency purposes, due to in-band and out-of-band impairments. In this paper, a new PAPR reduction technique called Iterative Dichotomy PAPR (IDP) is proposed. This method is suited for any multicarrier modulation and is studied here using realistic PA model. For evaluating the signal distortions, two main metrics have been considered to evaluate the performance of IDP technique: bit error rate (BER) and power spectrum density (PSD). The analytical expressions of the IDP technique for any dichotomy order $M$ is firstly described and subsequently the energy efficiency for different $M$ values is compared. We have shown that the proposed IDP method reduces the PAPR by $2.2dB$ for $M=2$ and $4dB$ for $M=4$ . Regarding the energy efficiency, for the same Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) and the same PA power consumption, the output signal power obtained with the IDP based technique outperforms classical OFDM by 20%, 50% and 80% for $M=2$ , $M=3$ and $M=4$ , respectively.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is an access technique that is used in radio networks. LTE provides high data bandwidth in transmitting data by providing flexibility against noise and interference. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique uses the FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexer) modulation technique to increase the amount of carried information over the wireless network. The OFDM signal is transmitted to the receiver at different frequencies which they are orthogonal to each other by dividing the bandwidth of a signal into smaller sub-carriers. Recently, the use of polar codes as a coding scheme in the new generation 5G systems has come to the communications markets. Polar codes as a channel coding scheme are a promising technique for the future because it is the first codes that reach Shannon capacity limit. The cyclical prefix – OFDM (CP-OFDM), which is used in 4G systems, performs well in many aspects, however, it has much weakness that make the researches look for a new modulation technique to be used in 5G systems. Filtered–OFDM (F-OFDM) is considered one solution to the problems appeared in CP–OFDM. In this paper, the differences between CP-OFDM and F-OFDM regarding advantages and disadvantages of each type are studied in details. The comparison between the two modulations waveforms are done by studying their Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) that deals with measuring the accuracy of the received signals. Furthermore, the comparison between the two modulations waveforms with polar codes in the USRP B210 radio are applied to make our work more practical.

Localization networks based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) ranging systems provide desirable location-awareness with commodity WiFi chipsets in harsh propagation conditions. Understanding the fundamental limits of OFDM ranging can guide the design and operation of these systems. Existing studies on these fundamental limits generally do not account for the processing impairments such as the estimation error of the phase offset and packet detection delay, yet ignoring processing impairments may lead to inaccurate evaluation of OFDM ranging accuracy. To address such inconsistency, we develop a framework to determine the fundamental limit of OFDM ranging, accounting for both channel parameters and processing impairments. In particular, we derive the equivalent Fisher information (EFI) for the propagation delay of the first path and quantify the effects of the number of multipaths, the number of channels, and processing impairments on the ranging accuracy through case studies. Numerical results verify the insights gained from the theoretical analysis.

Presents two novel algorithms for compression of multilead electrocardiograms (MLECGs). In the first, the MLECG was decorrelated using a discrete cosine transform (DCT) and then a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) was applied on each channel after the removal of the least significant channels in the DCT domain. Significant compression ratios (CR) were achieved by retaining only the consequential DWT coefficients. The full potential of DWT was further exploited by appropriate quantization of these coefficients. Near perfect reconstruction was obtained for a CR of 1:8. This approach is highly suited for real time applications including that of high frequency Holter ECG. In the other algorithm, first level of compression was achieved by truncating the DWT while storing the highly significant coefficients from the truncated portion. Transform domain pole-zero modeling (TDPM) was then applied on the DWT compressed ECG to achieve higher compression ratios. In TDPM the DCT of a cycle of ECG is modeled as the impulse response of a pole-zero filter using Smith's (1983) method. Further compression was achieved by the application of vector quantization (VQ) on the model parameters. This algorithm resulted in a CR of 1:80 without significant distortion. The accuracy of reconstruction was checked using both qualitative and quantitative measures. The proposed algorithms were validated on both standard and local databases.

The IEEE 802.16 standards are based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and multi-user OFDM (also known as OFDMA) for their desirable characteristics and potentials. Although well established, these standards only provide a framework of necessary mechanisms for deployable systems. Majority of the resource allocation issues are left unspecified. The conventional one-dimension scheduling cannot be readily applied in an 802.16 system. In this paper, a proportional fairness scheduling algorithm for 802.16 systems is proposed that utilizes the flexibility of frame division. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to evaluate these new methods in comparison to previously proposed techniques. The results indicate that the proposed methods lead to satisfactory performances, thanks to their improved two-dimensional feature.

Turbo codes are well known to be one of the error correction techniques which achieve closer results to the Shannon limit. Nevertheless, the specific performance of the code highly depends on the particular decoding algorithm used at the receiver. In this sense, the election of the decoding algorithm involves a trade off between the gain introduced by the code and the complexity of the decoding process. In this work we perform a thorough analysis of the different iterative decoding techniques and analyze their suitability for being implemented in the user terminals of new cellular and broadcast systems which are based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The analyzed iterative decoding algorithms are the max-log-MAP and the soft output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA), since both of them have a relative low computational complexity, simplifying their implementation in cost efficient terminals. Simulation results have been obtained for different encoder structures, block sizes and considering realistic channel conditions (an OFDM transmission over a wireless channel).

This paper applies wavelet transform (WT) on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and single carrier (SC) digital signals twice (WT-T) to extract the transient characteristics of them, and then by using the transient characteristics in WT-T domain, it is easy to identify the two types of signals. The simulations show that the proposed identification algorithms can obtain good performances in low signal to noise ratio (SNR) and multipath Rayleigh fading channel. In addition, the effects of sample rate and symbol rate on the identification algorithms are analyzed and simulated. To obtain the best performances of the identification algorithms, sample rate is set to be equal to 2.4 times of carrier frequency approximately, therefor, the difference of characteristics between OFDM and SC signals reaches maximum, while OFDM and SC signals can be well separated if only the symbol rate is greater than 20 kHz.

A novel ranging technique based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed for the ranging systems in space by using the properties of OFDM in time and frequency domains. The coarse estimation of the time delay is obtained by the correlation of the waveforms of OFDM signals in the time domain, and the fine estimation of the time delay is obtained by the phase differences between the subcarriers in the frequency domain by the proposed method. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed technique is better than that of the pseudonoise ranging method and that of the phase ranging method.

Based on spread spectrum technique, two wireless video transmission schemes are designed and implemented in this paper, namely direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) scheme and multi-code spread spectrum (MCSS) scheme. We use software defined radio (SDR) method for hardware implementation of two schemes, where a XILINX Virtex-4 field programmable gate array (FPGA) for the transmitter and another Virtex-5 FPGA for the receiver. In order to evaluate their performance, we compared the two designed schemes with our previous work on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. The experimental results show that two schemes of DSSS and MCSS have better anti-jamming performance than OFDM scheme at the cost of spectrum efficiency. Also, DSSS scheme possesses higher power efficiency than MCSS scheme and OFDM scheme due to its lower peak-to-average power ratio.