Low Complexity Beamforming Methods for MIMO-OFDM Systems

Wireless network is one of the most important things in the development of telecommunication. However, the existing wireless technology has not been able to efficiently create a very high data rate because it was very sensitive to fading. Therefore, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology combined with MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) transceiver system was used to gain more diversity and bandwidth efficiency. The propagation performed on the OFDM MIMO system was multipath propagation. To reduce Intersymbol Interference (ISI) was used Zero Forcing (ZF) equalizer which works by combining channel response and equalizer response itself to eliminate ISI. This study aims to determine the effect of Zero Forcing Equalizer on OFDM MIMO system using rayleigh fading channel and compared the result with OFDM MIMO STBC system. The research method used was simulation using MatLab R2015a. The simulation results showed that the performance of OFDM MIMO ZF system was worse than OFDM MIMO STBC system i.e BER vs EbNo simulation, eye diagram simulation, and constellation diagram simulation. The OFDM MIMO ZF system was required an Eb / No value more than 25 dB to achieve BER 10-4 while the OFDM MIMO STBC system only required an Eb / No value of 10.5 dB to achieve BER 10-4. The eye pattern generated by the OFDM MIMO ZF system was more closed and the dispersion of constellation signals away from the ideal point while OFDM MIMO STBC system displayed a more open eye pattern and the dispersion of its constellation signal closer to the ideal point. It indicated more ISI occurs in the OFDM MIMO ZF system than that in OFDM MIMO STBC system.

In this paper, we analyze the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of Golden coded Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system over Rician multipath fading channel. We also compare the performance of the MIMO-OFDM system using Golden code in Rayleigh and Rician multipath fading channels. We discuss the effects of the presence of line-of-sight (LoS) component in the multipath fading environment which renders the improvement in the overall performance of the Golden coded MIMO-OFDM. This paper discusses the performance of Golden codes in a frequency selective Rician fading channel. To deal with the frequency selective fading channel, we use the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation. The BER performance of the Golden coded MIMO-OFDM system under several propagation conditions has been evaluated. Keywords—MIMO, OFDM, Golden STBC, Rayleigh fading, Rician fading.

Artificial noise (AN) is one of physical layer security techniques, which can realize secure communication. AN is a noise signal which is intentionally transmitted from transmitter along with data signals. Since AN is generated to be canceled out at legitimate receivers, it can prevent eavesdroppers from eavesdropping even if transmitters do not know the existence of eavesdroppers. In spite of its usefulness, most of the AN generation techniques cannot be applied to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems when the number of antennas at the transmitter is less than that at the legitimate receiver. In this paper, we consider time-domain AN generation techniques for MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. A time-domain AN generation technique is originally proposed for single-input single-output (SISO) OFDM systems. Thus, we first consider to apply the conventional time-domain AN generation technique to MIMO-OFDM systems, and show that this technique requires a large number of antennas at the transmitter and/or a longer cyclic prefix (CP). Next, to solve this problem, we propose another time-domain AN generation technique. Our proposed time-domain AN is generated to be canceled out at the legitimate receiver in the frequency domain, while the conventional time-domain AN is canceled out in the time domain. As a result, the proposed time-domain AN generation technique can be applied to MIMO-OFDM systems, irrespective of the number of antennas and the length of CP. Simulation results can show that the proposed AN achieves the same secrecy rate as the conventional time-domain AN. Moreover, the proposed technique achieves a higher secrecy rate when a MIMO-OFDM system is employed with the antenna configuration to which the conventional time-domain AN generation technique is hard to be applied.

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems can be designed for two operational modes: to improve bit error rate (BER) or to increase capacity without consuming additional power or bandwidth. In this paper, MIMO space-time-frequency (STF) conjugate two-path transmission orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with precoders are presented to combat inter-carrier interference and to adaptively switch between these two modes in mobile fading channels. First, the STF architecture is developed to form a 2 × 1 STF-OFDM system. Second, a conjugate cancellation (CC) two-path transmission scheme is integrated with the STF-OFDM system to form a new 2 × 1 STFCC-OFDM system. This system improves BER without expanding power or bandwidth in comparing with the CC scheme. Third, Walsh–Hadamard (WH) transform is employed as the precoder to form the 2 × 1 WHSTFCC-OFDM system. Finally, a 2 × 2 WHSTFCC-OFDM architecture is designed. It can be used to improve BER or switch to two 2 × 1 WHSTFCC-OFDM systems to increase capacity as needed. Simulations indicate that the 2 × 1 WHSTFCC-OFDM system has the best BER, the STFCC-OFDM system, and the STF-OFDM system follow in order. Similarly, the BER of the 2 × 2 WHSTFCC-OFDM system outperforms the 2 × 1 WHSTFCC-OFDM, and the 2 × 2 STFCC-OFDM system follow in order. All these STFCC- and WHSTFCC-OFDM schemes are simple and backward compatible with the existing OFDM system. They may serve as baseband building blocks in OFDM transceivers and can be adaptively switched between 2 × 1 and 2 × 2 architectures as required for the fourth generation and the future planned fifth generation MIMO systems. This adaptive MIMO system can also be applied to the regular or bad weather environment in the disaster conditions for increasing capacity or enhancing the reliability of the communication system.

Towards Optimal Mimo-Ofdm Waveforms : A Low-Papr Transmission Strategy With Artificial Neural Networks

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems work well if the subcarriers are orthogonal to each other. However, the orthogonality among subcarriers may not exist and result in inter-carrier interference (ICI) at the receiver. This may cause by residual carrier frequency offset, time variations due to Doppler shift or phase noise. Further developing the parallel cancellation (PC) scheme to mitigate the ICI of OFDM systems, we expand this OFDM symbol-based PC scheme into a space-frequency (SF) coded system. This new simple space- frequency parallel cancellation (SFPC) scheme is a technique that combines the SF and PC schemes together. Computer simulations indicate that OFDM systems using the SFPC scheme outperform the regular PC and SF systems in slow and fast frequency selective fading channels, specifically at a high signal-noise-ratio (SNR). Furthermore, the error floor of the SFPC-OFDM system is significantly lower than that of the PC and SF systems without increasing computational load. Additionally, the SFPC scheme is a simple multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) system.

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, since virtual subcarriers are not used for transmission, approach of conventional uniformly placed pilot tones is not applicable in some situations. In this letter, based on nonuniform pilot tone placement, we derive optimal pilot sequences, which can achieve the minimum mean square error of the least squares estimate for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) OFDM systems. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

In this paper, an integrated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is developed to improve Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of communication systems in order to meet the requirements of advanced communication systems like long term evaluation advanced (LTE –A). The proposed OFDM system consists of channel estimation using comb type pilot arrangement and convolution encoder with the best known Coding Bounds and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) decoder. Using pilot symbols, the channel quality is estimated. The BER performance of OFDM system is improved using pilot carriers, channel estimation schemes and MAP decoder at the best known coding bounds. The system performance is analyzed with recursive systematic and non-systematic convolution codes, ML and MAP decoders. From the results, it is evident that the proposed OFDM system with channel estimation and MAP decoder at the best known coding bounds improves the system performance significantly.

Independent component analysis for multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication systems

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme to obtain a diversity gain in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems using spatial multiplexing (SM) transmission. In multiple- input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, SM is advantageous for high-speed transmission when the signal to noise power ratio (SNR) is sufficiently high, whereas transmit diversity is preferable to SM when SNR is low. That is, there is a trade-off between high-speed transmission and reliable transmission. In this paper, we propose mutual superposition transmission (MST) in order to realize reliable SM-OFDM systems without reducing the transmission speed. In the proposed MST, two data symbols of two different subcarriers are mutually superposed on respective subcarriers after being weighted. Since each of superposed symbols contains two data symbols and is transmitted on each subcarrier, diversity can be achieved. As a result, the proposed method achieves a reliable SM transmission. We illustrate three types of MST and verify their effectiveness. From simulation results, we can show that the SM- OFDM system with the proposed MST of Type 1 achieves a better error rate performance than its original system conditioned on the same transmission rate.

The nonlinearity of high power amplifiers (HPAs) exhibits amplitude and phase distortions, which cause loss of orthogonality among the subcarriers in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, and hence, inter-carrier interference (ICI) is introduced in the transmitted signal. The ICI power is proportional to the amplitude of the signal at the amplifier input and it may cause a considerable bit error rate (BER) degradation. Due to the ICI is a random process and has unknown distribution function, it is difficult to evaluate the theoretical BER when the ICI is taken into account. This paper evaluates the BER analytically using sequence development approach (SDA) for OFDM systems perturbed by the HPA. In comparison to the state-of-the-art technique, the evaluation of the BER using this approach achieves superior approximation at the expense of additional computational complexity.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system has been widely used for the high speed digital communication area and it is very promising for the next generation communication standard because of high data rate capability. However, OFDM system has inherent serious problem of high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) that makes the OFDM signal be distorted in the nonlinear HPA (high power amplifier). In this paper, CI (carrier interferometry)-OFDM system is considered to overcome this problem and is newly analyzed in the selective fading and narrow-band interference channel. CI-OFDM system distributes each parallel data to all sub-carriers in differently phase-rotated form. So, PAPR becomes lowered and it shows the frequency diversity effects. BER (bit error rate) performance is analyzed in the selective fading and narrow-band interference environment. From the simulation results, it is confirmed that CI-OFDM system calms down the high PAPR problem and CI-OFDM system is more robust than the ordinary OFDM system in the selective fading and narrow-band interference channel.

This paper presents a new way to improve the performance of MIMO-OFDM (multiple input multiple output - orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) by reducing the Bit Error Rate (BER) using both Convolutional Coding (CC) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In this Paper, OFDM system was simulated and studied with three models, SISO-OFDM, MISO-OFDM and MIMO-OFDM. The final system (MIMO-OFDM) has been improved by using CC at a coding rate 1/2 and using a DWT instead of FFT and then using both CC and DWT. The communication channels used in the study are Rician and Rayleigh fading channels and the modulation technique is Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK) with 64 number of carrier frequencies. The results showed that the use of both convolutional coding and discrete wavelet transform in the MIMO-OFDM system reduces the bit energy to the intensity of noise energy (Eb/N0) by 3.4 dB as the Rayleigh fading channel is used and 4.6 dB as the Rician fading channel is used when BER=10-3. The results were obtained by modeling in the MATLAB program.

Due to the market demands, current communication systems evolve rapidly from existing 4G standard to a future 5G, that implies higher capacity and flexibility. In 4G systems the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique are used to enable higher rates for mobile users, while in 5G it is expected to further increase the performances by using a significantly higher number of antennas (massive MIMO) and cooperative relays for solving the problem of coverage and capacity at the cell border. In this work, massive multiuser MIMO OFDM (MV-MIMO) systems, with 10 to 100 antennas are used, without relay nodes, to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) as a function of the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). Then, the system is further developed, by introducing amplify-and-forward (AF) relays as intermediaries between the transmitter and the receiver to see if the performances are improved.

Optimization on semi-blind channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM systems