Semi-blind pilot-layer aided channel estimation with emphasis on interleave-division multiple access systems

This letter presents a conversion‐less algebraic interleaver architecture for low‐latency interleave division multiple access (IDMA) systems. The existing architectures adopt the two‐step approach that first generates a set of sequential indices, and then converts it into a set of interleaved indices, elongating the latency. In contrast, the proposed structure directly produces the interleaved indices by employing a logic that keeps returning the next index corresponding to the current one. As a result, it can greatly alleviate the latency compared with the existing schemes in the literature.

This paper carries comprehensive comparison of Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems in terms of performance (BER) and behavior to different number of users. Performance analysis of two systems whose transmitter and receiver structures are almost same are studied under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and performance differences are illustrated by simulation results. Although Multiple Access Interference (MAI) and Intersymbol Interference (ISI) can affect the performance of the CDMA system, simulation results illustrates that IDMA system model achieves this type of problem using their interleavers. Results also show that large number of users can easily be adapted by the IDMA scheme much easier than CDMA scheme.

In this paper, we propose a parallel interleaver design for interleave-division multiple-access (IDMA) systems. The advantages of our approach are the low complexity induced from an algebraic solution and the parallel processing with negligible performance degradations against random interleavers. It is specially suitable for parallel implementation of multiple user detections and decoding of IDMA signals, resulting in efficient improvements of system throughput. Simulation results show that the parallel interleavers perform as well as the random interleavers in an IDMA system.

In this contribution, we consider the performance of multi-user transmitter pre-processing (MUTP) assisted interleaved division multiple access (IDMA) scheme for downlink (DL) communications. We realize MUTP using Zero Forcing (ZF)algorithm. In this paper, we consider turbo coded system to achieve high coding gain. We construct the turbo code using parallel concatenated convolutional encoder and certain bits are punctured periodically to achieve code rate ½. We construct the pre-processing matrix using channel state information of all the users. We evaluate the performance of such coded ZF-MUTP assisted IDMA system for realistic channel model based on SUI channel model specifications. From our simulations, we observe that the ZF-MUTP assisted multi-user IDMA system provides better performance in terms of bit error rate (BER) with low signal to noise ratio (SNR).

In this paper we investigate the detection algorithms for interleave division multiple access (IDMA) systems in the presence of carrier frequency offsets (CFOs). The existing IDMA detection algorithm is designed under the zero CFO assumption and its performance will be degraded when the CFOs are present. We first extend the existing algorithm to the nonzero CFO case by utilizing effective channel coefficients which take the CFO effects into account. Then we turn to a more practical scenario with imperfect CFO estimates. We propose an algorithm that can cope with the residual CFO effects by integrating the CFO updating into the iterative receiver. Signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio analysis and simulations show the feasibility and superiority of our proposed algorithms.

In an interleave-division multiple access (IDMA) system, interleavers have a crucial role for the system performance. This paper presents a new approach to random interleavers for traditional IDMA systems. The proposed interleaver uses a random variable which is defined by Rayleigh distribution for mapping. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed interleaver approach improves the bit-error rate (BER) performance of the IDMA systems.

This work proposes a novel interleave-division multiple access (IDMA) system based on cyclic shift keying (CSK) modulation, named CSK-IDMA, for multiuser underwater acoustic (UWA) communications. The CSK modulation uses a circular cyclic shift of the spreading sequence to represent the information, which can be viewed as a special $M$ -ary spread spectrum modulation. Compared with conventional direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technique, CSK overcomes the spreading gain versus data rate limitations. The proposed scheme adopts the IDMA technique to reduce the cochannel interference. At the receiver, we employ passive time reversal (PTR) technique to compress the channels and improve the signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) at first. In order to perfectly incorporate with the IDMA receive structure, we propose a soft CSK demodulation which can iteratively exchange extrinsic information with a soft channel decoder to form a turbo equalization. Simulation results show the proposed CSK-IDMA scheme can offer significantly improved performance. The data processing results from a lake experiment show that the proposed scheme can support 8 users and 10 users with zero error bits for 2.3 km transmission and 2.7 km transmission, respectively. The corresponding bit error rate (BER) for 16 users are $\text{8.4} \times \text{10}^{-4}$ and $\text{9.7} \times \text{10}^{-4}$ , respectively. The data rate is 62.5 bit/s per user within 4 kHz bandwidth and spreading sequences of 256 chips. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work which can support more than 8 users for multiuser UWA communications with a high bandwidth efficiency.

Transmitted-power allocation (TPA) is vital for minimizing power consumption and managing interference in interleave-division multiple access (IDMA) systems. Conventionally, optimization problems arising from TPA assume that the transmitted powers can take any values in a pre-defined interval. Hence, a practical limitation is not taken into consideration: the transmitted powers of most mobile devices are discrete nowadays. In this paper, we consider an optimization problem in which transmitted powers can only take a finite number of levels. This problem is non-convex, but we show that it can be converted into a linear zero-one programming (LZOP) problem. Numerical examples demonstrate that the problem in the LZOP form can be solved efficiently using existing solvers.

ABSTRACTWe propose the use of low‐rate layered serially concatenated low‐density generator matrix (SCLDGM) codes in interleave‐division multiple access (IDMA) systems to approach the multiuser capacity. We study the behavior of the soft interference cancellation (SIC) detector employed in IDMA systems and design the channel codes using EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) evolution, aiming at optimizing the system performance. Simulation results show that the designed codes approach the theoretical limits and outperform previous IDMA schemes based on Turbo‐Hadamard codes. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Interleave division multiple access (IDMA) is a potential candidate for the future fifth generation (5G) systems. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture for IDMA system with low latency while maintaining low complexity. In the conventional architecture, the IDMA receiver sequentially processes deinterleaving, despreading, spreading and interleaving for multiuser detection. The proposed architecture, which is called the interleaved domain, can perform multi-user detection directly without deinterleaving the received frame. Because of this, the interleaving is no longer needed in the interference cancellation loop resulting in the decrease of latency by half and the increase of throughput by twice. In VLSI implementation results, the proposed architecture has reduced circuit area and power consumption by 53% and 58% compared to the conventional architecture on the same throughput condition.

In this contribution, we investigate the performance of dual-polarized multi input multi output (MIMO) multi-carrier interleave division multiple access system (MC-IDMA) over correlated frequency selective channels in the presence of channel state estimation error. In the code division multiple access (CDMA), orthogonal spreading sequence is used as user specific where as in IDMA, user specific interleaving pattern is used. In our considered work, Multi-carrier (MC) is realized by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The channel is estimated at the mobile stations (MSs) by pilot assisted channel estimation (PACE) technique using minimum mean square error (MMSE) algorithm. Further, the dual-polarized MIMO system considered in our work which is realized with the aid of orthogonal polarizations, replaces two spatially separated uni-polarized antennas, thus resulting in polarization multiplexing. In particular, we evaluate the effects of three types of delay spread on MIMO MC-IDMA system in the context of downlink (DL) communications pertaining to the Standard University Interim (SUI) channel model. In a multi-user environment, users experience multi stream interference (MSI) in addition to the multiple access interference (MAI) and these interferences can degrade the system performance. Furthermore, we consider turbo code as channel encoder for MIMO MC-IDMA system to mitigate the effects of MAI and MSI. It is discerned from the simulation results that dual-polarized MIMO MC-IDMA system is capable of supporting many users and performs better in terms of achievable bit error rate (BER) in the context of DL communications with reduced number of antennas.

In this paper, we develop a new one-dimensional chaotic map, completely based on the logistic map: ”New Logistic Map (NLM)”; this new map expand the definition domain of logistic map and their utilization. The simulation results and theoretical analysis of chaotic dynamical behaviours show that the NLM is a chaotic system and has an ideal distribution. It is also characterized by its wide range of definition, and depends on the number of the desired real values.We have applied the NLM to generate the interleaver matrix for Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA): NLMInterleaver. Our design easy to generate, and requires a low memory bandwidth consumption (low amount of data can travel over a communications channel), and low computational complexity compared to the literature algorithms.

In this paper, turbo multiuser detectors in Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) based systems are considered for short range underwater acoustic channels (UACs). In such long reverberant channels that demand high computational complexity, turbo detectors based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion are an attractive solution to achieve a good balance between performance and complexity. Two different synchronous IDMA structures are studied and applied to signals acquired during sea trials in the North Sea; firstly, a channel estimation (CE) based IDMA with Rake reception, and secondly, an adaptive interference canceller (IC-IDMA). Both schemes include phase tracking, channel coding and are based on a chip-rate equalization and detection, which are fed in by a composite multiuser signal of the users' feedback soft information. Experimental results of three different channel ranges demonstrate that the direct adaptive receiver has better performance and additionally mitigates the errors associated with the CE based IDMA receiver while maintaining lower complexity.

This paper provides a comprehensive study of interleave-division multiple-access (IDMA) systems. The IDMA receiver principles for different modulation and channel conditions are outlined. A semi-analytical technique is developed based on the density evolution technique to estimate the bit-error-rate (BER) of the system. It provides a fast and relatively accurate method to predict the performance of the IDMA scheme. With simple convolutional/repetition codes, overall throughputs of 3 bits/chip with one receive antenna and 6 bits/chip with two receive antennas are observed for IDMA systems involving as many as about 100 users.

The Interleave-Division Multiple-Access (IDMA) scheme is known for property of orthogonality amongst its user-specific interleavers. The interleavers are, therefore, referred has the heart of IDMA Transceivers. In the literature, researchers have proposed Tree Based Interleaver (TBI) which not only reduces the bandwidth requirement in comparison to that required in case of Random Interleavers (RI) but also reduces computational complexity drastically when compared with that of power interleavers. The memory requirement at receiver end and its cost problem are also solved by tree based interleaver with further reduction of the amount of information exchange between mobile stations and base stations required to specify the user-specific interleavers. In this paper, the performance analysis of iterative IDMA receivers have been evaluated with BPSK & QPSK modulation techniques employing tree based interleavers and random interleavers in uncoded and rate 1/2 covolutionally coded conditions with Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. During the simulation, it has been observed that IDMA system with QPSK modulation techniques employing TBI outperforms its counterparts optimally.