{"title":"Performance of convolutional and RS codes in DS-CDMA systems using space-time MMSE multiuser detection","authors":"W. Hamouda, P. McLane","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956897","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate the performance of a minimum mean square error (MMSE) multi-user detector (MUD) using antenna array processing and forward error correction channel codes (FEC) in a synchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) system over both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and flat Rayleigh fading channels. Two different channel codes are considered in a binary phase shift-keyed (BPSK) modulation system; Reed-Solomon (RS) and convolutional codes. Through computer simulations, a comparison between the two codes shows that convolutional codes and soft decision decoding can offer at least 2 dB coding gain over the hard decision RS decoding in an AWGN channel and approximately a 5 dB gain in a flat fading channel at a BER of 10/sup -4/. In the paper, such results are compared with these in the text (Wicker 1995) for the single user case and AWGN channels.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"373 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126167199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 3D ray-tracing tool for broadband wireless systems","authors":"Lionel Chaigneaud, V. Guillet, R. Vauzelle","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.957103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.957103","url":null,"abstract":"To support future broadband and wireless indoor system definition, planning tools are required. This paper presents a 3D ray-tracing tool developed for the millimeter wave band around 60 GHz. After recalling the ray-tracing principles, we present some results of comparison between propagation measurements and predictions. We also focus attention on the optimum values of electromagnetic characteristics of building materials and on the optimum number of reflections to be considered for accurate narrow-band and wide-band predictions.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125043184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of performance of location-aware and traditional handoff-decision algorithms in CDPD networks","authors":"W. Teerapabkajorndet, P. Krishnamurthy","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956588","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional handoff algorithms based on stochastic and heuristic models perform poorly as they do not account for the rapid changes in the radio environments. Adaptive handoff algorithms are being developed to solve this problem with a corresponding tradeoff in terms of computational complexity. This paper suggests a location-aware handoff decision algorithm. The performance of the traditional and proposed handoff algorithm in a cellular digital packet data network (CDPD) are compared using simulations. The results indicate that the location-aware algorithm performs better than the traditional handoff algorithm.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129389589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulated and measured WCDMA uplink performance","authors":"H. Holma, D. Soldani, K. Sipilä","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956955","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the WCDMA mobile transmission power and its variations due to fast power control with theoretical calculations, simulations, laboratory measurements and field measurements. The effect of mobile speed, multipath profile and base station reception antenna diversity is studied. The results show that a mobile speed of 120 km/h requires less transmission power than low mobile speeds because of the time diversity provided by interleaving. With little multipath diversity and without antenna diversity the difference in terms of transmitted power is up to 2 dB. The measurements and simulations show that the multipath diversity gain of the ITU Vehicular A channel compared to ITU Pedestrian A channel is 3 dB without antenna diversity and 1 dB with antenna diversity at 3 km/h. At higher mobile speeds the multipath diversity gains are smaller. The base station antenna diversity gain is shown to be 3-4 dB in ITU Vehicular A channel and 4-6 dB in ITU Pedestrian A channel. The results show good agreement between simulations and measurements. The results also showed inaccuracies in the implementation of the SIR estimation in the experimental WCDMA base station receiver.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128361430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison of the accuracy of propagation models using hit rate analysis","authors":"A. Owadally, E. Montiel, S. Saunders","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.957090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.957090","url":null,"abstract":"A new way of gauging the accuracy of radiowave propagation models is presented. The prediction models used are the parabolic equation (PE) and a new slope-uniform theory of diffraction (slope-UTD). The results from these models applied to a terrain database are compared to experimental data from the University of Aalborg, Denmark. This comparison is enabled by using newly defined hit rate metrics. Hit rate metrics are obtained by comparing the predicted and measured availability on a point-by-point basis at a given path loss threshold. The hit rate metric is complementary to first order statistics such as mean and standard deviation of error, in determining the accuracy of a model.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128694080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A physical MIMO radio channel model for multi-element multi-polarized antenna systems","authors":"T. Svantesson","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956941","url":null,"abstract":"A physical multi-input multi-output (MIMO) spatio-temporal channel model for simulation of multi-element multi-polarized antenna systems is presented. The model is based on electromagnetic (EM) scattering, hence including many of the channel characteristics encountered in practice. A compact channel expression is obtained by introducing a dyad formulation of the scattering from arbitrary objects. The polarization properties of the channel and the antennas are included in the model, thereby allowing studies of the impact of different antenna arrangements and polarizations. Simulation results are presented where channel properties such as spatial correlation, channel capacity, and time evolution are calculated for microcell and picocell scenarios.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129540200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MAITE: a scheme for improving the performance of TCP over wireless channels","authors":"J. Aráuz, S. Banerjee, P. Krishnamurthy","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956596","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the channel's characteristics the use of TCP over wireless may result in poor performance. Significant throughput degradation occurs when TCP interprets high bit error rate and mobile host disconnections as congestion in the network. We address this problem and focus our research on the study of how to improve the TCP's performance over wireless. We study TCP communications between mobile hosts communicating with each other using an infrastructure network. We introduce a new scheme, called MAITE(Mobility Awareness Incorporated as TCP Enhancement) that consists of an implementation of link layer messages that inform the TCP of high BER and disconnection conditions. By the use of simulations we compare the results obtained with MAITE with other previously proposed schemes. Our scheme provides us with improvements in transfer time of 30% over other schemes.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129545487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining space-time block coding with diversity antenna selection for improved downlink performance","authors":"M. Katz, E. Tiirola, J. Ylitalo","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956581","url":null,"abstract":"A closed-loop method combining N-out-of-M antenna selection and space-time block coding from the selected antennas is proposed and studied in this paper. Performance is evaluated for WCDMA parameters in both frequency nonselective Rayleigh fading channels and in frequency selective (Vehicular A) channels. Operation in intra- and inter-cell dominant interference scenarios is considered. Numerical results show that the additional antenna selection procedure brings a supplementary uncoded BER performance improvement in the range of approximately 2-3.5 dB for flat-fading channels and 0.8-1.5 dB for frequency selective channels (@BER=12%). A suboptimum selection scheme requiring only a single bit for antenna selection is also presented. In addition, the impact on performance of errors in the feedback channel is investigated in this paper.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127267398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A spatio-temporal equalization method for indoor wireless LANs with beamforming criterion selection","authors":"K. Hayashi, S. Hara","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956652","url":null,"abstract":"Spatio-temporal equalization is a technique which utilizes both spatial and temporal information of the received signal to compensate for intersymbol interference due to multipath fading. Considering the application of a spatio-temporal equalizer to high speed wireless communications systems, such as wireless LANs, this paper proposes a new spatio-temporal equalization method using a cascade configuration of an adaptive array and a DFE (decision feedback equalizer), which can be realized with small number of weights, and hence, low computational complexity. However, it has to pay a price for the simplicity, namely, the error performance surface becomes a fourth-order function of the weights, and possibly has two minima. In order to avoid a wrong trap by a local minimum during the adaptation of the MMSE (minimum mean-squared error) based adaptation algorithm with any initial values, the proposed equalizer calculates the weights of the adaptive array and the DFE separately in two steps, and the adaptive array selects a path or paths to capture depending on channel conditions. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve good performance in various channel models, which are based on measurement reports, in low computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127548212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CDMA receiver performance for multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems","authors":"Mansoor Ahmed, J. Pautler, K. Rohani","doi":"10.1109/VTC.2001.956408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC.2001.956408","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the performance of a forward link (base-to-mobile) shared channel with and without a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system. A CDMA shared channel is analyzed and simulated for which users are served in a time division multiplexed (TDM) manner. The slot structure and chip rate are based on the wideband CDMA standard. Link-level simulations are presented to compare the performances of two different receivers: linear minimum mean-square-error (MMSE), and nonlinear (turbo/iterative) MMSE. In addition, MIMO performance is compared with and without antenna array weight feedback.","PeriodicalId":129008,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC Fall 2001. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37211)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127495881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}