{"title":"A new approach to a wide screen signalling decoder","authors":"H. Tichelaar","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574170","url":null,"abstract":"Describes a new concept of a wide screen signalling decoder. Wide screen signalling (WSS) is used in 625-line television systems to transfer status information concerning the actual content of the signal to a television receiver. It is transmitted once per frame in the first half of line 23 of a composite video baseband signal (CVBS). The WSS signal contains a run-in, start-code and biphase code modulated data. The main energy of the WSS signal is in the lower video spectral domain. Although the design of the signal is based on a 5 MHz clock, the new decoder concept differs from conventional ones in that it does not use the run-in for a PLL to gain acquisition and lock, it does not use the start-code to detect WSS in line 23 and it does not establish a measure of data reliability by checking on biphase code violations. The new decoder concept does use the tail of the run-in and start-code for timing estimation, it does perform biphase code demodulation of the biphase encoded data and the data reliability is estimated by comparing the data samples with a threshold level. This threshold is determined by a measure of rms disturbance. A measure of data reliability is used to determine whether there is WSS in line 23 or not. Simulations and measurements have shown that this new concept of a WSS decoder is very robust to multiple transmission impairments which are encountered in a television channel (terrestrial, cable and satellite). This new concept WSS decoder performs quite well even when a VHS or SVHS consumer type video recorder (VCR) is used for recording and replay of the signal.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"1984 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130543463","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":"Concatenated coded modulation schemes for the Rayleigh fading channel","authors":"S. Bounaas, J. Dany","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574137","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the paper is to present a performance analysis of concatenated coded modulation schemes for the Rayleigh fading channel. This structure consists of concatenated codes using Reed-Solomon and Hamming codes respectively as outer and inner codes, incorporated into a multilevel code. In order to provide a large coding gain with a minimum complexity, the authors propose a new algorithm, with reduced complexity, for soft decoding the inner code. This algorithm is named DSCR (decodage souple a complexite reduite). The advantage of the proposed suboptimal algorithm lies in the significant reduction computation complexity compared to the classical Viterbi algorithm. This is obtained by associating reliability information to each received signal. In this algorithm which is based on the Chase algorithm (Chase, 1972), the authors have developed a reliability measurement method which uses four thresholds for the decision reliability. The proposed schemes coding 8-QAM and 16-QAM, provide in average a coding gain of 12 dB over uncoded 4-QAM at bit error rate of 10/sup -3/. The overall code rate of coded 8-QAM is not the same as the uncoded 4-QAM spectral efficiency which can be easily obtained by coding 16-QAM instead. The ratio of the average complexities of the DSCR algorithm versus the hard decoding Hamming code is in the range of 2 to 3.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120957017","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":"QMSK modulation technique in mobile radio channel environment","authors":"T. Javornik, G. Kandus","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574140","url":null,"abstract":"The quadrature minimum shift keying (QMSK) modulation technique is analysed in mobile radio channel. the BER, obtained by computer simulation, is plotted for various distortions caused by mobile radio channel such as: Rayleigh fading, Gaussian noise, cochannel interference and Doppler frequency. It is found out that the coherently detected QMSK signal has similar performance to GMSK and /spl pi//4 QPSK signals considering Gaussian channel and cochannel interference. The QMSK signal performance in the Rayleigh fading channel with Doppler frequency shift are much worse as GMSK and /spl pi//4 QPSK signal performance.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132562391","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":"Multiple carrier transmission with time-frequency well-localized impulses","authors":"R. Haas, J. Belfiore","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574163","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple carrier transmission represents a way to cope with the time and frequency selectivity of mobile radio channels. The signals are pulse shaped and transmitted on multiple carriers to reduce the multipath effects. The usually used rectangular or Nyquist root impulses permit a transmission with nearly optimal spectral efficiency, but they are not well localized either in time or in frequency so that the residual intersymbol interference (ISI) and interchannel interference (ICI) lower the system performance. Therefore, we present a new impulse to minimize ISI and ICI.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121853460","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":"Co-channel interference measurement for TDMA radio mobile communication systems","authors":"L. Husson, J. Dany","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574164","url":null,"abstract":"In cellular radio systems, the signal is affected by co-channel interference due to frequency reuse. Power control is a technique for minimizing this co-channel interference. Recent algorithms, based on a minimum signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) requirement, need an accurate SIR measurement. A method of measuring co-channel interference for analogue mobile communication systems has previously been proposed but was restricted to pilot signals. In this paper, we extend this method by applying it directly to the received modulated signal and, therein, we improve spectral efficiency. The envelope of the received signal is affected by fluctuations which can be separated into two terms: slow fluctuations resulting of fading and fast fluctuations (at a frequency related to the bit rate) due to co-channel interference. The method exploits the possibility of separating these terms in the frequency domain in order to evaluate the signal-to-interference ratio. Extensive simulations have been carried out to analyse the measurement errors. Used modulations are 2PSK, 4PSK, GMSK and GMSK preceeded by Miller precoding that leads to the best performances. These good performances (less than 1dB error for SIR greater than 10 dB) for the estimation of signal-to-interference ratio can significantly enhance the efficiency of power control algorithms in cellular mobile radio systems.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114443757","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":"TCM and diversity in a Rayleigh fading channel","authors":"J. Farserotu","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574138","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of trellis coded 8-PSK with diversity is examined in the paper. The \"pragmatic\" approach to TCM is assumed, where the code is constructed using a common a rate 1/2 constraint length 7 codec. Using diversity in the form of soft symbol combining in a concatenated TCM/diversity modulation, a performance improvement of about 2 to 3 dB was obtained.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128422855","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":"Switched antenna diversity within a DECT system","authors":"J.-P. van Deursen, M. Jansen","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574156","url":null,"abstract":"To combat the signal-degrading effects of multipath propagation in a DECT system, diversity techniques can be employed. The performance of a switched antenna diversity scheme based on received power is analyzed and compared with the performance of selection diversity for a frequency non-selective radio channel with either Rayleigh or Rician fading characteristics. Received output power statistics are chosen as performance measure. Expressions are derived for the performance of two-branch switched diversity with unequal branch statistics, antenna (space) correlation and (partial) time correlation between succeeding time samples. Results show that switched diversity performance is always inferior to selection diversity performance and that the Rice factor influences the diversity gain non-linearly. Both diversity schemes are sensitive to unequal branch statistics, while switched diversity gain deteriorates fastest. Antenna correlation does not have a large influence on the performance of switched diversity. Finally, it is also shown that the diversity gain with switched diversity is reduced considerably if there is only partial time correlation between succeeding time samples.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129758496","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":"Slot allocation schemes for voice and data services in a radio-mobile packet access system","authors":"U. Dropmann, X. Lagrange","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574154","url":null,"abstract":"For third generation cellular communication systems, packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) attracts considerable attention. In recent studies, derivatives of this protocol type have been proposed and evaluated. In these protocols, the slots are allocated centrally by the base station. This work concentrates on the multiplexing of voice and data for such centralised allocation schemes. We propose a multiple slot allocation scheme with segmentation for data. Thanks to this scheme, the data transmission delay is reduced while the speech clipping is kept to an acceptable level. By means of computer simulations, we study the performance of the system. The influence of different parameters of the multiple slot allocation scheme on the speech clipping and the mean delay for data is evaluated.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128995843","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":"Physical properties of wireless infra-red systems and comparison with MMW radio systems","authors":"J. Fernandes, P. Watson, J. Neves","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574151","url":null,"abstract":"Two alternatives for indoor wireless communications are considered, using infra-red (IR) and the millimetre-wave (MMW) band. Three possible system configurations, point-to-point, diffuse and quasi-diffuse are described. Technological and safety constraints are examined for IR as well as transmission capacity, terminal mobility and noise power levels. Finally a comparison between the characteristics of possible system configurations that could be realised in the frequency regimes is presented.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126504131","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}
P. Pieters, D. Duyvejonck, G. Schellemans, B. Nauwelaers, A. R. Van de Capelle
{"title":"Optical links for installation of a GSM base transceiver station","authors":"P. Pieters, D. Duyvejonck, G. Schellemans, B. Nauwelaers, A. R. Van de Capelle","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574169","url":null,"abstract":"The coaxial cables that are used in the GSM system for mobile communication to transport the RF signals to and from the antenna in the base transceiver station, are very bulky and heavy. When installing new base stations in existing buildings, these cables cause several problems. The authors therefore propose to use optical transmission links for these signals. An optical fibre is small, very light, offers low attenuation, electrical insulation an low EMI problems. The problems that arise when using RF optical links are the relatively high insertion losses and the noise. In order to lower the electrical insertion loss of these links, the authors design active impedance matching networks for the transmitting laserdiode and the receiving photodiode. These active networks however introduce extra noise that should be limited as well. Care must be taken to design these networks for optimum noise performance. The first practical realisations show that this approach is promising and will be even more advantageous for the future DCS system.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124509407","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}