{"title":"Comparison of M/sup 2/-QAM and M-PAM VSB single-carrier systems for digital TV transmission via CATV","authors":"M. Van Bladel, M. Moeneclaey","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574139","url":null,"abstract":"The transmission of digital TV pictures has become important topic. For terrestrial broadcasting, a multi-carrier system consisting of a large number of orthogonal carriers (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)) has been proposed. In geographical areas where the cable TV (CATV) distribution system is already widely spread, the CATV distribution network is the main candidate for broadcasting digital TV signals. As the impulse response duration of the CATV transmission channel is much shorter than the delay spread of the terrestrial broadcast channel and the linear distortion is much smaller, it is not evident that OFDM is still the preferred modulation for a CATV environment. The authors have previously pointed out that a single-carrier (SC) QAM system with ideal decision-feedback equalization (DFE) is about 2 dB better than OFDM, when transmitting digital TV signals over the CATV network. The present paper investigates the performance of M/sup 2/-QAM and M-PAM VSB single-carrier (SC) systems. The authors compute the degradation in SNR (as compared to a non-distorting channel) when using either ideal decision feedback equalization (with adaptive filtering) or reduced-complexity feedback equalization (with fixed filtering). They show that the performance of the reduced-complexity equalizer is sensitive to a timing offset (both QAM and VSB) and a carrier offset (VSB only). This indicates that the reduced-complexity equalizer should be used in combination with a synchronizer that carefully controls the phase of the carrier generator (VSB) and sampling clock (VSB and QAM).","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"13 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":"134143262","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":"Adaptive equalization of the Rician indoor radio channels","authors":"A. Zigic","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574160","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a 4-QAM indoor wireless data communication system with with adaptive equalizer is investigated. The effectiveness of using a linear and decision-feedback equalizer for Rician frequency-selective indoor channels is evaluated, compared with results obtained for equalized Rayleigh fading time-dispersive channels and, finally, contrasted to the performance of a 4-QAM modem without equalizer. The Rician fading channel model with a small Rice factor of 2 dB is taken to describe the spatial distribution of the received signal, when terminals are moved over small distances. The temporal fading, corresponding to the case of fixed terminals and motion of personnel and machinery around the terminals, is represented by a Rician fading channel with Rice factor between 6.8 and 11 dB. The effects of some important channel and system parameters on indoor communication system performance are examined and presented. The average bit error rate is used as an index of performance. Both types of equalizer give significant performance improvement compared with the case of the unequalized channel. The decision-feedback receiver surpasses the linear equalizer in performance. Actually, the equalizer is observed to decrease the bit error rate until the approximate normalized data rate values of T/sub m/R/sub b/=2.2, 1 and 0.5 for the Rice factor of 2, 6.8 and 11 dB, respectively. Both equalizers exhibited performance improvement when the ratio of signal-to-noise power is increased, though it is observed that lower values of SNR (/spl les/ 12 dB) cause the propagation of decision errors through the backward filter of the decision-feedback equalizer. A special, modified automatic clear function is designed and inserted to the backward filter of the decision-feedback equalizer to suppress the error extension effect.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"115 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":"123999846","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":"Stochastical modeling of signal-to-interference ratio in cellular mobile communication networks","authors":"D. Huo","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574166","url":null,"abstract":"The carrier-to-interference ratio is studied as a stochastical variable, whose randomness results from the disturbance of the wave propagation and the fluctuation of the traffic. The mean value and variance for this random quantity are derived, and, as an example, distribution functions are calculated for a TDMA system. The result yields means to determine the capacity hidden in the system dynamics and to optimize the utilization of the available resource.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"37 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":"124443397","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":"Generation of an altimetrical data base using a geographic information system [mobile radio planning]","authors":"G. Bussolino, E. Gilio, E. Lo Gatto, B. Missan","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at illustrating a methodology of generation of an altimetrical data base for mobile radio applications and a procedure developed to manage it, using a GIS (Geographic Information System). The system uses as input a set of digitized maps in the form of contour lines and elevation points obtained from cartographic maps at different scales (1:250,000, 1:50,000 and 1:10,000), and generates a final data base in the form of a set of regular matrices of altimetrical values with an appropriate grid size. The operator is allowed to check at each step the state of the maps under development and, if necessary, to correct errors or to change parameters. After a brief introduction on the principles of GISs, it will be shown how their functions of inserting, storing and managing altimetrical data have been used to create a data base useful for electromagnetic computations and how a special user interface allows the operator to select an area on the territory and automatically generate the corresponding altimetrical matrix with a suitable grid size. Finally, a few applications are described, as computer aided tools for cellular land mobile radio networks planning, concerning documentation of radio coverages, radio link analyses, intervisibility analyses and 3-D representations, used both for technical and commercial purposes.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"32 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120862813","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}
J. Fernandes, J. Nascimento, A. Gusmão, R. Dinis, J. Neves
{"title":"Performance evaluation of MM-wave digital radio transmission","authors":"J. Fernandes, J. Nascimento, A. Gusmão, R. Dinis, J. Neves","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574150","url":null,"abstract":"The transmission performance of wide-band digital radio systems, using the 60 GHz band, is evaluated for different antenna configurations in a room. As there are no models able to express the impact of a selected antenna set-up on the resulting propagation channel model, the complex impulse response (CIR) of the multipath radio channel was calculated using an appropriate ray tracing tool. Service bit rates of 17 and 34 Mbit/s per carrier are assumed to be achievable, when using 4-OQAM (not requiring linear amplification) and 16-OQAM, respectively. Moreover, these bit rates can be doubled within small and, in certain cases, medium size rooms [1]. Simulation results for several mobile station positions along the room, with different antennae setup are presented and discussed.","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":"121116944","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":"Chip synchronization performance affected by non-ideal interpolation of bandlimited direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals","authors":"K. Bucket, M. Moeneclaey","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574144","url":null,"abstract":"Deals with the chip synchronization performance of a fully digitally implemented receiver, operating on a direct-sequence spread-spectrum signal with bandlimited (instead of rectangular) chip pulses. The considered digital receiver operates on samples of the received noisy signal, taken by a fixed clock which is not synchronized to the transmitter clock. The synchronized samples needed for the chip synchronization algorithm are computed by interpolating between the available non-synchronized samples. Because of finite memory, interpolation is non-ideal; hence, some amount of distortion is introduced, which affects the performance of the chip synchronizer. By means of theoretical analysis, the authors investigate the tracking performance of a specific non-coherent early-late chip synchronizer, assuming interpolation of orders zero one and two. They show that non-ideal interpolation can give rise to a loop noise spectrum containing spectral lines, that mainly occur near f=0 when the sampling frequency is very close to an integer multiple of the chip rate. Unless a sufficiently small loop bandwidth is chosen, the contribution of these spectral lines could dominate the tracking error variance, which then becomes much larger than for synchronized sampling.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"110 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":"130255864","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":"Chip synchronization of M-PSK signals on nonselective fading channels for bandlimited DS/SS CDMA systems","authors":"K. Goethals","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574145","url":null,"abstract":"Derives four maximum-likelihood (ML) oriented chip synchronization algorithms for bandlimited direct-sequence spread spectrum (DS/SS) M-PSK signals subjected to nonselective Rician fading. The authors distinguish between these algorithms depending on whether they are decision/data-aided (DA) or not (NDA) and whether they are channel-aided (CA) or not (NCA). The authors also investigate their tracking performance in the presence of multi-user interference in a code-division multiple access (CDMA) system where the received signals from the various users may have unequal power levels. The fading bandwidth influences none of the algorithms, but only the NDA NCA and the DA CA algorithm have a performance that is independent of the carrier-to-multipath ratio of the fading. Furthermore, the DA NCA algorithm is the only algorithm affected by a carrier frequency offset.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"2 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":"130554452","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}
Thierry Pollet, M. Moeneclaey, I. Jeanclaude, Hikmet Sari
{"title":"Carrier phase jitter sensitivity for single-carrier and multi-carrier QAM systems","authors":"Thierry Pollet, M. Moeneclaey, I. Jeanclaude, Hikmet Sari","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574161","url":null,"abstract":"Investigates how the carrier phase jitter of a phase-locked oscillator for IF-to-baseband conversion affects the performance of single-carrier QAM (SC-QAM) and multi-carrier QAM (MC-QAM). This phase jitter reduces the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the input of the decision device, and therefore gives rise to an increase of the bit error rate. The authors show that, for a given jitter variance, SC-QAM and MC-QAM yield the same SNR degradation. However, when the synchronization for MC-QAM is derived from a pilot tone, the authors point out that the resulting jitter variance is considerably larger than for SC-QAM, in which case MC-QAM is degraded much more than SC-QAM.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"22 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132089949","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":"Investigation of mobile antenna diagrams on cochannel interference","authors":"T. Benkner, K. David","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574165","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most decisive factors for the quality of service in cellular mobile radio systems is the co-channel interference ratio (C/I), the required carrier signal power divided by the interference power from cochannels. Known methods of improving the C/I include an appropriate choice of the cluster size, directional antennas at the base station and/or steerable directional antennas at the (semi) mobile station. This paper for the first time presents a comprehensive investigation of randomly orientated, directional mobile antennas. This shows some important tradeoffs being of particular importance for the design of cellular picocell systems supporting mobiles with handhelds.","PeriodicalId":236384,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Second Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux","volume":"6 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":"116989799","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":"Call blocking performance for dynamic channel allocation strategies in microcellular mobile communication systems","authors":"G. Kandus, M. Mohorčič","doi":"10.1109/SCVT.1994.574168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCVT.1994.574168","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper several dynamic channel allocation strategies are simulated and compared with the fixed channel allocation for different microcellular configurations. The blocking probability is calculated for the mean square, the nearest neighbour and the first available strategy. The modified Erlang-B formula is derived for temporarily and spatially variable traffic load. Performance degradation due to the non uniform traffic load is analysed and verified by the computer simulations.","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":"122483555","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}