S. Moon-Ho Song, Jang-Suk Choi, W. M. Kim, Soo-Won Kim
{"title":"Direct estimation of partial channel impulse response for code acquisition and tracking","authors":"S. Moon-Ho Song, Jang-Suk Choi, W. M. Kim, Soo-Won Kim","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686440","url":null,"abstract":"The conventional acquisition and tracking algorithms, based on the correlation of the received and the locally generated pseudo-noise (PN) sequences, provides maximum likelihood (ML) estimations. In practice, the correlation is usually computed partially, and results in a suboptimum solution. We propose an algorithm based on a recursive weighted least squares (RWLS). Here, the correlation window can be made arbitrarily large. This increase in the effective width of the correlation window results in improved performance due to the increased processing gain. For time-varying channels, however, an arbitrarily large window may not be desired and this effect is controlled through the forgetting factor in the proposed RWLS algorithm.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122684634","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":"Beam falsing loss in switched-beam smart antenna systems","authors":"D. Bevan","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686397","url":null,"abstract":"Expressions for the 'beam falsing loss' (BFL) are derived for the uplink of a TDMA land mobile radio system using a switched-beam base station architecture. The analysis shows, for representative system parameters and channel assumptions, that in terms of mean BER, the performance degradation owing to the beam falsing is small.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"57 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131400137","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":"Power control for diversity reception in time-division duplex CDMA","authors":"I. Ghauri, R. Knopp","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686177","url":null,"abstract":"Power control possibilities are explored for the downlink of a time-division duplex (TDD) CDMA system while employing three different kinds of multipath diversity combining schemes namely the RAKE, the pre-RAKE and the transmit antenna pre-selection. In the latter two, knowledge of the channel characteristics is employed at the base-station to provide maximum decoupling between users on the downlink. Performance of the these receivers is compared in a Rayleigh fading urban environment. It is shown that power control is absolutely indispensable in the latter two schemes and results in considerable performance gains as compared to the RAKE receiver.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127618117","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":"Cell coverage determination using optimal detection","authors":"F. Jaimes-Romero, D. Munoz-Rodriguez","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686420","url":null,"abstract":"The task of determining the best base station to serve a mobile user is a key process in cellular systems. Optimal selection of a serving base station guarantees high quality calls and minimum number of handovers. Traditional algorithms employ hysteresis levels to determine the serving base station when a handover is requested. In this work optimal hysteresis levels are generated using Bayesian hypothesis tests. The proposed methodology allows to incorporate information as call processing costs, mobility profiles, cell sizes and traffic in the process of base station determination. Hysteresis impact on handoff uncertainty is assessed through an entropic indicator.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127705894","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":"Smoothed calculation of interference from an array of cells","authors":"G. Yost, S. Panchapakesan","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686111","url":null,"abstract":"Presents a model developed to calculate the intersystem interference (ISYSI) between two different systems that operate in adjacent areas. The model is simple and employs an integral over a field of interfering sources located with a certain density within the entire area in question. Several parameters have been studied, including distribution of interferers (mobiles/base stations) in the interfering system, area and geometry of the interfering system, and the effects of adding cells to the interfering system. The integral of the source density is normalized to the desired number (and strengths) of the sources. The integral does not have a closed form but the numerical integration is straight forward. The results of this study can be used to define the guard zone between the two adjacent systems. The results are compared with those derived from Vasquaz and Montalvo (1997) and H'mimy and Kilvia (1997). Qualitatively, this method gains in simplicity, allows for not only the real-life irregularity of shape and layout of interfering cells but also for modeling different source densities. The detailed structure of the cells in the field of interferers becomes irrelevant. With this integration technique we average over realistic distributions and movements of the interferers in a manner that yields an approximation at least as good as any other and that allows easy adjustments for changing traffic patterns, calculation of \"worst case\" scenarios, etc. Under the same cell geometries and layout as that described in Vasquaz and Montalvo the results obtained by using the two methods agree closely.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132568336","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 path loss formulation for wireless applications considering terrain effects for urban environments","authors":"L. Piazzi, Henry L. Bertonj","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686499","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines propagation over buildings when the buildings are located on terrain features (hills). The buildings, which are represented by a series of absorbing half-screens, are assumed to lie in rows that are equally spaced along parallel streets, with the streets running perpendicular to the terrain slope. Numerical results are obtained using successive repetition of the Kirchhoff-Huygens approximation. A phenomenological model based on ray optics for diffraction over a smooth surface is proposed as a way to interpret the numerical results. The dependence of the model coefficients on the terrain parameters are obtained from the numerical results.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132682526","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 algorithm for the multishot matched filtering multiuser detector in a multipath Rayleigh fading environment","authors":"N.J.M. van Waes, Y. Bar-Ness","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686510","url":null,"abstract":"CDMA proves to be an attractive method for multiuser communication due to its potential capacity increase and anti-multipath fading capability. However, its performance is limited by the existence of multiple access interference energy (MAI), which results in the so called near-far problem. To reduce the MAI effect, different decorrelating structures for multiuser detection have been proposed. For the asynchronous case, the \"one-shot decorrelator\" was proposed, based on inversion of the partial correlation matrix, which may however be singular. As an alternative, the so called \"multishot decorrelator\", which does not suffer from the aforementioned singularities, was also suggested. However, both detectors, based on inversion of some matrix, are not robust to errors in users' relative delays. The application of the adaptive \"Bootstrap algorithm\" with the one-shot structure proved to easily handle variation in delay estimates and outperform the decorrelating detector. We propose and compare a Bootstrap algorithm suitable for the multishot matched filtering, multiuser detector in a multipath environment, examine its performance, and compare it to that of other detectors. We also propose the extension of the multishot structure to a multistage receiver, by adding an appropriate canceler.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131868430","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}
Sung Jin Hong, Kyung Jae Kim, Jeong Rhul Lee, B. S. Park, I. Lu
{"title":"Moisture effects on the penetration loss through exterior building walls","authors":"Sung Jin Hong, Kyung Jae Kim, Jeong Rhul Lee, B. S. Park, I. Lu","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.683704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.683704","url":null,"abstract":"Results of UHF signal reflection measurement performed with dry and wet concrete walls using a spread spectrum sliding correlation system are presented. Larger proportions of incident power were reflected from the wet wall, and the change induced in the reflection coefficient due to moisture was approximately 10%. The reflection coefficient behavior under practical values of wall thickness, permittivity and incidence angle is discussed.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132282866","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 spreading with coherent demodulation for DS-CDMA","authors":"T. Frey, P. Schramm","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686088","url":null,"abstract":"In DS-CDMA systems, spreading may be viewed as inner coding and user-specific scrambling. In practice, spreading is combined with an outer convolutional code, which leads to so-called concatenated coded spreading (CCS). The standard approach is to use repetition codes. In the IS-95 uplink, a (64,6,32) orthogonal code is defined, which can be interpreted as 64-ary orthogonal modulation. In this paper, a CCS scheme with power efficiency superior to the IS-95 uplink is proposed. The use of decision-directed coherent demodulation for both schemes is discussed, and it will be shown that the coding gain of the improved CCS requires a modified channel estimation scheme.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"28 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134364257","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":"Combined PAT algorithms for mobile multimedia satellite services","authors":"M. Holzbock, A. Jahn","doi":"10.1109/VETEC.1998.686549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETEC.1998.686549","url":null,"abstract":"Next generation satellite services will offer high capacity links for multimedia applications. Mobile receivers for these future applications will use high gain antennas with a beamwidth of 5 degrees and smaller. These antennas require a precise pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) process to steer the antenna exactly towards the satellite direction. The channel characteristics at high frequencies, like fading and shadowing, seriously affect the steering algorithms. In the framework of SECOMS (Satellite EHF Communications for Mobile Multimedia Services) and ABATE (ACTS Broadband Aeronautical Terminal Experiment, both European ACTS projects) several field trials and service demonstrations have been performed for future wideband multimedia satellite services at higher frequency bands (20/30 GHz and 40/50 GHz). These experiments were performed using high gain antennas with various beamwidth in different scenarios and environments. This paper gives an overview of these experiments and describes the used antenna PAT algorithms. The measured propagation data allows the implementation of the effects of the land mobile satellite (LMS) channel in a detailed antenna pointing simulator.","PeriodicalId":335954,"journal":{"name":"VTC '98. 48th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Pathway to Global Wireless Revolution (Cat. No.98CH36151)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134257846","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}