{"title":"Performance Comparison of Coded OFDM with DFT-Precoding over Nonlinear Channels","authors":"Yusaku Yamashita, H. Ochiai","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324496","url":null,"abstract":"Recent wireless communications systems adopt orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signaling mainly due to its robustness against fading channels with simple receiver structure. However, it results in poor power amplifier (PA) efficiency or otherwise suffers from severe nonlinear distortion since the transmit signals have high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). To mitigate this, DFT-precoded OFDM has been adopted in the uplink of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, which virtually forms single-carrier signals and thus generates lower PAPR than the original OFDM. Nevertheless, the insertion of precoding for OFDM generally complicates the design of optimal detection and suboptimal detection is usually employed. Therefore, the DFT- precoded OFDM with suboptimal detection shows performance inferior to the original OFDM over frequency-selective fading channels when both the systems are protected by channel coding. This observation raises a question if the DFT-precoded OFDM system can outperform OFDM when nonlinearity associate with PA is also considered. In this work, we compare the performance of coded OFDM with and without DFT precoding where both PA nonlinearity and frequency selectiveness of channels are taken into account.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121541383","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":"Accurate Stochastic Geometry Modeling and Analysis of mmWave Cellular Networks","authors":"Wei Lu, M. Renzo","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324419","url":null,"abstract":"By relying on a stochastic geometry abstraction modeling for the locations of the base stations and by considering an accurate channel model based on measurements, the author of [1] has recently proposed a tractable mathematical framework for evaluating coverage and rate of millimeter wave cellular networks. The approach proposed in [1] however, relies on a noise-limited approximation for millimeter wave cellular networks operation, which may not hold for all transmission parameters, especially for sub-gigahertz transmission bandwidths and for ultra-dense network deployments. In the present paper, the mathematical framework introduced in cite{MDR_mmWave} is generalized by proposing an approach that accounts for the other-cell interference and, thus, is applicable to any system setups. The accuracy of the proposed approach is validated with the aid of Monte Carlo simulations and a good accuracy is obtained, even for very dense cellular network deployments.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116819921","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}
Simon Wunderlich, Juan A. Cabrera, F. Fitzek, M. Pedersen
{"title":"Network Coding Parallelization Based on Matrix Operations for Multicore Architectures","authors":"Simon Wunderlich, Juan A. Cabrera, F. Fitzek, M. Pedersen","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324482","url":null,"abstract":"Network coding has the potential to improve the performance of current and future communication systems (including transportation and storage) and is currently even considered for communication architectures between the individual processors on same board or different boards in close proximity. Despite the fact that single core implementations show already comparable coding speeds with standard coding approaches, this paper pushes network coding to the next level by exploiting multicore architectures. The disruptive idea presented in the paper is to break with current software implementations and coding approaches and to adopt highly optimized dense matrix operations from the high performance computation field for network coding in order to increase the coding speed. The paper presents the novel coding approach for multicore architectures and shows coding speed gains on a commercial platform such as the Raspberry Pi2 with four cores in the order of up to one full magnitude. The speed increase gain is even higher than the number of cores of the Raspberry Pi2 since the newly introduced approach exploits the cache architecture way better than by-the-book matrix operations.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114980183","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}
N. Lorho, Guillaume Lirzin, A. Bikiny, Sebastien Lestieux, A. Chousseaud, T. Razban
{"title":"Miniaturization of an UWB Dual-Polarized Antenna","authors":"N. Lorho, Guillaume Lirzin, A. Bikiny, Sebastien Lestieux, A. Chousseaud, T. Razban","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324474","url":null,"abstract":"For some UWB applications (short range radars, medical imaging), it has been shown that the use of an antenna that supports a dual-polarization can enhance their accuracy. However, the size of classic UWB dual-polarized antennas makes their integration into small devices difficult. As size became crucial, miniaturization techniques have been previously investigated in an UWB context. In this paper, we aim to provide an electrically-small UWB antenna with a dual-polarized radiation pattern. A planar miniaturization technique has been investigated on a dual-polarized sinuous antenna. A size reduction of 32% has been achieved without compromising on either bandwidth or radiation performances.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122070491","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}
R. Vauché, S. Bourdel, J. Gaubert, N. Dehaese, H. Barthélemy
{"title":"Emitters and Receivers for Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband and Their Healthcare Applications","authors":"R. Vauché, S. Bourdel, J. Gaubert, N. Dehaese, H. Barthélemy","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324443","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare applications requirements are presented in this paper and a state-of-the-art analysis shows that Impulse Radio Ultra-WideBand (IR-UWB) is particularly suitable in terms of energy efficiency for this type of short range communications for which different data rates are needed. Power saving strategies for emitters and receivers are then discussed and three examples of implementations are presented with their measurement results. The first is a versatile transmitter with tunable bandwidth which exhibits 0.9Vpp pulses and a power consumption of at least 11.03mW at 50Mbps. The second is a 3.1-10.6GHz transmitter with a power management scheme implemented on-chip which exhibits 2Vpp pulses and a power consumption of 7.3uW at 100kbps and 3.4mW at 100Mbps. The last is a non-coherent 3-5GHz receiver with -89dBm sensitivity at 100kbps and 144pJ/bit energy consumption when used in a power gated 100Mbps burst mode.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116623412","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":"Characterization of a NLOS Off-Body Channel at 2.45 GHz Using Patch Antenna Inside a Mine","authors":"Moulay El Azhari, M. Nedil, I. Mabrouk, L. Talbi","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324423","url":null,"abstract":"In underground environments, the safety of the miners depends on the quality of the used communication systems. Currently, wireless underground communications suffer from small-scale and large-scale fading, compromising the propagation quality and limiting the achieved bit rate. In this paper, the performance of a patch antenna set in off-body channels under None Line of Sight (NLOS) conditions is evaluatedat a frequency of 2.45 GHz. Measurement campaigns were performed in a gold mine in order to determine the channel parameters for NLOS configurations and compare them with previously published Line Of Sight (LOS) results. Hence, the channel parameters were determined from the measured frequency responses. The off-body channel is characterized in terms of the impulse response, path loss, RMS delay spread, coherence bandwidth, and channel capacity.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"18 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124542609","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":"Performance Comparison of Spatial Modulation Detectors under Channel Impairments","authors":"E. Soujeri, Georges Kaddoum","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324497","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial modulation (SM) is a multiple antenna transmission approach that uses the index of the transmitting antenna for delivering information data. The choice on the transmitting antenna depends on the incoming bit sequence and has a random nature. The receiver estimates the transmitted symbol and the active transmit antenna index and uses both estimations to retrieve the original information bits. For best reception, individual channel links between transmit and receive antenna pairs must be unique. In fact, correct reception totally depends on the uniqueness of channel coefficients. Incorrectly interpreting channel state information at the receiver causes the BER performance to degrade and the detection to fall short. In this paper, we develop a channel model that incorporates both correlated and imperfect channel state information and use this model to study the bit-error-ratio (BER) performance of most widely used SM detectors, namely the minimum mean square error, the maximum likelihood and the optimum detector in flat Rayleigh fading channels to examine the sensitivity these detectors exhibit to the presence of either channel correlation or imperfect channel state information. The capacity of SM system is studied in comparison to other multiple-input multiple-output techniques and the influence of channel impairments on the overall system capacity is observed.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121688102","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":"Opportunistic Open-Access Macro-Femto Networks with Femto Base Station Selection","authors":"V. Asghari, A. Ghrayeb, S. Affes","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324489","url":null,"abstract":"We consider an open-access macrocell-femtocell spectrum-sharing network with multiple femto base stations (FBSs) that are available to opportunistically handle the nearby macro users (MUs) traffic in order to manage the amount of co-channel interference to/from macro and femto systems. In fact, we believe that the co-channel interference can be managed by allowing strong macro interferers to communicate with nearby femtos. In this context, while multiple femtos are available in the area, one important question is: Which femto must be selected to serve the strong MU in order to more efficiently control the co-channel interference? In this regard, we assume that the MU of interest is located near a given number of femtos. Making use of this availability, we investigate a framework for establishing communication between the macro base station (MBS) and the MU of interest via the femto network while considering an appropriate constraint on the interference received at the neighboring MU. Then, we propose utilizing two major selection schemes, namely, emph{partial} and emph{reactive} selections, to find the appropriate FBS that can better match the femto capacity limitations. We also investigate the average bit error probability of the proposed system for both mentioned selection strategies. Finally, illustrative numerical results are shown and the benefits of using cooperative transmission with different selection strategies are discussed.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127523389","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":"Integrated UWB Transmitter and Antenna Design for Interfacing High-Density Brain Microprobes","authors":"H. Bahrami, S. Mirbozorgi, L. Rusch, B. Gosselin","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324465","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents and compares two transmitter topologies (TX1 and TX2) using different modulation schemes to provide high data rate in high-density neural recording systems. Both transmitters use IR-UWB implemented based on an edge combining approach. TX2, which is using an improved topology, consumes less power and uses less area than TX1, while supporting the same data rate. The power consumption is also reduced by 35% at 500 Mbps in TX2. Both transmitters employ pulse shaping within the 3.1 and 7 GHz subband of the unregulated ultra-wide band to mitigate high transmission loss of the propagated EM waves above 7 GHz inside biological tissues. An implantable antenna and an external antenna are designed for utilization as TX and RX antennas in this application, respectively. Both transmitters have been fully integrated into a standard TSMC 0.18-μm CMOS technology and provide high data transmission rate above 500 Mbps. TX1 supports OOK and binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulations, while TX2 supports only OOK modulation.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121925227","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":"Reduced Complexity Iterative Beamforming for a Set of Virtual MIMO Devices","authors":"S. H. Seyedmehdi, G. Boudreau","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2015.7324505","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we develop a framework in which single antenna user equipment (UEs) can be clustered together, thus virtually forming a multi-antenna device. Since the antennas for a virtual device are located on different physical devices, applying previous beamforming methods requires the exchange of the channel state information (CSI) between the UEs within a virtual device which in turn induces a significant overhead. This paper shows how the iterative beamforming can be performed without sharing this CSI. Numerical results demonstrate that the performance loss due to this omission is insignificant.","PeriodicalId":339208,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124835509","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}