{"title":"A novel spectrum sensing method using multi-antennas without channel state information","authors":"A. Al-Abbasi, T. Fujii","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285330","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new spectrum sensing scheme using an energy detector and multiple antennas. This scheme helps us finding the low level signals to realize a spectrum sharing in a primary and secondary system. The spectrum sensing by using multiple antennas has a problem that the channel state information of the primary signal is required for obtaining the diversity gain. However, the primary signal level is very low so that it is difficult to obtain the accurate channel status (accurately estimate the channel status). In this paper we propose a signal processing scheme for spectrum sensing to utilize multiple antennas without requiring the knowledge about the channel state information. We adapt the conventional energy detector to the proposed scheme, so we can use it in our simulation. We show the simulation results, to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The results show the improvement of the sensing performance by the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122112475","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}
Irena Janković, A. Neskovic, N. Neskovic, G. Paunovic
{"title":"Empirical analysis of UMTS propagation channel (2127.6 MHz) for case of stationary receiver","authors":"Irena Janković, A. Neskovic, N. Neskovic, G. Paunovic","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285239","url":null,"abstract":"Paper describes empirical analysis of UMTS multipath propagation at 2127.6 MHz in an active Belgrade 3G network for the case of stationary UMTS ROMES TSMQ (Rohde&Schwarz) measurement receiver. Reader will be introduced to characteristics of LOS and NLOS measurement scenarios, so as with measurement results which include: basic parameters for time dispersion of UMTS propagation channel and their distribution, probability of appearance of number of and mean normalized power dependence of time dispersion. The goal of this paper is to make a first level (physical layer) analysis addressed towards the real birth-death model creation of UMTS propagation channel.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123945338","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 continuous-space analytical approach for relay node placement in hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks","authors":"Z. Abbas, F. Li","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285305","url":null,"abstract":"A hybrid network is composed of a cellular component and an ad hoc component connected by a relay node, for the purpose of coverage extension and/or capacity improvement. In this paper, we analyze the capacity of such a hybrid network by employing a continuous-space analytical methodology based on circular geometry for uniformly distributed nodes. To achieve maximal overall capacity, the relay node needs to be placed in an optimum location between the base station and the mobile station located at the boundary of the hybrid network. Numerical results show that for obtaining the optimum overall capacity for the hybrid network, the placement of the relay node should be in a range which is neither too close nor too far away from the base station. For a given node density and path-loss coefficient, a precise location for relay node placement to achieve maximum overall capacity can be found using the presented method.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124075105","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":"On the effectiveness of IEEE 802.11e implementations in real hardware","authors":"R. Bolla, R. Rapuzzi, M. Repetto","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285291","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time multimedia traffic requires some minimum delivery guarantees to be effectively transmitted over packet-switched networks. This is even more necessary when interactive sessions (e.g., Voice-over-IP applications) are involved. Effective and timely packet delivery is sometimes achieved by overdimensioning network capacity. However, this is not the most practical and economic solution. Instead, providing a specific service to different traffic types may achieve better results without wasting network resources. Quality of Service (QoS) be implemented at different layers of the protocol stack, but tight control at the link layer is essential when the physical medium is shared among a number of devices. Wireless LANs are a typical example of that. The IEEE 802.11e amendment enhances the original version of the WiFi standard with new QoS functionalities. It maintains backward compatibility with legacy hardware, and this may cause the priority scheme to be ineffective in those deployments where non-QoS enabled hardware is present. In this paper, we analyze some widespread commercial 802.11 products to check the effectiveness of the QoS mechanisms. We show that all hardware under examination fails in providing effective QoS guarantees when legacy stations are present.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122879889","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":"Vehicle-roadside-vehicle relay communication network employing multiple frequencies and routing function","authors":"Y. Yamao, Kazuya Minato","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285301","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication is regarded as an essential means for enabling vehicle safety communications (VSC) to avoid traffic accidents. However, reliability of the communications severely suffers from wireless propagation on the road, such as deep fading due to multi-path and shadowing by surrounding buildings and vehicles. In this paper, a new vehicle-roadside-vehicle relay communication network employing multiple frequency bands is proposed to achieve more reliable V2V communications. By assigning lower frequencies such as 700 MHz for relay transmission, and higher frequencies of 5.8 GHz for direct communication, remarkable improvement can be obtained. In order to confirm the performance of the proposed relay network, computer simulations using QualNet network simulator assuming 200 vehicles at an intersection were conducted. The simulation results show that the packet delivery rate is remarkably improved by the proposed relay network.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124149741","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":"Tag movement direction estimation methods in an RFID gate system","authors":"Y. Oikawa","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285228","url":null,"abstract":"An RFID system using many RF tags has some advantages over a bar code system such as simultaneous multi-reading and long read range. Especially, it has been strongly desired by logistics and the retail industry for efficiency of operation. Recently, user-friendly RFID systems are being studied. We focused on a gate system using RFID technologies. It will be very useful for the efficiency of inventory management and the check of illicit smuggling out. In this paper, a new method of tag movement direction detection using the difference of passing time of two antennas without external expensive sensors is proposed. Some experimental results of this method are also shown and its feasibility is proved.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126435920","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. Ortín, P. G. Ducar, F. Gutiérrez, A. Valdovinos
{"title":"An efficient decoding algorithm for tailbiting codes on wireless channels","authors":"J. Ortín, P. G. Ducar, F. Gutiérrez, A. Valdovinos","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285310","url":null,"abstract":"Tailbiting convolutional codes will be used for several applications in new cellular mobile radio systems. This encoding method does not reset the encoder memory at the end of each data block, avoiding the overhead of the zero tail and improving the efficiency, especially when encoding short data blocks. Nevertheless, the absence of a known tail highly increases the complexity of the decoding process. This fact added to the heavy computational burden of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding have made necessary the development of decoding algorithms which achieve good performance in terms of computational complexity and error correction capabilities. In this work we propose a novel decoding algorithm for tailbiting codes which is suitable for wireless environments with steep variations in channel conditions. The proposed method performs two different Viterbi decodings of the received data. In the first one, the most likely state is estimated with a modified version of the soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA). The second one consists of a conventional Viterbi decoding which employs the state estimated in the previous step as the initial and final states of the trellis. Simulations results obtained in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system over a wireless channel are close to the performance of the maximum-likelihood decoding and other proposed algorithms.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134030303","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":"Error rate of low duty DS-IR over selective channels","authors":"L. Piazzo","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285343","url":null,"abstract":"We present an accurate SER estimation method for low duty, QPSK modulated, Direct Sequence Impulse Radio (DS-IR) over a frequency selective channel with RAKE reception. The approach is a useful novelty since the existing SER estimation methods for DS-IR are problematic in the low duty case because they are accurate only when the number of pulses per symbol is high. The approach is exploited to study the performance of DS-IR in the IEEE 802.15.4a channel model. Our results indicate that TH is indeed necessary in low duty DS-IR to avoid a possible performance loss.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132963074","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":"Look-Ahead Sphere Decoding: Algorithm and performance evaluation","authors":"M. Gamba, G. Masera","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285361","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems are recognized as a key enabling technology in high performance wireless communications. Among known MIMO detectors, the Sphere Decoding Algorithm (SDA) is capable of optimal performance with a reduced computational complexity, compared to a Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector. However the hardware implementation of the SDA still is a major design challenge, especially with high throughput constraints. This paper proposed a modified version of the SDA, which achieves a significant throughput increase and guarantees ML performance, at the price of limited additional complexity. This new solution, called LASDA (Look-Ahead SDA) is mainly based on formal algorithm transformations, namely look-ahead, pipelining and retiming, applied at signal processing level. In addition, a modified tree search strategy, called test&restart, allows a limited increase of the iteration number. The analysis of the proposed LASDA shows that it is almost twice as fast as SDA, while simulation results exhibit ML performance.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128997571","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":"Symbol MAP detection aided with first channel estimate for TDMA systems over a frequency selective channel","authors":"I. Kammoun, M. Siala, N. Sellami, A. Roumy","doi":"10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2009.5285261","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider joint iterative equalization and channel estimation for TDMA systems over a frequency selective, quasi-static fading channel. We assume a slowly varying channel impulse response from one burst to the following one. We modify the maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion by taking into account an a priori channel estimate obtained from the burst preceding the one processed. Assuming that the receiver knows the channel statistics, we propose to use the EM (Expectation-Maximization) algorithm for a joint iterative equalization and channel estimation. During each iteration of the receiver, the EM algorithm reestimates the channel by using the a posteriori probabilities (APP) available at the output of the equalizer. The algorithm we propose has linear-time complexity per iteration. Simulations show that our MAP receiver reaches the performance of the MAP equalizer with perfect channel knowledge after a few iterations, for high SNR and for small values of normalized Doppler spread. They show also that our receiver outperforms the MAP equalizer that uses a channel estimate obtained by using a training sequence.","PeriodicalId":344018,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130534979","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}