{"title":"A low complexity decoding scheme for quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding","authors":"C. Jiang, Haixia Zhang, D. Yuan, Hsiao-Hwa Chen","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606813","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a decoding approach for quasi-orthogonal space-time block code (QO-STBC) based on array processing. This approach works with single symbol and can deduce delay generated by the decoder as well as the decoding computational load. In this scheme, signals transmitted via different antennas are separated by null space, and then they are decoded linearly. Numerical results show that with the proposed decoding method the decoding complexity of quasi- orthogonal space-time block code can be greatly deduced. With 256-QAM modulation scheme, the computational complexity of the new decoder can be lower than that of the traditional decoder with 16-QAM.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116019033","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":"Blind detection of exclusive source activity periods in reverberant acoustic environments","authors":"R. M. Nickel","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606894","url":null,"abstract":"Blind separation and dereverberation of acoustic sources is still considered a very challenging task despite many years of research and the availability of increasingly powerful computation engines. The complexity of the task can be significantly reduced for sources that exhibit sufficiently long exclusive activity periods (EAPs). EAPs are time intervals during which only one source is active and all other sources are inactive (i.e. zero). During EAPs the estimation of the underlying system parameters simplifies from a MIMO type to a SIMO type. The existence of EAPs is not guaranteed for arbitrary signal classes. EAPs occur very frequently, however, in recordings of conversational speech. In this paper we propose a new low complexity method for EAP detection which significantly outperforms earlier approaches.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"24 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120850011","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":"Rapid prototyping of a cost effective and flexible 4×4 mimo testbed","authors":"Douglas Kim, Murat Torlak","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606812","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the design of a low cost 4 times 4 multiple in multiple out (MIMO) wireless communications system testbed. Over recent years, an increasing number of research laboratories have begun experimental studies aimed at evaluating the achievable performance gains of MIMO technology as proposed in theory. The complexity of the experimental test platforms employed by these institutions have also increased over the years, supporting greater numbers of antennas while providing even more real-time computational processing power. These tremendous increases in capability, however, come at a very steep price which the vast majority of the wireless research community cannot afford. As an alternative, we present the design of a low cost 4 times 4 MIMO testbed for researchers solely interested in analyzing the physical layer performance of various MIMO technologies. As a demonstration of our testbed capabilities, we also present the results of a direction of arrival (DOA) experiment using the MUSIC algorithm and also cite another body of work on the experimental performance analysis of space, time, polarization diversity schemes which was also completed with use of the MIMO testbed described herein.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125026502","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":"The effect of energy measurements on improving the range and bearing estimation in a hybrid energy and TDOA localization system","authors":"Ming Sun, K. C. Ho","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606828","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the use of energy measurements to improve the localization accuracy in terms of range and bearing in a TDOA based system. We first extend the hybrid energy and TDOA localization algorithm in Cartesian coordinate that is proposed in (Ho and Sun, 2008) to obtain the range and bearing estimates of an emitting source. The accuracy of the range and bearing estimates is then examined with respect to the noise level in the energy measurements relative to that in TDOAs. For comparison purpose, the CRLB for the range and bearing estimates is also derived. We find that energy measurements improve more the accuracy in range than in bearing. Regarding the bearing estimation, the energy measurements provide more improvement for a near-field source than for a far-field source.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127156767","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":"New subspace updating algorithm for adaptive direction estimation and tracking and its statistical analysis","authors":"J. Xin, Nanning Zheng, A. Sano","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606850","url":null,"abstract":"Subspace estimation is of importance to high-resolution direction estimation in array processing. In this paper, a new recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm is proposed for null space estimation, which is used to estimate or track the directions of coherent and/or incoherent signals impinging on a uniform linear array (ULA). Especially by investigating the expectation computation of an inverse matrix, the statistical analysis of the RLS algorithm is studied in the mean and mean-squares senses in stationary environment, and further the mean-square-error (MSE) and mean-square derivation (MSD) learning curves are derived explicitly. The theoretical analyses and effectiveness of the proposed RLS algorithm are substantiated through numerical examples.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114842930","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":"Detection and localization of emitters in the presence of multipath using a uniform linear antenna array","authors":"U. Sarac, F. K. Harmanci, T. Akgul","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606903","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a new application of the likelihood ratio test to solve the problem of enumeration and localization of multiple emitters (sources) with a uniform linear antenna array in a multi-path environment. First, spatial smoothing is applied to the antenna array data to decorrelate signals corresponding to each path in the estimated correlation matrix and the number of paths is then counted using an information theoretic criterion. Then, MUSIC is applied with this correlation matrix to estimate the angle of arrival of all possible incident paths. In our signal model, we assume that the correlation between signals from two paths is one if they originate from the same source but zero if they are from different sources. The likelihood ratio test is then applied to each path pair using this correlation model and the angles of arrival estimated by MUSIC in order to find out if the path pair originates from the same emitter, and hence the number of emitters and their angles of arrival are estimated. The proposed algorithm on the likelihood ratio test is compared with the correlation coefficient algorithm based on minimum variance beamforming with a performance analysis.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126860072","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":"An information theoretic criterion for source number detection using the eigenvalues modified by Gerschgorin radius","authors":"Qunfei Zhang, Juan Ma, Jianguo Huang","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606899","url":null,"abstract":"AIC method shows good performance in low SNR but gives over-estimation for target number, while MDL can obtain consistent estimation in high SNR but shows bad performance in low SNR. In this paper, a new method for detecting the source number is proposed to take a good compromise between the AIC and the MDL, which bases on Gerschgorinpsilas disk theorem and information theoretic criterion. The method takes a Gerschgorin transform to the covariance matrix of the samples. According to that both the eigenvalues and the Gerschgorin radius have valuable information in distinguishing signal and noise, new eigenvalues modified by the Gerschgorin radius are then introduced to AIC with a new penalty function. Theoretical analysis indicates that the number estimation acquired by the modified AIC (MAIC) method is almost consistent estimation of the number of targets. MAIC method overcomes the drawback of AIC in inconsistent estimation for target number, Simulation and experimental results show the MAIC method is a robust multi-target detecting algorithm.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128247660","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 performance bound for MIMO-OFDM channel estimation and prediction","authors":"M. Larsen, A. Swindlehurst, T. Svantesson","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606842","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a mobile MIMO-OFDM system depends on the ability of the system to accurately account for the effects of the frequency-selective time-varying channel at every symbol time and at every frequency subcarrier. In this paper, a vector formulation of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for biased estimators and for functions of parameters is used to find a lower bound on the estimation and prediction error of such a system. Numerical simulations demonstrate the benefits of multiple antennas for channel estimation and prediction and illustrate the impact of calibration errors on estimation performance when using parametric channel models.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126495469","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":"DOA Estimation of multipath clusters in WiMedia UWB systems","authors":"A. K. Marath, A. R. Leyman, H. K. Garg","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606835","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are expected to find widespread use in future short range applications. Increasing popularity of these devices will require management of occupied spectrum in spatial domain to keep the interference low. In UWB systems, one encounters many multipath components. By optimally forming beams in the direction of the principal multipath clusters, one can achieve optimum spectrum efficiency. The number of components would depend on the sampling rate as the number of resolvable components depends on it. Besides, many of the multipath components would be coming from the same cluster. The estimation of the Direction of Arrival (DOA) of these clusters is very useful to focus the transmit power in the optimum direction. A new algorithm, exploiting the known pilot signals of multiband UWB systems for estimation of DOA of clusters in the presence of inband interferers is proposed in this paper. By making use of a new matrix incorporating the cross correlation between the focused UWB signal and the known pilot signal of the transmitted data in each array element, one would be able to separate the multipath clusters from a single source. It is proven that the proposed new matrix would span the same subspace as the direction of arrival vectors and the eigen vectors corresponding to the zero eigen value of the product of this new matrix with its Hermitian would span the orthogonal compliment of the DOA subspace. Computer experiments are included to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128898547","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":"Broadband beamspace adaptive beamforming with spatial-only information","authors":"W. Liu, S. Weiss","doi":"10.1109/SAM.2008.4606883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM.2008.4606883","url":null,"abstract":"A broadband beamspace adaptive beamforming structure for rectangular arrays is proposed. A set of frequency invariant beams are formed pointing to different directions and only one weight is attached to each of the beam outputs. Due to the greatly reduced number of adaptive weights, the system can achieve a much faster convergence speed. Compared to the existing broadband beamspace adaptive methods, the advantage of the proposed method is that there is no temporal processing of the received sensor signals, such as the tapped delay-lines or IIR/FIR filters. Therefore it is a system employing spatial-only information.","PeriodicalId":422747,"journal":{"name":"2008 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129329882","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}