Interference suppression for the LTE uplink

Interference cancellation is expected to have significant importance for next-generation wireless communication systems due to various co-channel deployment scenarios and denser frequency reuse. In this study, an interference cancellation receiver that exploits the unique characteristics of single-carrier frequency-division multiple access based systems is proposed. The proposed receiver suppresses the co-channel dominant interference by blanking frequency-domain samples where the desired and interfering signals overlap. In order to improve the performance, demodulation and regeneration stages can be introduced and repeated multiple times. Further enhancement is possible by initially accommodating a group of reliable symbols before the iterations. The simulation results indicate that proposed methods work particularly well for low overlap ratios compared to interference coordination and no cancellation schemes.     

Multiple access interference cancellation in Manchester-coded synchronous optical PPM-CDMA network

A new interference cancellation technique for direct-detection optical code- division multiple-access (OCDMA) network employing pulse-position modulation (PPM) is proposed in this paper. The multiple access interference (MAI) estimation is achieved by pre-reserving one of optical spreading code sequences at the receiver based on the correlation property of padded modified prime codes (PMPC). The estimated interference is then cancelled out after photo-detection process. Additionally, the transmitted signal is Manchester-coded to further improve the system performance. Based on this proposed interference canceller in a shot-noise limited regime, we have obtained an expression for the upper bound of the bit-error probability (BEP) taking into account effects of both MAI and shot-noise. This BEP is compared with that of a PPM-OCDMA without cancellation. Finally, the receiver structure of the proposed optical network unit (ONU) is fairly simple to compare with the conventional cancellation schemes.     

Analysis of the method of division of spatial channels with successive interference cancellation in modern MIMO-OFDM cellular systems

We consider the problem of parallel data transmission via several spatial channels in modern high-throughput cellular systems employing the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and antenna arrays at both ends of the communication system. Parallel data transmission in such MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) systems is achieved by using the beamforming schemes in the transmitter and the special methods of the spatial-channel division in the receiver. Interference immunity of the scheme of the spatial-channel division by the maximum-likelihood criterion using the method of successive interference cancellation is analyzed. Probability of implementation of the stage of successive interference cancellation for the case of two spatial channels and various combinations of the coding schemes and modulations is obtained. We analyze the efficiency of a cellular communication system using horizontal coding and successive interference cancellation. Practical recommendations on choosing modulation and the code speed for each spatial channel, which ensure maximum interference immunity of a receiver with successive interference cancellation, are made.     

On the outage performance of multi-user NOMA system with adaptive SIC

The performance of non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) is significantly determined by the successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique. However, the interference redundancy can happen during the NOMA receiver performing SIC. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a novel adaptive successive interference cancellation (ASIC) method. Specifically, the decoding error is considered as interference during the SIC process, and an adaptive filter with various weights is introduced for detection error mitigation. For the multi-user downlink NOMA system, the outage probability is analyzed under conventional and the proposed SIC methods. Simulation results verify our analysis, which also demonstrate the superiority of the proposed ASIC method.     

Performance analysis of a hybrid fiber Bragg grating-based spectral-amplitude-coding/successive interference cancellation for optical CDMA systems

Successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme is proposed as a new technique that has the potential to reduce the interference and suppress the multiple-access interference (MAI) in spectral-amplitude-coding (SAC) optical-code-division-multiple access (OCDMA) systems. The proposed receiver-based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) techniques. The performance of the proposed system is theoretically analyzed, taking into account various types of noise and interference, including both multiple-access interference (MAI) and receiver noise. Analytical results show that the proposed system offers significant improvement in terms of bit error rate and system capacity (number of users). We have tested our results with both modified prime codes (MPR) and modified quadratic congruence (MQC) codes. In addition, we have compared our proposed system with the corresponding one without cancellation. It has been shown that the proposed scheme gives a substantial increase in capacity.     

Interference Cancellation and FEC in S/CDMA Networks with PIN+OA Receiver

For reducing the effects of optical multiple access interference (OMAI) and receiver noise in code-division multiple access (OCDMA) networks with STM-1 input, use of parallel cancellation and forward error correcting (FEC)codes greatly improves the performance of the receiver..     

Analysis of interference cancellation techniques in OFDMA systems employing adaptive antenna arrays

We analyze the problem of interference cancellation in OFDMA cellular communication systems employing adaptive antenna arrays at the receiver and operating in the channels with frequency-selective fading and interference from the neighboring base stations. This problem is very important for modern broadband cellular systems operating with a low coefficient of multiple use of frequencies. Under such conditions of the network deployment, the system efficiency is restricted by the level of intrachannel interference from the neighboring base stations transmitting in the same frequency channel. In this work, we analyze different methods for measuring the interference characteristics and using them for spatial processing of received signals. Five different methods for signal processing in an adaptive antenna array of the receiver are discussed. Each approach (reception method) has its own interference immunity and complexity degree. Comparative analysis of the interference immunity of the considered receivers has been performed for different frequency-channel loads and different numbers of interfering stations. Recommendations for using the considered receivers are given.     

Time reversal multiple-input/multiple-output acoustic communication enhanced by parallel interference cancellation

Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) techniques can lead to significant improvements of underwater acoustic communication capabilities. In this paper, receivers based on time reversal processing are developed for high frequency underwater MIMO channels. Time reversal followed by a single channel decision feedback equalizer, aided by frequent channel updates, is used to compensate for the time-varying inter-symbol interference. A parallel interference cancellation method is incorporated to suppress the co-channel interference in the MIMO system. The receiver performance is demonstrated by a 2008 shallow water experiment in Kauai, Hawaii. In the experiment, high frequency MIMO signals centered at 16 kHz were transmitted every hour during a 35 h period from an 8-element source array to a wide aperture 16-element vertical receiving array at 4 km range. The interference cancellation method is shown to generate significant performance enhancement, on average 2-4 dB in the output signal-to-noise ratio per data stream, throughout the 35 h MIMO transmissions. Further, communication performance and achieved data rates exhibit significant changes over the 35 h period as a result of stratification of the water column.     

水声正交频分复用异步多用户接入方法

水声信道传播时延大导致水声通信网中上行用户同步困难,因此需要接收端具备异步多用户检测能力。针对水声正交频分复用(OFDM)异步多用户系统提出一种基于滑动迭代的异步多用户接入方法,包括重叠截断、干扰消除、频域过采样、多用户信道估计与解码、以及干扰重构5个处理模块,并通过滑动迭代结构同时消除前向干扰和后向干扰影响。仿真结果表明,所提方法在不同异步到达时延,以及有、无信道估计误差下的误比特率均明显低于逐块解调异步接收算法。水池实验结果表明,滑动迭代异步接收算法在多径扩展18 ms、异步到达时延大于或等于循环前缀1.5倍时实现了两用户异步接入的可靠通信。      

Asynchronous multiuser underwater acoustic communications (L)

An asynchronous multiuser system is proposed to support multiple-access underwater communications without the use of code-division multiple-access or a feedback channel. The rich multipath channels experienced by spatially separated users will be sufficient to ensure separation of collided packets at the base station. The iterative receiver will employ a combination of adaptive time-reversal processing, matching pursuit, and successive interference cancellation in a block-wise fashion to achieve multiuser separability. Data collected during the KAM11 experiment are used to illustrate the system's capability in a dynamic, time-varying environment.     

视听系统声干扰的自适应抵消

对一个用语音遥控的视听系统而言，视听系统本身所发出的声音常常造成语音识别的错误，本文所采用的自适应声干扰低消技术能有效地降低这种声干扰，基于自适应声干扰抵消最佳性能的分析，导出了抵消性能与权系数的个数以及混响时间的表达式，并实时地实现了带有１０２４个权系数的自适应声干扰抵消系统。在一般居室中，声干扰的抵肖可达２６ｄＢ。     

Experimental demonstration of indoor interfered visible light communication system employing successive interference cancellation

Multipath interference induced power fading occurs when the transmission path lengths from the light emitting diodes to a single receiver are different in a visible light communication system. To solve this problem, we apply a QR-decomposition-based channel equalizer(QR-CE) to achieve successive interference cancellation for a discrete Fourier transform spreading(DFT-S) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) signal.We experimentally demonstrate a 200 Mb/s DFT-S OFDM over a 2 m free-space transmission. The experimental results show that a DFT-S OFDM with QR-CE attains much better bit error rate performance than a DFT-S OFDM with conventional CEs. The impacts of several parameters on a QR-CE are also investigated.     

Clutter interference and the integration time of echoes in the echolocating bat, Eptesicus fuscus

The ability of the echolocating bat, Eptesicus fuscus, to detect a sonar target is affected by the presence of other targets along the same axis at slightly different ranges. If echoes from one target arrive at about the same delay as echoes from another target, clutter interference occurs and one set of echoes masks the other. Although the bat's sonar emissions and the echoes themselves are 2 to 5 ms long, echoes (of approximately equal sensation levels--around 15 dB SL) only interfere with each other if they arrive within 200 to 400 microseconds of the same arrival time. This figure is an estimate of the integration time of the bat's sonar receiver for echoes. The fine structure of the clutter-interference data reflects the reinforcement and cancellation of echoes according to their time separation. When clutter interference first occurs, the waveforms of test and cluttering echoes already overlap for much of their duration. The masking effect underlying clutter interference appears specifically due to overlap, not between raw echo waveforms, but between the patterns of mechanical excitation created when echoes pass through bandpass filters equivalent to auditory-nerve tuning curves. While the time scale of clutter interference is substantially shorter than the duration of echo waveforms, it still is much longer than the eventual width of a target's range-axis image expressed in terms of echo delay.     

Optimization design of RIS-assisted high-capacity visible light communications based on HDMA

In this paper, a new non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme is proposed for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted high-capacity visible light communication (VLC) system, which is named hybrid domain multiple access (HDMA). HDMA enjoys the benefit of hybrid-domain signals, including the power domain, code domain, and frequency domain, where the message passing algorithm (MPA) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) detectors are jointly used at the HDMA receiver. Furthermore, to achieve a higher communication capacity for the VLC system, we proposed an optimization model by jointly optimizing the power allocation ratio and RIS reflection units. The simulation results verified the proposed scheme. By comparing the system capacity of different RIS allocation schemes and multiple access methods, the VLC system based on HDMA proposed in this paper can significantly improve its communication capacity.     

Multi-scale mapping algorithm for INI cancellation and a novel mixed-numerologies OFDM transceiver

OFDM with mixed-numerologies enhances the system flexibility effectively to meet the demands of diversified application scenarios. However, the coexistence of waveforms with different numerologies leads to serious inter-numerology interference (INI), and the corresponding relationship between the number of guard subcarriers and the power of INI needs to be considered for scheduling subcarriers. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale mapping (MSM) and INI cancellation (MSM-INIC) algorithm as well as the corresponding de-MSM algorithm for mixed-numerologies OFDM system. Based on the proposed algorithms, we provide a novel transceiver in the scenario of multi-path fading channel, in which subcarrier scheduling does not need to consider whether the guard band is allocated. In the proposed transmitter, an additional MSM-INIC module is employed to pre-compensate signal distortion for downlink, and in the receiver, a de-MSM module is applied to de-map the received signals for recovering the original numerologies. Furthermore, we reveal the inherent property of the mapped signals, and propose a low computational complexity de-MSM algorithm accordingly. Simulation results verify the superiority of the proposed transceiver in BER performance as well as spectrum efficiency even without any guard band.     

Estimation and cancellation of multi-user interference in synchronous fiber-optic PPM-CDMA system using Manchester coding

A multi-user interference estimation and cancellation technique is proposed for direct-detection fiber-optic code division multiple-access communication systems employing pulse-position modulation. In addition, Manchester codes are used in signaling the transmitted data to further improve the bit-error rate (BER). The multi-user interference of any user is estimated with the help of properties of modified prime code sequences. The estimated interference is canceled out from the received signal after the photo-detection process. We have used PIN photo-detector in our proposed system. An upper bound on the BER for the proposed system is derived and compared with a lower bound on the BER for the system without cancellation. In the presence of multiple users interference (MUI) and the Poisson shot noise model, our results clearly indicate that the performance, in terms of the BER, of the proposed system is significantly improved compared with that of the system without cancellation. The effect of thermal, dark current and surface leakage noise is insignificant compared to MUI and thus will not be considered in our calculation of BER.     

Even- and odd-order dispersion cancellation effects in four-photon quantum interferometry

The even-order dispersion cancellation effect based on the frequency anti-correlated photon pairs has attracted much attention in the research of quantum dispersion cancellation in two-photon systems. In this letter, we demonstrate a four-photon quantum interferometry in which we can not only observe the even-order dispersion cancellation effect but also the odd-order cancellation. Importantly, the four-photon scheme can get a much better resolution than the two-photon case and help us get a better understanding of the interference phenomenon in a four-photon interferometry.     

Performance analysis of overlay cognitive NOMA network with imperfect SIC and imperfect CSI

In this paper, we investigate a multiple users cooperative overlay cognitive radio non-orthogonal multiple access (CR-NOMA) network in the presence of imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) and imperfect channel state information (CSI). In the context of cellular network, cell-center cognitive secondary users act as relays to assist transmission from the primary user (PU) transmitter to the cell-edge PU receiver via NOMA. According to the received signals between the primary transmitter and multiple cognitive secondary center users, the best cell-center cognitive SU with the maximum signal to noise ratio (SNR) is selected to transmit the PU’s signals and its own signal to cell-edge users through NOMA principle. Then, the PU cell-edge user combine the signals received from direct transmission in the first phase and relay transmission from the best cell-center cognitive SU in the second phase by selection combining (SC). To measure the performance of the system quantitatively, we derive the end-to-end outage probability and capacity for the primary and secondary networks by taking the imperfect SIC and CSI into consideration. Finally, the performance analysis is validated by the simulations, and show that serious interference caused by imperfect SIC and (or) imperfect CSI reduce the system performance.     

基于水声信道传播时延排序的分层空时信号检测

基于分层空时编码的多输入多输出技术是一种极具潜力的高速水声通信技术, 但要实现这种潜力需要复杂的空时信号处理方法, 以抵消来自水声信道的多径干扰和异步到达干扰, 以及叠加在接收端的各层信号之间的干扰. 对低复杂度的空时信号处理方案进行了研究, 提出了一种基于子信道传播时延排序的有序连续干扰抵消信号检测算法, 利用子信道间的传播时延差, 实现可使差错概率最小的最佳检测排序; 给出了利用信道估计, 以极低的计算量确定排序的方法, 从而可以大幅降低信号检测的计算复杂度. 采用低复杂度的单载波频域均衡来抵消水声信道中的码间干扰和异步到达干扰. 仿真结果表明, 基于时延排序的信号处理算法可以获得检测性能的改善, 而且性能增益在高数据率时更加显著. 研究结果表明, 采用有效的信号处理方法可使水声信道中造成信号检测干扰的传播时延成为改善系统性能的有利因素.