正交频分复用无源时间反转信道均衡方法研究

针对水声信道多途信号引起的正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)水声通信系统符号间干扰的问题,提出了无源时间反转均衡的方法,将发送的探测信号时间反转与OFDM信号做卷积,利用无源时间反转镜的时间聚焦原理减小信道多途带来的符号间干扰,在OFDM符号中不使用导频的情况下实现信道均衡,简化了均衡步骤并提高了OFDM符号频带利用率。分析比较了无源时反均衡方法与最小平方信道均衡在水声多途信道下的误码性能。仿真研究和湖上实验表明,无源时反信道均衡算法可以有效的减小多途信道对OFDM水声通信系统带来的影响。     

正交频分复用无源时间反转信道均衡方法研究

针对水声信道多途信号引起的正交频分复用(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,OFDM)水声通信系统符号间干扰的问题,提出了无源时间反转均衡的方法,将发送的探测信号时间反转与OFDM信号做卷积,利用无源时间反转镜的时间聚焦原理减小信道多途带来的符号间干扰,在OFDM符号中不使用导频的情况下实现信道均衡,简化了均衡步骤并提高了OFDM符号频带利用率。分析比较了无源时反均衡方法与最小平方信道均衡在水声多途信道下的误码性能。仿真研究和湖上实验表明,无源时反信道均衡算法可以有效的减小多途信道对OFDM水声通信系统带来的影响。      

无源时间反转镜在水声通信中的应用

提出单阵元无源时间反转镜(PTRM),在对声信道没有任何先验知识的情况下可与信道自动匹配,实现自适应聚焦。并将其应用于Pattern时延差编码(PDS)水声通信体制,构成无源时间反转镜Pattern时延差编码水声通信系统(PTRM- PDS)。通过计算机仿真研究及湖试,验证了PTRM-PDS系统能够抑制声信道多途扩展产生的码间干扰,可在时变、空变的声信道中实现低误码率通信,具有很好的鲁棒性。     

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。      

结合主动时间反转算法的短基线定位研究

短基线声学定位技术是水下运动目标定位的重要研究内容。为了解决定位系统工作于浅水或近岸时多途扩展严重造成的时延估计误差和系统工作不稳定的问题,本文提出一种结合时间反转算法的短基线宽带应答定位技术,该方法利用短基线阵元发射宽带信号,通过应答器接收该信号时间反转处理后再返回给短基线阵元位置,实现信道多途的自适应聚焦,进而提高时延估计精度及信号检测的鲁棒性。仿真研究和湖上试验表明,该方法能够充分利用信道多途信息实现聚焦,减少信道多途对定位信号时延估计的影响,具有较强的抗噪声和多途干扰的能力。相对传统定位方法,该方法可以抑制短基线定位过程中误差及野点的产生,改善了物体定位导航的精度。      

虚拟时间反转镜啁啾率键控的水声多用户通信

针对频率选择性衰落严重的浅海信道多用户通信问题,提出了一种虚拟时间反转镜(VTRM,Virtual Time Reversal Mirror)啁啾率键控(CRK,Chirp-Rate Keying)的水声多用户通信方式。该算法采用啁啾信号作为载波,接收端利用啁啾信号中心频率与分数阶傅里叶变换域的关系还原出原始信息,并使用虚拟时间反转镜技术减少了多径环境对系统的影响,采用啁啾调频率分集作为多址接入方式。在10 kHz的带宽内,可支持4个用户进行可靠通信,每用户通信速率425 bps。水池及海洋实验结果表明:该算法能够有效地传输数据,并且误码率在10~(-3)数量级以下。     

虚拟时反镜在水声被动测距中的应用

水声信道多途干涉使被动测距产生偏差．接收信号的自相关输出波形含有信道冲激响应结构的信息，本文提出通过简化模型可估计出信道冲激响应，并将其时间反转构造一前置预处理器，可实现虚拟时间反转镜（VTRM）．虚拟时反镜可获得时间、空间上的自适应聚焦效果，克服多途干涉对被动测距的影响，并且实现简单，可实时对目标进行测距．通过计算机仿真研究，验证VTRM技术可匹配声信道，提高被动测距的精度．     

虚拟时间反转镜啁啾率键控的水声多用户通信

针对频率选择性衰落严重的浅海信道多用户通信问题,提出了一种虚拟时间反转镜(VTRM,Virtual Time Reversal Mirror)啁啾率键控(CRK,Chirp-Rate Keying)的水声多用户通信方式。该算法采用啁啾信号作为载波,接收端利用啁啾信号中心频率与分数阶傅里叶变换域的关系还原出原始信息,并使用虚拟时间反转镜技术减少了多径环境对系统的影响,采用啁啾调频率分集作为多址接入方式。在10 kHz的带宽内,可支持4个用户进行可靠通信,每用户通信速率425 bps。水池及海洋实验结果表明:该算法能够有效地传输数据,并且误码率在10-3数量级以下。      

基于光生编码超宽带信号的多用户通信系统

提出并验证了一种基于光学方法产生编码超宽带(UWB)信号的多用户通信系统,在发射端通过光纤直接传输用光学方法生成的UWB信号,在接收端对编码UWB信号进行相关运算,同时完成用户信息和数据信息的判决。系统具有简单扩容、易于接收、远距传输、可调谐性等优点。设计制作的多信道光纤光栅滤波器和色散光纤组合成的鉴频器是系统的核心器件。传输的信号用不同的码片组合来区分各个用户,系统只需调节激光波长来实现用户切换,产生了不同用户的光生编码UWB信号,并恢复出不同用户的信息,实现了多用户通信全过程。     

非正交多址光通信系统信道均衡的虚拟时反方法

室内非正交多址(non-orthogonal multiple access, NOMA)可见光通信系统(visible light communications, VLC)可实现高速率多用户通信,但多径效应会造成通信可靠性及用户公平性明显下降,为此,提出一种虚拟时间反转技术(virtual time reversal mirror, VTRM)对NOMA-VLC进行信道均衡,消除多径效应对通信过程的影响。分析了多用户场景下室内NOMA-VLC系统模型及其通信光链路的特性,依据光链路增益的稀疏特性采用稀疏度自适应匹配追踪(sparsity adaptive matching pursuit,SAMP)算法,估计NOMA-VLC系统的信道冲激响应(channel impulse response, CIR)。在此基础上,采用VTRM方法对NOMA-VLC进行信道均衡,通过VTRM的时空聚焦特性减少信道衰落影响,并重构接收信号,抑制多径效应。理论分析和实验结果表明：经论文算法均衡后的NOMAVLC系统,在满足前向纠错(forward error correction,FEC)误码率阈值的同...     

采用时反和时频差分OFDM的水声语音通信方法

针对水声信道多径、时变、多普勒等恶劣传输特点对水声语音通信的严重影响,本文采用多通道时间反转和时频差分OFDM进行水声语音通信技术方案设计,该方法首先通过多通道时间反转进行时间域和空间域多径聚焦,进而结合时频差分OFDM调制解调抑制残留多径的影响。由于无需采用信道估计和均衡算法,系统实现方便、复杂度低,同时对信道具有一定程度的稳健性。该方法语音压缩编码采用混合激励线性预测编码。仿真实验和海试实验表明了本文方案的有效性。     

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.     

Coherent underwater communication using passive time reversal over multipath channels

Passive time reversal exploits underwater acoustic channels’ spatial and temporal diversity. It can refocus multipath propagated signal at the receiver and can be realized simply by the passive phase conjugation (PPC) method. By the temporal focusing, time delay spread caused by multipath propagation is mitigated for spectral efficient coherent communications. However, the PPC method is unable to eliminate multipath and is limited by channel variations. An adaptive equalizer is therefore needed to compensate residual multipath after refocusing and to track channel temporal variations. Spatial diversity is obtained by using a vertical receiving array. In this paper we used 4-hydrophone array and demonstrated that the adaptive decision feedback equalization in conjunction with PPC significantly decreased the bit error rate.     

时间反转滤波器组多载波水声通信方法

针对水声滤波器组多载波(Filter Bank MultiCarrier,FBMC)传统均衡方法效率低、复杂度高等问题,提出了单阵元无源时间反转镜(Passive Time Reversal Mirror,PTRM)和虚拟时间反转镜(Virtual Time Reversal Mirror,VTRM)的均衡算法,该算法利用时间聚焦原理可以降低水声信道带来的符号间干扰(Inter Symbol Interference,ISI),并且不需要在FBMC符号中插入导频,进一步提高了通信速率.通过仿真和外场实验验证了水声FBMC系统采用单阵元PTRM和VTRM的有效性,结果表明,这两种均衡方法能够有效减少ISI,提高系统可靠性能。      

联合空时编码的水声多用户节点协同并行传输多址接人协议设计

针对水声信道长传播时延特点导致水声通信网吞吐量低的问题,提出了一种多节点协同并行传输的多址接入协议。该协议由接收端发起预约,在距离认知的基础上对预约节点划分协同传输小区,从而构建多用户节点的多输入多输出集中式网络架构;采用空时码对数据包编码,并合理规划数据包的发送时刻,使同一小区的多个用户节点发送的数据包在设定时间偏差范围内同时到达接收端,而不同小区的数据包以包链形式到达,实现多用户节点的无干扰、高效并行传输。仿真实验结果表明,与已有的其它两种协议相比,设计的协议通过空时复用的方法大幅缩短了平均端到端时延,显著提升了归一化网络吞吐量。      

Exploiting joint sparsity for underwater acoustic MIMO communications

MIMO communication has been recognized as a potential solution for high speed underwater acoustic communication, which unfortunately encounters significant difficulties posed by simultaneous presence of multipath and Co-channel interference (CoI). Sparsity contained in the multipath structure of underwater acoustic channels offers an effective way for improving channel estimation quality and thus enhancing the communication performance in the form of time reversal or channel estimation based equalization. However, for MIMO channels with extensive multipath and CoI, the performance gain achieved by classic sparsity exploitation channel estimation methods such as orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is still not enough to yield satisfactory performance. Under quasi-stationary assumption, underwater acoustic channels of adjacent data blocks exhibit correlated multipath structure, namely, multipath arrivals with similar time delay but different magnitude, which has not been exploited. In this paper, a joint sparse recovery approach is proposed to exploit the sparse correlation among adjacent data blocks to improve the performance of channel estimation. Under the framework of distributed compressed sensing (DCS), a joint sparse model which treats the multipath arrivals as sparse solutions with common time support is adopted to derive a joint sparse recovery algorithm for efficient channel estimation, the results of which are used to initialize and periodly update a channel estimation based time reversal receiver. Finally, underwater MIMO communication experimental results obtained in a shallow water channel are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, compared to the same type of receiver that do not exploit the joint sparse.     

变步长似p范数约束稀疏水声信道估计方法

针对范数约束类归一化最小均方(NLMS)算法在正交频分复用(OFDM)稀疏水声信道估计中误码率较高的问题,提出一种改进的变步长似p范数约束信道估计方法。采用改进双Logistic函数构造步长,并将误差信号自相关函数引入其中,实时调整步长和零吸引项,使得收敛速度和估计精度能够很好地折中。算法仿真结果表明,在浅海多径稀疏水声信道下,相比于传统方法,所提出的信道估计获得的最高性能提升为收敛速度提高72.3%,稳态误差降低95.9%。湖上试验数据处理结果显示,相比于传统信道估计方法,所提出的方法能使通信误码率降低2~3个数量级,实现零误码水声通信。      

Spectrum Slicing for Multiple Access Channels with Heterogeneous Services

Wireless mobile networks from the fifth generation (5G) and beyond serve as platforms for flexible support of heterogeneous traffic types with diverse performance requirements. In particular, the broadband services aim for the traditional rate optimization, while the time-sensitive services aim for the optimization of latency and reliability, and some novel metrics such as Age of Information (AoI). In such settings, the key question is the one of spectrum slicing: how these services share the same chunk of available spectrum while meeting the heterogeneous requirements. In this work we investigated the two canonical frameworks for spectrum sharing, Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), in a simple, but insightful setup with a single time-slotted shared frequency channel, involving one broadband user, aiming to maximize throughput and using packet-level coding to protect its transmissions from noise and interference, and several intermittent users, aiming to either to improve their latency-reliability performance or to minimize their AoI. We analytically assessed the performances of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and ALOHA-based schemes in both OMA and NOMA frameworks by deriving their Pareto regions and the corresponding optimal values of their parameters. Our results show that NOMA can outperform traditional OMA in latency-reliability oriented systems in most conditions, but OMA performs slightly better in age-oriented systems.