无线紫外光散射通信中多信道接入技术研究

针对无线紫外光散射通信MAC层多信道接入技术的特点,结合紫外光散射通信的基本原理,对紫外光非直视通信的三种工作方式进行分析,在通信节点处配置多套紫外收发器的情况下,建立了紫外光通信的节点模型和信道模型,进行多信道的接入研究。利用NS2仿真软件,对紫外光非直视的三种多信道通信方式在不同的拓扑结构下进行了仿真,结果表明,该紫外光多信道接入技术能在一定程度上利用多个信道同时进行通信,大大增加网络的有效吞吐量。     

Monte Carlo方法模拟非直视紫外光散射覆盖范围

针对大气中紫外光散射通信的特点, 用Monte Carlo方法对紫外光非直视(NLOS) 通信三种工作方式的覆盖范围进行分析, 建立了基于Monte Carlo方法的NLOS紫外光传输模型.利用Monte Carlo模拟方法对三种NLOS散射方式的单次和多次散射路径损耗及覆盖范围进行模拟研究, 结果表明, 多次散射和单次散射的路径损耗基本一致, NLOS(a) 类全向发送全向接收通信方式覆盖范围最小但全方位性好, NLOS(b) 类定向发送全向接收通信方式的覆盖范围较大但有一定方向性, NLOS(c) 类定向发送定向接收通信方式的覆盖范围最大但有很强的方向性.     

Effects of atmosphere visibility on performances of non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communication systems

Dependence of performances of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) solar-blind ultraviolet (UV) communication systems on atmosphere visibility is investigated numerically by correlating the propagation of UV radiation with the visibility. A simplified solar-blind UV atmospheric propagation model is introduced, and the NLOS UV communication system model is constituted based on the single scattering assumption. Using the model, numerical simulation is conducted for two typical geometry configurations and different modulation formats. The results indicate that the performance of the NLOS UV communication system is insensitive to variation of visibility in quite a large range, and deteriorates significantly only in very low-visibility weather, and is also dependent on the geometry configuration of the system. The results also show that the pulse position modulation (PPM) is preferable due to its high-power efficiency to improve the system performance.     

天气对光散射传输影响的仿真分析

天气对光散射传输影响分析具有很好的实践指导意义。目前均用单次散射模型研究非视线光传输信道特性,但该方法在天气条件差或者传输距离较远时误差很大。利用蒙特卡罗方法进行了基于多次散射的非视线光传输模拟,对多种天气条件下(晴、阴、雨和雾等)不同距离光散射传输进行仿真。结果表明,中远距离散射传输时,大气衰减起主导作用,信号传输质量由晴、阴、雨、雾依次降低;近距离散射传输时,受到大气衰减和散射的共同作用,天气对光散射传输的影响较小。因此,大气光散射传输技术可作为短距离条件下实现全天候通信的一种新方式。     

雾霾粒子的紫外光散射特性研究

紫外光与雾霾粒子发生散射后，其散射信道特性能够反映雾霾粒子的相关物理信息，利用无线紫外光单次和多次散射信道模型，采用Mie散射和T矩阵理论分析了霾粒子在不同形态和浓度下的紫外光散射信道特性，以及散射角对散射光强的影响，并完成了紫外光在雾霾环境下的实测。通过理论及仿真分析，得到了不同霾粒子形态下的紫外光通信路径损耗以及光强分布。结果表明：紫外光直视通信方式下，路径损耗随着霾粒子浓度的增大而增大，且通信质量差于晴朗天。非直视通信方式中，在短距离通信时，高霾浓度下的路径损耗小于中低霾浓度，然而随着通信距离的继续增大，高雾霾浓度下的通信质量急剧下降，低霾浓度下通信质量最终达到最优，且距离为200 m时通信质量能优于晴朗环境。当通信距离相同时，三种雾霾浓度下的紫外光散射光强分布均随着散射角的增大而减小，当散射角继续增大并超过90°时，低霾浓度下的散射光强最大。主要原因是虽然散射角继续增大，但是有效散射体体积逐渐减小，因此低霾浓度下的散射光强较大。且当粒子粒径相同时，球形粒子的衰减较非球形粒子大。雾霾环境下实测结果与仿真结果相类似，证明了仿真结果的正确性，并在一定程度上证明了实际大气中雾霾非球形粒子多于球形粒子。     

基于车载通信标准街道场景的电磁散射信道模型

针对室外无线信道视距(line of sight,LOS)/非视距(non-line of sight,NLOS)传输环境下的车到车(vehicular-to-vehicular,V2V)通信系统,本文提出了一种基于标准街道散射的统计信道模型,其移动发射机(mobile transmitter,MT)与移动接收机(mobile receiver,MR)处于运动状态,街道两旁分布的散射体固定.由几何模型出发又引入了一种随机的参考信道模型,其散射体有无穷多个,均以平行于街道两侧的散射条纹形式均匀分布在三维(three dimensional,3D)空间的一个二维(two dimensional,2D)矩形内部.在室外街道通信环境下,模型推导了散射信道中发射角(angle of departure,AOD)以及到达角(angle of arrival,AOA)的概率密度函数(probability density functions,PDFs)解析式;研究了多普勒功率谱密度(power spectral density,PSD)及其时间自相关函数(autocorrelation function,ACF);分析了模型多普勒参数以及街道散射体等因素对V2V通信系统性能的影响.与城市、农村的测量信道对比分析,表明本模型仿真的统计特性符合理论与实际,拓宽了室外V2V无线通信信道建模的研究.为评估室外V2V通信系统的传输特性、仿真无线通信系统提供了有力的研究工具.     

The effect of turbulence on NLOS underwater wireless optical communication channels [Invited]

Conventional line-of-sight underwater wireless optical communication(UWOC) links suffer from huge signal fading in the presence of oceanic turbulence due to misalignment, which is caused by variations in the refractive index in the water. Non-line-of-sight(NLOS) communication, a novel underwater communication configuration,which has eased the requirements on the alignment, is supposed to enhance the robustness of the UWOC links in the presence of such turbulence. This Letter experimentally and statistically studies the impact of turbulence that arises from temperature gradient variations and the presence of different air bubble populations on NLOS optical channels. The results suggest that temperature gradient-induced turbulence causes negligible signal fading to the NLOS link. Furthermore, the presence of air bubbles with different populations and sizes can enhance the received signal power by seizing the scattering phenomena from an ultraviolet 377 nm laser diode.     

非直视紫外光通信单次散射传输模型研究

依据Lambert定律建立了非直视紫外光通信系统单次散射传输模型。模型表明:大气传输中的两次斜向传输引入的大气透射比衰减,大气散射衰减和距离平方反比衰减是导致接收光功率随距离增加迅速衰减的主要因素。为便于实际计算,对建立的散射传输模型做了合理的计算简化,经实验验证简化后的传输模型计算结果与实验结果吻合较好。利用简化后的传输模型可以方便有效地计算出非直视紫外光通信接收机在不同距离下的接收功率和路径传输损耗,进而可以迅速、有效地计算和评估已知参数的非直视紫外光通信系统的极限工作距离。     

340GHz太赫兹室内信道测量及仿真研究

太赫兹波的衰减性及高可用带宽使其在局域网环境中拥有广阔的应用前景.而太赫兹波的窄波束问题需要借助波束成形技术来解决.作为波束成形技术的关键内容,非直视情况下太赫兹频段的室内信道建模成为了当前亟待开展的工作.本文在340 GHz频段对多种常见室内装饰材料的太赫兹波反射特性和室内多径反射信道特性进行了实验研究,并基于射线追踪法对太赫兹室内信道进行仿真,仿真结果与测量结果符合较好,为进一步太赫兹室内信道建模提供了基础.     

非视线紫外通信大气传输特性的蒙特卡罗模拟

基于蒙特卡罗方法建立了紫外光非视线传输多次散射模型,利用单次散射近似法和实验方法验证了模型的有效性,并利用该模型完成了非视线紫外光通信大气传输特性的模拟.模拟时光波长取紫外光通信的最佳工作波段(250 nm附近),分析了不同传输距离下能见度、风、雨、雾等参量对系统能量透射比的影响.结果指出,系统能量透射比随传输距离增大而剧烈减小,在天气较差传输条件下能量衰减得更快；风力大小的变化对通信系统影响不大.较近距离通信传输时(一两百米),通信系统受天气条件的影响较小.     

Channel identification with Improved Variational Mode Decomposition

The identification of the type of wireless propagation channel (e.g., Line of Sight (LOS) or Non Line of Sight (NLOS)) is an important function in the wireless communication design and deployment especially in rich propagation environments. The wireless channel characteristics can be quite specific not only between Line of Sight (LOS) and Non Line of Sight (NLOS) wireless propagation conditions but also in different NLOS environments.In recent times, machine learning approaches have been increasingly used to differentiate and classify channel characteristics and this paper is part of this trend. In particular, this paper proposes the combination of machine learning with a recently proposed signal processing tool called Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), which is a decomposition algorithm that decomposes a time series into several modes which have specific sparsity properties. VMD itself is a refinement of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and demonstrated a superior performance to EMD for classification problems. One issue for the practical deployment of VMD in channel identification problems is the presence of hyper-parameters, which must be tuned for the applied context. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a novel approach for channel identification based on an improvement of VMD called Improved Variational Mode Decomposition (IVMD), where the optimal values of the hyper-parameters of VMD are automatically identified on the basis of the Shannon entropy of the signal output from the channel. Then, various features are extracted from the modes generated by IVMD and a sequential feature selection algorithm is applied to select the optimal features. This paper applies the proposed approach with IVMD to a data set generated by the authors with a wireless channel emulator, where 6 different propagation scenarios (including no fading conditions) are created for WiFi 802.11g signals, where only the preamble is used for channel identification. Even if channel identification based on the normalized preamble is a challenging classification problem, the proposed IVMD is able to outperform significantly the application of basic VMD, EMD and the time and frequency domain representations (as commonly done in literature) of the WiFi signals.     

室内直达与非直达环境无线传播综合信道建模

本文主要针对室内无线传播信道直达(line of sight, LOS)与非直达(no line of sight, NLOS)环境, 引入参考模型研究其建模设计及其相关统计特性. 文中提出了一种基于几何散射模型的综合改进室内参考信道模型, 假设将无限数量的散射体均匀分布在三维空间的一个二维(two dimensional, 2D)水平面上. 本文推导了电磁波达信号到达角(angle of arrival, AOA) 概率分布函数(probability density function, PDF)、多普勒功率谱密度(power spectral Density, PSD)、 时间自相关函数(autocorrelation function, ACF)的解析表达式, 并分析其重要参数对函数的影响. 此外, 本文还通过非现实参考模型提出了一种高效的SOC(Sum of Cisoids) 信道仿真模型, 同时提出了设计SOC信道仿真模型的两种有效参数计算方法, 并比较两者的计算性能. 仿真结果表明, 信道仿真模型的统计特性与参考模型相匹配, 即室内参考模型可以通过的SOC信道仿真模型来近似, 同时信道仿真模型可以很好的应用于评估室内无线通信系统的性能, 拓宽了室内无线信道建模的研究, 同时减少实现开支.     

UWB LOS/NLOS identification in multiple indoor environments using deep learning methods

Indoor location-aware service is booming in daily life and business activities, making the demand for precise indoor positioning systems thrive. The identification between line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is critical for wireless indoor time-of-arrival-based localization methods. Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) is considered low cost among the many wireless positioning systems. It can resolve multi-path and have high penetration ability. This contribution addresses UWB NLOS/LOS identification problem in multiple environments. We propose a LOS/NLOS identification method using Convolutional Neural Network parallel with Gate Recurrent Unit, named Indoor NLOS/LOS identification Neural Network. The Convolutional Neural Network extracts spatial features of UWB channel impulse response data. While the Gate Recurrent Unit is an effective approach for designing deep recurrent neural networks which can extract temporal features. By integrating squeeze-and-extraction blocks into these architectures we can assign weights on channel-wise features. We simulated UWB channel impulse response signals in residential, office, and industrial scenarios based on the IEEE 802.15.4a channel model report. The presented network was tested in simulation scenarios and an open-source real-time measured dataset. Our method can solve NLOS identification problems for multiple indoor environments. Thus more versatile compare with networks only working in one scenario. Popular machine learning methods and deep learning methods are compared against our method. The test results show that the proposed network outperforms benchmark methods in simulation datasets and real-time measured datasets.     

降雨粒子的无线紫外光散射特性

紫外光与降雨粒子相互作用发生散射，散射光特性改变能够反映降雨粒子的相关物理特性（如粒子尺寸参数、浓度、形态），因此研究粒子的物理参数对散射光特性的影响对有效提高光谱法定量探测降水的精度有很大意义。由于雨滴在非球形降水粒子中具有代表性，以群雨滴粒子为例，采用T矩阵理论，利用紫外光直视和非直视单次散射模型，分析了入射光波长、群雨滴粒子形态、降雨强度、粒径大小与散射光强之间的关系。并用蒙特卡洛方法仿真分析了非球形群雨滴粒子在不同降雨强度和粒径下散射角与散射光强之间的关系，以及降雨环境中的风切变对紫外光散射特性的影响。通过理论及仿真分析，得到了不同群雨滴粒子形态下的路径损耗，不同降雨强度、风切变率和粒径下的散射光强分布。仿真结果表明：在紫外光直视与非直视通信方式下，降雨环境中的通信质量比晴天条件下的通信质量差，即路径损耗增大。当粒径分布已知时，随着降雨强度的增大，衰减系数增大，路径损耗增加，且直视通信方式的路径损耗比非直视降低7 dB左右。随着降雨强度、风切变率和粒子粒径的增大，散射光强曲线整体呈下降趋势，其中，降雨强度的变化对散射光强分布影响程度最大。相同通信距离时，不同降雨强度下的紫外光散射光强分布均随着散射角的增大而减小，当散射角继续增大到90°时，有效散射体体积逐渐减小，接收到的光子能量减小，暴雨中的散射光强衰减程度最大。相同降雨强度下考虑风切变时，相比较无风时的路径损耗增大5 dB左右。除此之外，还研究了椭球形和切比雪夫形粒子对紫外光散射光强的影响，结果表明当粒子粒径分布相同时，椭球形粒子的散射光强衰减较广义切比雪夫形粒子大。根据散射粒子的散射光强分布以及路径损耗能够区分雨滴粒子是否由相同粒径及形态组成，为粒子测量提供理论基础。分析降水中群雨滴粒子的光散射特性，为提高光谱法评估降水衰减的数值模拟方面提供理论依据，为光学技术在探测识别降水现象等气象领域的广泛应用提供了设计参考。     

Spread spectrum-based ultraviolet communication with experiments

We report experiments of ultraviolet （UV） communication based on spread-spectrum technique. Field measurements via online UV communication are conducted to compare the system performances with and without spectrum spreading. The results indicate that the spread-spectrum technique is capable of suppressing noise in UV atmospheric scattering channel and therefore improve the system performance evidently. Details of implementation are also provided to make the results useful for similar system design in research on optical wireless communications.     

基于UVC LED的小型化紫外无线通信技术

紫外光通信技术具有低窃听、低位辨、全方位、全天候、抗干扰等优点,而基于紫外光灯的通信系统存在光源体积大、易碎、调制困难、通信速率低、功耗大等问题。设计了一种基于紫外C波段(UVC)LED的小型化无线通信系统方案,并对系统性能进行了理论分析。系统光源采用UVC LED,探测器采用日盲光电倍增管(PMT)和窄带紫外滤光片,通信系统采用开关键控(OOK)和脉冲位置调制(PPM)调制方案。仿真结果表明所设计的紫外无线通信系统可在200mW发射光功率情况下实现直径200m范围内的非视距语音通信和100mW发射光功率情况下实现250m的64Kbps准视距通信。     

Reflection assisted beam propagation model for obstructed line-of-sight FSO links

A non-line-of-sight (NLOS) infra-red reflection based beam propagation model is proposed as a supplement to conventional terrestrial free space optical (FSO) communication system. This ray propagation model lets tactically positioned optical reflectors to smartly exploit the aggregated advantages of mirror characteristics to bridge the existent communication gap between two FSO nodes due to inclined or obstructed line-of-sight view. Additionally, a numerical framework of the proposed system is presented that analytically explores the optical losses induced by harmonic distortions and the resultant beam divergence at the receiver. The impact of the different reflectors on the traversing beam is then investigated through an experimental FSO test-bed set in an outdoor environment in terms of phase shifts, divergence loss, noise margin and maximum achievable link length. Matlab based simulations, based on the experimental outcomes, envisages that concave reflectors can effectively compensate the turbulence induced signal fading and restrict the beam divergence loss; thereby, improving the maximum achievable NLOS FSO link length.     

非视线紫外光信号传输时间特性的数值模拟

在研究紫外光学非视线通信技术中,需要深入了解由于紫外大气散射效应所带来的各种信号畸变.传统的单次散射近似方法在进行较远距离、复杂天气条件下非视线光传输模拟时误差很大,采用基于Monte Carlo(MC)方法改进算法进行非视线紫外光信号传输的数值模拟,通过随机抽样的方法模拟光子在大气系统中的随机游动,在光子被大气中的粒子散射时计算其进入探测器的概率,模拟大气系统的脉冲响应函数.模拟结果表明:采用光子散射探测概率方法改进后的MC模型在模拟非视线光信号传输时计算效率显著提高;大气系统对非视线传输时的紫外光脉冲具有很强的展宽效应;随着光信号传输距离的增大,信号强度呈近似指数衰减的趋势.     

Data-aided channel estimation and frequency domain equalization of minimum-shift keying in optical transmission systems

We demonstrate a digital optical communication system based on minimum shift keying （MSK） signal transmission with coherent detection. 5-Gb/s MSK signal can transmit over a 160-km standard single mode fiber （SSMF） without phase compensation. At the receiver, we use data-aided channel estimation and frequency domain equalization （FDE） techniques in the digital signal processing （DSP） algorithm, then analyze its performance characteristics compared with quadrature phase shift keying （QPSK） format. The simulation results show that the MSK format will be a potential candidate for next-generation access network.     

降雨背景下诱骗态协议最优平均光子数的变色龙自适应策略

为了应对降雨给采用诱骗态协议的量子通信系统带来的突发性干扰,根据降雨分布模型和退极化信道的特性,本文提出了基于变色龙算法的每脉冲最优平均光子数自适应策略;建立了降雨强度、链路距离与最优平均光子数之间的自适应关系;并对采用变色龙算法前后,系统的性能参数进行了比较.仿真结果表明,当降雨强度J为30 mm/24 h、链路距离L为30 km时,通过采用变色龙算法,系统的安全密钥生成率由2×10~(-4)提高到3.5×10~(-4);当J为60 mm/24 h,L为20 km时,系统的信道生存函数值由0.52提高到0.63;当要求生存函数不低于0.5时,系统能够应对的最大雨强由62 mm/24 h提高到74 mm/24 h.因此,根据降雨强度和链路距离,通过变色龙算法自适应地调整系统发送端信号脉冲所含的平均光子数,可以提高量子通信系统在降雨背景下的有效性和可靠性.