水声正交频分多址上行通信稀疏信道估计与导频优化

针对水声正交频分多址(OFDMA)上行通信中用户导频数量少、分布不均匀, 导致传统内插信道估计方法产生误码平层的问题, 提出一种稀疏信道估计与导频优化方法. 基于压缩感知(CS)理论估计稀疏信道冲激响应, 并依据CS理论中测量矩阵互相关最小化原理, 提出基于随机搜索的导频图案和导频功率联合优化算法. 仿真结果表明, 所提方法在不同多径扩展信道下的性能均优于基于线性内插的最小二乘估计、未经导频优化的CS信道估计以及单纯基于导频图案优化的CS信道估计. 水池实验分别验证了交织式和广义式子载波分配的水声OFDMA上行通信性能, 在接收信噪比高于10 dB时利用所提方法实现了两用户接入的可靠通信.     

IMDD-OFDM系统的低开支、高准确度信道估计方法

提出一种应用于强度调制直接检测光正交频分复用(IMDD-OFDM)传输系统的低开支、高准确度的信道估计算法.该算法充分考虑系统噪声特性,利用梳状导频插入结构,结合符号间平均与子载波间频域线性插值的思想,在低开支导频条件下实现较高的估计准确度.仿真和理论推导结果表明:与传统平均算法和直接线性插值算法相比,基于梳状导频先平均后线性插值的算法估计出来的信道特性更能接近实际信道的.实验结果表明:在误码率为3.8×10~(-3)处,本文所提出的算法仅使用0.78%导频开支即可与使用20%导频开支的平均算法获得相同的接收灵敏度;同时,与传统估计算法相比,该算法与导频开支无关,能较好抗系统中的高斯噪声,获得与真实信道较为接近的估计性能.     

改进的时序多重稀疏贝叶斯学习冰下水声信道估计方法

针对时序多重稀疏贝叶斯学习信道估计方法计算复杂度高且在低信噪比时估计精度低的问题,本文提出了一种改进的时序多重稀疏贝叶斯学习正交频分复用冰下水声信道估计方法。首先,采用奇异值分解方法对接收导频矩阵进行去噪;随后利用去噪后的接收导频矩阵结合最小二乘信道估计方法获得时序多重稀疏贝叶斯信道估计的超参数矩阵、感知矩阵等先验知识;最后,利用冰下水声信道的稀疏特性和多途结构较为稳定的特点,采用时序多重稀疏贝叶斯信道估计对不同符号的冰下水声信道进行联合重建。仿真结果显示,在能量系数为0.03时,改进方法信道估计均方误差相比较于原始方法至少降低了约2.87×10-5,运算时间至少下降了约为90%。第11次北极科学考察冰下试验结果显示,改进方法的平均原始误码率略微低于原始方法,平均运算时间降低约75%。研究结果表明,利用冰下水声信道的特点,改进方法可以实现高精度冰下水声信道估计,并且有效降低系统计算复杂度。      

深海远程正交频分复用水声通信块间迭代稀疏信道估计方法

在深海远程正交频分复用(OFDM)水声通信中,信道时延长、频率选择性衰落严重,传统的块独立压缩感知稀疏估计需要较高导频插入密度才能保证一定的估计性能,通信频谱利用率较低。提出了一种基于信道稀疏时变建模的块间迭代信道估计方法,利用深海信道在两个相邻OFDM数据块之间的时间相关性建立块间信道稀疏多途结构的时变关系,在此基础上,对传统稀疏信道估计算法中的候选字典矩阵的字典原子进行删减并改进优化方程,实现了对前一数据块所估信道信息的有效利用,显著降低了信道估计所需的导频插入密度。在深海不同接收深度、不同距离条件下开展了海试验证,实验结果表明,与传统稀疏信道估计方法相比,本方法在导频插入密度减半的条件下可达到优于传统方法的估计性能。     

二进制信号的混沌压缩测量与重构

二进制信号的压缩感知问题对应超奈奎斯特信号系统中未编码的二进制符号的检测问题, 具有重要的研究意义. 已有的二进制信号压缩测量采用高斯随机矩阵, 信号重构采用经典的l₁最小化方法. 本文利用混沌映射构造基于Cat序列的循环测量矩阵, 并提出一种针对二进制信号的全新的重构算法——平滑函数逼近法. 文章构造的混沌循环测量矩阵兼具确定性和随机性的优点, 能够抵御低信令效率和低信噪比的影响, 取得更好的压缩测量效果. 文章提出的平滑函数逼近法利用非凸函数代替原问题不连续的目标函数, 将组合优化问题转化为具有等式约束的优化问题进行求解. 利用稀疏贝叶斯学习算法进一步修正误差, 得到更准确的重构信号. 在信道含有加性高斯白噪声的条件下对二进制信号进行了压缩测量与重构的数值仿真, 仿真结果表明:基于Cat 序列的循环测量矩阵的压缩测量效果明显优于传统的高斯随机矩阵; 平滑函数逼近法对二进制信号的重构性能明显优于经典的l₁最小化方法.     

基于基追踪去噪的水声正交频分复用稀疏信道估计

针对传统的l₂-范数信道估计精度低的问题, 提出了一种基于基追踪去噪(BPDN)的水声正交频分复用稀疏信道估计方法, 该方法针对水声信道的稀疏特性, 利用少量的观测值即可以很高的精度估计出信道冲激响应. 与贪婪追踪类算法相比, 基于BPDN算法的稀疏信号估计具有全局最优解, 采用l₂-l₁范数准则估计信号, 同时考虑了观测值含噪情况, 通过调整正则化参数控制估计信号稀疏度和残余误差之间的平衡. 仿真分析了导频分布、正则化参数等对BPDN 算法的影响以及BPDN算法与最小平方(LS)、正交匹配追踪(OMP)信道估计算法的性能. 湖试结果表明, 在稀疏信道下, 基于BPDN的信道估计方法明显优于LS和OMP信道估计方法.     

基于自适应ICA的PDM-CO-OFDM系统信道均衡算法

基于独立成分分析法(ICA)能够实现偏振复用相干光正交频分复用(PDM-CO-OFDM)系统的盲信道均衡,与基于导频的信道均衡方法相比,能极大提高系统的频谱利用率。然而这种固定步长的ICA算法对每个子载波采用迭代算法来计算信道频率响应分离矩阵,需要经过几十次迭代才能收敛。为有效降低该算法的计算复杂度,提出一种基于自适应步长ICA的盲信道均衡算法,采用自适应分离步长提高迭代算法的收敛速度。基于100 Gb/s 16进制正交振幅调制(16 QAM)PDM-CO-OFDM系统,仿真实验表明该自适应算法的系统误码率性能优于固定步长ICA算法的结果,且收敛速度提高5倍以上,能够用于未来高速PDM-CO-OFDM系统接收端进行高效信道均衡。     

一种面向中继协作频谱感知系统的自适应全局最优化算法

该文研究了冗余中继, 次用户及中继用户数目, 检测门限, 信道传输错误率等因素对中继协作频谱感知系统性能的影响, 并提出一种新的自适应全局最优化算法.该算法基于获得最大无干扰功率的自适应中继选择方法, 确定备选认知中继集合;单个次用户以信道传输错误率最小为准则, 从备选认知中继集合中自适应选择最佳中继, 使总体检测率最大;在给定目标检测率的条件下, 以系统吞吐量最大为准则, 给出了自适应全局最优化算法.仿真实验结果表明新算法信道传输精度高, 信道吞吐量大, 节约带宽资源.     

基于压缩感知和粒子滤波的OFDM超宽信道估计

针对通信系统中的正交频分复用(Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM)超宽信道具有的稀疏多径和含噪声特征,将信道估计问题转换为稀疏信号的重构和优化问题,设计了一种基于压缩感知理论和粒子滤波的OFDM信道估计方法。首先定义和描述了OFDM数学模型;然后在对压缩感知理论模型研究的基础上,采用改进的正交匹配算法对OFDM超宽信道进行重构,为了进一步减少信道重构的误差,将由于正交匹配算法得到的重构信道作为初始的粒子,并将OFDM数学模型转换为动态参数模型,并通过粒子滤波来更新模型中的参数和频率响应,通过不断迭代获得信道的估计值。为了验证文中方法的优越性,将文中方法与经典的正交匹配算法与粒子滤波算法进行比较,结果表明：文中方法能有效地对含噪声的稀疏信号进行估计,具有较小的重构误差,且与其它方法相比,具有较小的归一化均方误差。     

基于CS的低压电力线载波通信信道估计

针对低压电力线通信环境多径干扰的特点,建立了正交频分复用的压缩感知信道估计模型,将信道估计转换为压缩感知理论中稀疏度未知的号重构问题,首次采用压缩感知的稀疏自适应匹配追踪方法重构出低压电力线载波通信多径信道的冲击响应。仿真表明与其它常用信道估计算法相比,所提出的压缩感知信道估计算法在频谱利用率以及估计性能方面比传统方法有显著提高,在未知稀疏度的情况下,为低压电力线载波通信系统提供了一种稳定、可行的信道估计方案。     

最优路径搜索压缩感知水声通信信道估计

将信号恢复中最优路径搜索的A*正交匹配追踪(A*Orthogonal Matching Pursuit,A*OMP)伪贪婪算法引入到水声通信信道估计中,可以有效改善正交匹配追踪(OMP)算法容易陷入局部最优的问题,并提出了一种改进型的A*OMP水声信道估计算法。改进了路径初始化方式,同时为了避免过多迭代引起的未知误差,将前后两次迭代残差之差作为停止准则。在正交频分复用(OFDM)通信体制下,对OMP、A*OMP和本文改进方法的估计误差和误比特率进行了仿真对比,随着信噪比的增加,改进方法未出现误差平台,且受导频间隔影响较小。仿真结果表明相对于OMP算法和传统A*OMP算法,在高信噪比下改进方法的估计误差分别降低约2和1个数量级,海试数据结果验证了改进方法的可行性,其误比特率分别平均降低42.0%和4.7%。      

依据列相关性优化高斯测量矩阵

为了提高信号重建的精度以及稀疏度适用范围,提出了一种新的测量矩阵优化方法,减小测量矩阵和稀疏变换矩阵的相关性。首先,由测量矩阵和稀疏变换矩阵的乘积构造Gram矩阵;根据Gram矩阵的维数,计算互相关函数的下确界即Welch界;其次,由Welch界确定阈值,收缩Gram矩阵中大于阈值的非对角元;然后,由新得的Gram矩阵和稀疏变换矩阵反解出测量矩阵,迭代更新,从而达到减小相关性,优化测量矩阵的目的。实验结果表明：依据Welch界优化测量矩阵,能快速降低压缩感知矩阵相关性的最大值,提高OMP算法的性能,例如在误差率为10_-0.9时,原高斯随机矩阵需要23个观测值,算法优化后只需16个观测值,相对于Elad、Zhao等观测矩阵优化方法,文中提出的算法具有更小的重构误差,性能和稳定性也略有提升。     

Convergence rate calculation of simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique algorithm for diffuse optical tomography image reconstruction: A feasibility study

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an emerging technique for functional biological imaging. The imaging quality of DOT depends on the imaging reconstruction algorithm. The SIRT has been widely used for DOT image reconstruction but there is no criterion to truncate based on any kind of residual parameter. The iteration loops will always be decided by experimental rule. This work presents the CR calculation that can be great help for SIRT optimization. In this paper, four inhomogeneities with various shapes of absorption distributions are simulated as imaging targets. The images are reconstructed and analyzed based on the simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT) method. For optimization between time consumption and imaging accuracy in reconstruction process, the numbers of iteration loop needed to be optimized with a criterion in algorithm, that is, the root mean square error (RMSE) should be minimized in limited iterations. For clinical applications of DOT, the RMSE cannot be obtained because the measured targets are unknown. Thus, the correlations between the RMSE and the convergence rate (CR) in SIRT algorithm are analyzed in this paper. From the simulation results, the parameter CR reveals the related RMSE value of reconstructed images. The CR calculation offers an optimized criterion of iteration process in SIRT algorithm for DOT imaging. Based on the result, the SIRT can be modified with CR calculation for self-optimization. CR reveals an indicator of SIRT image reconstruction in clinical DOT measurement. Based on the comparison result between RMSE and CR, a threshold value of CR (CR_T) can offer an optimized number of iteration steps for DOT image reconstruction. This paper shows the feasibility study by utilizing CR criterion for SIRT in simulation and the clinical application of DOT measurement relies on further investigation.     

总变差约束的数据分离最小图像重建模型及其Chambolle-Pock求解算法

基于优化的迭代法,可以结合压缩感知和低秩矩阵等稀疏优化技术高精度地重建图像.其中,总变差最小（total variation minimization,TV）模型是一种简单有效的优化模型.传统的约束TV模型,使用数据保真项为约束项,TV正则项为目标函数.本文研究TV约束的、数据分离最小（TV constrained,data divergence minimization,TVcDM）新型TV模型及其求解算法.详细推导了TVcDM模型的Chambolle-Pock（CP）算法,验证了模型及算法的正确性;分析了算法的收敛行为;评估了模型的稀疏重建能力;分析了模型参数的选择对重建的影响及算法参数对收敛速率的影响.研究表明,TVcDM模型有高精度稀疏重建能力;TVcDM-CP算法确保收敛,但迭代过程中有振荡现象;TV限对重建有重要影响,参数值过大会引入噪声而过小会模糊图像细节;算法参数的不同选取会导致不同的收敛速率.     

Alternative threshold-based channel estimation and message-passing-based symbol detection in MIMO-OTFS systems using superimposed pilots

In this work, we investigate the challenging problem of channel estimation in high-mobility environments for advanced mobile communication systems (5G and beyond). First, we propose an iterative algorithm for channel estimation and symbol detection in the delay-Doppler domain for multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal time–frequency space (OTFS) system. The proposed algorithm is based on a superimposed pilot pattern to improve the spectral efficiency of the system. It iterates between data-aided channel estimation and message-passing-aided data detection. The channel estimation step is based on a threshold method. This step considers interference-plus-noise caused by the data symbols and the additive noise to adapt the threshold at each iteration. The data detection step is based on an adapted version of the message-passing algorithm proposed in the literature for uncoded OTFS. Then, to improve the channel estimation efficiency, we suggest an interference cancellation scheme executed at each iteration of the proposed algorithm. Finally, we compare the computational complexity and the achieved performance in terms of normalized mean square error of channel estimation, bit error rate, and spectral efficiency against five state-of the-art methods.     

Near optimal performance joint semi-blind channel estimation and data detection techniques for Alamouti coded single-carrier (SC) MIMO communication systems

In this paper, two novel joint semi-blind channel estimation and data detection techniques are proposed and investigated for Alamouti coded single-carrier (SC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system using Rayleigh flat fading channel model. In the first novel semi-blind technique, blind channel estimation can be performed by using singular value decomposition (SVD) of received output autocorrelation matrix and training based channel estimation for orthogonal training symbols can be performed by using orthogonal pilot maximum likelihood (OPML) algorithm. Further using, that semi-blind channel estimate and received output, data detection is performed by using Maximum likelihood (ML) detection. Finally we derived new training symbols from error covariance matrix of estimated data and known orthogonal training symbols, which further applied to OPML algorithm for final channel estimate. In the second novel semi-blind technique, blind channel estimation can be performed by using matrix triangularization based on householder QR decomposition (H-QRD) of received output autocorrelation matrix instead of SVD decomposition. Other steps are same as the first novel technique to calculate data detection and final channel estimation. Simulation results are presented under 2-PSK, 4-PSK, 8-PSK and 16-QAM data modulation schemes using 2 transmitters and different combinations of receiver antennas to investigate the performances of novel techniques compare to conventional whitening rotation (WR) and rotation optimization maximum likelihood (ROML) based semi-blind channel estimation techniques. Result demonstrates that novel techniques outperform others by achieving near optimal performance.     

Power and rate control in wireless communication systems with energy harvesting and rateless codes

In this paper, for a wireless communication system with energy harvesting and rateless error correction codes, the joint optimization of transmit power, modulation scheme and code rate to maximize the long-term average achievable transmission rate under the constraint of available energy is studied. The method is given first to determine the codeword length (or code rate) for a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) under the constraint of a pre-defined decoding error probability. Then the formula of the actual transmission rate is deduced with a specific modulation and code rate, and the optimization problem to maximize the long-term average actual transmission rate is constructed under the constraints of available harvested energy and the decoding complexity of the rateless code. Since energy harvesting and channel fading are both stochastic processes, the optimization problem is difficult to solve. By using the Lyapunov optimization framework, the original long-term optimization problem is transformed into a per time slot one. Then an efficient numerical method is proposed to obtain the solution to the problem. The proposed algorithm is verified by simulation, and the results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve a higher average actual transmission rate than the comparison algorithms aiming at optimizing the channel capacity.