Cognitive Radio Dynamic Access Techniques

The ever growing demand for wireless services has placed enormous burden on valuable resources such as spectral bandwidth. This has resulted in a major rethinking in resource allocation policies culminating in an explosion of research activity in the field of Cognitive Radio (CR) towards optimum resource usage. In this tutorial paper the physical layer design and transmission techniques for CR in the context of efficient spectrum utilization are discussed. Spectrum sensing as the key element of CR awareness is described. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as a spectrally efficient modulation scheme is discussed and the rationale for its use in the CR system is explained. Spectrum pooling for efficient use of spectrum is studied and the role of adaptive OFDM techniques in this method is highlighted. Wavelet basis function as a replacement of Fourier transform in OFDM is evaluated. MIMO system as an added value to the CR performance is described. Adaptive Waveform and beamforming as alternative techniques in CR are reviewed.

Adaptive null steering beamformer implementation for flexible broad null control

An implementation of adaptive null steering beamformer for flexible broad null control, based on constrained recursive updating of array response zeros and spatial FIR filters, is presented. The design allows the beamformer to form broad nulls and control their widths readily. The new method is of great advantage for sensor array in which the number of array elements is very large compared with the number of interferences the array is designed to suppress. The new beamformer is useful and effective in the environment where both stationary and moving interference signals exist since it can steer both sharp and controlled broad nulls in the appropriate directions. When compared with the conventional LMS covariance matrix taper (CMT) based broad null synthesis method, the proposed beamformer has a faster convergence rate; and compared with the QR-RLS CMT based broad null synthesis method, the proposed method has a lower complexity.     

A novel acoustic emission beamforming method with two uniform linear arrays on plate-like structures

A novel acoustic emission (AE) source localization approach based on beamforming with two uniform linear arrays is proposed, which can localize acoustic sources without accurate velocity, and is particularly suited for plate-like structures. Two uniform line arrays are distributed in the x-axis direction and y-axis direction. The accurate x and y coordinates of AE source are determined by the two arrays respectively. To verify the location accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed approach, the simulation of AE wave propagation in a steel plate based on the finite element method and the pencil-lead-broken experiment are conducted, and the AE signals obtained from the simulations and experiments are analyzed using the proposed method. Moreover, to study the ability of the proposed method more comprehensive, a plate of carbon fiber reinforced plastics is taken for the pencil-lead-broken test, and the AE source localization is also realized. The results indicate that the two uniform linear arrays can localize different sources accurately in two directions even though the localizing velocity is deviated from the real velocity, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method in AE source localization for plate-like structures.     

Directional neighbor discovery in mmWave wireless networks

The directional neighbor discovery problem, i.e., spatial rendezvous, is a fundamental problem in millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless networks, where directional transmissions are used to overcome the high attenuation. The challenge is how to let the transmitter and the receiver beams meet in space under deafness caused by directional transmission and reception, where no control channel, prior information, and coordination are available. In this paper, we present a Hunting-based Directional Neighbor Discovery (HDND) scheme for ad hoc mmWave networks, where a node follows a unique sequence to determine its transmission or reception mode, and continuously rotates its directional beam to scan the neighborhood for other mmWave nodes. Through a rigorous analysis, we derive the conditions for ensured neighbor discovery, as well as a bound for the worst-case discovery time and the impact of sidelobes. We validate the analysis with extensive simulations and demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme over several baseline schemes.     

TDD MISO系统中波束成形的性能分析

文中首先指出在时分双工多输入单输出系统中,发送机和接收机的信道状态信息存在时延,而该时延会影响波束成形的性能增益。随后,通过推导接收机误比特率的闭合表达式,说明时延会损害接收机的性能。最后,用数值仿真验证了所做的性能分析的正确性。     

基于多波束系统的多目标高分辨定向新方法

本文提出一种高分辨方位估计新方法－波束最佳匹配法。利用波束输出来实现高分辨定向。该算法不受信号相干性影响,在估计角度的同时可获得对应方向的能量。该算法可作为多波束系统的一个附加模块和后继处理,不影响原系统的结构关系,估计出的结果可以与多波束系统的判决结果相互参考。仿真表明,这种方法具有较高的稳健性、较好的高分辨定向能力能力和应用前景。     

空间重采样法恒定束宽波束形成器设计

本文视均匀线列阵为连续线阵的均匀离散采样，将宽带方位估计中的空间重采样思想用到恒定束宽波束形成器设计中，并从滤波器设计的观点出发，将阵元权系数等效为空间滤波器的脉冲响应，提出用恢复公式计算不同频率所对应的阵元权系数，从而利用频域波束形成的方法完成恒定束宽波束形成器设计。     

New demodulation filter in digital phase rotation beamforming

In this paper, we present a new quadrature demodulation filter to reduce hardware complexity in digital phase rotation beamforming. Due to its low sensitivity to phase delay errors, digital quadrature demodulation is commonly used in ultrasound machines. However, since it requires two lowpass filters for each channel to remove harmonics, the direct use of conventional finite impulse response (FIR) filters in ultrasound machines is computationally expensive and burdensome. In our new method, an efficient multi-stage uniform coefficient (MSUC) filter is utilized to remove harmonic components in phase rotation beamforming. In comparison with the directly implemented FIR (DI-FIR) and the previously-proposed signed-power-of-two FIR (SPOT-FIR) lowpass filters, the proposed MSUC filter reduces the necessary hardware resources by 93.9% and 83.9%, respectively. In simulation, the MSUC filter shows a negligible degradation in image quality. The proposed method resulted in comparable spatial and contrast resolution to the DI-FIR approach in the phantom study. These preliminary results indicate that the proposed quadrature demodulation filtering method could significantly reduce the hardware complexity in phase rotation beamforming while maintaining comparable image quality.