Advanced antenna technologies and algorithms have been developed during the last years. But until today, advanced antenna algorithms in the physical layer and the modes of operation in medium access layers have not been integrated in modern wireless systems. As one of the first standards the metropolitan area network IEEE 802.16 provides means to support smart antenna techniques.After a detailed introduction of the medium access control layer this article outlines the support of space division multiple access (SDMA) techniques by the wireless metropolitan area network IEEE 802.16. New concepts are introduced that allow and further optimize the use of SDMA techniques brought by intelligent antennas. First, the possibility to enable SDMA in the IEEE 802.16a-2003 protocol is investigated, and second the support of SDMA in the revised 802.16-2004 standard is elaborated in detail. To overcome current limitations of 802.16a-2003, an enhanced control structure is introduced in 802.16-2004 that masters a concurrent transmission and reception of data to/from several different subscriber stations. The approach facilitates a fully flexible structure which significantly improves system capacity. Christian P. Hoymann received his Diploma degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 2002. Before he served a student internship at SIEMENS Corporate Research, Princeton, USA. Since 2002 he is employed as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Communication Networks (ComNets) of RWTH Aachen University where he is working towards his Ph.D. degree.He worked in the fields of traffic engineering and dimensioning of GSM/GPRS networks together with his project partners at D2 Vodafone. He was actively involved in the IST-STRIKE project where smart antenna systems had been integrated in Metropolitan Area Networks. His current research interests include the optimization of MANs especially in consideration of smart antenna technologies such as SDMA and relaying technologies such as Mesh.Mr. Hoymann has published several conference and journal papers and was actively involved in the standardization of SDMA technologies for IEEE 802.16. 相似文献
Hybrid Distributed Coordination Function (HDCF), a modified medium access control protocol of IEEE 802.11 standard, is proposed in this paper to support both smart adaptive array antennas and normal omni-directional antennas simultaneously in one wireless LAN. Omni-directional antennas follow the standard Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and smart antennas follow the Directional DCF (DDCF). The proposed DDCF is based on Hybrid Virtual Carrier Sense (HVCS) mechanism, which includes Omni-directional Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send (ORTS/OCTS) handshake mechanism and directional data transmission. HDCF is compatible with DCF. When a node transmits in a directional beam, the other nodes can multiplex the physical channel. Hence, HDCF supports Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA). Simulation results show that HDCF can support hybrid antennas effectively and provide much higher network throughput and lower delay and jitter than DCF does. 相似文献
The problem of the simultaneous multi-user resource allocation algorithm in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based systems has recently attracted significant interest. However, most studies focus on maximizing the system throughput and spectral efficiency. As the green radio is essential in 5G and future networks, the energy efficiency becomes the major concern. In this paper, we develop four resource allocation schemes in the downlink OFDMA network and the main focus is on analyzing the energy efficiency of these schemes. Specifically, we employ the advanced multi-antenna technology in a multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) system. The first scheme is based on transmit spatial diversity (TSD), in which the vector channel with the highest gain between the base station (BTS) and specific antenna at the remote terminal (RT) is chosen for transmission. The second scheme further employs spatial multiplexing on the MIMO system to enhance the throughput. The space-division multiple-access (SDMA) scheme assigns single subcarrier simultaneously to RTs with pairwise “nearly orthogonal” spatial signatures. In the fourth scheme, we propose to design the transmit beamformers based on the zero-forcing (ZF) criterion such that the multi-user interference (MUI) is completely removed. We analyze the tradeoff between the throughput and power consumption and compare the performance of these schemes in terms of the energy efficiency.View The PDF 相似文献
The intelligent medium access control (MAC) protocol based on cascade fuzzy logic control (CFLC) using the first-duplicated
space division multiple access (SDMA) scheduling for UTRA TDD mode is presented in this paper. Voice, data and video are integrated
for transmission using CFLC-based movable boundary wireless multiple access in the UMTS (MBWIMA/UMTS) protocol. The CFLC-based
MBWIMA/UMTS protocol performance with data rate control is optimized using the CFLC to generate the proper maximum number
of voice/video slots and a suitable data rate. The first-duplicated SDMA scheduling, which provides the SDMA scheduling management,
can increase the wireless mobile system capacity and reduce the voice-video dropping probability. The simulation results demonstrate
that the CFLC-based MBWIMA/UMTS protocol using the first-duplicated SDMA scheduling can greatly improve both the voice-video
dropping probability and data packet delay, compared with the MBWIMA/UMTS and GPRS/UMTS protocols using the first-duplicated
SDMA scheduling at the expense of a small decrease in data packet throughput.
Jeich Mar received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1974 and the Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1981. From 1981 to 1991, he worked
as a Scientist in the Chung-Shang Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, where the worked on the development of a signal
processor for phased array radar. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering, Yuan-Ze University,
Taoyuan, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile communication and ap-plications of signal processing in Radar and Communication.
Chih-Yang Kao was born in Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1974. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering
from Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan in 1996, 1998 and 2004, respectively. He is now with Computer & Communications Research Laboratories,
Industrial Technology Research Institute (CCL-ITRI). His current research interests include digital video broadcasting and
wireless medium access control of next-generation mobile communication systems. 相似文献
One of the most widely used buzzwords in mobile communications of the recent years is Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA). The introduction of an additional space domain multiple access component is likely to boost system capacity, due to the spatial reuse of physical channels within one cell. While early approaches of SDMA system modelling show capacity to be gained in the order of 300 to 400%, there remains some more in depth system analysis to be done, as inhomogeneities in the user distribution are expected to likely cause dramatic drops in the additional capacity gained by SDMA. The spatial distribution of terminals directly influences the number of channels to be gained by spatial multiplexing. Therefore, it is not until detailed models for user distribution, user mobility and the traffic load generated by users are combined with a model of the SDMA radio subsystem, that realistic approximations for these capacity gains are possible. In this paper, we discuss the issues in modelling and simulation of SDMA systems. We present an approach for integrated SDMA system modelling, discuss analytic teletraffic dimensioning methods for macro- and microcellular environments and their relevance to SDMA systems, and present some early simulation results. 相似文献
Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous nitric oxide (NO) formation inhibitor, has emerged as a promising biomarker of NO-associated endothelial dysfunction in cardiovascular diseases as well in chronic renal failure. The interest in potentially fundamental role of this metabolite, in basic and clinical research, led to the development of numerous analytical methods for the quantitative determination of ADMA and dimethylarginines in biological systems, notably plasma, serum and urine.
Objectives
The aim of this work was to present a simple, fast and accurate UPLC-tandem-MS-based method for the simultaneous determination and quantification of arginine, ADMA, SDMA, NMMA, homo-arginine and citrulline. This method is designed for high sample throughput of only 10 μL of human plasma, serum or urine.
Methods
The analysis time is reduced to 1.9 min by an ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography run coupled with electrospray ionization (ESI) in the positive mode tandem mass spectrometry detection.
Results
The method was validated in plasma, serum and urine. Correlation coefficients (r2) of the calibration curves in all matrices considered ranged from 0.9810 to 0.9993. Inter- and intra-assay precision, accuracy, recovery and carry-over were evaluated for validation. The LOD was 0.01 μM for all compounds in water, plasma and serum and 0.1 μM in urine. The LOQ was 0.05 μM for ADMA, SDMA, NMMA and H-Arg and 0.5 μM for Arg and Cit in water, plasma and serum; while in urine was 0.1 μM for ADMA, SDMA, NMMA and H-Arg and 0.5 μM for Arg and Cit.The precision was ranged from 1% to 15% expressed as CV% and the accuracy (bias %) was <±7% for all added concentrations with the exception of NMMA (−10%).ADMA mean plasma levels, measured in healthy adults and newborns, were in accord with literature data published: (M ± SD) 0.56 ± 0.10 μM and 0.84 ± 0.21 μM, respectively, showing that ADMA levels in plasma decreased with age. In serum we have similar data (0.54 ± 0.18 μM and 1.14 ± 0.36 μM), while in neonatal urine ADMA was 11.98 ± 7.13 μmol mmol−1 creatinine.
Conclusions
Data from calibration curves and method validation reveal that the method is accurate and precise. The fast run time, the feasibility of high sample throughput and the small amount of sample required make this method very suitable for routine analysis in the clinical setting. 相似文献