3GPP关于3G演进（LTE）的工作情况

随着新技术的不断出现以及移动通信理念的变革,为了把握新一轮的技术浪潮,保持在移动通信领域的领导地位,2004年底3GPP启动了关于3G演进型系统,即LTE的研究与标准化工作,并且计划在2007年发布第一个版本的系统规范。目前,该项目已经进行了将近一年的时间,各个方面的研究都取得了一定的进展。本文简要介绍了该项目的背景情况,目前的进展和相关的趋势。     

现代高速网络设备核心部件——网络处理器技术分析

对现代高速网络设备的核心部件－－网络处理器的体系结构、功能进行分析，提出网络处理器中软件的基本并行算法设计思想，并探讨网络处理器技术的未来发展趋势。     

一种新的基于PARC技术的MIMO系统

MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output)的显著优点就是在不增加带宽的情况下,能够成倍地提高通信系统容量和频谱利用率,是未来移动通信与个人通信系统实现高速率数据传输,提高高传输质量的重要途径,也是未来移动通信系统广泛采用的关键技术.文中简要介绍了MIMO系统及其一种新的MIMO系统中的应用技术,即PARC(Per-antenna Rate Control)技术.     

Reconfiguration Aspects and a Reconfigurable Outer Block Interleaver for 3G Applications

Reconfiguration concept represents reconfigurable functionalities of the radio interface for mobile radio systems. Particularly for the physical layer, some possible reconfigurable architectures can be identified. We focus on outer interleaving for turbo codes, which can improve their performance in flat Rayleigh fading environment. The larger the number of columns in the outer interleaver, the better is the performance, but with the penalty of more complexity and delay. Furthermore, an incorrect choice of the number of columns can increase the bit and frame error rates. Therefore, it would be advantageous to reconfigure the outer interleaver in different operating environments with the optimum number of columns. Using two different data frame lengths, in this contribution simulation results are presented for the four possible outer block interleaver configurations specified for the 3GPP mobile standard in the case of flat Rayleigh fading channel. It is shown that different operating environments require an optimum number of columns in terms of bit error rate and frame error rate performance. Finally, frame fade duration is considered and the effect of the product of the Doppler frequency with the frame duration on the performance for the four different 3GPP outer block interleaver configurations is discussed. Costas Chaikalis was born in Athens, Greece, on March 7, 1973. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 from Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece. He also received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK in 1999 and 2003, respectively. During his doctoral studies he worked as a Research Assistant for Mobile Virtual Center of Excellence (Mobile VCE), Terminals Group, UK. Since 2003, he is a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece. His research interests are in all areas of mobile communications but especially in forward error correction coding, reconfigurable (software radio) architectures, cross layer architectures and DSP applications.     

3GPP中的协议一致性测试研究

随着 3G技术的进一步发展和成熟 ,现在电信和其他数据通信技术面临着一个进一步融合突破的时代。 3G的发展更推动了全球实现无缝漫游 ,互连互通的需求。这样就为全球的 3G设备制造商提出了更高的要求。但由于各协议实现厂家对协议的不同理解 ,通信设备的协议非一致性问题将日趋严重 ,为了检查各个不同生产厂家的实现是否与标准文本相一致 ,进而确保不同厂家的 3G协议实现之间能够互操作 ,一致性测试是非常必要的。文中根据笔者在 3GPP中T1信令组工作背景为基础 ,并以MAC部分测试结构和方式为例 ,给出了形式化的TTCN格式。全面的论述了 3GPP中的协议一致性测试过程     

浅析移动宽带语音演进VoLTE实现方案

在经历了从传统电路交换到软交换的发展之后,随着移动无线侧LTE网络的大规模承建及发展,移动语音业务未来正在走向移动宽带语音。随着FMC融合核心网IMS网络的日益成熟,关于LTE移动宽带语音的技术选择上,业内人士认为基于IMS的Vo LTE方案将最终成为LTE网络语音业务的商用选择。     

Implementation Issues in Turbo Decoding for 3GPP FDD Receiver

In the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard, implementation of the turbo decoder, especially for the mobile equipments, faces design decisions related to computational complexity, power efficiency, and memory requirements. In this paper we compare different approaches of low complexity implementation of the turbo decoder, with emphasis on the issues of signal scaling and quantization, the sliding window operation for memory size reduction and the iteration stopping algorithms. The demodulated signal at the output of the RAKE receiver may have a wide dynamic range and it may require many bits of precision. In order to overcome the numerical precision problem and to prevent Log Likelihood ratio (LLR) metric overflow, a scaling algorithm must be used. Our simulation results indicate that the Average Absolute (AA) algorithm using dynamic scaling outperforms other scaling schemes and it is less sensitive to the channel conditions. One of the major challenges in the implementation of a practical turbo decoder is optimization of memory requirements. In this paper we evaluate the performance of the sliding window algorithm using different main and guard window sizes. We show that the bit and block error rate performance of the sliding window scheme mainly depend on the guard window size rather than the main window size. The simulation results indicate that small guard window sizes can significantly decrease the iteration gain for large frames in fast fading channels. Iteration stopping algorithms reduce the power consumption and the latency of the decoder and help to dedicate more resources to other functions of the receiver. The block error distribution in the fading channels makes it even more essential to use an iteration stopping rule. Our simulations conclude that a rule called the minimum absolute value appears to be a very effective, low complexity and robust algorithm. Mohamadreza Marandian Hagh was born in Tabriz, Iran on January 1974. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tehran University with honors in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Northeastern University, Boston. His research interests includes information theory, channel coding and iterative techniques for wireless communication systems. His current research is focused on low complexity designs for iterative receivers using Space-Time coding in time-dispersive channels. He is also interested in Exit-Chart analysis of iterative receivers. From 1996 to 1999, he was with Sana Pro Inc. as a system engineer, developing simulation tools for OFDM, WCDMA, CDMA2000. He is currently with Airvana Inc. in Chelmsford, MA and working on 1xEVDO wireless systems. Masoud Salehi received BS degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Tehran University and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University all in Electrical Engineering. Before joining Northeastern, he was with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University. From February 1988 to May 1989 Dr. Salehi was a visiting professor at the Information Theory Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he did research in network information theory and coding for storage media.In 1989 Dr. Salehi joined Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University. Professor Salehi is a member of the CDSP (Communication and Digital Signal Processing) Center. His main areas of research interest are network information theory, source-channel matching problems in single and multiple user systems, data compression, turbo coding, coding for fading channels, and digital watermarking. Professor Salehi’s research has been supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), GTE, NUWC, CenSSIS, and Analog Devices. Professor Salehi has also done consulting to the industry including Teleco Oilfield Services and AT&T. Professor Salehi is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Electronics and Communications.Professor Salehi is the coauthor of the textbooks “Communication Systems Engineering”, Prentice-Hall 1994, 2002, “Contemporary Communication Systems Using MATLAB and Simulink” Thomson 1998, 2000, 2004, and “Fundamentals of Communication Systems”, Prentice-Hall 2005. Abhay Sharma received B.E. (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1996 and M.S. Electrical Engineering degree from Ohio State University, Columbus in 2000. From 2000 to 2005 he was working with Analog Devices, RF and Wireless Systems Group, Wilmington, USA, where he was working on design and implementation of algorithms for the emerging cellular communication standards. Currently he is working with Allgo Embedded Systems, Bangalore, India, in the area of wireless networks and systems based on the emerging W-PAN wireless technologies. Zoran Zvonar received the Dipl. Ing. degree in 1986 and the M.S. degree in 1989, both from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Northeastern University, Boston, in 1993.From 1986 to 1989 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he conducted research in the area of telecommunications. 1993 to 1994 he was a Post-Doctoral investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, anconducted research on multiple-access communications for underwater acoustic networks. Since 1994 he has been with the Analog Devices, Communications Division, Wilmington, USA. He is the Manager of the Systems Engineering Group focusing on the design of algorithms and architectures for wireless communications, with emphasis on integrated solutions and real-time software.He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks and the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks, Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters and a co-editor of the books GSM: Evolution Towards Third Generation Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, Wireless Multimedia Networks Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 and Software Radio Technologies: Selected Reading, IEEE Press, 2001. Dr. Zvonar is currently Co-Editor of the Radio Communication Series in the IEEE Communications Magazine.     

卷积码编码及其Viterbi译码的实现

对3G系统中定义的卷积码编码进行了分析,并以1/2卷积码为例重点讨论了编码和Viterbi译码算法的实现方案。为求系统在保持同等性能条件下可以高效率实现,对Viterbi译码实现中的留存路径更新、数据溢出处理和输出判决部分进行了优化,优化的结果使得系统的性能和效率都有提高。根据仿真结果对系统的性能进行了分析,其结果对系统的工程实现有着重要的参考价值。     

NGN中的软交换和IMS技术的比较与分析

对软交换网络和IMS网络在基本技术、业务、标准等方面的关键技术问题进行了分析和探讨,并对其优、劣进行了比较。     

3G移动PoC实现技术

移动一键通(PoC)业务是3G的重要特色业务。PoC的实现有基于PS和基于IMS两种方式。文章从分析PoC的业务特点出发,介绍了PoC业务的功能、协议结构和标准化情况,比较了两种实现方式的实现要点,特别是详细分析了3G环境下基于IMS实现方式的实现机制和流程。最后,对PoC业务的应用和发展作了一个展望。