波束形成和解码的联合迭代接收技术

SDMA技术是提高频谱利用率的有效技术，但在判决反馈最小均方波束形成中，在深衰落之后期望用户波束会指向干扰用户,严重影响了波束形成的性能。文中提出在波束形成和信道解码之后，经过编码、交织，重新生成波束形成的参考信号，再进行波束形成，有效克服了深衰落之后的波束指向错误。计算机仿真结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

A MAC protocol to support hybrid antennas in a wireless LAN

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.     

Group-based user pairing for virtual MIMO in LTE

A user pairing method is proposed to improve the throughput gain of virtual multiple input multiple output (virtual MIMO) in 3G long-term evolution (LTE).The approach taken in this study separated the user pairing into four steps 1) the users are divided into two groups according to their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and different user pairing metrics are proposed for each group; 2) the scheduler chooses a user for transmitting by a given rule; 3) the scheduler searches the pairing candidate for the selected user in each group; 4) the scheduler chooses the final pairing user from the co-group and crossover-group candidates by using a marginal utility function, to balance fairness and efficiency.The method can improve the throughput of users with high SNR, and guarantee fairness for users with low SNR, so it can be used in 3G LTE systems.The article provides both theoretical analysis and simulation results to support the idea.     

在GPRS系统中网络实现SDMA

介绍了GPRS系统和SDMA技术以及智能天线技术,给出了在GPRS系统中网络实现SDMA的方法。     

Minimum symbol error rate multiuser detection using an effective invasive weed optimization for MIMO/SDMA–OFDM system

Space division multiple access–orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system has become a potential wireless communication system by offering high spectral efficiency, performance and capacity. This article deals with minimum symbol error rate (MSER)‐based multiuser detection (MUD) technique for the space division multiple access–orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system using an efficient invasive weed optimization (IWO) algorithm. The IWO algorithm is used for finding optimal weights such that the probability of error is directly minimized rather than minimizing the mean square error. Because of this, the MSER MUD is able to detect users even in overload scenario, where the number of users is more than the number of receiving antennas, unlike several classical detection techniques. The IWO is inspired from the nature of invasive colonization of weeds and relatively simple compared with other optimization techniques. The bit error rate performance of the proposed IWO‐aided MSER MUD is found to be better than minimum means square error and differential evolution algorithm‐aided MSER MUDs. Simulation results show that the proposed IWO MSER achieves faster convergence and lower complexity compared with the differential evolution MSER MUD. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Parallel relay‐assisted three‐phase MIMO space division multiple access transmission for multi‐hop throughput improvement

Multi‐hop communications equipped with parallel relay nodes is an emerging network scenario visible in environments with high node density. Conventional interference‐free medium access control (MAC) has little capability in utilizing such parallel relays because it essentially prohibits the existence of co‐channel interference and limits the feasibility of concurrent communications. This paper aims at presenting a cooperative multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) design that uses each hop's parallel relay nodes to improve multi‐hop throughput performance. Specifically, we use MIMO and SDMA to enable concurrent transmissions (from multiple Tx nodes to single/multiple Rx nodes) and suppress simultaneous links' co‐channel interference. As a joint physical layer (MAC/PHY) solution, our design has multiple MAC modules including load balancing that uniformly splits traffic packets at parallel relay nodes and multi‐hop scheduling taking co‐channel interference into consideration. Meanwhile, our PHY layer modules include distributive channel sounding that exchanges channel information in a decentralized manner and link adaptation module estimating instantaneous link rate per time frame. Simulation results validate that compared with interference‐free MAC or existing Mitigating Interference using Multiple Antennas (MIMA‐MAC), our proposed design can improve end‐to‐end throughput by around 30% to 50%. In addition, we further discuss its application on extended multi‐hop topology. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MAC Layer Concepts to Support Space Division Multiple Access in OFDM based IEEE 802.16

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.     

Traffic Models and Blocking Probabilities for Two-Fold and Three-Fold SDMA Communication Systems

Spectrum efficiency is a constant challenge in the design of wireless networks. Space-division-multiple-access (SDMA) is a promising approach to achieve higher spectral efficiency which reuses bandwidth via multiplexing signals based on their spatial signature. Several different studies have shown that SDMA can effectively improve system capacity in a mobile environment. In this paper, we present a new Markov chain traffic model for a duplicate-at-last (DL) approach [IEE Proceedings on Communication 146 (1999) 303] in two-fold and three-fold SDMA systems. Simplified blocking probability formulations for two-fold and three-fold SDMA are also derived. Simulations based on a common method of spatial separation check for channel allocation in SDMA are presented to evaluate the probability of successfully creating two-fold and three-fold SDMA channels. The simulation, as well as analytical, results indicate that the SDMA system can reduce the blocking probability of the calls and result in more traffic loading than a traditional cellular system. The results also show that our simplified approaches not only can reduce the computational complexity, but can also accurate approximate two-fold and three-fold SDMA performance. Wen-Jye Huang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University, Athens, OH, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 2001. Since 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, as an assistant professor. His research activities include smart antenna, SDMA, and MC-CDMA techniques. John F. Doherty received the B.S. degree (with honors) in engineering science from the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, in 1982, the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1990. He was an integrated circuit reliability engineer with IBM, from 1982 to 1984. From 1985 to 1988, he was member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working in sonar signal processing. In 1990, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Iowa State University, Ames, as an assistant professor and Harpole Entair fellow. He is currently an associate professor of electrical engineering with The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His current research activities include interference rejection in wireless communication systems, spatial-division multiple-access techniques, and radar target detection techniques. He is a former AFOSR summer faculty research fellow at the Rome Laboratory, Rome, NY, and an Army Research Office Young Investigator.     

Determination of dimethylarginine levels in rats using HILIC-MS/MS: an in vivo microdialysis study

Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the most important mediators and neurotransmitters and its levels change under pathological conditions. NO production may be regulated by endogenous nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors, in particular asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA). Most of the interest is focused on ADMA, since this compound is present in plasma and urine and accumulation of ADMA has been described in many disease states but little is known about cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of this compound and of its structural isomer symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA). To determine the levels of methylarginines, we here present a new hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC)-MS/MS method for the precise determination of these substances in CSF from microdialysis samples of rat prefrontal cortex (PFC). The method requires only minimal sample preparation and features isotope-labelled internal standards.