The extremely limited bandwidth in underwater acoustic communication makes channel estimation using fewer pilot symbols more challenging. Iterative channel estimation( ICE) can be used to refine channel estimation wit...The extremely limited bandwidth in underwater acoustic communication makes channel estimation using fewer pilot symbols more challenging. Iterative channel estimation( ICE) can be used to refine channel estimation with limited number of pilots,by coupling the channel estimator with channel decoder. In this paper,various feedback strategies in ICE are discussed. The performance of a decision feedback based on the cost function is improved by modifying the design and another four feedback strategies are summarized,including hard/soft decision feedback and their threshold-controlled versions. Simulation results show that ICE can achieve impressive gains over the non-iterative receiver and the gains are more significant with fewer pilots. Furthermore,soft decision feedback outperforms hard decision feedback; while the feedback based on the cost function and soft decision feedback have quite close performance.展开更多
In this paper, we investigate the performance of adaptive modulation （AM） orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） system in underwater acoustic （UWA） communications. The aim is to solve the problem of ...In this paper, we investigate the performance of adaptive modulation （AM） orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） system in underwater acoustic （UWA） communications. The aim is to solve the problem of large feedback overhead for channel state information （CSI） in every subcarrier. A novel CSI feedback scheme is proposed based on the theory of compressed sensing （CS）. We propose a feedback from the receiver that only feedback the sparse channel parameters. Additionally, prediction of the channel state is proposed every several symbols to realize the AM in practice. We describe a linear channel prediction algorithm which is used in adaptive transmission. This system has been tested in the real underwater acoustic channel. The linear channel prediction makes the AM transmission techniques more feasible for acoustic channel communications. The simulation and experiment show that significant improvements can be obtained both in bit error rate （BER） and throughput in the AM scheme compared with the fixed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying （QPSK） modulation scheme. Moreover, the performance with standard CS outperforms the Discrete Cosine Transform （DCT） method.展开更多
A Simple and useful decision feedback equalizer used for non-linear channels with severe linear distortion and mild non-linear distortion is proposed. It is a combination of a nonlinear channel equalizer based on conn...A Simple and useful decision feedback equalizer used for non-linear channels with severe linear distortion and mild non-linear distortion is proposed. It is a combination of a nonlinear channel equalizer based on connectionist model and a common decision feedback equalizer for linear channels. For a typical non-linear channel model it is shown that the equalization performances of the proposed equalizer are improved significantly.展开更多
To reduce the negative impact of channel quantization errors, a low-complexity transceiver joint design scheme for both the transmit beamformers and receive combining vectors is proposed in the two-user multiple-input...To reduce the negative impact of channel quantization errors, a low-complexity transceiver joint design scheme for both the transmit beamformers and receive combining vectors is proposed in the two-user multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） system. In the scheme, the channel nullspace quantization vector is used as the transmit beamformer of the interference user directly based on channel null-space feedback. Since the interference can be determined at the receiver, interference rejection combining （IRC） is jointly utilized to cancel the inter-user interference. Simulation re- sults show that the proposed scheme can provide substantial sum-rate improvement especially at high SNR.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling prin...In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling principle and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback. Special emphasis is also put on practical feedback reporting mechanisms, including the effects of mobile measurement and estimation errors, reporting delays, and CQI quantization and compression. The performance of the overall scheduling and feedback re-porting process is investigated in details, in terms of cell throughput, coverage and resource allocation fairness, by using extensive quasistatic cellular system simulations in practical OFDMA system environment with frequency reuse of 1. The performance simulations show that by using the proposed modified PF ap-proach, significant coverage improvements in the order of 50% can be obtained at the expense of only 10-15% throughput loss, for all reduced feedback reporting schemes. This reflects highly improved fairness in the radio resource management (RRM) compared to other existing schedulers, without essentially com-promising the cell capacity. Furthermore, we demonstrate the improved functionality increase in radio re-source management for UE’s utilizing multi-antenna diversity receivers.展开更多
In this paper, the statistical properties of parameters of each path in wireless channel models are analyzed to prove that there is the static part in channel state information(CSI) which can be extracted from huge am...In this paper, the statistical properties of parameters of each path in wireless channel models are analyzed to prove that there is the static part in channel state information(CSI) which can be extracted from huge amounts of CSI data. Based on the analysis, the concept of the Tomographic Channel Model(TCM) is presented. With cluster algorithms, the static CSI database can be built in an off-line manner. The static CSI database can provide prior information to help pilot design to reduce overhead and improve accuracy in channel estimation. A new CSI prediction method and a new channel estimation method between different frequency bands are introduced based on the static CSI database. Using measurement data, the performance of the new channel prediction method is compared with that of the Auto Regression(AR) predictor. The results indicate that the prediction range of the new method is better than that of the AR method and the new method can predict with fewer pilot symbols. Using measurement data, the new channel estimation method between different frequency bands can estimate the CSI of one frequency band based on known CSI of another frequency band without any feedback.展开更多
Massive MIMO is one of tile enabling technologies tbr beyond 4G and 5G systems due to its ability to provide beamforming gain and reduce interference Dual-polarized antenna is widely adopted to accommodate a large num...Massive MIMO is one of tile enabling technologies tbr beyond 4G and 5G systems due to its ability to provide beamforming gain and reduce interference Dual-polarized antenna is widely adopted to accommodate a large number of antenna elements in limited space. However, current CSI（channel state information） feedback schemes developed in LTE for conventional MIMO systems are not efficient enough for massive MIMO systems since the overhead increases almost linearly with the number of antenna. Moreover, the codebook for massive MIMO will be huge and difficult to design with the LTE methodology. This paper proposes a novel CSI feedback scheme named layered Multi-paths Information based CSI Feedback （LMPIF）, which can achieve higher spectrum efficiency for dual-polarized antenna system with low feedback overhead. The MIMO channel is decomposed into long term components （multipath directions and amplitudes） and short term components （multipath phases）. The relationship between the two components and the optimal precoder is derived in closed form. To reduce the overhead, different granularities in feedback time have been applied for the long term components and short term components Link and system level simulation results prove that LMPIF can improve performance considerably with low CSI feedback overhead.展开更多
To explore the role of mechanosensitive potassium channel TREK-1, Western blot analysis was used to investigate the expression changes of TREK-1 in left ventricle in acute mechanically stretched heart. Forty Wistar ra...To explore the role of mechanosensitive potassium channel TREK-1, Western blot analysis was used to investigate the expression changes of TREK-1 in left ventricle in acute mechanically stretched heart. Forty Wistar rats were randomly divided into 8 groups （n=5 in each group）, subject to single Langendorff perfusion for 0, 30, 60, 120 min and acute mechanical stretch for 0, 30, 60, 120 min respectively. With Langendorff apparatus, an acute mechanically stretched heart model was established. There was no significant difference in the expression of TREK-1 among single Langendorff perfusion groups （P〉0.05）. As compared to non-stretched Langendorff-perfused heart, only the expression of TREK-1 in acute mechanically stretched heart （120 min） was greatly increased （P〈0.05）. This result suggested that some course of mechanical stretch could up-regulate the expression of TREK-1 in left ventricle. TREK-1 might play an important role in mechanoelectric feedback, so it could reduce the occurrence of arrhythmia that was induced by extra mechanical stretch.展开更多
This work proposes an improved inertia weight update method and position update method in Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to enhance the convergence and mean square error of channel equalizer. The search abilities o...This work proposes an improved inertia weight update method and position update method in Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to enhance the convergence and mean square error of channel equalizer. The search abilities of PSO are managed by the key parameter Inertia Weight (IW). A higher value leads to global search whereas a smaller value shifts the search to local which makes convergence faster. Different approaches are reported in literature to improve PSO by modifying inertia weight. This work investigates the performance of the existing PSO variants related to time varying inertia weight methods and proposes new strategies to improve the convergence and mean square error of channel equalizer. Also the position update method in PSO is modified to achieve better convergence in channel equalization. The simulation presents the enhanced performance of the proposed techniques in transversal and decision feedback models. The simulation results also analyze the superiority in linear and nonlinear channel conditions.展开更多
Interference cancellation scheme without feedback is proposed for X channels with four antennas at each user. Space-time codeword with Alamouti structure is designed for each user. Codewords are combined according a c...Interference cancellation scheme without feedback is proposed for X channels with four antennas at each user. Space-time codeword with Alamouti structure is designed for each user. Codewords are combined according a certain rule. The unwanted codewords are cancelled by linear operation on the received signals. Then, multi-user interference is mitigated by the orthogonal property of the Alamouti code. Comparing with the existing scheme for the same scene, feedback information is not required in the proposed scheme. So the transmission efficiency is improved.展开更多
在资源受限的水声网络中,使用软频率复用技术和自适应资源分配技术可以提高网络容量和能量效率。然而,水声信道的长传播时延和时变特性导致用于自适应技术的反馈信道状态信息(Channel State Information, CSI)是时变且过时的。非理想的...在资源受限的水声网络中,使用软频率复用技术和自适应资源分配技术可以提高网络容量和能量效率。然而,水声信道的长传播时延和时变特性导致用于自适应技术的反馈信道状态信息(Channel State Information, CSI)是时变且过时的。非理想的反馈CSI会降低自适应系统的性能。针对该问题,提出了一种基于多智能体深度Q网络的资源分配(Multi-agent Deep Q Network Based Resource Allocation, MADQN-RA)方法。该方法将水声软频率复用网络视为多智能体系统,并使用过时的反馈CSI序列作为系统状态。通过建立有效的奖励表达式,智能体可以跟踪时变时延水声信道的变化特性并做出相应的资源分配决策。为了进一步提高智能体的决策准确度,同时避免状态空间维度增大时的部分学习成本,结合动态状态长度方法改进了MADQN-RA。仿真结果表明,所提方法实现的系统性能优于基于其他学习的方法和基于信道预测的方法,且更接近理论最优值。展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61601136)
文摘The extremely limited bandwidth in underwater acoustic communication makes channel estimation using fewer pilot symbols more challenging. Iterative channel estimation( ICE) can be used to refine channel estimation with limited number of pilots,by coupling the channel estimator with channel decoder. In this paper,various feedback strategies in ICE are discussed. The performance of a decision feedback based on the cost function is improved by modifying the design and another four feedback strategies are summarized,including hard/soft decision feedback and their threshold-controlled versions. Simulation results show that ICE can achieve impressive gains over the non-iterative receiver and the gains are more significant with fewer pilots. Furthermore,soft decision feedback outperforms hard decision feedback; while the feedback based on the cost function and soft decision feedback have quite close performance.
基金financially supported by the Research Fund for the Visiting Scholar Program by the China Scholarship Council(Grant No.2011631504)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.201112G020)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41176032)China Scholarship Council
文摘In this paper, we investigate the performance of adaptive modulation （AM） orthogonal frequency division multiplexing （OFDM） system in underwater acoustic （UWA） communications. The aim is to solve the problem of large feedback overhead for channel state information （CSI） in every subcarrier. A novel CSI feedback scheme is proposed based on the theory of compressed sensing （CS）. We propose a feedback from the receiver that only feedback the sparse channel parameters. Additionally, prediction of the channel state is proposed every several symbols to realize the AM in practice. We describe a linear channel prediction algorithm which is used in adaptive transmission. This system has been tested in the real underwater acoustic channel. The linear channel prediction makes the AM transmission techniques more feasible for acoustic channel communications. The simulation and experiment show that significant improvements can be obtained both in bit error rate （BER） and throughput in the AM scheme compared with the fixed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying （QPSK） modulation scheme. Moreover, the performance with standard CS outperforms the Discrete Cosine Transform （DCT） method.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘A Simple and useful decision feedback equalizer used for non-linear channels with severe linear distortion and mild non-linear distortion is proposed. It is a combination of a nonlinear channel equalizer based on connectionist model and a common decision feedback equalizer for linear channels. For a typical non-linear channel model it is shown that the equalization performances of the proposed equalizer are improved significantly.
基金Supported by the Sino-Swedish IMT-Advanced and Beyond Cooperative Program(2008DFA11780)
文摘To reduce the negative impact of channel quantization errors, a low-complexity transceiver joint design scheme for both the transmit beamformers and receive combining vectors is proposed in the two-user multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） system. In the scheme, the channel nullspace quantization vector is used as the transmit beamformer of the interference user directly based on channel null-space feedback. Since the interference can be determined at the receiver, interference rejection combining （IRC） is jointly utilized to cancel the inter-user interference. Simulation re- sults show that the proposed scheme can provide substantial sum-rate improvement especially at high SNR.
文摘In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling principle and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback. Special emphasis is also put on practical feedback reporting mechanisms, including the effects of mobile measurement and estimation errors, reporting delays, and CQI quantization and compression. The performance of the overall scheduling and feedback re-porting process is investigated in details, in terms of cell throughput, coverage and resource allocation fairness, by using extensive quasistatic cellular system simulations in practical OFDMA system environment with frequency reuse of 1. The performance simulations show that by using the proposed modified PF ap-proach, significant coverage improvements in the order of 50% can be obtained at the expense of only 10-15% throughput loss, for all reduced feedback reporting schemes. This reflects highly improved fairness in the radio resource management (RRM) compared to other existing schedulers, without essentially com-promising the cell capacity. Furthermore, we demonstrate the improved functionality increase in radio re-source management for UE’s utilizing multi-antenna diversity receivers.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61631013)National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)(No. 2013CB329002)National Major Project (NO. 2018ZX03001006003)
文摘In this paper, the statistical properties of parameters of each path in wireless channel models are analyzed to prove that there is the static part in channel state information(CSI) which can be extracted from huge amounts of CSI data. Based on the analysis, the concept of the Tomographic Channel Model(TCM) is presented. With cluster algorithms, the static CSI database can be built in an off-line manner. The static CSI database can provide prior information to help pilot design to reduce overhead and improve accuracy in channel estimation. A new CSI prediction method and a new channel estimation method between different frequency bands are introduced based on the static CSI database. Using measurement data, the performance of the new channel prediction method is compared with that of the Auto Regression(AR) predictor. The results indicate that the prediction range of the new method is better than that of the AR method and the new method can predict with fewer pilot symbols. Using measurement data, the new channel estimation method between different frequency bands can estimate the CSI of one frequency band based on known CSI of another frequency band without any feedback.
基金supported by the National High-Tech R&D Program(863 Program 2015AA01A705)
文摘Massive MIMO is one of tile enabling technologies tbr beyond 4G and 5G systems due to its ability to provide beamforming gain and reduce interference Dual-polarized antenna is widely adopted to accommodate a large number of antenna elements in limited space. However, current CSI（channel state information） feedback schemes developed in LTE for conventional MIMO systems are not efficient enough for massive MIMO systems since the overhead increases almost linearly with the number of antenna. Moreover, the codebook for massive MIMO will be huge and difficult to design with the LTE methodology. This paper proposes a novel CSI feedback scheme named layered Multi-paths Information based CSI Feedback （LMPIF）, which can achieve higher spectrum efficiency for dual-polarized antenna system with low feedback overhead. The MIMO channel is decomposed into long term components （multipath directions and amplitudes） and short term components （multipath phases）. The relationship between the two components and the optimal precoder is derived in closed form. To reduce the overhead, different granularities in feedback time have been applied for the long term components and short term components Link and system level simulation results prove that LMPIF can improve performance considerably with low CSI feedback overhead.
基金This project was supported by a grant from National Natu-ral Sciences Foundation of China (No 30270559)
文摘To explore the role of mechanosensitive potassium channel TREK-1, Western blot analysis was used to investigate the expression changes of TREK-1 in left ventricle in acute mechanically stretched heart. Forty Wistar rats were randomly divided into 8 groups （n=5 in each group）, subject to single Langendorff perfusion for 0, 30, 60, 120 min and acute mechanical stretch for 0, 30, 60, 120 min respectively. With Langendorff apparatus, an acute mechanically stretched heart model was established. There was no significant difference in the expression of TREK-1 among single Langendorff perfusion groups （P〉0.05）. As compared to non-stretched Langendorff-perfused heart, only the expression of TREK-1 in acute mechanically stretched heart （120 min） was greatly increased （P〈0.05）. This result suggested that some course of mechanical stretch could up-regulate the expression of TREK-1 in left ventricle. TREK-1 might play an important role in mechanoelectric feedback, so it could reduce the occurrence of arrhythmia that was induced by extra mechanical stretch.
文摘This work proposes an improved inertia weight update method and position update method in Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to enhance the convergence and mean square error of channel equalizer. The search abilities of PSO are managed by the key parameter Inertia Weight (IW). A higher value leads to global search whereas a smaller value shifts the search to local which makes convergence faster. Different approaches are reported in literature to improve PSO by modifying inertia weight. This work investigates the performance of the existing PSO variants related to time varying inertia weight methods and proposes new strategies to improve the convergence and mean square error of channel equalizer. Also the position update method in PSO is modified to achieve better convergence in channel equalization. The simulation presents the enhanced performance of the proposed techniques in transversal and decision feedback models. The simulation results also analyze the superiority in linear and nonlinear channel conditions.
文摘Interference cancellation scheme without feedback is proposed for X channels with four antennas at each user. Space-time codeword with Alamouti structure is designed for each user. Codewords are combined according a certain rule. The unwanted codewords are cancelled by linear operation on the received signals. Then, multi-user interference is mitigated by the orthogonal property of the Alamouti code. Comparing with the existing scheme for the same scene, feedback information is not required in the proposed scheme. So the transmission efficiency is improved.
文摘在资源受限的水声网络中,使用软频率复用技术和自适应资源分配技术可以提高网络容量和能量效率。然而,水声信道的长传播时延和时变特性导致用于自适应技术的反馈信道状态信息(Channel State Information, CSI)是时变且过时的。非理想的反馈CSI会降低自适应系统的性能。针对该问题,提出了一种基于多智能体深度Q网络的资源分配(Multi-agent Deep Q Network Based Resource Allocation, MADQN-RA)方法。该方法将水声软频率复用网络视为多智能体系统,并使用过时的反馈CSI序列作为系统状态。通过建立有效的奖励表达式,智能体可以跟踪时变时延水声信道的变化特性并做出相应的资源分配决策。为了进一步提高智能体的决策准确度,同时避免状态空间维度增大时的部分学习成本,结合动态状态长度方法改进了MADQN-RA。仿真结果表明,所提方法实现的系统性能优于基于其他学习的方法和基于信道预测的方法,且更接近理论最优值。
