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Fading distribution

About: Fading distribution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5732 publications have been published within this topic receiving 114193 citations.


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TL;DR: It is found that there is a fading rate range where each method provides a good tradeoff between performance and overhead and it is concluded that the MMSE per carrier decision-directed detector with RLS estimation combines good performance in low to moderate fading rates, robustness in parameter variations, and relatively low complexity and overhead.
Abstract: Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) combines multicarrier transmission with direct sequence spread spectrum. Different approaches have been adopted which do not assume a perfectly known channel. We examine the forward-link performance of decision-directed adaptive detection schemes, with and without explicit channel estimation, for MC-CDMA systems operating in fast fading channels. We analyze theoretically the impact of channel estimation errors by first considering a simpler system employing a threshold orthogonality restoring combining (TORC) detector with a Kalman channel estimator. We show that the performance deteriorates significantly as the channel fading rate increases and that the fading rate affects the selection of system parameters. We examine the performance of more realistic schemes based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion using least mean square (LMS) and recursive least square (RLS) adaptation. We present a discussion which compares the decision-directed and pilot-aided approaches and explores the tradeoffs between channel estimation overhead and performance. We find that there is a fading rate range where each method provides a good tradeoff between performance and overhead. We conclude that the MMSE per carrier decision-directed detector with RLS estimation combines good performance in low to moderate fading rates, robustness in parameter variations, and relatively low complexity and overhead. For higher fading rates, however, only pilot-symbol-aided detectors are appropriate.

148 citations

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TL;DR: This scheme offers a significant performance improvement over a conventional single-antenna binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) scheme when coding is ineffective due to slow fading, and the mobile receiver can recover the entire L-dimensional transmitted vector signal.
Abstract: This paper proposes a bandwidth-efficient fading-resistant transmission scheme which implements transmitter diversity using L antennas at the base station. When the antennas are spaced sufficiently far apart, the transmission from each antenna undergoes a different degree of fading. These transmissions are coordinated to mitigate the effects of Rayleigh fading, and the mobile receiver can recover the entire L-dimensional transmitted vector signal as long as the signal energy of at least one coordinate is large enough. L-dimensional fading-resistant signal constellations are generated by maximizing a figure of merit for the Rayleigh fading channel. This scheme offers a significant performance improvement over a conventional single-antenna binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) scheme when coding is ineffective due to slow fading.

146 citations

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TL;DR: The results show that optimal power allocation brings impressive coding gains over equal power allocation, and the analysis reveals that the coding gain gap between the AF and DF protocols can also be reduced by the optimalPower allocation.
Abstract: We are concerned with transmit power optimization in a wireless relay network with various cooperation protocols. With statistical channel knowledge (in the form of knowledge of the fading distribution and the path loss information across all the nodes) at the transmitters and perfect channel state information at the receivers, we derive the optimal power allocation that minimizes high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) approximations of the outage probability of the mutual information (MI) with amplify-and-forward (AF), decode-and-forward (DF) and distributed space-time coded (DSTC) relaying protocols operating over Rayleigh fading channels. We demonstrate that the high SNR approximation-based outage probability expressions are convex functions of the transmit power vector, and the nature of the optimal power allocation depends on whether or not a direct link between the source and the destination exists. Interestingly, for AF and DF protocols, this allocation depends only on the ratio of mean channel power gains (i.e., the ratio of the source-relay gain to the relay-destination gain), whereas with a DSTC protocol this allocation also depends on the transmission rate when a direct link exists. In addition to the immediate benefits of improved outage behavior, our results show that optimal power allocation brings impressive coding gains over equal power allocation. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that the coding gain gap between the AF and DF protocols can also be reduced by the optimal power allocation.

146 citations

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TL;DR: These results confirm that the end-to-end performance of a dual-hop fixed gain relaying system exhibits an improved performance in a Rician/Rayleigh (source-relay link/relay-destination link) environment compared to a Rayleigh/Rician environment.
Abstract: In real wireless communication environments, it is highly likely that different channels associated with a relay network could experience different fading phenomena. In this paper, we investigate the end-to-end performance of a dual-hop fixed gain relaying system when the source-relay and the relay-destination channels experience Rayleigh/Rician and Rician/Rayleigh fading scenarios respectively. Analytical expressions for the cumulative distribution function of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio are derived and used to evaluate the outage probability and the average bit error probability of M-QAM modulations. Numerical and simulation results are presented to illustrate the impact of the Rician factor on the end-to-end performance. Furthermore, these results confirm that the system exhibits an improved performance in a Rician/Rayleigh (source-relay link/relay-destination link) environment compared to a Rayleigh/Rician environment.

144 citations

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TL;DR: Results are obtained on the average signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver output in terms of the spread-spectrum signature sequences and the covariance function for the fading process for a general class of fading channels.
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the performance of biphase direct-sequence spread-spectrum multiple-access communication for a general class of fading channels. The channels considered are those for which the channel output consists of a strong stable specular signal plus a faded version of this signal. Such channels, which are referred to as Rician fading (or Rice fading) or specular-plus-Rayleigh fading, are the result of a transmission medium which gives rise to a major stable communication path and a number of additional weaker communication paths. The fading channel is modeled as a general wide-sense-stationary uncorrelatedscattering (WSSUS) channel-a model which is general enough to exhibit both time and frequency selectivity and to impose no restrictions on the fading rate. For the general WSSUS model, results are obtained on the average signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver output in terms of the spread-spectrum signature sequences and the covariance function for the fading process. These results are then specialized to each of two important classes of WSSUS channels: time-selective fading channels and frequency-selective fading channels. Numerical evaluations are presented for specific examples of each of these two types of channels. Analytical expressions are derived for a spread-spectrum multiple-access system with random signature sequences, and the use of these expressions in preliminary system design is discussed.

142 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202322
202270
202123
202022
201920
201837