Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 571985, 10 pages

doi:10.1155/2012/571985

Research Article

Interference Cancellation Using Replica Signal for HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM in Time-Variant Large Delay Spread Longer Than Guard Interval

Yuta Ida,¹ Chang-Jun Ahn,² Takeshi Kamio,¹ Hisato Fujisaka,¹ and Kazuhisa Haeiwa¹

¹Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, 3-4-1 Ozukahigashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan

²Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

Received 15 July 2011; Revised 22 February 2012; Accepted 12 March 2012

Academic Editor: Hanho Lee

Copyright © 2012 Yuta Ida et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are generally known as the effective techniques for high data rate services. In MIMO/OFDM systems, the channel estimation (CE) is very important to obtain an accurate channel state information (CSI). However, since the orthogonal pilot-based CE requires the large number of pilot symbols, the total transmission rate is degraded. To mitigate this problem, a high time resolution carrier interferometry (HTRCI) for MIMO/OFDM has been proposed. In wireless communication systems, if the maximum delay spread is longer than the guard interval (GI), the system performance is significantly degraded due to the intersymbol interference (ISI) and intercarrier interference (ICI). However, the conventional HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM does not consider the case with the time-variant large delay spread longer than the GI. In this paper, we propose the ISI and ICI compensation methods for a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM in the time-variant large delay spread longer than the GI.

1. Introduction

Recently, the sophisticated terminal as a smart phone becomes widely used and many multimedia services are provided [1, 2]. High speed packet access (HSPA) using a wideband code division multiplexing access (W-CDMA) is used in the mobile communications and provides the data services with the maximum transmission rate of about 14 Mbps [3]. However, since the available frequency band is limited, a HSPA cannot improve the transmission rate more than now [4]. To solve this problem, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are actively used [5–9]. OFDM is a multicarrier digital modulation. The OFDM signal can be transmitted in parallel by using the many subcarriers that are mutually orthogonal. In MIMO systems, the signal of the several transmit antennas is transmitted in the same frequency band. Moreover, since each transmitted signal is sent over the independent channel, the space diversity can be obtained in the receiver. Therefore, a long term evolution (LTE) has been standardized as 3.9 G system using MIMO/OFDM systems [10, 11]. An LTE provides the maximum transmission rate of about 50–100 Mbps. Moreover, an LTE Advanced will support broadband data services with the maximum transmission rate of about 100 M–1 Gbps as 4 G systems.

Since the received signal is changed due to the amplitude and phase variations for a frequency selective fading, the channel estimation (CE) is important to compensate the channel variance. In the conventional MIMO/OFDM, the orthogonal pilot symbols-based CE is used to identify an accurate channel state information (CSI) [7]. However, since the orthogonal pilot-based CE requires the large number of pilot symbols and large transmission power, the transmission rate is degraded. To mitigate these problems, a high time resolution carrier interferometry (HTRCI) for MIMO/OFDM has been proposed [12].

In wireless communications, intersymbol interference (ISI) and intercarrier interference (ICI) are serious problems to mitigate the system performance. To prevent these problems, a guard interval (GI) is generally inserted. In general, GI is usually designed to be longer than the delay spread of the channel. However, if the maximum delay spread is longer than the GI, the system performance is significantly degraded due to the ISI and ICI. However, the conventional HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM does not consider the case with the time-variant large delay spread longer than the GI. In this paper, we propose the ISI and ICI compensation methods for a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM in the time-variant large delay spread longer than the GI. Until this time, several schemes have proposed the ISI and ICI compensation methods due to the large delay spread channel. For example, [13] has proposed the ISI reduction method by extending the GI. However, since [13] has extended the GI length, the maximum throughput is degraded and the transmission power is also increased. Reference [14] has proposed the ISI and ICI compensation methods using the turbo equalization. However, [14] has large complexity by the iterative processing for the turbo equalizer. Reference [15] has proposed the ISI and ICI compensation methods using the estimated channel coefficients and the CSI to reproduce the interference components. However, the packet length becomes longer by using the training symbol. To mitigate the above-mentioned problems, we propose the time domain ISI compensation method with the replica signal based on the ICI compensation for a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM in this paper. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present the system model. Then, we describe the proposed system in Section 3. In Section 4, we show the computer simulation results. Finally, the conclusion is given in Section 5.

2. System Model

This section describes the system model, which employs the time-division multiplexing (TDM) transmission for multiple users. This system is illustrated in Figure 1.

(a) Transmitter

(b) Receiver

Figure 1: Proposed system.

2.1. Channel Model

We assume that a propagation channel consists of discrete paths with different time delays. The impulse response between the th transmit and th receive antenna is represented as follows:

where , are the complex channel gain and the time delay of the th propagation path, and , where denotes the ensemble average operation. The channel transfer function is the Fourier transform of and is given by

2.2. HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM

The transmission block diagram of the proposed system is shown in Figure 1(a). Firstly, the coded binary information data sequence is modulated, and pilot symbols are appended at the beginning of the sequence. The HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM transmitted signal for the th transmit antenna can be expressed in its equivalent baseband representation as follows:

where and are the number of data and pilot symbols, is the number of subcarriers, is the effective symbol length, is the average transmission power, and is the OFDM symbol length, respectively. The frequency separation between adjacent orthogonal subcarriers is and can be expressed by using the th subcarrier of the th modulation symbol with for as follows:

where is a long pseudonoise (PN) sequence as a scrambling code to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). GI is inserted in order to eliminate the ISI due to a multipath fading, and hence, we have

where is the GI length. In communication systems, is generally considered as 4 or 5, where . In this paper, we assume . In (3), the transmission pulse is given by

For , the transmitted pilot signal of the th subcarrier for the th transmit antenna element is given by

where , , and stands for the integer lower and closer to , respectively. In this case, the HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM pilot signal can multiplex the same impulse responses from the transmit antenna elements in each receive antenna element in times on the time domain without overlapping to each other. For example, if we consider and 2 transmit antenna elements, we obtain and as the pilot signal of the first and second transmit antenna elements from (7) as shown in Figure 2(a). In this case, since each pilot signal contains “0” components, we can identify the half of transmission power compared with the conventional MIMO/OFDM system using the orthogonal pilot. However, if , the conventional HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM can not obtain an accurate CSI, where is the maximum delay spread for the th transmit and th receive antenna. To solve this problem, we propose the new channel estimation using a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM. Firstly, in the transmitter, we shift the channel impulse responses of (7) as follows:

In (8), the channel impulse responses are shifted as shown in Figure 2(a). This operation enables estimating the maximum delay spread longer than the GI and to obtain an accurate CSI in the receiver.

(a) Transmitter

(b) Receiver

Figure 2: The concept of a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM to apply the maximum delay spread longer than the GI for 2 transmit antenna elements and .

The received structure is illustrated in Figure 1(b). By applying the FFT operation, the received signal is resolved into subcarriers. The received signal for the th receive antenna in the equivalent baseband representation can be expressed as follows:

where is the number of transmit antennas and is additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) with a single-sided power spectral density of for the th receive antenna, respectively. The th subcarrier is given by

where is AWGN noise with zero mean and a variance of . After abbreviating, (10) can be rewritten as follows:

After descrambling, the output signal for the th receive antenna element is given by

where is a complex conjugate and is the descrambling operation, respectively. Observing (11) and (12), the noise components are the same notation. In this paper, the descrambling operation is to rotate the phase of each subcarrier by using a PN code. Since , a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM can multiplex the same impulse responses in times on the time domain. After the pilot signal separation, the pilot signal is converted to the time domain signal again as

where is the transmission pilot signal power and is the noise component, respectively. Here, if , since the channel impulse responses of the different time window overlap the desired channel impulse responses, the accurate CSI can not be obtained. Therefore, we process as follows. At the receiver, in Figure 2(b), the overlapped channel impulse responses show the same amplitude for the transmitted pilot signal without the shift in the different time window. In this case, we can not estimate the maximum delay spread. On the other hand, the overlapped channel impulse responses show the different amplitude for the transmitted pilot signal with the shift in the different time window. Therefore, we can estimate the maximum delay spread from the different amplitude in the different time windows. Next, we eliminate the channel impulse responses of the different time window. The channel impulse responses of the different time window can be eliminated by using the channel impulse responses of the GI. These channel impulse responses do not contain the channel impulse responses of the different time window. This is because the pilot signal of the GI is the head of packet and it does not contain the channel impulse responses of the different time window. Therefore, we can eliminate the channel impulse responses of the different time window. From the above process, the frequency response of the th subcarrier between the th transmit and th receive antenna for is obtained by

where is AWGN component with .

3. Proposed System

3.1. Rewritten Matrix Form

After the pilot signal separation, (13) for can be rewritten in the matrix form as follows:

where is the time-domain channel matrix for the th symbol between the th transmit and th receive antenna, is the noise matrix, and is the IFFT operation, respectively. However, (15) for is rewritten as follows:

where , denote the ISI and ICI channel matrices for the th and th symbols between the th transmit and th receive antenna, respectively. Observing (16), since the received signal contains the ISI and ICI terms, these equalization processing are necessary.

3.2. ISI and ICI Equalization

In , since the first data symbol of does not contain the ISI [16], (16) for is obtained as

However, the data symbols for have the ISI. Here, the ISI equalization is performed by using the previous detected symbol and the estimated ISI channel matrix . The estimated ISI channel matrix consists of the estimated channel impulse response. The estimated channel impulse response is obtained by the channel response after the IFFT operation, where . Therefore, the ISI equalized signal is given by

where is the noise term with the residual ISI. After the FFT operation, by using maximum likelihood detection (MLD), the detected signal is obtained as follows:

where is the transpose operation, is the number of receive antennas, is the constellation of the symbol replica candidates as , is the modulation level, and is the matrix form of , respectively. From (19), ISI is eliminated from the received signal. However, the orthogonality is destroyed by the detected signal due to the ISI compensation. If ICI is eliminated from (19), the detected signal can be more accurately detected.

3.3. Replica Signal Insertion Based on ICI Equalization

To eliminate the ICI, we consider the orthogonality reconstruction with inserting the detected signal after the ISI compensation. The ICI equalized signal with inserting eliminated the part of signal using the previous detected symbol is given by

where is the estimated ICI channel matrix and is the noise term with the residual ISI and residual ICI, respectively.   consists of the estimated channel impulse responses . After the FFT operation, the detected signal is obtained as follows:

Observing (19) and (21), since ICI is eliminated, is the more accurately detected signal compared with .

3.4. Complexity Comparison

Here, we compare the complexity of the conventional and proposed methods. Firstly, we show the complexity of [14]. The authors of [14] have proposed the ISI and ICI compensations using the turbo equalization. From Table  1 of [14], the complexity of [14] is given by

where is the number of sampling points for GI and effective symbol. Next, we show the complexity of our proposed method. Firstly, the complexity of (18) is obtained by

For (23), the first term is the complexity of MLD and the second term is the complexity of IFFT. Next, the complexity of (20) is obtained by

For (24), the first and second terms are the complexity of MLD and IFFT of (23). Finally, the complexity of (21) is

Therefore, the complexity of the proposed method is obtained by

For example, when , , , , , and , the complexities of [14] and the proposed method are 3000320 and 130560 from (22) and (26). Therefore, the proposed method is small compared with [14].

4. Computer Simulated Results

In this section, we show the performance of the proposed method. Figure 1 shows the simulation model of the proposed system. In this simulation, we assumed that 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems. On the transmitter, the pilot signal is assigned for each transmitter using (8). In this case, the proposed system can multiplex the same impulse responses from the transmit antenna elements in each receive antenna element in times on the time domain. These have been found to be efficient for the transmission of the OFDM signal over the frequency selective fading channel. After serial to parallel (S/P) converted, the coded bits are QPSK modulated, and then the pilot signal and data signal are multiplexed with the scrambling using a PN code to reduce the PAPR. The OFDM time signal is generated by the IFFT operation and is transmitted to the frequency-selective and time-variant radio channel after the cyclic extension has been inserted. The transmitted signal is subject to the broadband channel propagation. In this simulation, we assume that OFDM symbol period is 5 μs and guard interval is 1 μs for , and path Rayleigh fadings. The maximum Doppler frequency is 10 Hz. In the receiver, guard interval is erased from the received signal and the received signal is converted S/P. The parallel sequences are passed to the FFT operator and convert the signal back to the frequency domain. After the descrambling and IFFT operation, each impulse response for all combination of the transmit and receive antenna elements can be estimated by extracting and averages times impulse responses using the time windows with (14). In , the HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM pilot signal contains the overlapped channel impulse responses from the different time window. However, the pilot signal of the GI does not contain the overlapped channel impulse responses. By using this signal, the channel impulse responses of the different time window are eliminated from the overlapped channel impulse responses as shown in Figure 2(b). The frequency domain data signal is detected and demodulated by using the MLD algorithm. Since the detected data signal contains the ISI and ICI, these equalization processing are necessary. The ISI equalization is performed with the previous detected symbol and estimated ISI channel matrix as (18). From (18), ISI is eliminated. However, the orthogonality is destroyed by the detected signal due to the ISI compensation. To reconstruct the orthogonality, the ICI equalization is performed by using the replica signal insertion as (20). Finally, the data signal is detected as (21). The packet consists of pilot symbols and data symbols. Table 1 shows the simulation parameters.

Table 1: Simulation parameters.

Data modulation
QPSK

Data detection
MLD

Symbol duration
5 μs

Frame size
,

FFT size
64

Number of carriers
64

Guard interval
16 sample times

Fading
2, 3 path Rayleigh fading

Doppler frequency
10 Hz

Antennas
(M, N) = (2, 2), (4, 4)

Figures 3 and 4 show the BER of the conventional and proposed methods for 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz. The number of maximum delay spread is 4 and 16 in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. From the simulation results, the BER performance for no ISI and ICI compensation is increased about 22 and 300 times compared with no ISI and ICI case in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. For the conventional method, the BER performance shows the error floor in high . This is because the residual ISI and ICI are remained. The proposed method shows approximately the same BER performance compared with no ISI and ICI case. Therefore, the proposed method can eliminate the ISI and ICI. Next, we compare the 2- and 3-path models. The 2-path model contains the channel impulse responses of the different time window in the time domain HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM pilot signal. However, they do not overlap the desired channel impulse responses. On the other hand, the 3-path model overlaps the desired channel impulse responses. Therefore, the channel impulse responses of the different time window are eliminated by using the channel impulse responses of the GI. From the simulation results, the 2-path model shows the better BER performance than that of the 3-path model in low . It means that CSI degrades due to the eliminated processing of the overlapped channel impulse responses in the 3-path model.

Figure 3: The BER of the conventional and proposed methods for 2 × 2 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figure 4: The BER of the conventional and proposed methods for 4 × 4 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figures 5 and 6 show the BER of the proposed method for 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz. The number of maximum delay spread is 4 and 16 in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. For the proposed method without the noise, the noise is not added in the channel impulse responses of the GI. From the simulation results, the 2- and 3-path models without the noise show the approximately same BER performance. Therefore, the 3-path model with the noise degrades due to the noise of the GI.

Figure 5: The BER of the proposed method for 2 × 2 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figure 6: The BER of the proposed method for 4 × 4 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figures 7 and 8 show the BER versus the number of maximum delay spread for the conventional and proposed methods with 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz. Here, per received antenna is 20 and 15 dBs in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. In 2 × 2 MIMO system, the BER performances of no ISI and ICI compensation and conventional method are increased about 5 times. On the other hand, the BER performance of the proposed method is increased about 2 times. Therefore, the proposed method can suppress the ISI and ICI due to the changing of the number of maximum delay spread. In 4 × 4 MIMO system, the BER performance of no ISI and ICI compensation and the conventional method are increased about 170 and 80 times. On the other hand, the BER performance of the proposed method is increased about 4 times and the proposed method can suppress the ISI and ICI as 2 × 2 MIMO system. However, the BER performance of the proposed method with the 2-path model is increased about 36 times compared with 3-path model. This is because the channel impulse responses of the GI for the second time domain HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM pilot symbol are overlapped from the first pilot symbol in 4 × 4 MIMO system.

Figure 7: The BER versus the number of maximum delay spread for the conventional and proposed methods with 2 × 2 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figure 8: The BER versus the number of maximum delay spread for the conventional and proposed methods with 4 × 4 MIMO system at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

Figure 9 shows the throughput performance of the conventional and proposed methods for 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz. The number of maximum delay spread is 4 and 16 in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. The throughput is given by

where is the coding rate and is the packet error rate (PER), respectively. The extension of the GI length is the simple method to prevent the problem of the maximum delay spread [13]. However, the throughput performance is degrade with this method. This is because the number of carriers decreases for (27) when the OFDM symbol length is the same as no ISI and ICI case. In this simulation, decreases from 64 to 48, and the GI length increases from 16 to 32. On the other hand, the proposed method can maintain the number of carriers . From (27), the maximum throughout for no ISI and ICI case is about 48.8 and 93.1 Mbps in 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems, respectively. Therefore, the proposed method shows the best throughput performance and can achieve the maximum throughput performance as the same no ISI and ICI case.

Figure 9: The throughput of the conventional and proposed methods for 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 MIMO systems at Doppler frequency of 10 Hz.

5. Conclusion

In this paper, we have focused on the large delay spread channel and proposed the ISI and ICI compensation methods for a HTRCI-MIMO/OFDM. In the proposed method, we have performed the time domain ISI compensation method with the replica signal based on the ICI compensation. From the simulation results, the proposed method has achieved the approximately same BER performance like the case with no ISI and ICI. Moreover, the proposed method can suppress the ISI and ICI due to the changing of the number of maximum delay spread. Finally, the proposed method has shown the best throughput performance and can achieve the same maximum throughput performance compared with no ISI and ICI case.

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