Syllabus Diversity Principles Macro Diversity Micro Diversity Signal Combining Techniques Transmit diversity Equalizer Linear feed back equalizers Decision feed back equalizers Coding techniques Channel Coding Techniques (Review) Speech Coding Techniques (Review)
Basic - Understanding Dispersive Channels
Diversity - Understanding Dispersive Channels
Diversity - Principle The principle of diversity is to ensure that the same information reaches the receiver on a statistically independent channels .
Diversity This is a technique implemented to improve the channel quality and performance. This is achieved by placing the Tx signals in a statistically independent channels. This reduces the over all fading of the received signals at the receiver side. This technique mainly addresses the fading problems.
Correlation Coefficient Diversity is most efficient when the different transmission channels carry independently faded copies of the same signals. The correlation coefficient characterises the correlation between signals on different diversity branches . Correlation can be done on different parameters such as complex part of the signal, phase relations etc , Most important one is correlation between the signal envelopes.
Lack of Correlation - Understanding Dispersive Channels ?
The correlation coefficient is given by: Where x and y are the envelope of the signals. The signals are said to be “ effectively ” decorrelated if , ρ is between a certain threshold value ( typically 0.5 or 0.7 )
Types of Diversity How to obtain the diversity in the signals ? Diversity are classified based on the fading methods. Small scale fading Microscopic diversity techniques are used. Large scale fading Macroscopic diversity techniques are used.
Micro diversity Techniques. There are 5 methods available. Spatial diversity Antenna elements separated by space Temporal diversity Transmission of signals at different time Frequency diversity Transmission of signals at different frequencies Angular diversity M ultiple antennas with different antenna patterns Polarization diversity Multiple antenna with different polarizations
1. Spatial diversity Signals are Transmitted / Received by more than one antenna and the best signal is selected for processing. Oldest and simplest form of diversity Large correlation between the signals are undesirable, as it decreases the effectiveness of diversity. Important factor is to establish the relation between the antenna spacing (Different for Tr side and Different for the Rx side) Transmitter Side Receiver side
Envelope Correlation Coefficient as a function of antenna separation
2.Temporal Diversity As the wireless propagation channels are time variant , signals that are received at different tim es are uncorrelated. Temporal diversity can be realized in 3 different ways. Repetition coding Automatic repeat request Combination of interleaving and coding
Repetition coding: The signal is repeated several times , where the repeat intervals are sufficient for decorrelation of signals. This method is highly bandwidth inefficient Automatic Repeat ReQuest – (ARQ): Rx sends a message to transmitter to indicate weather it received the data with sufficient quality. If not then transmission is repeated again. Efficiency is better than repetition coding . Retransmission occurs only at certain cases . Combination of interleaving and coding: The signals are interleaved and coded . Instead of sending the actual data those code words are sent. The transmitted codeword can be reconstructed .
3. Frequency Diversity Frequency diversity is implemented by transmitting information on more than one carrier frequency. It does not mean that same messages are transmitted in two different frequencies . When this is done then the signals undergoes different fading levels. Instead, information is spread over a large bandwidth , so the small parts of the information are conveyed by different frequency components. Then the receiver averages over the different frequencies to recover the original information.
Frequency Spreading
The spreading is achieved by different methods: Compressing the information in time.(TDMA) Code division multiple access.(CDMA) Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) Frequency hopping in conjunction with coding. Demerits: It requires large band width. More number of receivers are required. High cost.
4. Angular Diversity It enhances the decorrelation of signals at closely spaced antennas . Different antenna patterns can be achieved very easily. This effect is due to Mutual Coupling .
Mutual Coupling Place 2 identical antennas close to each other Here antenna B acts as a reflector for antenna A. Antenna A acts as a reflector for Antenna B. Hence the pattern of both the antennas are skewed as shown in figure. Of Course Antennas with different radiation pattern can also be used
Mutual Coupling can also be increased by locating the antenna at different parts of the casing. The various possibilities are shown in the figure.
5. Polarization Diversity Signals are differentiated with the horizontally and vertically polarizations. Reflection and the diffraction depends upon the polarizations. The fading levels at each polarization are independent. Thus the diversity is achieved.
Macro Diversity Macro Diversity: To reduce the large scale fading these macro diversity is used. Large scale fading are generally caused by shadowing . If there is an hill between the BS and the MS then simply increasing the Tx antenna and Rx antenna doesn’t make any difference. Thus a intermediate BS (BS2) is placed in between the BS and MS so that the hill does not lie in between the BS and BS2. Receive – Amplify – Retransmit. Merits : Distance between BS and MS can be increased. Demerits : It requires large bandwidth. frequency repeaters causes delay dispersion.
Diversity Achieved. How to Resolve? Selection Diversity Combining Diversity
Signal Combining Techniques Selection diversity Best signal is selected, and the rest are discarded. Selection Switched Feed back Combining diversity All signals are combined together and then it is decoded. Maximal ratio combining Equal gain diversity
Selection Diversity There are 2 selection criteria: RSSI – R eceived S ignal S trength I ndication BER – B it E rror R ate The receiver selects the signal with the largest instantaneous power
RSSI – Driven Selection Diversity
BER – Driven Selection Diversity Working… We first transmit the Training Sequence . ( ie ) Know signal / sequence. The Rx then demodulates the signal from each antenna and compares / correlates it with the transmit signal. The antenna which received the smallest BER is chosen as the best and that signal is processed further.
BER – Driven Selection Diversity
Merits and Demerits of RSSI and BER RSSI Merits: Only one RF Chain is used Process is done on only one signal Easy to implement Demerits: Waste of signal energy by discarding (n-1) received signals Not an optimum method BER Demerits: More number of Rx are used. Implementation is complex Training sequence is to be repeated again and again. Tradeoff between the duration of training and BER should be maintained.
Switched Selection Diversity The main drawback of the selection diversity is its criteria. RSSSI and BER has to be monitored continuously on all branches. Leads to complex designs and heavy hardware requirements. These drawbacks are eliminated by switched selection diversity.
In this method the selection criteria is monitored only in the active branches. If it falls below a certain threshold value , then the receiver switches to a different antenna . Case 1 : All branches have equal power then the selection of active branch is RANDOM . Case 2 : All branches are below threshold level , then the receiver just switches back and forth until an active line is detected. The performance of the switched diversity is worse than the selection diversity. Hence it is not considered widely.
Feed Back Diversity Also called scanning diversity . This is a combination of selection and switched diversity. All the available channels are scanned first in a fixed sequence until one is found above the threshold level. The signal is received from that antenna until it falls off the threshold value and scanning process is initiated again.
2. Combining Diversity It exploits all available copies of signals. Each signal copy is multiplied by a (complex) weight and then added up. Weight = phase correction + weight of amplitude Phase correction is done to make the signals coherent. Amplitude weighting has 2 methods: Maximal ratio combining (MRC). Equal gain combining (EGC).
Maximum Ratio Combining This method weighs all signal copies by their amplitude . They also does the phase correction for different antennas. Merits: Output are acceptable even when all the received signals are faded highly.
Equal Gain Combining This method weighs all the signals with equal amplitude and performs phase correction to give equal gain diversity.
END OF DIVERSITY
EQUALISERS
Introduction Inter symbol interference is the major problem in wireless communication which leads to the BIT ERRORS at the receiver. Equalization is a technique used to reduce the inter symbol interference. This device equalizes the dispersive effect of the channel. (dispersion due to fading) Equalizers are mostly used at the receiver side.
Classification of equalizers.
Linear equalizers: If the output is not used in the feed back path to adapt the equalizer is called linear equalizer. Non linear equalizers: If the output is fed back to change the subsequent outputs of the equalizer is called as non linear equalizers.
LINEAR EQUALIZERS They are simple and resembles the filter structures. The product of the transfer function of the channel and equalizer must satisfy certain criteria. The criteria can be, Either, Achieving a completely flat transfer function of the channel – filter concatenation. Or, Minimizing the mean square error at the filter output. The basic structure of the linear equalizer is shown in the figure.
C i Transmit Sequence sent over the channel. U i Sequence available at the Equalizer input. Now we have to convert the C i to C ^ i . The aim of this conversion is to produce ZERO Deviation . OR To produce minimum mean square error .
Types of Linear Equalizers There are 2 types of linear equalizers, they are: Zero Forcing Equalizer (ZF) Minimum Mean Square Error Equalizer (MMSE)
Zero Forcing Equalizers Vs MMSE Equalizers
Merits and demerits Merits Simple and easy to implement It has faster convergence Unique structure When channel becomes more time dispersive, the length of the equalizer can be increased. Demerits Structure is complicated than compared to a linear equalizer. Not suitable for severe distortion channels.
2. MMSE Equalizers In mmse the ultimate aim is to reduce the BER but not the ISI. This can be achieved by minimizing the mean square error between the signals. For minimizing the error the coefficients are found first.
ALGORITHMS FOR MMSE Least Mean Square - LMS Recursive Least Square - RLS
LMS Algorithm
RLS Algorithms No assumptions are made in general Each signal is received individually and then they are analyzed for the type of dispersion. This is more advantageous than the LMS alg.