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- Wireless Communications, Diversity, Wireless Systems, Cognitive Radio Networks

Modern wireless communication like 5G systems are expected to serve a wider range of scenarios than current mobile communications systems. One of the major network applications related to 5G is Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication that improves vehicle road safety, enhances traffic and travel efficiency, and provides convenience and comfort for passengers and drivers. However, supporting high mobility is a challenge on the air interface. Accordingly, more multicar modulation as multiple access is used to enhance the connection between vehicles and to overcome this challenge. In this paper, two multicarrier modulations are simulated. The first one is the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) while the second one is the Filter Bank Multi-Carrier with Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (FBMC/OQAM) which is called FBMC. Simulation results show that all waveforms have comparable BER performance. The throughput of the FBMC is greater than the OFDM and the spectral efficiency is increased according to the use of the OQAM modulation. The FBMC throughput reaches 5 Mbps while the OFDM reaches 4 Mbps; these results are due to the higher usable bandwidth and because of using filters in FBMC which reduces the effect of Cyclic Prefix (CP) on the signal especially when CP is large in OFDM.
Index Terms: Multicarrier, V2V, 5G, OFDM, FBMC

- by Saif H. Alrubaee and +2
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- Wireless Communications, Mobile and Telecommunicaions, Mobile Communication, Multicarrier Communication Systems

The use of aeronautical vehicles and consequently their communication traffic are growing rapidly, and soon there will be demands for channels with larger bandwidths. The L-band digital aeronautical communication system (L-DACS1) was proposed by EUROCONTROL as an OFDM based multicarrier communication system candidate, with channels " inlayed " between distance measuring equipment (DME) channels. We previously proposed a similar communication system based on the Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) technique, which has some significant advantages over L-DACS1. In this paper several diversity and multiple antenna techniques for L-DACS1 and FBMC AG communication systems are investigated. The correlation coefficient between realistic receiver aircraft antenna channels is computed, and using these realistic channels—based upon NASA channel measurements—link performance is simulated to generate BER results. Simulation results show the advantages of using multiple antennas at the receiver, and the antenna separations required (as a function of link distance) to attain nearly uncorrelated channels for two suburban areas. MIMO performance gains are quantified and show significant improvement over single-antenna systems, especially for higher order modulations.

This paper compares the effectiveness of different spread OFDM techniques with transmit diversity used for underwater acoustic communications. Spreading by Walsh-
Hadamard codes, discrete Fourier transform, discrete cosine transformand carrier interferom- etry (CI) codes have been combined with the application of space-time and space-frequency transmit diversity in OFDM for underwater acoustic communication. The spreading technique helps overcome frequency-selective and multipath fading and also provides reduced peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The application of space time and space frequency coding techniques improves the data rate and reliability of the spread OFDM scheme in terms of bit error rate (BER). Simulation results show that all the spread OFDM schemes show better BER performance in underwater environment when transmit diversity schemes are used. CI spread OFDM with space-frequency block coding shows a BER of 1 e−6 at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 13.6 dB and is proposed as one of the best scheme. This gain in SNR may be used to further increase the data transmission rate.

- by Prashant Kumar and +1
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- Multicarrier Communication Systems, Underwater Acoustic Communication

Spectrum scarcity seems to be the most challenging issue to be solved in new wireless telecommunication services. It is shown that spectrum unavailability is mainly due to spectrum inefficient utilization and inappropriate physical layer execution rather than spectrum shortage. Daily increasing demand for new wireless services with higher data rate and QoS level makes the upgrade of the physical layer modulation techniques inevitable. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) which utilizes multicarrier modulation to provide higher data rates with the capability of flexible resource allocation, although has widely been used in current wireless systems and standards, seems not to be the best candidate for cognitive radio systems. Filter Bank based Multi-Carrier (FBMC) is an evolutionary scheme with some advantages over the widely-used OFDM multicarrier technique. In this paper, we focus on the total throughput improvement of a cognitive radio network using FBMC modulation. Along with this modulation scheme, we propose a novel uplink radio resource allocation algorithm in which fairness issue is also considered. Moreover, the average throughput of the proposed FBMC based cognitive radio is compared to a conventional OFDM system in order to illustrate the efficiency of using FBMC in future cognitive radio systems. Simulation results show that in comparison with the state of the art two algorithms (namely, Shaat and Wang) our proposed algorithm achieves higher throughputs and a better fairness for cognitive radio applications.

- by Hosseinali Jamal and +1
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- Wireless Communications, Cognitive Radio Networks, Radio Channel Modelling, Communication systems

In this paper, we present a novel low-complexity scheme, which improves the performance of single-antenna multi-carrier communication systems, suffering from in-phase and quadrature (I/Q)-imbalance (IQI) at the receiver. We refer to the proposed scheme as I/Q-imbalance self-interference coordination (IQSC). IQSC does not only mitigate the detrimental effects of IQI, but, through appropriate signal processing, also coordinates the self-interference terms produced by IQI in order to achieve second-order frequency diversity. However, these benefits come at the expense of a reduction in transmission rate. More specifically, IQSC is a simple transmit diversity scheme that improves the signal quality at the receiver by elementary signal processing operations across symmetric (mirror) pairs of subcarriers. Thereby, the proposed transmission protocol has a similar complexity as Alamouti's space-time block coding scheme and does not require extra transmit power nor any feedback. To evaluate the performance of IQSC, we derive closed-form expressions for the resulting outage probability and symbol error rate. Interestingly, IQSC outperforms not only existing IQI compensation schemes but also the ideal system without IQI for the same spectral efficiency and practical target error rates, while it achieves almost the same performance as ideal (i.e., IQI-free) equal-rate repetition coding. Our findings reveal that IQSC is a promising low-complexity technique for significantly increasing the reliability of low-cost devices that suffer from high levels of IQI.

- by Alexandros Apostolos Boulogeorgos and +1
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- Communication, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Multicarrier Communication Systems

Aeronautical vehicle use, and consequently, air-to-ground communication systems, are growing rapidly. A growing portion of these vehicles are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in civil aviation systems. As a consequence of this growth, air traffic volume for these vehicles is increasing dramatically, and it is estimated that traffic density will at least double by 2025. This traffic growth has led civil aviation authorities to explore development of future communication infrastructures (FCI). The L-band digital aeronautical communication system one (L-DACS1) is one of the air-ground (AG) communication systems proposed by Eurocontrol. L-DACS1 is a multicarrier communication system whose channels will be deployed in between Distance Measurement Equipment (DME) channels in frequency. DME is a transponder-based radio navigation technology, and its channels are distributed in 1 MHz frequency increments in the L-band spectrum from 960 to 1164 MHz. In this paper we investigate the effect of DME as the main interference signal to AG FCI systems. Recently we proposed a new multicarrier L-band communication system based on filterbank multicarrier (FBMC), which has some significant advantages over L-DACS1. In this paper we briefly describe these systems and compare the performance of L-DACS1 and FBMC communication systems in the coverage volume of one cell of an L-band communication cellular network working in the area of multiple DME stations. We will show the advantage and robustness of the L-band FBMC system in suppressing the DME interference from several DME ground stations across a range of geometries. In our simulations we use a channel model proposed for hilly/suburban environments based on the channel measurement results obtained by NASA Glenn Research Center. We compare bit error ratio (BER) results, power spectral densities for L-DACS1 and FBMC communication systems, and show the advantages of FBMC as a promising candidate for FCI systems.