Space-Frequency Equalization in Broadband Single Carrier Systems

• Main Author: Kongara, Gayathri
• Language: en
• Published: University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer engineering 2010
• Subjects: Single carrier; frequency domain equalization; MIMO; DFE; channel estimation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4421

Broadband wireless access systems can be used to deliver a variety of high data rate applications and services. Many of the channels being considered for such applications exhibit multipath propagation coupled with large delay spreads. Cur- rently, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is employed in these channels to compensate the effect of dispersion. Single carrier (SC) modulation in conjunc- tion with frequency-domain equalization (FDE) at the receiver has been shown to be a practical alternate solution as it has lower peak to average power ratio and is less sensitive to frequency offsets and phase noise compared to OFDM. The effect of multipath propagation increases with increasing data rate for SC systems. This leads to larger inter-symbol-interference (ISI) spans. In addition the achievable ca- pacity of SC-broadband systems depends on their ability to accommodate multiple signal transmissions in the same frequency band, which results in co-channel inter- ference (CCI) when detecting the desired data stream. The effects of CCI and ISI are more pronounced at high data rates. The objective of this research is to investi- gate and a develop low-complexity frequency domain receiver architectures capable of suppressing both CCI and ISI and employing practical channel estimation. In this thesis, a linear and a non-linear receiver architecture are developed in the frequency domain for use in highly dispersive channels employing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. The linear receiver consists of parallel branches each corresponding to a transmit data stream and implements linear equalization and demodulation. Frequency domain joint CCI mitigation and ISI equalization is implemented based on estimated channel parameters and is called space-frequency Broadband wireless access systems can be used to deliver a variety of high data rate applications and services. Many of the channels being considered for such applications exhibit multipath propagation coupled with large delay spreads. Cur- rently, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is employed in these channels to compensate the effect of dispersion. Single carrier (SC) modulation in conjunc- tion with frequency-domain equalization (FDE) at the receiver has been shown to be a practical alternate solution as it has lower peak to average power ratio and is less sensitive to frequency offsets and phase noise compared to OFDM. The effect of multipath propagation increases with increasing data rate for SC systems. This leads to larger inter-symbol-interference (ISI) spans. In addition the achievable ca- pacity of SC-broadband systems depends on their ability to accommodate multiple signal transmissions in the same frequency band, which results in co-channel inter- ference (CCI) when detecting the desired data stream. The effects of CCI and ISI are more pronounced at high data rates. The objective of this research is to investi- gate and a develop low-complexity frequency domain receiver architectures capable of suppressing both CCI and ISI and employing practical channel estimation. In this thesis, a linear and a non-linear receiver architecture are developed in the frequency domain for use in highly dispersive channels employing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. The linear receiver consists of parallel branches each corresponding to a transmit data stream and implements linear equalization and demodulation. Frequency domain joint CCI mitigation and ISI equalization is implemented based on estimated channel parameters and is called space-frequency