Browsing by Subject "Rayleigh fading"

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Convexity properties of outage probability under Rayleigh fading
(IEEE, 2012) Dülek, Berkan; Vanlı, N. Denizcan; Gezici, Sinan
In this paper, convexity properties of outage probability are investigated under Rayleigh fading for an average power-constrained communications system that employs maximal-ratio combining (MRC) at the receiver. By studying the first and second order derivatives of the outage probability with respect to the transmitted signal power, it is found out that the outage probability is a monotonically decreasing function with a single inflection point. This observation suggests the possibility of improving the outage performance via on-off type power randomization/sharing under stringent average transmit power constraints. It is shown that the results can also be extended to the selection combining (SC) technique in a straightforward manner. Finally, a numerical example is provided to illustrate the theoretical results. © 2012 IEEE.
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Nondata-aided channel estimation for OFDM systems with space-frequency transmit diversity
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2006) Cırpan, H. A.; Panayırcı, E.; Doğan, H.
This paper proposes a computationally efficient nondata-aided maximum a posteriori (MAP) channel-estimation algorithm focusing on the space-frequency (SF) transmit diversity orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission through frequency-selective channels. The proposed algorithm properly averages out the data sequence and requires a convenient representation of the discrete multipath fading channel based on the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) orthogonal expansion and estimates the complex channel parameters of each subcarrier iteratively, using the expectation maximization (EM) method. To further reduce the computational complexity of the proposed MAP algorithm, the optimal truncation property of the KL expansion is exploited. The performance of the MAP channel estimator is studied based on the evaluation of the modified Cramer-Rao bound (CRB). Simulation results confirm the proposed theoretical analysis and illustrate that the proposed algorithm is capable of tracking fast fading and improving overall performance. © 2006 IEEE.
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A novel queue-aware wireless link adaptation mechanism and its fixed-point analytical model
(SpringerOpen, 2015) Ozturk, O.; Akar, N.
A point-to-point (PTP) wireless link is studied that carries long-lived TCP flows and is controlled with active queue management (AQM). A cross-layer queue-aware adaptive modulation and coding (AMC)-based link adaptation (LA) mechanism is proposed for this wireless link to improve the TCP-level throughput relative to the case where AMC decisions are made based solely on the physical layer (PHY) parameters. The proposed simple-to-implement LA mechanism involves the use of an aggressive modulation and coding scheme (MCS) with high spectral efficiency and high block error rates when the queue occupancy exceeds a certain threshold, but otherwise a relatively conservative MCS with lower spectral efficiency and lower block error rates. A fixed-point analytical model is proposed to obtain the aggregate TCP throughput attained at this wireless link and the model is validated by ns-3 simulations. Numerical experimentation with the proposed analytical model applied to an IEEE 802.16-based wireless link demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed queue-aware LA (QAWLA) mechanism in a wide variety of scenarios including cases where the channel information is imperfect. The impact of the choice of the queue occupancy threshold of QAWLA is extensively studied with respect to the choice of AQM parameters in order to provide engineering guidelines for the provisioning of the wireless link.
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Optimum power randomization for the minimization of outage probability
(IEEE, 2013) Dulek, B.; Vanli, N. D.; Gezici, Sinan; Varshney P. K.
The optimum power randomization problem is studied to minimize outage probability in flat block-fading Gaussian channels under an average transmit power constraint and in the presence of channel distribution information at the transmitter. When the probability density function of the channel power gain is continuously differentiable with a finite second moment, it is shown that the outage probability curve is a nonincreasing function of the normalized transmit power with at least one inflection point and the total number of inflection points is odd. Based on this result, it is proved that the optimum power transmission strategy involves randomization between at most two power levels. In the case of a single inflection point, the optimum strategy simplifies to on-off signaling for weak transmitters. Through analytical and numerical discussions, it is shown that the proposed framework can be adapted to a wide variety of scenarios including log-normal shadowing, diversity combining over Rayleigh fading channels, Nakagami-m fading, spectrum sharing, and jamming applications. We also show that power randomization does not necessarily improve the outage performance when the finite second moment assumption is violated by the power distribution of the fading. © 2013 IEEE.
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Random access over wireless links: optimal rate and activity probability selection
(2017-07) Karakoç, Nurullah
Due to the rapidly increasing number of devices in wireless networks with the proliferation of applications based on new technologies such as machine to machine communications and Internet of Things, there is a growing interest in the random access schemes as they provide a simple means of channel access. To this end, various schemes have been proposed based on the ALOHA protocol to increase the e ciency of the medium access control layer over the last decade. On the other hand, physical layer aspects of random access networks have received relatively limited attention, and there is a need to consider optimal use of the underlying physical layer properties especially for transmission over wireless channels. In this thesis, we study uncoordinated random access schemes over wireless fading channels where each user independently decides whether to send a packet or not to a common receiver at any given time slot. To characterize the system throughput, i.e., the expected sum-rate, an information theoretic formulation is developed. We consider two scenarios: classical slotted ALOHA, where no multiuser detection (MUD) capability is available and slotted ALOHA with MUD. Our main contribution is that the optimal rates and the channel activity probabilities can be characterized as a function of the user distances to the receiver to maximize the system throughput in each case (more precisely, as a function of the average signal to noise ratios of the users). We use Rayleigh fading as our main channel model, however, we also study the cases where log-normal shadowing is observed along with small scale fading. Our proposed optimal rate selection schemes o er signi cant increase in expected system throughput compared to the same rate approach commonly used in the literature. In addition to the overall throughput optimization, the issue of fairness among users is also investigated and solutions which guarantee a minimum amount of individual throughput are developed. We also design systems with limited individual outage probabilities of the users for increased energy e ciency and reduced delay. All of these analytical works are supported with detailed numerical examples, and the performance of the proposed methods are evaluated.
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Rate selection for wireless random access networks over block fading channels
(IEEE, 2020) Karakoç, Nurullah; Duman, Tolga M.
We study uncoordinated random access over fading channels where each user independently decides whether to send a packet or not to a common receiver at any given time slot. Specifically, we develop an information theoretic formulation to characterize the overall system throughput. We consider two scenarios: classical slotted ALOHA, where no multiuser detection (MUD) capability is available and slotted ALOHA with MUD. In each case, in order to maximize the system throughput, we provide methods to obtain the optimal rates and channel activity probabilities using the user distances to the receiver (or, equivalently, their average signal to noise ratios) assuming a Rayleigh block fading channel. The results demonstrate that the newly proposed optimal rate selection solutions offer significant increase in the expected system throughputs compared to the “same rate to all users” approach commonly used in the literature. In addition to the overall throughput optimization, we also address the issue of fairness among users and propose approaches guaranteeing a minimum amount of individual throughput to each user, and design systems with limited individual outage probabilities for increased energy efficiency and reduced delay.