Data Aware User Selection in Cognitive Downlink MISO Precoding Systems

in Proceedings on Signal Processing and Information Technology (2013)

Interference alignment for spectral coexistence of heterogeneous networks

in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2013), 2013(46),

The coexistence of heterogeneous networks within the same spectrum for enhancing the spectrum efficiency has attracted large interest lately in the research community. Furthermore, the research interest ... [more ▼]

The coexistence of heterogeneous networks within the same spectrum for enhancing the spectrum efficiency has attracted large interest lately in the research community. Furthermore, the research interest towards the deployment of small cells and multibeam satellites is increasing due to high capacity, easier deployment and higher energy efficiency. However, due to the scarcity of available spectrum and the requirement of additional spectrum for these systems, small cells need to coexist with macrocells and multibeam satellites need to coexist with monobeam satellites within the same spectrum. In this context, this contribution investigates an underlay spectral coexistence mechanism which exploits an interference alignment (IA) technique in order to mitigate the interference of cognitive transmitters towards the primary receivers in a normal uplink mode. More specifically, three types of IA techniques, namely static, uncoordinated and coordinated are investigated. The performance of the IA technique is evaluated and compared with primary only, resource division and no-mitigation techniques in terms of sum-rate capacity, primary to secondary rate ratio and primary rate protection ratio. It is shown that the coordinated IA technique perfectly protects the primary rate in both terrestrial and satellite coexistence scenarios. [less ▲]

Multiantenna Signal Processing for Cognitive Communications

in Proceedings of IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP) 2013 (2013)

Cognitive communications has attracted a large interest during the last decade due to spectrum scarcity. In combination with multiantenna techniques, cognitive communications have the ability to increase ... [more ▼]

Cognitive communications has attracted a large interest during the last decade due to spectrum scarcity. In combination with multiantenna techniques, cognitive communications have the ability to increase spectral efficiency by enabling the coexistence of a primary and secondary systems. In this paper, we focus in two specific cognitive approaches: a) Multiantenna Interference Alignment (IA) and b) Multiantenna Spectrum Sensing (SS). In the first case, we investigate how IA over multiple spatial dimensions can be exploited in order to lower harmful interference towards the primary system into acceptable levels. In the second case, we compare the sensing performance of different eigenvalue-based blind SS techniques. This paper concludes by presenting some interesting open problems in this area. [less ▲]

Satellite Cognitive Communications: Interference Modeling and Techniques Selection

in Proceeding of 6th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 12th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (2012, September)

Due to increasing demand of high speed data rate for satellite multimedia and broadcasting services and spectrum scarcity problem in satellite bands, exploring new techniques for enhancing spectral ... [more ▼]

Due to increasing demand of high speed data rate for satellite multimedia and broadcasting services and spectrum scarcity problem in satellite bands, exploring new techniques for enhancing spectral efficiency in satellite communication has become an important research challenge. In this aspect, satellite cognitive communication can be considered as a promising solution to solve spectrum scarcity problem. In this paper, different cognitive techniques such as underlay, overlay, interweave and database related techniques are discussed by reviewing the current state of art. Exact beam patterns of a multi-beam satellite are plotted over the Europe map and interference modeling between terrestrial Base Station (BS) and satellite terminal is carried out on the basis of interference power level. Furthermore, suitable cognitive techniques are proposed in high and low interference regions in the context of satellite cognitive communication. [less ▲]

Linear and nonlinear techniques for multibeam joint processing in satellite communications

in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2012), 2012(162),

Existing satellite communication standards such as DVB-S2 operate under highly-efficient adaptive coding and modulation schemes thus making significant progress in improving the spectral efficiencies of ... [more ▼]

Existing satellite communication standards such as DVB-S2 operate under highly-efficient adaptive coding and modulation schemes thus making significant progress in improving the spectral efficiencies of digital satellite broadcast systems. However, the constantly increasing demand for broadband and interactive satellite links emanates the need to apply novel interference mitigation techniques, striving towards Terabit throughput. In this direction, the objective of the present contribution is to investigate joint multiuser processing techniques for multibeam satellite systems. In the forward link, the performance of linear precoding is investigated with optimal non-linear precoding (i.e. Dirty Paper Coding) acting as the upper performance limit. To this end, the resulting power and precoder design problems are approached through optimization methods. Similarly, in the return link the concept of linear filtering (i.e. Linear Minimum Mean Square Error) is studied with the optimal successive interference cancellation acting as the performance limit. The derived capacity curves for both scenarios are compared to conventional satellite systems where beams are processed independently and interbeam interference is mitigated through a four color frequency reuse scheme, in order to quantify the potential gain of the proposed techniques. [less ▲]

Capacity Analysis of Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Multiple-Access Channels

in International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, WCSP 2012 (2012)

Relay channels have been heavily studied during the last decades as a means of improving spectral efficiency, availability and coverage in combination with multiple antenna transceivers. Relay channels ... [more ▼]

Relay channels have been heavily studied during the last decades as a means of improving spectral efficiency, availability and coverage in combination with multiple antenna transceivers. Relay channels can comprise many hops but the most practical approach at the time being would be a dual-hop system. In addition, the simplest method of relaying in terms of complexity is amplify and forward. In this direction, we investigate the ergodic capacity of a dual-hop amplify-and-forward MIMO MAC and we derive asymptotic closed-form expressions based on the principles of free probability theory. We extend the current literature by proposing a analytical model which can accommodate variance-profiled Gaussian matrices. Numerical results are utilized to verify the accuracy of the derived closed-form expressions and evaluate the effect of the channel parameters. [less ▲]

Multi-gateway cooperation in multibeam satellite systems

in IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (2012)

Multibeam systems with hundreds of beams have been recently deployed in order to provide higher capacities by employing fractional frequency reuse. Furthermore, employing full frequency reuse and ... [more ▼]

Multibeam systems with hundreds of beams have been recently deployed in order to provide higher capacities by employing fractional frequency reuse. Furthermore, employing full frequency reuse and precoding over multiple beams has shown great throughput potential in literature. However, feeding all this data from a single gateway is not feasible based on the current frequency allocations. In this context, we investigate a range of scenarios involving beam clusters where each cluster is managed by a single gateway. More specifically, the following cases are considered for handling intercluster interference: a) conventional frequency colouring, b) joint processing within cluster, c) partial CSI sharing among clusters, d) partial CSI and data sharing among clusters. CSI sharing does not provide considerable performance gains with respect to b) but combined with data sharing offers roughly a 40% improvement over a) and a 15% over b). [less ▲]

Fixed Full Duplex Relaying for Wireless Broadband Communication

in Wireless Communications & Signal Processing (WCSP), 2012 International Conference on (2012)

We compare full duplex (FD) and half duplex (HD) relaying in terms of coverage range. We consider a practical FD relay model where both the dynamic ranges of transmitter and receiver and the level of the ... [more ▼]

We compare full duplex (FD) and half duplex (HD) relaying in terms of coverage range. We consider a practical FD relay model where both the dynamic ranges of transmitter and receiver and the level of the residual loop interference between transmitted and received signals are taken into account. We numerically evaluate the rate performance of the full duplex multi-hop (FD-MH) scheme and the half duplex decode-and-forward (HD-DF) scheme, where the former requires transmit power allocation under the dynamic range constraint. Results show that there is a tradeoff between these two relaying modes. [less ▲]

Interference Alignment for Clustered Multicell Joint Decoding

in Interference Alignment for Clustered Multicell Joint Decoding (2011)

Free Probability based Capacity Calculation of Multiantenna Gaussian Fading Channels with Cochannel Interference

in Physical Communication (2011)