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MC-CDMA systems spread transmitted symbols in a nonflat-fading The motivation of this paper is to present a decision-directed
channel. This leads to the loss of orthogonality between different channel-estimation algorithm based on the UKF. The proposed method
users. The multiple-access interference (MAI) is introduced, and the cannot only simultaneously obtain the channel gain and dynamics
performance will be severely degraded in this case. To preserve the of the channel but also get a one-step-ahead prediction during the
orthogonality between different users, the channel impairment should prediction stage to overcome the delay problem of the decision-
be precisely estimated and efficiently equalized. Different research directed scheme. A minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) equalizer
approaches have been adopted for channel estimation and tracking. is designed for signal detection based on the one-step-ahead predic-
The pilot-symbol-aided channel-estimation methods in both the time tion. The error covariance of channel estimation can be employed
and frequency domains have been proposed [4]. A channel-sounding as a design factor to enhance the MMSE equalizer. Thus, the en-
approach is employed in which a train of pulses is periodically hanced MMSE equalizer in consideration of the estimation error will
transmitted [5]. A multiple-channel model, which includes several be more robust to the fast-fading channel. The simulation results
possible channel models based on the different ranges of Doppler demonstrate the improvements of the proposed method over other
frequencies (or mobile velocities), is constructed to treat the time- methods.
varying fading channel [6]. In addition, a decision-directed channel This paper is organized as follows. In Section II, the MC-CDMA
estimation in the frequency domain using a Kalman-based filter has system is described. The UKF-based decision-directed channel-
been proposed [1]. It requires no overhead symbols. However, the tracking scheme and the enhanced MMSE equalization are introduced
decision-directed scheme has a delay problem, which the current for channel estimation in Section III. The computer simulations
data detection must adopt the former channel-estimation result. This of the adaptive MC-CDMA detector are presented and compared
will lead to a deterioration of the detection performance in a fast- in Section IV. The conclusions are summarized in Section V. In
fading channel because the previous channel is not suitable for the what follows, AT denotes the transpose of A, and AH denotes the
current data detection. Therefore, an accurate prediction is necessary Hermitian of A.
for the decision-directed channel-tracking algorithm to improve the
performance.
II. M ULTICARRIER C ODE -D IVISION M ULTIPLE ACCESS
A time-varying velocity of the mobile station communicated in
C OMMUNICATION S YSTEM
the MC-CDMA system is considered in this paper. The spectral
characteristics of the communication channel can be approximated as The models of the transmitter and receiver in an MC-CDMA system
an autoregressive (AR) process with a white Gaussian process input with Ns subchannels are described in this section. It is supposed
[7]. The parameters of the AR process and the variance of the input that Nu users are simultaneously transmitting in the system. The
process are determined by the velocity of the mobile station. Since the nth multicarrier block symbol (duration T ) for user j is formed by
velocity is time varying and unavailable for a handset in the realistic taking symbols d1j (n), . . . , d
j (n) in parallel, which are spread by
application, a nonlinear state equation can be used to describe the the users spreading code cj with length N . Thus, the spread
MC-CDMA system. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is suitable for symbols are placed into Ns = N available subchannels. The block
nonlinear estimation. However, it is only the first-order approximation diagram of the MC-CDMA transmitter is shown in Fig. 1. In the
to the nonlinear estimation and needs the computation of Jacobians to rest of this paper, for simplicity of notation, we concentrate only
linearize the process and measurement equations [8]. A new estimation on the case where each user transmits one symbol ( = 1) in each
method called unscented Kalman filter (UKF) has been widely and MC-CDMA block symbol. The transmitted symbol is simply repre-
recently used in several nonlinear systems [9], [10]. It does not require sented as dj (n) for user j. Therefore, the total number of subchan-
the computation of Jacobians and can be accurate to the third-order nels is Ns = N .
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The WalshHadamard spread code cj for user j with length ever, channel variation during the successive symbol intervals is
N is allowed.
The received samples are demodulated by taking N -point DFT and
cj = [cj (0) cj (1) ... cj (N 1)]T (1) can be represented as
j=1
Hn (m) is the channel coefficients of the mth subcarrier at the nth
MC-CDMA block symbol in the frequency domain, and Vn (m)
The signal Sn (m) is then translated by the multicarrier modulation is the frequency-domain noise. The covariance of Vn (m) can be
(i.e., IDFT), and the OFDM symbol sn (k) is produced as follows (see expressed as
Fig. 1):
QVn (m) = E Vn (m)VnH (m) = N v2 . (7)
1
N 1
j2mk
sn (k) = Sn (m)e N , k = 0, 1, . . . , N 1. (4) The block diagram of the MC-CDMA receiver is illustrated
N m=0 in Fig. 2.
A guard interval is inserted between successive OFDM symbols to III. ROBUST U NSCENTED K ALMAN F ILTER C HANNEL T RACKING
avoid the ISI effects by using a cyclic prefix technique [11].
In the downlink case, all users transmitting signals are synchronous A. Subcarrier Channel Estimation
and experience the same multipath Rayleigh-fading channel. After Although the Jakes model is often utilized for the fading channel
removing the guard interval, the received signal of the nth MC-CDMA estimation, it is not easy to use this model to estimate channel
symbol is given by variation. A higher order AR process can match the spectral
characteristics of the Rayleigh-fading channel [7]. Here, we focus on
L1
the second-order AR model due to its simplicity and accuracy. The lth
yn (k) = sn (k l)hn (k, l) + vn (k), k = 0, 1, . . . , N 1 path of the channel impulse response at the nth MC-CDMA symbol
l=0 can be modeled by an AR(2) process
(5)
where hn (k, l) and vn (k) denote the lth path sampling of the com- hn (l) = a1,n1 hn1 (l) + a2,n1 hn2 (l) + wn (l)
plex time-varying fading channel with length L and the additive
l = 0, 1, . . . , L 1 (8)
noise at the kth instant of the nth MC-CDMA block symbol, re-
spectively. vn (k) is assumed to be white Gaussian with zero mean where wn (l) is a complex zero-mean white Gaussian process. The
and variance v2 . For a high-data-rate transmission, it is reason- parameters a1,n and a2,n are determined by the Doppler frequency
ably assumed that the channel is time invariant during one MC- shift due to the velocity change of the mobile station. They are de-
CDMA block symbol interval T [1], i.e., hn (0, l) = hn (1, l) = = fined as
hn (N 1, l) for l = 0, 1, . . . , L 1. The index k of hn (k, l) would
be ignored in this case and can be simply rewritten as hn (l). How- a1,n = 2rd cos(2fD,n T ), a2,n = rd2 (9)
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where fD,n is the maximum Doppler frequency shift in the nth parameters related to dn in the UKF algorithm should be regenerated
symbol period, and rd is the pole radius that corresponds to the from dn
steepness of the peaks of the power spectrum [7]. The radius is chosen
to be very close to 1 to model the spectral peaks at the maximum
Nu
where Q2 = E |Vn |2 . (20)
L1
j2lm
The fundamental component of the filter is the unscented trans-
Wn (m) = wn (l)e N . formation. It provides a method for calculating the statistics of a
l=0 random variable, which undergoes a nonlinear transformation [12].
This transformation uses a set of approximately weighted points
Since the velocity of the mobile station is time varying and to parameterize the mean and covariance information while per-
unavailable, the parameter a1,n is also time varying. For the best mitting the direct propagation of that information through a set of
channel estimation, one way is to jointly estimate Hn (m) and a1,n . nonlinear equations. Consider an M -dimensional random vector X
However, the joint estimation is nonlinear from (10) because of through a nonlinear function F to generate an J-dimensional random
coupling. It is not easy for any linear estimation method to esti- variable z
mate the state. The UKF [12] is adopted in this paper to get a
more accurate result than EKF for nonlinear parameter-estimation z = F (X). (21)
problem.
From (6) and (10), the channel model can be described by the It is assumed that X has the mean X and covariance matrix PX .
following state-space equations: The requirement is to compute z = E{z} and PZ = E{(z z)(z
z)T }. Based on the unscented transformation [12], a set of 2M + 1
sigma points {i }2M
i=0 are chosen so that the sample mean and sample
Xn (m) = F (Xn1 (m)) + Wn (m) (11)
covariance are X and PX , respectively.
Yn (m) = CH
n (m)Xn (m) + Vn (m) (12)
0 =X
where
i =X + (M +)PX , i = 1, 2, . . . , M
i
Xn (m) = [a1,n Hn (m) Hn1 (m)]T (13)
F(Xn (m)) = [a1,n a1,n Hn (m)+a2,n Hn1 (m) Hn (m)] T
(14) i =X (M +)PX , i = M + 1, M + 2, . . . , 2M
i
TABLE I TABLE II
S UMMARY OF THE UKF A LGORITHM P OWER D ELAY P ROFILE IN THE T YPICAL U RBAN A REA
Sn (m) n (m)Yn (m)
. (26)
n (m)
The optimal MMSE equalization for (26) with the channel predic-
tion is [6]
H
Hn|n1 (m)
on (m) =
(27)
Hn|n1 (m)
2 + n|n1 (m) + QVn (m)/s2
. (28)
For the nonlinear state-space model of (18) and (19) with additive
Hn1|n1 (m)
2 + QVn (m)/s2
noise, the UKF is a straightforward application of the unscented
transformation. The overall procedure for the UKF is depicted in It is based on the assumption that the channel variation is slow.
Table I. However, the enhanced MMSE equalizer in (27) contains the
one-step-ahead prediction and the covariance of prediction error. It
can provide more precise detection than the conventional MMSE
C. MMSE Equalizer
equalizer.
An enhanced MMSE equalizer is developed based on the
proposed UKF-based estimation method. The transmitted signal
Sn (m) is replaced by the regenerated signal Sn (m) for channel- IV. C OMPUTER S IMULATION
parameter tracking since Sn (m) is unavailable for the receiver in A computer simulation has been conducted to confirm the perfor-
the tracking mode. The regenerated signal Sn (m) is obtained from mance of the proposed method. The urban case is considered. Table II
the detected data dn in (17). That means the current channel- shows the power delay profile in the urban area with the root mean
parameter tracking can be done after the current data detected. square delay = 1 s. The mobile velocity from 5 to 110 km/h is
However, the MMSE data detection needs to have the current chan- used to simulate different mobile environments. The central frequency
nel parameters. This is a delay problem of the decision-directed fc is 2 GHz in the MC-CDMA system. The total bandwidth BW is
channel-tracking scheme. However, the previous estimates will not 2.048 MHz, which is divided into 1024 subchannels. The subchan-
be suitable for the current equalization when the channel varia- nel spacing is then f = 2 kHz. An additional 8-s guard-interval
tion is fast. Because the UKF algorithm provides the one-step- duration is used to provide protection from ISI due to the channel
ahead prediction Hn|n1 during the prediction stage, a robust multipath delay spread. The length of the adopted WalshHadamard
MMSE equalization can be developed for the fast-fading chan- code is N = 64 chips. Thus, the MC-CDMA system can support
nel case. the maximum 64 active users. The AR(2) model parameters a1 and
The MMSE equalization for the MC-CDMA systems under the a2 are defined in (9). The parameter of the pole radius is chosen
assumption of a perfectly known channel has been previously provided as rd = 0.998 for the simulation cases [7]. It is also assumed that
in [13]. A robust MMSE equalizer for each subchannel is developed the channel remains approximately constant during one MC symbol
here with consideration of channel estimation error. The prediction period. The data-modulation scheme is quadrature phase-shift keying
error for channel estimation is defined as in the following simulation.
The performance of the systems is measured by the symbol error
Hn|n1 (m) = Hn|n1 (m) Hn (m). (25) rate and the mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation, with
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Fig. 3. MSE of estimation by different channel-tracking methods for the user Fig. 4. MSE of prediction by different channel-tracking methods for the user
with time-varying velocity. with time-varying velocity.
simulation for 50 trials and 2000 MC-CDMA symbols per trial. The
MSE of the channel estimation is defined as
N 1
E
Hn (m) Hn (m)
.
2
MSE =
m=0
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