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Joint scale-lag diversity in mobile wideband communications
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Margetts, Adam R.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1123963618
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Year and Degree
2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Electrical Engineering.
Abstract
We consider the effect of mobility on a wideband direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication system, and study a scale-lag Rake receiver capable of leveraging the diversity that results from mobility. A wideband signal has a large bandwidth-to-center frequency ratio, such that the typical narrowband Doppler spread assumptions do not apply to mobile channels. Instead, we assume a more general temporal scaling phenomenon, i.e., a dilation of the transmitted signal's time support. Based on a uniform ring of scatterers model, we determine that the wideband scattering function, which quantifies the average scale spreading, has a “bathtub-shaped” scale profile. We investigate, through frame-theoretic tools, the translation- and dilation-spacing parameters of a scale-lag Rake basis, and compare the performances of a scale-lag Rake and a Doppler-lag Rake, each capable of leveraging the diversity that results from mobility. When the translation spacing of the Rake functions is equal to the minimum resolvable lag, there is no significant performance difference between the receivers. For wider spacings, the receiver is more reliant on dilation diversity; hence, the scale-lag Rake receiver performs relatively better. Such analysis applies, for example, to ultra-wideband (UWB) radio frequency channels and underwater wideband acoustic channels. We study the correlation structure of the scale-lag Rake fingers and show that the normalized scale spread parameter relates directly to the time-variability of the channel. We discover that much of the channel energy is concentrated in few eigen-modes and hence propose principal components combining for a reduced-complexity solution. Finally, we perform physical experiments in the air-acoustic channel to demonstrate the applicability of the wideband channel model.
Committee
Phil Schniter (Advisor)
Pages
139 p.
Keywords
scale-lag diversity
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ultra-wideband
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diversity
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scale-lag Rake
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Margetts, A. R. (2005).
Joint scale-lag diversity in mobile wideband communications
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1123963618
APA Style (7th edition)
Margetts, Adam.
Joint scale-lag diversity in mobile wideband communications.
2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1123963618.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Margetts, Adam. "Joint scale-lag diversity in mobile wideband communications." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1123963618
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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