Recent Advances in Design and Implementation of Satellite Gateways for Massive Uncoordinated Access Networks

This paper provides an overview of recent results of a design, development and performance evaluation study of satellite gateways to receive and manage the traffic from a large population of uncoordinated user terminals. In particular, direct satellite access scenarios for machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things have been targeted. Tests were carried out in a representative laboratory environment emulating realistic system scenarios. Performance results, as presented in this paper indicate that the proposed gateway architecture, based on an efficient access protocol, is capable of managing a very high number of uncoordinated terminals transmitting short messages with a low duty cycle. The applicability of the proposed solution to both geostationary and non-geostationary satellite systems has also been examined. The key concept of the gateway is based on a novel receiver architecture that implements the linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) spread spectrum signal detection and successive interference cancellation techniques. The receiver uses features such as a multi-stage detector together with a robust preamble detection. The end-to-end solution includes also the use of a new waveform with a quasi-constant envelope at the terminal to modulate and transmit data packets to be received and detected by the gateway via a satellite link.

Self-Interference Cancellation: A Comprehensive Review from Circuits and Fields Perspectives

Increased demand for higher spectrum efficiency, especially in the space-limited chip, base station, and vehicle environments, has spawned the development of full-duplex communications, which enable the transmitting and receiving to occur simultaneously at the same frequency. The key challenge in this full-duplex communication paradigm is to reduce the self-interference as much as possible, ideally, down to the noise floor. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the self-interference cancellation (SIC) techniques for co-located communication systems from a circuits and fields perspective. The self-interference occurs when the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna are co-located, which significantly degrade the system performance of the receiver, in terms of the receiver desensitization, signal masking, or even damage of hardwares. By introducing the SIC techniques, the self-interference can be suppressed and the weak desired signal from the remote transmitter can be recovered. This, therefore, enables the full-duplex communications to come into the picture. The SIC techniques are classified into two main categories: the traditional circuit-domain SICs and the novel field-domain SICs, according to the method of how to rebuild and subtract the self-interference signal. In this review paper, the field-domain SIC method is systematically summarized for the first time, including the theoretical analysis and the application remarks. Some typical SIC approaches are presented and the future works are outlooked.

Enabling User Relaying In MCM-NOMA Under Doubly Selective Channels Using Iterative Interference Cancellation Schemes For Wireless IoT Networks

<div>Cell-edge users of the future cellular internet of things (IoT) with massive IoT sensors can suffer from extremely severe channel conditions, especially under very high-speed scenarios. In this paper, we present a performance improvement method for cell-edge users of multi-carrier modulation (MCM)-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink systems. To this end, we consider the implementation of cooperative user relaying NOMA (CUR-NOMA) and derive its lower bound end-to-end bit error rate (E2E-BER) under doubly selective channels. In addition, the imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) process is analyzed, wherein two interference cancellation schemes are combined to remove the NOMA induced inter-user interference (IUI) and the doubly selective channel induced inter-carrier interference (ICI). Furthermore, numerical simulations are performed to prove the efficiency of the introduced schemes with imperfect channel state information (CSI) when compared to the theoretical perfect SIC with a perfect CSI case. </div>

Enabling User Relaying In MCM-NOMA Under Doubly Selective Channels Using Iterative Interference Cancellation Schemes For Wireless IoT Networks

<div>Cell-edge users of the future cellular internet of things (IoT) with massive IoT sensors can suffer from extremely severe channel conditions, especially under very high-speed scenarios. In this paper, we present a performance improvement method for cell-edge users of multi-carrier modulation (MCM)-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink systems. To this end, we consider the implementation of cooperative user relaying NOMA (CUR-NOMA) and derive its lower bound end-to-end bit error rate (E2E-BER) under doubly selective channels. In addition, the imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) process is analyzed, wherein two interference cancellation schemes are combined to remove the NOMA induced inter-user interference (IUI) and the doubly selective channel induced inter-carrier interference (ICI). Furthermore, numerical simulations are performed to prove the efficiency of the introduced schemes with imperfect channel state information (CSI) when compared to the theoretical perfect SIC with a perfect CSI case. </div>

Power Resource Optimization for Backscatter-Aided Symbiotic Full-Duplex Secondary Transmission with Hardware Impairments in a Cognitive Radio Framework

This paper investigates the power resource optimization problem for a new cognitive radio framework with a symbiotic backscatter-aided full-duplex secondary link under imperfect interference cancellation and other hardware impairments. The problem is formulated using two approaches, namely, maximization of the sum rate and maximization of the primary link rate, subject to rate constraints on the secondary link, and the solution for each approach is derived. The problem of a half-duplex secondary link is also solved. Simulation results show that the sum rate and exploitation of the full-duplex capability of the secondary link are strongly affected by both the problem objective and hardware impairments.

Ergodic Capacity of NOMA-Based Multi-Antenna LMS Systems with Imperfect Limitations

With the rapid development of land mobile satellite (LMS) systems, large scale sensors and devices are willing to request wireless services, which is a challenge to the quality of service requirement and spectrum resources utilization on onboard LMS systems. Under this situation, the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is regarded as a promising technology for improving spectrum efficiency of LMS systems. In this paper, we analyze the ergodic capacity (EC) of NOMA-based multi-antenna LMS systems in the presence of imperfect limitations, i.e., channel estimation errors, imperfect successive interference cancellation, and co-channel interference. By considering multiple antennas at the satellite and terrestrial sensor users, the closed-form expression for EC of the NOMA-based LMS systems with imperfect limitations is obtained. Monte Carlo simulations are provided to verify theoretical results and reveal the influence of key parameters on system performance.