Advanced transceiver algorithm design for cognitive radio physical layer

• Main Author: Gardiye Punchihewage, Anjana
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30557

With the ever increasing demand for wireless applications, current wireless systems are challenged to meet the higher data rate and higher reliability requirements. Although the current and future technological developments allow making these requirements reachable, some other resources remain limited. The radio spectrum is one such natural resource. Previous studies have shown that the radio spectrum is not efficiently utilized. Therefore, recent studies are focused on fully utilizing this unexpandable radio spectrum. Cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as a possible solution to improve the spectrum utilization by opportunistically exploiting the licenced users transmit spectrum in dynamically changing environments. On the other hand, the development of CR technology raises new challenges of proper design of transmission and receive schemes for CR to facilitate high data rate access and better performance along with high spectral efficiency. To achieve these objectives, in this thesis, advanced transceiver algorithms for CR physical layer are designed to improve the throughput and the error rate performance in hostile wireless channels. We first designed a linear precoder for orthogonal space-time block coded, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based multiple-input multiple-output antenna CR when operating in correlated Rayleigh fading channels. The linear precoder is designed by minimizing an upper bound on the average pairwise error probability, constrained to a set of per subcarrier power constraints at CR transmitter and a set of primary users interference power thresholds. An efficient algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimal precoder matrices. We then proposed a power allocation policy to achieve a lower-bound on the ergodic sum capacity of single-input single-output opportunistic spectrum sharing multiple access channel with imperfect channel estimates. An efficient algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimal power allocation for each CR transmitter. Finally, we proposed a blind parameter estimation algorithm for OFDM signal affected by a time-dispersive channel, carrier phase, timing offset, carrier frequency offset and additive Gaussian noise. The cyclostationarity properties of received OFDM signal in time-dispersive channel is exploited to estimate the OFDM parameters. These parameters includes OFDM symbol period, useful symbol period, cyclic prefix factor, number of subcarriers and carrier frequency offset. === Applied Science, Faculty of === Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of === Graduate