Conjugate Gradient Based Reduced-Rank Signal Processing for Military Digital Communications

Abstract

The project met the objectives of developing and transitioning fundamental advances in reduced-rank adaptive signal processing. The methods have been applied to space-time equalization and interference cancellation with application to high-speed, MIMO wireless military digital communications. There was an emphasis on exploitation of second-order spatial statistics of the channel and temporal statistics of the interference to design transceivers for multi-antenna wireless communication systems. Based on space-time spreading, we showed that if signals are transmitted along the strongest eigen-direction of the channel and the weakest eigen-direction of the interference, the average SINR is maximized. We also derive optimally power loaded space-time beam-forming (STBF) schemes and show that if strong channels coincide with weak interference, then error probability reduces considerably. In order to increase transmission rates, we combined Space-Time Block Coding STBC with Space-Time Beamforming (STBF) and developed power loading schemes and low-complexity receivers. Our analytical and simulated results corroborate that STBF with optimal power loading considerably reduces error probability and channel estimator errors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA472926

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Zoltowski

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Beam Forming
  • Cancellation
  • Channel Estimation
  • Communication Systems
  • Computers
  • Decoding
  • Digital Communications
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Multiplexing
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistics
  • Transmitters
  • Websites
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space