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Chapter 2: Wireless
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Contents
Frequencies for communications
Signals
Antennars
Signal propagation
Multiplexing
Modulation
Spread spectrum technologies
Cell structure
1 Mm 10 km 100 m 1m 10 mm 100 m 1 m
300 Hz 30 kHz 3 MHz 300 MHz 30 GHz 3 THz 300 THz
2. Signals
physical representation of data
function of time and location
signal parameters: parameters representing the value of data
classification
continuous time/discrete time
continuous values/discrete values
analog signal = continuous time and continuous values
digital signal = discrete time and discrete values
signal parameters of periodic signals:
period T, frequency f=1/T, amplitude A, phase shift
sine wave as special periodic signal for a carrier:
s(t) = At sin(2 ft t + t)
Periodic signal - analog or digital signal pattern that repeats over time
s(t +T ) = s(t )
1 1
0 0
t t
ideal periodic signal real composition
(based on harmonics)
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Signals
Different representations of signals
amplitude (amplitude domain)
frequency spectrum (frequency domain)
phase state diagram (amplitude M and phase in polar coordinates)
t[s]
I= M cos
f [Hz]
z
y z
y x ideal
x isotropic
radiator
/4 /2
simple
x z x dipole
side view (xy-plane) side view (yz-plane) top view (xz-plane)
directed
x z x antenna
z
z
sectorized
x
antenna
x : typically applied in
cellular systems
top view, 3 sector top view, 6 sector
Antennas: diversity
Grouping of 2 or more antennas
multi-element antenna arrays
Antenna diversity
switched diversity, selection diversity
receiver chooses antenna with largest output
diversity combining
combine output power to produce gain
cophasing needed to avoid cancellation
/2 /2
/4 /2 /4 /2
+ +
ground plane
detected interference
signal adds to the
background noise
cell
Signal propagation
Propagation in free space always like light (straight line)
Straight line between a sender and a receiver: line-of-sight (LOS)
Free space loss: receiving power proportional to 1/d
(d = distance between sender and receiver) : inverse square law
1
Pr = Pt
d
Path loss and attenuation
The atmosphere heavily influences transmission over long distances
Air, rain, snow, fog, dust particles, smog, etc..
Rain can absorb much of the radiated energy.
Radio waves can also penetrate objects.
The lower the frequency, the better the penetration
Signal propagation
Gt Gr 2
PL(d ) = 10 log = 10 log
Pt
, free space
Pr (4 )2 d 2
Signal propagation
Three fundamental propagation behaviors
Signal propagation
Receiving power additionally influenced by
fading (frequency dependent)
shadowing
reflection at large obstacles
Objects can absorb some of the signals power.
Helps transmitting signals as soon as no LOS exists.
refraction depending on the density of a medium
scattering at small obstacles
If the size of an obstacle is in the order of the wavelength or less.
diffraction at edges
It is very difficult to predict the precise strength of signals.
Multipath propagation
Signal can take many different paths between sender and receiver
due to reflection, scattering, diffraction
Lead to the most severe radio impairment: multi-path propagation
Signals arrive at the receiver at different times: delay spread
Typical values for delay spread: 3 us 12 us
GSM can tolerate up to 16 us (5km path difference): equalizer
multipath
LOS pulses pulses
signal at sender
signal at receiver
Multipath propagation
Effects of the delay spread on the signals
Effects of mobility
The situation (delay spread) is even worse if receiver/sender moves.
Channel characteristics change over time and location
signal paths change
different delay variations of different signal parts
different phases of signal parts
quick changes in the power received (short term fading)
t
short term fading
5. Multiplexing
Multiplexing in 4 dimensions
space (si)
time (t)
frequency (f)
code (c)
s3
f
Advantages:
no dynamic coordination necessary k1 k2 k3 k4 k5 k6
between sender and receiver c
works also for analog signals f
Disadvantages:
waste of bandwidth
if the traffic is
distributed unevenly t
inflexible
guard spaces
to avoid frequency band overlapping (adjacent channel interference)
Disadvantages:
precise
synchronization
t
necessary
to avoid co-channel interference
6. Modulation
Digital modulation
digital data is translated into an analog signal (baseband)
ASK, FSK, PSK - main focus in this chapter
differences in spectral efficiency, power efficiency, robustness
Analog modulation
shifts center frequency of baseband signal up to the radio carrier
Motivation of analog modulation
smaller antennas (e.g., /4)
frequency division multiplexing
medium characteristics
path loss, penetration , reflection, scattering, diffraction depend on the
wavelength of the signal
Basic schemes
Amplitude Modulation (AM)
Frequency Modulation (FM)
Phase Modulation (PM)
radio
carrier
analog
baseband
digital
signal
analog synchronization data
demodulation decision 101101001 radio receiver
radio
carrier
Digital modulation
Modulation of digital signals known as Shift Keying
1 0 1
Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK):
very simple
low bandwidth requirements
very susceptible to interference t
Example of MSK
1 0 1 1 0 1 0
data
bit
even bits even 0101
odd 0011
odd bits
signal hnnh
value - - ++
low
frequency
h: high frequency
n: low frequency
+: original signal
high -: inverted signal
frequency
MSK
signal
t
No phase shifts!
BPSK
more complex
t
Incoming signal has to be compared
with the reference signal.
11 10 00 01
Hierarchical Modulation
DVB-T modulates two separate data streams onto a single DVB-T
stream
High Priority (HP) embedded within a Low Priority (LP) stream
QPSK, 16 QAM, 64QAM
Q
Example: 64QAM
good reception: resolve the entire
64QAM constellation
poor reception, mobile reception: 10
resolve only QPSK portion I
6 bit per QAM symbol, 2 most
significant determine QPSK
HP service coded in QPSK (2 bit),
00
LP uses remaining 4 bit
000010 010101
Multi-carrier modulation
MCM splits the high bit rate stream into many lower bit rate streams.
Higher bit rates are more vulnerable to ISI.
Each stream sent using an independent carrier frequency (orthogonal).
IEEE 802.11a = 48 sub-carriers
X0 x0
Add cyclic
R bps QAM
Serial
prefix and
Modulator
To IFFT Parallel D/A x
Parallel
To Serial
Converter XN-1 xN-1 Convert
cos(2fct)
f f
Side effects:
coexistence of several signals without dynamic coordination
tap-proof
Alternatives: Direct Sequence, Frequency Hopping
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dP/df dP/df
user signal
i) ii) broadband interference
narrowband interference
f f
sender
dP/df dP/df dP/df
iii) iv) v)
f f f
receiver
1 2 5 6
narrowband channels
3
4
frequency
narrow band guard space
signal
channel
quality
2
2 spread spectrum channels
2
2
2
1
spread frequency
spectrum
chipping radio
sequence carrier
transmitter
correlator
lowpass sampled
received filtered products sums
signal signal data
demodulator X integrator decision
radio chipping
carrier sequence
receiver
Multi-path propagation
several paths with different delays.
rake receiver
uses n correlators for the n strongest paths.
Each correlator is synchronized to the transmitter plus
the delay on that specific path.
The output of the correlators are then combined and fed into the decision
unit.
Disadvantages
not as robust as DSSS
simpler to detect (security)
Bluetooth
1600 hops per second, 79 hop carriers spaced with 1MHz in 2.4 GHz ISM band.
user data
0 1 0 1 1 t
f
td
f3 slow
f2 hopping
(3 bits/hop)
f1
td t
f
f3 fast
f2 hopping
(3 hops/bit)
f1
frequency hopping
synthesizer sequence
transmitter
narrowband
received signal
signal data
demodulator demodulator
hopping frequency
sequence synthesizer
receiver
8. Cell structure
Implements space division multiplex: base station covers a certain
transmission area (cell)
tens of meters: buildings
hundreds of meters: cities
tens of kilometers : countryside
Problems:
fixed network needed for the base stations
antennars, switches, location registers, etc..
handover (changing from one cell to another) necessary
frequency planning : interference with other cells
Frequencies have to be distributed carefully.
Frequency planning
Frequency reuse only with a certain distance between the base
stations
Two possible models for minimal interference
Clusters: all cells within a cluster use disjointed set of frequencies.
Standard model using 7 frequencies:
Sectorized antennas
f3 f3 f3 f2 f3 f7
f2 f2 f5 f2
f1 f1 f1 f2 f2 f2
f4 f6 f5 f1 f f1 f f1 f
f3 f3 f1 f4 3 h 3 h 3
h 2 h 2
f2 f2 f2 f3 f7 f1 g2 1 h3 g2 1 h3 g2
f1 f1 g1 g1 g1
f2 f3 g3 g3 g3
f3 f3 f3 f6 f5 f2
Frequency planning
Fixed frequency assignment: FCA (fixed channel allocations)
certain frequencies are assigned to a certain cell
problem: different traffic load in different cells
Cell breathing
CDM systems: cell size depends on current load
Additional traffic appears as noise to other users
carefull power control
If the noise level is too high users drop out of cells