Background
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a high-speed transmission technology in the field of wireless communication, and has become one of the core technologies of 4G mobile communication systems. The method is to decompose a high-rate data stream into a plurality of low-rate sub-data streams, i.e. to divide a signal into a plurality of orthogonal sub-carriers, and to transmit the signal simultaneously by using the mutually orthogonal sub-carriers. The orthogonality among the sub-carriers enables fading experienced by each sub-channel to be relatively flat, then the cyclic prefix is introduced to reduce inter-symbol interference, the method has the advantages of high frequency spectrum utilization rate, good multipath effect resistance and the like, and the fast Fourier transform provides a simple and low-cost implementation mode.
To ensure that the performance of the OFDM system is not affected by the multipath and fading effects of the channel, a channel estimation method is used to track the variation of the channel response. Among many channel estimation algorithms, channel estimation based on a pilot signal is the most commonly used method because it can effectively mitigate and compensate the effects of multipath fading of a wireless channel. In a conventional OFDM system, common pilot structures can be divided into block pilots, comb pilots, and diamond pilots, which are all used to complete channel estimation by inserting pilots at fixed positions, according to different pilot placement modes.
The recent Index Modulation (IM) technique further improves the performance of the OFDM system. The method divides the system frequency domain subcarrier into an active subcarrier and a silent subcarrier, wherein only the active subcarrier transmits a constellation point symbol, the silent subcarrier does not transmit data, and index bit information is implicit in the selection of the subcarrier for transmission. Compared with the traditional OFDM system, the IM-OFDM system adopts a blocking mode, pilot symbols can be transmitted by silent subcarriers, and the insertion position of the pilot is not fixed any more, so that the pilot position needs to be detected at a receiving end, and the performance of the pilot position detection can have great influence on the system performance. In the IM-OFDM system, the system performance can be effectively improved and the error rate of the system can be reduced by fully utilizing the known pilot frequency information of the transmitting and receiving ends.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a pilot frequency pattern modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmission method based on the purpose of reducing the system error rate. The method takes a sub-block as a unit, each sub-carrier in the sub-block corresponds to a pilot frequency symbol, and index bits are used for selecting pilot frequency activated sub-carriers of the sub-block and corresponding pilot frequency symbol combinations.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
setting the total number of subcarriers as N and the number of subcarriers of each sub-block as N, wherein k subcarriers are data activated subcarriers for transmitting constellation point symbols, and (N-k) subcarriers are pilot activated subcarriers for transmitting pilot, alphaSMapping the average normalized transmit power, alpha, of the subcarriers for dataPMapping the average normalized transmit power of sub-carriers for pilot, M ═ alphaS/αP;
A transmitting end:
a. partitioning: carrying out blocking processing on sub-carriers of an IM-OFDM system to obtain g-N/N sub-blocks;
b. pilot frequency generation: designing and generating a pilot symbol sequence with the length of n, and distributing the pilot symbol sequence to n subcarriers of a subblock, so that each subcarrier corresponds to a pilot symbol; all sub-blocks adopt the pilot frequency symbol sequence with the length of n, and also adopt the same mapping relation between sub-carriers and pilot frequency symbols; the condition that the pilot symbol sequence with the length of n needs to satisfy is as follows:
(1) in the pilot symbol sequence with the length of n, the same pilot symbols can be present;
(2) in one sub-block, for all possible pilot frequency mapping sub-carrier combinations determined by the index bit, the pilot frequency symbol combinations corresponding to different pilot frequency mapping sub-carrier combinations are different;
c. pilot frequency power calculation: in the invention, the sending power of the data mapping sub-carrier is set to be larger than that of the pilot mapping sub-carrier, and the sending power of the data mapping sub-carrier and the pilot mapping sub-carrier after average normalization satisfies k.alphaS+(n-k)·αPN, and αS>1,αP<1, bound M ═ αS/αPCalculating alphaS、αP;
d. Pilot pattern modulation: for each sub-block, the modulation module extracts the corresponding index bit first, selects (n-k) pilot frequency activated sub-carriers of the sub-block according to the mapping relation between the index bit and the pilot frequency activated sub-carriers, selects (n-k) pilot frequency symbols corresponding to the (n-k) pilot frequency activated sub-carriers as the pilot frequency sequence transmitted by the sub-block according to the mapping relation between the sub-carriers and the pilot frequency symbols, and sends the corresponding pilot frequency symbols respectively by each pilot frequency activated sub-carrier according to the power alpha calculated in c
PPerforming power distribution on the pilot frequency activated subcarriers; the rest k subcarriers in the subblock are used as the data active subcarriers of the subblock; the length of the index bit corresponding to each sub-block is
Wherein
Is a rounded down function;
e. information data storagePlacing: extracting modulation bits, modulating the modulation bits by M-QAM to obtain constellation point symbols to be transmitted, then sequentially placing the constellation point symbols on corresponding data activated subcarriers, and calculating the power alpha of the data activated subcarriers according to cSCarrying out power distribution to obtain a sending symbol vector X;
f. frequency domain-time domain transformation: e, sequentially carrying out serial-parallel conversion, IFFT, parallel-serial conversion, Cyclic Prefix (CP) addition and other operations on the transmission symbol vector X obtained by e to obtain an IM-OFDM symbol, and transmitting the IM-OFDM symbol;
receiving end:
g. pilot frequency acquisition: combining pilot symbols corresponding to each subcarrier into a pilot symbol sequence P with the length of N according to the arrangement sequence of the subcarriers;
h. and (3) first pilot frequency position judgment: the frequency domain receiving signal Y adopts the same blocking mode as the transmitting end, energy detection is carried out on each sub-block after blocking, the (n-k) sub-carrier position with the lowest energy in each sub-block is found out and marked as the pilot frequency position of the current sub-block, and the pilot frequency positions of all the sub-blocks form a pilot frequency position set L1From a set L of pilot positions1Obtaining a frequency domain received signal Y at a pilot positionP1And a pilot P at the pilot position1;
i. Initial channel estimation: receiving a signal Y from a frequency domain
P1Pilot frequency P
1And a set of pilot positions L
1Performing channel estimation to obtain a first channel estimation value
j. And (3) second pilot frequency position judgment: based on the channel estimation
And detecting the frequency domain receiving signal Y, recovering the transmitted data stream, and obtaining a pilot frequency position set L according to a modulation module which is the same as the transmitting end
2According to L
2Obtaining Y
P2And P
2;
k. Updating the channel estimation value again: receiving a signal Y from a frequency domain
P2Pilot frequency P
2And a set of pilot positions L
2Performing a second channel estimation to obtain a second channel estimation value
Repeating the steps j to k according to the set equalization times to obtain a final channel estimation value
According to the final channel estimation value
And detecting the frequency domain receiving signal Y to recover the transmitted data stream.
The invention carries on the pilot frequency pattern modulation according to the index bit, the index bit is different, the pilot frequency of the subblock activates the subcarrier combination differently, correspondingly, the pilot frequency symbol sequence that the subblock transmits is different too, have utilized the known pilot frequency information of the transmitting-receiving end more fully, have improved the pilot frequency position detection performance and signal detection performance of the system, has improved the BER performance of the system finally.
Detailed Description
The technical scheme of the invention is described in detail in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments:
the invention designs a pilot frequency pattern modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmission method. The invention takes a sub-carrier block with the length of n as a unit, designs and generates a pilot frequency symbol sequence with the length of n, each sub-carrier in a sub-block corresponds to a pilot frequency symbol, and an index bit is used for selecting the pilot frequency activation sub-carrier of the sub-block and the corresponding pilot frequency symbol combination.
Example (b):
the specific embodiment of the present invention is described below with the total number N of subcarriers being 1024, the number N of subcarriers in each subblock being 4, the number k of data activated subcarriers used for transmitting constellation point symbols in a subblock being 2, the cyclic prefix CP being 64, the modulation symbols being BPSK, performing interleaving index modulation, the channel estimation all using CS channel estimation, the signal detection all using ML detection method, and equalization 1 time as an example.
As shown in the modulation schematic diagram of fig. 2, the implementation process is roughly divided into the following steps:
the specific structure of the transmitting end is shown in fig. 3:
step 1-1: the sub-carriers are divided into blocks, and the number g of the divided sub-blocks is N/N is 256. And then calculating the bit number of one frame according to a formula. The index bit length for any one of the sub-blocks is:
indicating rounding down, the index bits have m total for one frame of the system
1=p
1g is 512 bits; the data activated subcarrier is used for transmitting BPSK modulation symbols, the modulation order M is 2, and the number of modulation bits that can be transmitted in one frame is: m is
2=g·k·log
2M is 512, the total number of bits M in a frame is M
1+
m 21024. Dividing the frame data into two groups, one group is index bit for selecting pilot frequency activation sub-carrier and corresponding pilot frequency symbol combination, and the other group is modulation bit for obtaining constellation point symbol to be sent through BPSK modulation.
Step 1-2: generating pilots, as shown in fig. 1, for any sub-block containing 4 sub-carriers, the pilot symbol sequence is designed as P1,P2,P3,P4]=[-1j,1j,1j,-1j]Wherein, the index bit 00 corresponds to the pilot frequency activation subcarrier as subcarrier 3 and subcarrier 4, the pilot frequency symbol combination is [1j, -1j]The index bit 01 corresponds to the pilot activation sub-carriers of sub-carrier 1 and sub-carrier 4, and the pilot symbol combination is [ -1j, -1j]The index bit 10 corresponds to pilot activation subcarriers of subcarrier 1 and subcarrier 2, and the pilot symbol combination is [ -1j,1j]The index bit 11 corresponds to the pilot activation sub-carriers of sub-carrier 2 and sub-carrier 3, and the pilot symbol combination is [1j,1j ]]The pilot symbol sequence is designed to meet the requirements of the invention;
step 1-3: calculating the subcarrier transmission power and setting alphaS/α P4, k · α is satisfied after the average normalization according to the transmission powerS+(n-k)·αPN, calculating alphaS=1.6,αP0.4, wherein αSMapping the average normalized transmit power, alpha, of the subcarriers for dataPMapping the average normalized transmit power of the sub-carriers for the pilot;
step 1-4: carrying out pilot frequency pattern modulation, and extracting corresponding p for each sub-block1Selecting 2 pilot frequency activated sub-carriers of the sub-block according to the mapping relation between the index bits and the pilot frequency activated sub-carriers, selecting 2 pilot frequency symbols corresponding to the 2 pilot frequency activated sub-carriers as a pilot frequency sequence transmitted by the sub-block, respectively transmitting the respective corresponding pilot frequency symbols by the two pilot frequency activated sub-carriers, and calculating the power alpha according to the steps 1-3PCarrying out power distribution on the pilot frequency activated subcarrier as 0.4; the rest 2 sub-carriers in the sub-block are used as the data active sub-carriers of the sub-block;
step 1-5: placing information data, extracting modulation bits, obtaining constellation point symbols to be sent by carrying out BPSK modulation on the modulation bits, then placing the constellation point symbols on corresponding data activated subcarriers in sequence, and carrying out power alpha calculated in the step 1-3 on the data activated subcarriersSPower allocation is performed as 1.6;
step 1-6: interleaving, namely placing adjacent subcarriers in an interleaving manner to obtain a sending symbol vector X;
step 1-7: and (3) frequency domain-time domain transformation, namely performing serial-parallel conversion, IFFT, parallel-serial conversion, Cyclic Prefix (CP) addition and other operations on the transmitted symbol vector X in sequence to obtain an IM-OFDM symbol, and transmitting the IM-OFDM symbol.
The specific structure of the receiving end is shown in fig. 4:
step 2-1: pilot frequency acquisition, namely combining pilot frequency symbols corresponding to each subcarrier into a pilot frequency symbol sequence P with the length of N being 1024 according to the arrangement sequence of the subcarriers;
step 2-2: the first pilot frequency position judgment, the frequency domain receiving signal Y adopts the same block dividing mode as the sending end, the sub-carriers of each sub-block are arranged in descending order according to the energy after the block dividing, the position of the (n-k) which is the lowest in energy in each sub-block is found out and marked as the pilot frequency position of the current sub-block, and the pilot frequency position set L is formed by 512 pilot frequency positions of all sub-blocks1From a set L of pilot positions1Obtaining a frequency domain received signal Y at a pilot positionP1And a pilot P at the pilot position1;
Step 2-3: initial channel estimation from the frequency domain received signal Y
P1Pilot frequency P
1And a set of pilot positions L
1Obtaining a first channel estimation value by using a CS channel estimation method
Step 2-4: second pilot position determination based on the channel estimation
And carrying out maximum likelihood detection (ML) on the frequency domain received signal Y to recover the transmitted data stream, and obtaining a pilot frequency position set L according to a modulation module which is the same as the transmitting end
2According to L
2Obtaining Y
P2And P
2(ii) a ML detection is carried out according to sub-blocks, each sub-block adopts a pilot frequency symbol sequence which is the same as that of a transmitting terminal, and pilot frequencies corresponding to 4 sub-carriers of each sub-blockThe symbol sequence is [ P ]
1,P
2,P
3,P
4]=[-1j,1j,1j,-1j];
Step 2-5: updating the channel estimation value again, and receiving the signal Y according to the frequency domain
P2Pilot frequency P
2And a set of pilot positions L
2Obtaining a second channel estimation value by using a CS channel estimation method
Since the number of equalizations is set to 1, it is possible to set the number of equalizers to 1
I.e. the final channel estimation value
Step 2-6: according to the final channel estimation value
And performing ML detection on the frequency domain received signal Y to recover the transmitted data stream.