The disclosure relates to communication systems, and more particularly, to a spectrum shaping method of a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter and the transmitter for performing the method.
In fourth generation (4G) mobile communication, discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which is a type of localized single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), was adopted as an uplink (UL) standard to attain low UL peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) performance. The low PAPR performance of the DFT-spread OFDM as compared to OFDM increases the efficiency of a power amplifier of a transmitter, thereby providing wider cell coverage. In fifth generation (5G) mobile communication, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) was added for UL but the traditional DFT-spread OFDM was adopted for low PAPR performance. Especially, the DFT-spread OFDM adopted in the 5G mobile communication supports pi/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbol and spectrum shaping to further enhance the PAPR performance as compared to the 4G mobile communication. Later on, the standard was enhanced to support the pi/2-BPSK symbol and spectrum shaping even for the 4G mobile communication.
The aim of massive machine type communications (mMTC), one of the scenarios for use of the 5G mobile communication, includes supporting connections between numerous low-cost low-power transceivers and mobile communication networks, and the transceiver may use a low-cost highly nonlinear amplifier for signal transmission to save cost and power. However, the DFT-spread OFDM adopted in the 5G mobile communication, which uses pi/2-BPSK symbols and spectrum shaping, has not yet had enough PAPR performance to use the low-cost highly linear amplifier. Hence, a transmission method by which a transmitter generates an almost constant envelope signal to further enhance the PAPR performance and is as compatible with a receiver of the mobile communication standard as possible is needed to enhance the traditional OFDM based standard as well as develop a future standard.
A method of generating the almost constant envelope signal in the DFT-spread OFDM that uses pi/2-BPSK symbols and spectrum shaping may be applied not only to the transmitter in the mobile communication system but also to various wired or wireless transmitters.
Korea Patent Publication No. 10-2018-0142539 (published on Nov. 19, 2018)
To solve the aforementioned problem, the disclosure aims to provide a method by which a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter that uses pi/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbols and spectrum shaping models a frequency domain spectrum shaping vector to generate an almost constant envelope signal and the transmitter for performing the method.
However, the objective of the disclosure is not limited thereto, but may be extended in various ways without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter includes a phase shifter configured to generate a pi/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbol vector d by phase-shifting a vector b including M BPSK symbols, a DFT spreader configured to generate a DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x by spreading the pi/2-BPSK symbol vector d by using an M-point DFT matrix WM, a circular extender configured to generate a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by periodically extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x, a frequency domain spectrum shaper configured to generate a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by multiplying each element of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by each element of a first shaping vector sT, and a subcarrier allocator configured to allocate the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z to subcarriers in an allocated frequency range.
According to an aspect, the frequency domain spectrum shaper may generate the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by obtaining Hadamard product of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y and the first shaping vector sT. wherein the first shaping vector sT may be determined depending on M and a number L of the subcarriers to be used.
According to an aspect, an I-th element of the first shaping vector sT may be determined to be a value obtained by equidistant sampling of continuous-time Fourier transform of minimum shift keying (MSK) waveform defined by the following equation:
wherein the value is a sampled value at a certain location defined by the following equation
where I=1, 2, . . . , L.
According to an aspect, the number L of the subcarriers may be determined by the following equation
where k is any natural number.
According to an aspect, the frequency domain spectrum shaper may perform frequency domain spectrum shaping with a second shaping vector sT2 generated by obtaining Hadamard product of the first shaping vector sT and a window vector w of one of Hamming, Hanning, Keiser, Gaussian, Tukey, Blackmann and Dolph-Chebyshev.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission method performed by a DFT-spread OFDM transmitter includes generating a pi/2 binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbol vector d by phase-shifting a vector b including M BPSK symbols, generating a DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x by spreading the pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by using an M-point DFT matrix WM, generating a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by periodically extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z, generating a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by multiplying each element of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by each element of a first shaping vector sT, and allocating the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z to subcarriers in an allocated frequency range.
According to an aspect, the generating of the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z may include generating the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by obtaining Hadamard product of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y and the first shaping vector sT, wherein the first shaping vector sT may be determined depending on M and a number L of the subcarriers to be used.
According to an aspect, an I-th element of the first shaping vector sT may be determined to be a value obtained by equidistant sampling of continuous-time Fourier transform of minimum shift keying (MSK) waveform defined by the following equation
wherein the value is a sampled value at a certain location defined by the following equation
where I=1, 2, . . . , L.
According to an aspect, the number L of the subcarriers may be determined by the following equation
where k is an arbitrary natural number.
According to an aspect, the generating of the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z may include performing frequency domain spectrum shaping with a second shaping vector sT2 generated by obtaining Hadamard product of the first shaping vector sT and a window vector w of one of Hamming, Hanning, Keiser, Gaussian, Tukey, Blackmann and Dolph-Chebyshev.
The disclosure may have the following technological effects. However, it does not mean that a certain embodiment should have all or only the following effects, so the technological scope of the disclosure should not be understood as being limited thereto.
According to the aforementioned embodiments of the disclosure, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter and transmission method may provide a frequency domain spectrum shaping vector for the DFT-spread OFDM transmitter of a communication system to reduce distortion caused by using a non-linear power amplifier, which may be received by a receiver compatible with a current mobile communication standard. Furthermore, it may dramatically improve a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) by generating a signal having an almost constant envelope.
Various modifications may be made to embodiments of the disclosure, which will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The disclosure should be understood as not limited to particular embodiments but including all the modifications, equivalents and replacements which belong to technical scope and ideas of the disclosure.
Terms like ‘first’, ‘second’, etc., may be used to indicate various components, but the components should not be restricted by the terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one component from another component. For example, a first element may be termed a second element and, similarly, a second element may be termed a first element without departing from the scope of the disclosure.
It will be understood that, when a component is referred to as being “connected to/with” or “coupled to/with” another component, it can be directly connected to or coupled with the other component, or it can be indirectly connected to or coupled with the other component by having an intervening component interposed therebetween. On the other hand, when a component is referred to as being “directly coupled to/with” or “directly connected to/with” another component, no other components exist therebetween.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the disclosure. An expression used in the singular encompasses the expression of the plural, unless it has a clearly different meaning in the context. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” and/or “comprising,” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms including technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the disclosure belongs. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.
Embodiments of the disclosure will now be described clearly and in detail for those of ordinary skill in the art to which the disclosure belongs to easily practice them with reference to accompanying drawings.
As shown in
The phase-shifter 110 generates a pi/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbol vector d by phase-shifting a vector b including M binary phase shift keying (BPSK) symbols. As shown in
where j is a square root of −1 and should not be mixed up with index j included in equations below. The diagonal matrix F does not have to have only 1s and js as diagonal elements as long as an I-th diagonal element and (I+1)-th diagonal element hold a phase difference of +90° or −90°. The phase shift may be performed by obtaining Hadamard product of vector b and a vector having the diagonal elements of the diagonal matrix F.
The DFT spreader 120 generates a DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x by spreading the pi/2-BPSK symbol vector d by using an M-point DFT matrix WM. As shown in
where the indexes i and j satisfy the terms of 1≤i≤M and 1≤j≤M, respectively.
The circular extender 130 generates a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L by periodically extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x. Specifically, when L is an integer multiple of M, the circular extender 130 may generate a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L by repeating the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x as many times as the integer, and when L is not the integer multiple of M, the circular extender 130 may generate a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L by extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x by repeating it as many times as a natural number r equal to or greater than a number obtained by rounding up L/M, and then cutting off front and back elements of a result of the extension. For example, the circular extender 130 may generate a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L by cutting off first (rM−L)/2 elements and last (rM−L)/2 elements when (rM−L) is an even number.
The frequency domain spectrum shaper 140 generates a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by multiplying each element of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by each element of a first shaping vector sT. In other words, as shown in
The first shaping vector sT may be determined according to M and the number L of subcarriers to be used, and an I-th element of the first shaping vector sT, where I=1, 2, . . . , L, may be determined to be a value obtained by equidistantly sampling continuous-time Fourier transform of the minimum shift keying (MSK) waveform defined by Equation 4 at a certain position defined by Equation 5.
where function sin c(x) is defined as sin(TTX)/(TTX) when x is not 0 and defined as 1 when x is 0.
In the meantime, when L is not an integer multiple of M, the circular extender 130 may generate a circularly extended vector by repeating the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x as many times as a natural number r equal to or greater than a number obtained by rounding up L/M, and the frequency domain spectrum shaper 140 may extend the length of the circularly extended vector to rM by adding (rM−L)/2 zeros in the first shaping vector sT to the front and back of the circularly extended vector, and use this to perform frequency domain spectrum shaping. In this case, a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z having a length of L may be generated by cutting off parts to which the zeros are added after the frequency domain spectrum shaping. The number L of subcarriers may be defined by Equation 6 using an arbitrary natural number k:
The frequency domain spectrum shaper 140 may perform frequency domain spectrum shaping with a second shaping vector sT2 generated by obtaining Hadamard product of the first shaping vector sT and a window vector w of one of Hamming, Hanning, Keiser, Gaussian, Tukey, Blackmann and Dolph-Chebyshev. This may enhance such characteristics as out-of-band emission (OOBE), intersymbol interference (ISI), or the like.
The subcarrier allocator 150 allocates the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z to subcarriers in an allocated frequency range. As shown in
where N is a size of a DFT matrix to be used by the N-point IDFT 160, and mod is a modulo operation. Indexes i and j satisfy the terms of 1≤i≤N and 1≤j≤N, respectively.
When the allocated subcarriers correspond to (J+1)-th to (J+M)-th subcarriers, an exponent of the downward circular matrix DNJ
The DFT-spread, circularly extended, frequency domain spectrum shaped and subcarrier-allocated pi/2-BPSK symbol vector passes through the N-point IDFT 160 and the cyclic prefix adder 170 to be a DFT-spread OFDM transmission signal . Operations of the N-point IDFT 160 and the cyclic prefix adder 170 are widely known technologies in the art to which the disclosure belongs, so the description thereof will be omitted in the specification.
Hereinafter, a DFT-spread OFDM transmission method according to an embodiment of the disclosure, which may be performed by the DFT-spread OFDM transmitter shown in
Referring to
In operation S720, a DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x is generated by spreading the pi/2-BPSK symbol vector d using an M-point DFT matrix WM. The DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x may be calculated as WMFb and element (i, j) of the M-point DFT matrix WM may be defined by Equation 2.
In operation S730, a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y is generated by periodically extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x Specifically, in operation S730, when L is an integer multiple of M, a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L may be generated by repeating the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x as many times as the integer, and when L is not the integer multiple of M, a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L may be generated by extending the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x by repeating it as many times as a natural number r equal to or greater than a number obtained by rounding up L/M, and then cutting off front and back elements of a result of the extension. For example, the circular extender 130 may generate a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L by cutting off first (rM−L)/2 elements and last (rM−L)/2 elements when (rM−L) is an even number. For example, in operation S730, a circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y having a length of L may be generated by cutting off first (rM−L)/2 elements and last (rM−L)/2 elements when (rM−L) is an even number.
In operation S740, a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z is generated by multiplying each element of the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y by each element of the first shaping vector sT. In other words, in operation S740, the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z may be generated by obtaining Hadamard product of the first shaping vector sT and the circularly extended pi/2-BPSK symbol vector y. The first shaping vector sT may be defined by Equation 3.
The first shaping vector sT may be determined according to M and the number L of subcarriers to be used, and an I-th element (where I=1, 2, . . . , L) of the first shaping vector sT may be determined to be a value obtained by equidistantly sampling continuous-time Fourier transform of the MSK waveform defined by Equation 4 at a particular position defined by Equation 5.
In the meantime, when L is not an integer multiple of M, in operation S730, a circularly extended vector may be generated by repeating the DFT-spread pi/2-BPSK symbol vector x as many times as a natural number r equal to or greater than a number obtained by rounding up L/M, and in operation S740, frequency domain spectrum shaping may be performed by using a result of increasing the length of the circularly extended vector to rM by adding (rM−L)/2 zeros in the first shaping vector sT to the front and back of the circularly extended vector. In this case, a frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z having a length of L may be generated by cutting off parts to which the zeros are added after the frequency domain spectrum shaping. The number L of subcarriers may be defined by Equation 6 using an arbitrary natural number k.
In operation S750, the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z is allocated to subcarriers in an allocated frequency range. Allocation to the subcarrier may be performed by multiplying the frequency domain spectrum shaped pi/2-BPSK symbol vector z by a downward circular matrix DNJ
When the allocated subcarriers correspond to (J+1)-th to (J+M)-th subcarriers, an exponent of the downward circular matrix DNJ
In operation S760, the DFT-spread, circularly extended, frequency domain spectrum shaped and subcarrier-allocated pi/2-BPSK symbol vector passes through the N-point IDFT 160 and the cyclic prefix adder 170 to be a DFT-spread OFDM transmission signal .
In depending on used subcarriers is shown when a BPSK symbol vector having a length of 12 is transmitted. According to
In generated when a BPSK symbol vector having a length of 12 is transmitted has passed the non-linear power amplifier is shown depending on output backoffs. According to
Although the disclosure is described with reference to accompanying drawings and embodiments, the scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto, and those of ordinary skill in the art may appreciate that various modifications and changes to the disclosure can be made without deviating from the idea and scope of the appended claims below.
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10-2021-0062248 | May 2021 | KR | national |
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PCT/KR2021/011769 | 9/1/2021 | WO |