The last three decades have seen significant advances in the wireless communication field. As the data rates of wireless systems are increasing, the demand for mobile services also is increasing rapidly. Like other natural resources, radio spectrum suitable for mobile wireless communications is also limited. In order to keep up with this ever increasing demand, there is a requirement of new signal processing algorithms. Diversity is a technique used in wireless systems to combat the effects of fading and thereby improve reliability of data transfer. There are many ways in which algorithms can exploit diversity in wireless channels. Hybrid-automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) schemes and relaying mechanisms are two such diversity extracting techniques. Even though these diversity achieving techniques have been well understood in theory, there are many ways in which one can optimize these techniques for specific application scenarios.In this thesis, we focus on improving the performance of retransmission schemes and relaying systems. In the first part of the thesis, we improve the performance of H-ARQ schemes in the 3GPP- long term evolution (LTE) system by improving the performance of feedback signaling. We employ complex-field coding to extract the inherent frequency diversity available in the resources. Next, we provide a sub-optimal solution to the outage-optimal power allocation problem in incremental redundancy based H-ARQ system, whose performance is practically the same as that of the optimal solution. In the later part of the thesis, we propose a retransmission scheme based on superposition coding (SPC) for the symmetric relaying scenario. We provide packet error probability (PEP) expressions and solutions for the optimal fraction of power allocated for the partners' data. Finally, we study the optimal bits-to-symbol mappings for SPC and its effect on an H-ARQ scheme and the symmetric relaying scenario using SPC.

Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude de la modulation OFDM/OQAM en tant qu’alternative à la modulation OFDM. Nous traitons plus particulièrement le contexte multiusagers. De ce point de vue, les aspects de synchronisation sont déterminants. Les différentes options plus le choix de la forme d’onde sont donc examinés de ce point de vue. Un autre objectif est de montrer de manière précise comment la modulation OFDM/OQAM peut s’adapter à une transmission de type cellulaire, en prenant comme référence le système 3GPP/LTE. Les principales contributions que nous avons apportées sont : 1) Une analyse des phénomènes de désynchronisation : nous analysons l’effet de la désynchronisation, suivant les axes temporel et fréquentiel, sur les performances de l’OFDM/OQAM au récepteur. 2) Méthode de synchronisation : nous analysons une méthode de synchronisation temporelle définie dans un contexte de transmission OFDM/OQAM mono-usager et nous l’adaptons à un scénario de type multi-usagers. 3) Proposition d’un schéma d’accès multiple : nous proposons un schéma d’accès multiple basé sur la modulation OFDM/OQAM, alternatif aux techniques connues OFDMA et SC-FDMA, pour la transmission en liaison montante dans un contexte de type 3GPP/LTE. / This thesis is dedicated to the study of the OFDM/OQAM modulation as an alternative to the OFDM modulation. We treat more especially the multi-user environment. In this respect, synchronization aspects are crucial. The different options plus the choice of the waveform are examined in this point of view. Another objective is to precisely show how the OFDM/OQAM can be adapted to a cellular transmission type, taking as reference the 3GPP/LTE system. The main contributions we have made are : 1) Analysis of the desynchronization phenomena : we analyze the effect of desynchronization, according to the time and frequency axes, on the performance of OFDM/OQAM at the receiver side. 2) Synchronization method : we analyze a method of temporal synchronization defined in a single user OFDM/OQAM transmission and we adapt it to a multi-user scenario type. 3) Proposing for a multiple access scheme : we propose a multiple access scheme based on theOFDM/OQAM modulation, alternative to the known techniques OFDMA and SC-FDMA, for the UL transmission in a 3GPP/LTE context.

Pour évaluer les performances des systèmes de communications sans fil, un simulateur matériel de canal MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) est réalisé pour les nouveaux systèmes de communication. Il fournit la vitesse de traitement nécessaire et permet d’évaluer les performances en temps réel. Il permet de comparer les différents systèmes dans les mêmes conditions souhaitées. Les objectifs de ce travail concernent principalement les modèles de canal MIMO et l'architecture de bloc numérique du simulateur matériel.Le simulateur matériel conçu peut être configuré avec les nouveaux réseaux radio-mobiles (LTE) et les réseaux locaux sans fil (WLAN 802.11ac). Il utilise des modèles de canaux standardisés, comme le TGn IEEE 802.11n et le 3GPP-LTE, ou des résultats de mesures effectuées avec un sondeur de canalMIMO conçu et réalisé dans notre laboratoire. Récemment, le sondeur de canal a été utilisé au cours de campagnes de mesure pour des environnements à bord d’un navire et de l’extérieur-vers-l’intérieur (outdoor-to-indoor). Un algorithme est proposé pour que les réponses impulsionnelles mesurées soient compatibles avec la bande des signaux LTE. En outre, le modèle de Kronecker avec des évanouissements de Rayleigh est utilisé pour obtenir un canal variant dans le temps.Le simulateur doit être capable de reproduire différents types d'environnement. Dans ce contexte, de nombreux scénarios ont été proposés. Ils considèrent le mouvement à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur pour des environnements et des réseaux hétérogènes. Un algorithme est proposé et analysé pour basculer entre les environnements d’une manière continue. Ces réseaux offrent des services à travers un réseau cellulaire à l'aide du LTE et sont capables de maintenir le service lors du passage à un réseau local sans fil WLAN 802.11ac.Deux architectures pour le bloc numérique du simulateur matériel sont proposées. La première opère dans le domaine fréquentiel en utilisant des modules de transformée de Fourier rapide (FFT/IFFT). Dans ce contexte, une nouvelle architecture fréquentielle améliorée qui fonctionne avec des signaux d'entrée de longue durée est proposée. La seconde opère dans le domaine temporel en utilisant des filtres à Réponse Impulsionnelle Finie (FIR).Les architectures ont été implémentées sur des circuits programmables (FPGA : Field Programmable Gate Array) Virtex-IV de Xilinx. Leurs occupations sur FPGA, la précision des signaux de sortie et leur latence sont analysées et comparées. De plus, une solution basée sur un facteur d’échelle automatique (ASF: Auto-Scale Factor) est introduite pour augmenter la précision des signaux de sortie. / To evaluate the performance of the emerging mobile and wireless communication systems, a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel hardware simulator is designed and implemented using the recent communication standards. It provides the processing speed required to the real-time performance evaluation and allows comparing various systems in the same test conditions. The objectives of this work mainly concern the MIMO channel models and the digital block architecture of the hardware simulator. The hardware simulator can be configured with Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) 802.11ac signals. It uses standard channel models, as 3GPP LTE and TGn IEEE 802.11n. It also allows replaying measurement results obtained with the MIMO channel sounder designed and realized at our laboratory. In fact, data obtained during measurement campaigns onboard a ship and for outdoor-to-indoor environments were used. The measured impulse responses are pre-processed in order to make them compatible with LTE or 802.11ac signals. Moreover, timevarying channel models are obtained using Kronecker model with Rayleigh fading.The simulator must be able to reproduce different types of environment. In this context, many scenarios considering realistic people movements have been proposed. They involve movements in outdoor, indoor, outdoor-to-indoor or heterogeneous environments. An algorithm is proposed and described to switch between the environments in a continuous manner. Heterogeneous wireless communication systems are also considered. These systems provide service through a cellular network using LTE standard and are able to maintain the service when switching to a WLAN 802.11ac, for example.Two architectures for the digital block of the hardware simulator are proposed. The first operates in the frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT) modules. A new improved frequency architecture that works for streaming mode input signals is proposed. The second operates in time domain using Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters.The architectures of the digital block of the hardware simulator are implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Virtex-IV from Xilinx. Their occupation on the FPGA, the accuracy of the output signals and their latency are analyzed and compared. Moreover, a new algorithm, based on an Auto-Scale Factor (ASF), is added for the time domain architecture. This algorithm improves the precision of the output signals.

<p>3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a project of the Third Generation Partnership Project to improve the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile phone standard to cope with future technology evolutions. Two duplex schemes FDD and TDD are investigated in this thesis. Several computational intensive components of the baseband processing for LTE uplink such as synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, soft demapping, turbo decoding is analyzed. Cost analysis is hardware independent so that only computational complexity is considered in this thesis. Hardware dependent discussion for LTE baseband SDR platform is given according the analysis results.</p>

3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a project of the Third Generation Partnership Project to improve the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) mobile phone standard to cope with future technology evolutions. Two duplex schemes FDD and TDD are investigated in this thesis. Several computational intensive components of the baseband processing for LTE uplink such as synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, soft demapping, turbo decoding is analyzed. Cost analysis is hardware independent so that only computational complexity is considered in this thesis. Hardware dependent discussion for LTE baseband SDR platform is given according the analysis results.

<p>Digital front-end and Turbo decoder are the two key components in the digital wireless communication system. This thesis will discuss the implementation issues of both digital front-end and Turbo decoder.The structure of digital front-end for multi-standard radio supporting wireless standards such as IEEE802.11n, WiMAX, 3GPP LTE is investigated in the thesis. A top-to-down design methods. 802.11n digital down-converter is designed from Matlab model to VHDL implementation. Both simulation and FPGA prototyping are carried out.As another significant part of the thesis, a parallel Turbo decoder is designed and implemented for 3GPPLTE. The block size supported ranges from 40 to 6144 and the maximum number of iteration is eight.The Turbo decoder will use eight parallel SISO units to reach a throughput up to 150Mits.</p>

<p>Efficient radio resource management is of paramount importance for achieving the high bit rates targeted by the 3GPP for the 3GPP Long-Term Evolution. The radio air interface must be able to provide both high peak bit rates and acceptable cell-edge bit rates. This thesis therefore investigates three methods which try to combine the peak bit rate of a reuse-1 system with the cell-edge bit rate of a reuse-3 system in an OFDM-based downlink. These methods are soft frequency reuse, reuse partitioning and one variation of soft frequency reuse, reuse-1 with prioritization.</p><p>In static simulations with one user per cell and a system load of 100 percent, a Shannon capacity gain of up to 18 percent at the 10th percentile is shown with reuse partitioning compared to a reuse-1 system. This gain comes coupled with a loss of only 5 percent at the median. Soft frequency reuse is also investigated statically and shows a 13 percent gain at the 10th percentile compared to a reuse-1 system. Having a lower 10th percentile gain than reuse partitioning, it also shows a slightly smaller loss of 4 percent at the median and a much smaller loss at the 90th percentile.</p><p>Dynamic simulations with a traffic model and multiple users per cell offer a more realistic scenario and show that the proposed intercell interference management methods do not provide the same throughput gains in the dynamic case at low system loads. If interference is not an issue, interference coordination is still costly in terms of limiting bandwidth and/or decreasing the scheduling gain, but provides no significant interference reduction. At low system loads, reuse-1 is therefore the best scheme although interference coordination might prove necessary to provide edge-user throughput at high loads. For such purposes, soft frequency reuse is shown to be a potential candidate and although not investigated in a dynamic setting, reuse partitioning is believed to have similar performance. The traffic model chosen in this thesis only allows study of low system loads but at these loads, soft frequency reuse performs promisingly close to a reuse-1 system.</p>

Les systèmes sur puces dans le domaine des communications numériques deviennent extrêmement diversifiés et complexes avec la constante émergence de nouveaux standards et de nouvelles applications. Dans ce domaine, le turbo-décodeur est l'un des composants les plus exigeants en termes de calcul, de communication et de mémoire, donc de consommation d'énergie. Outre les exigences de performances croissantes, les nouveaux systèmes de communications numériques imposent une interopérabilité multi-standard qui introduit la nouvelle exigence de flexibilité de l'implémentation. Dans ce contexte, des travaux récents ont proposé l'utilisation du nouveau concept de processeurs à jeu d'instructions dédié à l'application (ASIP). Un tel modèle d'architecture permet au concepteur d'affiner librement le compromis flexibilité/performance tel que requis par l'application considérée. Toutefois, l'efficacité architecturale des processeurs dédiés à l'application est directement liée au jeu d'instruction défini ainsi qu'au taux d'utilisation des étages de pipeline. La plupart des travaux proposés récemment ne considèrent pas ces aspects explicitement. Par conséquent, ce travail de thèse s'inscrit dans l'objectif principal d'unifier l'approche orientée sur la flexibilité et celle orientée sur l'optimalité dans la conception de décodeurs de canal. Dans cet objectif, plusieurs contributions ont été proposées : (1) conception d'un turbo-décodeur multi-standard basé sur le concept ASIP assurant une efficacité architecturale élevée en bit/cycle/iteration/mm2, (2) optimisation de la vitesse de reconfiguration dynamique de l'ASIP proposé supportant tous les paramètres spécifiés dans les normes 3GPP-LTE/WiMAX/DVB-RCS, (3) conception d'entrelaceurs ARP et QPP de faible complexité pour le schéma de décodage de type papillon avec la technique de compression de treillis de type Radix4 et (4) proposition et mise en oeuvre d'un prototype FPGA de système de communication complet intégrant le turbo-décodeur multi-standard proposé. De plus, une première contribution a été proposée vers la conception d'une architecture multi-ASIP flexible et extensible supportant le décodage des turbocodes et des codes LDPC.

Efficient radio resource management is of paramount importance for achieving the high bit rates targeted by the 3GPP for the 3GPP Long-Term Evolution. The radio air interface must be able to provide both high peak bit rates and acceptable cell-edge bit rates. This thesis therefore investigates three methods which try to combine the peak bit rate of a reuse-1 system with the cell-edge bit rate of a reuse-3 system in an OFDM-based downlink. These methods are soft frequency reuse, reuse partitioning and one variation of soft frequency reuse, reuse-1 with prioritization. In static simulations with one user per cell and a system load of 100 percent, a Shannon capacity gain of up to 18 percent at the 10th percentile is shown with reuse partitioning compared to a reuse-1 system. This gain comes coupled with a loss of only 5 percent at the median. Soft frequency reuse is also investigated statically and shows a 13 percent gain at the 10th percentile compared to a reuse-1 system. Having a lower 10th percentile gain than reuse partitioning, it also shows a slightly smaller loss of 4 percent at the median and a much smaller loss at the 90th percentile. Dynamic simulations with a traffic model and multiple users per cell offer a more realistic scenario and show that the proposed intercell interference management methods do not provide the same throughput gains in the dynamic case at low system loads. If interference is not an issue, interference coordination is still costly in terms of limiting bandwidth and/or decreasing the scheduling gain, but provides no significant interference reduction. At low system loads, reuse-1 is therefore the best scheme although interference coordination might prove necessary to provide edge-user throughput at high loads. For such purposes, soft frequency reuse is shown to be a potential candidate and although not investigated in a dynamic setting, reuse partitioning is believed to have similar performance. The traffic model chosen in this thesis only allows study of low system loads but at these loads, soft frequency reuse performs promisingly close to a reuse-1 system.

This thesis is dedicated to the study of the OFDM/OQAM modulation as an alternative to the OFDM modulation. We treat more especially the multi-user environment. In this respect, synchronization aspects are crucial. The different options plus the choice of the waveform are examined in this point of view. Another objective is to precisely show how the OFDM/OQAM can be adapted to a cellular transmission type, taking as reference the 3GPP/LTE system. The main contributions we have made are : 1) Analysis of the desynchronization phenomena : we analyze the effect of desynchronization, according to the time and frequency axes, on the performance of OFDM/OQAM at the receiver side. 2) Synchronization method : we analyze a method of temporal synchronization defined in a single user OFDM/OQAM transmission and we adapt it to a multi-user scenario type. 3) Proposing for a multiple access scheme : we propose a multiple access scheme based on theOFDM/OQAM modulation, alternative to the known techniques OFDMA and SC-FDMA, for the UL transmission in a 3GPP/LTE context.