Designers of low-power radio systems for use in urban areas would benefit from the capability for accurate computer-based predictions of signal loss due to shadowing. This thesis is intended to fill a need for prediction methods that exploit a building database and consider the three-dimensional profile of the radio path. Models are presented that allow the application of Fresnel-Kirchoff diffraction theory to arbitrarily oriented buildings of simple shapes. Building location information used by the diffraction models is in a form compatible with a geographic information systems (GIS) database. Diffraction screens are constructed at all building edges, including those of both horizontal and vertical orientations, in order to consider all possible diffractions and to compute field contributions often ignored. Multiple buildings and edges of the same building that introduce multiple successive diffractions are considered with a rigorous, recursive application of the diffraction theory that requires sampling the field distribution in each aperture. Robust and computationally efficient numerical methods are applied to solve the diffraction integrals. The software implementation of these methods is tested with example runs and comparisons with 914 MHz continuous-wave measurements taken on the Virginia Tech campus. / Master of Science

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Next generation of wireless communication mostly relies on multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) configuration and full-duplex relaying to improve data-rates, spectrale efficiency, spatial-multiplexing, quality-of-service and energy-efficiency etc. However, multiple radio frequency (RF) transceivers in MIMO system and multi-hops in relay networks, accumulate transceiver impairments, rendering an unacceptable system performance. Majority of the technical contributions either assume ideal hardware or inappropriately model hardware impairments which often induce misleading results especially for high data-rate communication systems. We propose statistical mathematical modeling of various hardware impairment (HWI) to characterize their deteriorating effects on the information signal. In addition, we model the aggregate HWI as improper Gaussian signaling (IGS), to fully characterize their asymmetric properties and the self-interfering signal attribute under I/Q imbalance. The proposed model encourages to adopt asymmetric transmission scheme, as opposed to traditional symmetric signaling. First, we present statistical baseband equivalent mathematical models for general MIMO system and two special scenarios of receive and transmit diversity systems under HWI. Then, we express their achievable rate under PGS and IGS transmit schemes. Moreover, we tune the IGS statistical characteristics to maximize the achievable rate. We also present optimal beam-forming/pre-coding and receive combiner vector for multiple-input single-output (MISO) and single-input multiple output (SIMO) systems, which lead to SDNR maximization. Moreover, we propose an adaptive scheme to switch between maximal IGS (MIGS) and PGS transmission based on the described conditions to reduce computational overhead. Subsequently, two case studies are presented. 1) Outage analysis has been carried out for SIMO, under transceiver distortion noise, for two diversity combining schemes 2) The benefits of employing IGS is investigated in full duplex relaying (FDR) suffering from two types of interference, the residual self-interference (RSI) and I/Q distortions. We further optimize the pseudo-variance to compensate the interference impact and improve end-to-end achievable rate. Finally, we validate the analytic expressions through simulation results, to quantify the performance degradation in the absence of ideal transceivers and the gain reaped from adopting IGS scheme compared with PGS scheme.

Wireless is everywhere. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, implantable medical devices, and many other wireless devices are massively taking part of our everyday activities. On average, an actively digital consumer has three devices. However, most of these wireless devices are small equipped with batteries that are often limited and need to be replaced or recharged. This fact limits the operating lifetime of wireless devices and presents a major challenge in wireless communication. To improve the perpetual energy operation of wireless communication systems, energy harvesting (EH) from the radio frequency (RF) signals is one promising solution to make the wireless communication systems self-sustaining. Since RF signals are known to transmit information, it is interesting to study when RF signals are simultaneously used to transmit information and scavenge energy, namely simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In this thesis, we specifically aim to study the SWIPT in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication systems and in cognitive radio (CR) networks. First, we study the SWIPT in MIMO relay systems where the relay harvests the energy from the source and uses partially/fully the harvested energy to forward the signal to the destination. For both the amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocols, we consider the ideal scheme where both the energy and information transfer to the relay happen simultaneously, and the practical power splitting and time switching schemes. For each scheme, we aim to maximize the achievable end-to-end rate with a certain energy constraint at the relay. Furthermore, we consider the sum rate maximization problem for the multiuser MIMO DF relay broadcasting channels with multiple EH-enabled relays, and an enhanced low complex solution is proposed based on the block diagonalization method. Finally, we study the energy and data performance of the SWIPT in CR network where either the primary receiver (PR) or the secondary receiver (SR) is using the antenna switching (AS) technique. When the PR is an EH-enabled node, we illustrate the incentive of spectrum sharing in CR networks. When the SR is an EH-enabled node, we propose two thresholding-based selection schemes: the prioritizing data selection scheme and the prioritizing energy selection scheme.

This thesis focuses on the concept of uniquely factorable constellations (UFCs) in the design of space-time block codes (STBCs) for wireless communication systems using three different approaches. Based on intelligent constellation collaboration, UFCs can provide the systematic design of a full diversity code with improved coding gain. Firstly, motivated by the energy-efficient hexagonal lattice carved from the Eisenstein integer domain, hexagonal UFCs and hexagonal uniquely factorable constellation pairs (UFCPs), of various sizes, are constructed for a noncoherent single-input multiple-output (SIMO) system. It is proved that these designs assure the blind unique identification of channel coefficients and transmitted signals in a noise-free case and full diversity for the noncoherent maximum likelihood (ML) receiver in a noisy case. In addition, an optimal energy scale is found to maximize the coding gain. Secondly, using a matrix similar to the Alamouti matrix and the UFCP concept based on the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation, a novel energy-efficient unitary STBC is designed for a noncoherent multiple-input single-output (MISO) system with two transmitter antennas and one receiver antenna by using the QR decomposition. It is shown that the proposed UFCP-STBC design also allows for the blind unique identification of both the transmitted signals and channel coefficients as well as full diversity. In addition, an optimal unitary UFCP-STBC is devised to maximize the coding gain subject to a transmission bit rate constraint. The last approach is to demonstrate how the UFCP concept is applied to the systematic design of a coherent relay network coding system. A class of uniquely factorable Alamouti matrix pairs is proposed for the design of a novel amplify-forward relay network coding scheme, which allows the relay node to transmit its own information. By carefully making use of the Alamouti coding structure and strategically encoding the signals from the two antennas at the relay node, the resulting coding scheme enables the optimal full diversity gain and better coding gain for the ML detector. Comprehensive computer simulations show that the three uniquely factorable designs presented in this thesis have the best error performance compared to the current designs in literature. / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

<p>In this thesis, noncoherent cooperative amplify-and-forward (AF) half-duplex relay systems and wireless communication systems equipped with a single transmitter antenna and multiple receiver antennas (SIMO) are considered, in which perfect channel information is unavailable at the destination end. For the AF half-duplex relay systems, the use of the least square error (LSE) receiver is proposed for detection. By using perturbation theory on the eigenvalues, an asymptotic formula of pairwise error probability for the LSE detector is derived. The result shows that the full diversity gain function mimics coherent cooperative AF half-duplex relay systems, whereas the coding gain function mimics noncoherent multi-inputs multi-outputs (MIMO) systems.</p> <p>In order to design full diversity noncoherent signals for both systems, a novel concept called a uniquely factorable constellation (UFC) is proposed in this thesis. It is proved that such a UFC design guarantees the unique blind identification of channel coefficients and transmitted signals in a noise-free case for the SIMO channel by only processing two received signals, as well as full diversity with the noncoherent maximum likelihood (ML) receiver in a noisy case. By using the Lagrange's four-square theorem, an algorithm is developed to efficiently and effectively design various sizes of energy-efficient unitary UFCs to optimize the coding gain. In addition, a closed-form optimal energy scale is found to maximize the coding gain for the unitary training scheme based on the commonly-used quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)