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A Survey of Channel Measurements and Models for Current and Future Railway Communication Systems
(2016)
Modern society demands cheap, more efficient, and safer public transport. These enhancements, especially an increase in efficiency and safety, are accompanied by huge amounts of data traffic that need to be handled by wireless communication systems. Hence, wireless communications inside and outside trains are key technologies to achieve these efficiency and safety goals for railway operators in a cost-efficient manner. This paper briefly describes nowadays used wireless technologies in the railway domain and points out possible directions for future wireless systems. Channel measurements and models for wireless propagation are surveyed and their suitability in railway environments is investigated. Identified gaps are pointed out and solutions to fill those gaps for wireless communication links in railway environments are proposed.
We present a novel scheme for Slotted ALOHA random access systems that combines physical-layer network coding (PLNC) with multiuser detection (MUD). The PLNC and MUD are applied jointly at the physical layer to be able to extract any linear combination of messages experiencing a collision within a slot. The set of combinations extracted from a whole frame is then processed by the receiver to recover the original packets. A simple precoding stage at the transmitting terminals allows the receiver to further decrease the packet loss rate. We present results for the decoding at the physical layer as well as several performance measures at frame level, namely, throughput, packet loss rate, and energy efficiency. The results we present are promising and suggest that a cross-layer approach leveraging on the joint use of PLNC and MUD can significantly improve the performance of random access systems in the presence of slow fading.
NEXCODE is a project promoted by the European Space Agency aimed at research design development and demonstration of a receiver chain for telecomm and links in space missions including the presence of new short low-density parity-check codes for error correction. These codes have excellent performance from the error rate viewpoint but also put new challenges as regards synchronization issues and implementation. In this paper after a short review of the results obtained through numerical simulations we present an overview of the breadboard designed for practical testing and the test-plan proposed for the verification of the breadboard and the validation of the new codes and novel synchronization techniques under relevant operation conditions.
This paper evaluates the implementation of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols suitable for massive access connectivity in 5G multi-service networks. The access protocol extends multi-packet detection receivers based on Physical Layer Network Coding (PLNC) decoding and Coded Random Access protocols considering practical aspects to implement one-stage MAC protocols for short packet communications in mMTC services. Extensions to enhance data delivery phase in two- stage protocols are also proposed. The assessment of the access protocols is extended under system level simulations where a suitable link to system interface characterization has been taken into account.
We study the relation between frame synchronization and packet detection by the example of ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast) from the receiver perspective. We present and compare three metrics for frame synchronization and apply them at a multiple of the symbol rate in order to additionally provide clock phase synchronization. We identify a possible problem of undetected errors when applying CRC error detection to uncoded modulation for short packets and present a workaround for the ADS-B system. Finally, the combined performance of frame synchronization and packet detection, including CRC decoding is evaluated.
The peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), commonly used to describe the amplitude variations of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplex) signal, does not accurately reflect its impact on the system performance. This paper applies the mutual information as a metric to assess the effects of nonlinear PAPR reduction schemes on the performance of OFDM systems. Evaluation of the achieved mutual information shows that a significant capacity loss from clipping occurs only at high SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) and a simple compression/expansion technique is proposed to achieve close to optimal performance in this regime. The effectiveness of this method is validated through WER (word error rate) simulations with several modulation and coding schemes.
Im Projekt MOBCOM wird ein neues Verfahren zur Zustandsüberwachung von elektrischen Betriebsmitteln in Niederspannungsnetzen und Anlagen entwickelt. Mittels PLC (power line communication) Technologie werden hochfrequente transiente Vorgänge auf dem Stromkanal und dessen Übertragungseigenschaften erfasst und bewertet. Durch Ableiten bestimmter Parameter soll zustandsbedingte Wartung vorhergesagt und so der Ausfall von Betriebsmittel vermieden werden.
We describe a prototype for power line communi- cation for grid monitoring. The PLC receiver is used to gain information about the PLC channel and the current state of the power grid. The PLC receiver uses the communication signal to obtain an accurate estimate of the current channel and provides information which can be used as a basis for further processing with the aim to detect partial discharges and other anomalies in the grid. This monitoring of the power grid takes advantage of existing PLC infrastructure and uses the data signals, which are transmitted anyway to obtain a real-time measurement of the channel transfer function and the received noise signal. Since this signal is sampled at a high sampling rate compared to simpler measurement sensors, it contains valuable information about possible degradations in the grid which need to be addressed. While channel measurements are based on a received PLC signal, information about partial discharges or other sources of interference can be gathered by a PLC receiver in the absence of a transmit signal. A prototype based on Software Defined Radio has been developed, which implements the simultaneous communication and sensing for a power grid.
Modelbasierte Zustandsschätzung elektrischer Betriebsmittel der Mittel- und Niederspannungsebenen
(2022)
Im Projekt MOBCOM wird ein neues Verfahren zur Zustandsüberwachung von elektrischen Betriebsmitteln in Niederspannungsnetzen und Anlagen entwickelt. Mittels PLC (power line communication) Technologie werden hochfrequente transiente Vorgänge auf dem Stromkanal und dessen Übertragungseigenschaften erfasst und bewertet.
In dem Abschlussbericht wird ein Prototyp für Powerline-Kommunikation zur Netzüberwachung beschrieben. Der Prototyp basiert auf einem PLC-Empfänger, welcher den Kanal misst, um so Informationen über den PLC-Kanal und den aktuellen Zustand des Stromnetzes zu erhaltet. Der PLC-Empfänger verwendet das Kommunikationssignal, um eine genaue Schätzung des Stromkanals zu erhalten und liefert Informationen zur Erkennung von Teilentladungen und anderen Anomalien im Netz. Diese Überwachung des Stromnetzes macht sich die bestehende PLC-Infrastruktur zunutze und verwendet die ohnehin übertragenen Datensignale, um eine Echtzeitmessung der Kanalübertragungsfunktion und des empfangenen Rauschsignals zu erhalten. Da dieses Signal im Vergleich zu einfacheren Messsensoren mit einer hohen Abtastrate abgetastet wird, enthält es wertvolle Informationen über mögliche Beeinträchtigungen im Netz, die behoben werden müssen. Während die Kanalmessungen auf einem empfangenen PLC-Signal beruhen, können Informationen über Teilentladungen oder andere Störquellen allein durch einen PLC-Empfänger gesammelt werden, d. h. ohne eine PLC-Übertragung. Es wurde ein Prototyp auf Basis von Software Defined Radio entwickelt, der die gleichzeitige Kommunikation und Erfassung für ein Stromnetz implementiert.
This paper presents an overview of the coding aspects of a GNSS receiver. Coding allows detection and correction of channel-induced errors at the receiver, here the focus is on the mitigation of threats from malicious interferences. Although the effects of interference at different stages of GNSS baseband processing has been deeply analyzed in the literature, little attention was devoted to its impact on the navigation message decoding stage. Theis paper provides an introduction to the various coding schemes employed by current GNSS signals, discussing their performance in the presence of noise in terms of block-error rate. Additionally, the benefits of soft-decoding schemes for navigation message decoding are highlighted when jamming interferences are present. The proposed scheme requires estimating the noise plus interference power, yielding to enhanced decoding performances under severe jamming conditions. Finally, cryptographic schemes as a means of providing anti-spoofing for geosecurity location-based services, and their potential vulnerability are discussed, with particular emphasis on the dependence on the dependence of the scheme on successful navigation message decoding