A Spectrum Efficient Constellation to Simultaneously Transmit Information and Synchronization Sequence

Rugui Yao; Yuan Zhang; Qihong Wu; Theodoros A. Tsiftsis; Nan Qi; Xiaoya Zuo; Shuxia Guo

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995759

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

A Spectrum Efficient Constellation to Simultaneously Transmit Information and Synchronization Sequence

Rugui Yao,
Yuan Zhang,
Qihong Wu,
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis,
Nan Qi,
Xiaoya Zuo,
Shuxia Guo

Affiliations

Rugui Yao: ORCiD; School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Yuan Zhang: ORCiD; School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Qihong Wu: ORCiD; School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis: ORCiD; School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Zhuhai Campus, Zhuhai, China
Nan Qi: ORCiD; Department of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Xiaoya Zuo: ORCiD; School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Shuxia Guo: ORCiD; Science and Technology on UAV Laboratory, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995759
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 95442 – 95456

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In this paper, a new type of quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation, named as special QPSK (SQPSK), is proposed and optimized. For SQPSK, the quadrant of the symbol is determined by the bits in information sequence according to QPSK constellation, while the offset relative to the original QPSK constellation is controlled by the bits in synchronization sequence. Under this scheme, the simultaneous transmission of information and synchronization sequences is implemented to improve spectrum efficiency with low computational complexity. In order to achieve the best balance between the bit error rate (BER) and the synchronization performance, we optimize the parameter design. Furthermore, a joint synchronization scheme is proposed for frame synchronization, frequency offset estimation, and frequency offset compensation to solve the performance loss caused by Doppler frequency shift in practical applications. Then based on the characteristics of the constellation map, a dynamic threshold demodulation scheme which further improves the BER performance is discussed. Finally, some simulation results are given to show that the SQPSK not only has both good error performance and acquisition performance, but also improves the spectrum utilization of channel resource significantly.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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