TEMPLATE FOR ACADEMICA SCIENCE JOURNAL JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 270 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DOMAIN EQUILIZER (SC-FDE) OVER IMPULSIVE NOISE CHANNEL Hussein Abdullah Leftah, h.a.leftah@stu.edu.iq Southern Technical University, Basrah Technical Engineering College, Electrical Engineering, Basrah, Iraq. Husham Lateef Swadi, hisham.romi@uobasrah.edu.iq Basrah University, College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering , Basrah, Iraq. Abstract: Impulsive noise is considered as one of the major source of disturbance in the state-of-the-art multicarrier (MC) communication systems. Therefore, several techniques are being constantly proposed to eliminate the effect of such noise. In this work, a time domain matrix interleaved is compiled with a single carrier frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) is proposed to reduce the deleterious effects of impulsive noise. A mathematical model for the proposed scheme is also presented in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed technique superiors the interleaved multicarrier system where the proposed scheme can completely avoid the error floors not only at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) but also at heavily distributed impulsive noise. The bit-error-rate (BER) of the alternative proposed scheme decreases as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increases whereas the BER of the standard system suffers from error-floors with a constant BER at about 10-3 for about 8 dB SNR for medium and heavily impulsive noise. Keywords: Multicarrier (MC), Single carrier- Frequency Domain Equalization (SC-FDE), Impulsive Noise (IN), channel modelling, Interleave. INTRODUCTION Single carrier-frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) is a technique that has a noticeable attention among other wireless modulation schemes in the last ten years. The SC-FDE system has compiled the popular attributes of both single carrier systems and multicarrier systems. As a single carrier, the SC-FDE has low Peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), not sensitive to amplifier nonlinearity, tolerance to carrier frequency offset sensitivity. On the other hand, in comparison to multicarrier modulation, the SC-FDE system is robust to multipath fading channels, efficient to intersymbol interference (ISI) mitigation [1] and it has simple equalization. Thus it has been taken up in several wireless applications such as Long-Term evolution (LTE), ultra-wide band (UWB), IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN/2. In the higher frequencies, additional attention will be recruited and highly frequency selective called impulsive noise, hence that the transmitted data may be damaged by impulsive noise in addition to the other noise like the colored Gaussian noise and narrowband interference [2]. Modelling of Electromagnetic interference (EMI) can be separated into two approaches, physical modelling and statistical-physical modelling. The statistical- physical examples are chosen because they are more accurate models than the physical models due to the mix between natural and human-made sources [3]. Noise generally limited the channel capacity where the system performance be downgraded. One of the most important character of noise is that affected by the new modulation schemes is impulsive noise. Impulsive noise can be defined as relatively short duration “on/off” switching noise pulses, generated from a different of sources the sources of impulsive noise are generated for JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 271 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. all cases of trading operations in electrical devices [4]. The other source of impulsive noise came from the modelling of interferences between the adjacent channels in mobile communication [5]. Asynchronous impulsive noise levels can reach 50dB more than thermal noise so that this value causes a degradation in communication system performance [6,7]. Thus, the communication system should be designed carefully to cope with the impulsive noise. This paper, proposes SC-FDE modulation technique for applications over impulsive noise channel such as digital audio broadcasting (DAB), digital video broadcasting (DVB) and power line communications (PLC). Also suggests an efficient interleaving technique to further reduction in the effects of the impulsive noise. To clarify the contribution of this theme, it is listed in four points equally  Propose the SC-FDE modulation for applications with impulsive noise effects instead of the multicarrier digital modulation systems.  Presents an analytical, mathematical model for the proposed scheme in the presence of impulsive noise.  Matrix-Interleaved time domain SC-FDE is also investigated in this paper as a solution to severe impulsive noise channel applications.  Monte Carlo computer simulations are implemented to establish the efficacy of the proposed SC-FDE technique over the conventional multicarrier modulation technique. 1. IMPULSIVE NOISE MODEL AND EFFECT A definition is required to identify an impulsive noise from colored (background) noise,when measuring impulse noise.There is a certain level (Threshold) is identified, and any variation exceeds this threshold level is called impulsive noise. Typical impulsive noise time period is from a few microseconds to milliseconds. Within this paper,the Middelston’s additive white class A noise (AWCN) model is used as a statistical model for the impulse noise [8]. This model provides both the colored and impulse noise. Where the received sample rk at time instant k is represented by 𝑟𝑘 = 𝑠𝑘 + 𝑤𝑘 + 𝜉𝑘 𝑟𝑘 = 𝑠𝑘 + 𝑖𝑘 Where sk is the transmitted sample, 𝜉𝑘 and wk are the complex impulse and Gaussian colored noise samples, and 𝑖𝑘 stands for the complex channel noise sample that collects the impulse noise and colored noise samples. A two states impulse noise model can be applied for modelling AWCN channel where the colored and impulse noise is picked up with the probability distribution function ik is given by 𝑝(𝑖𝑘 ) = (1 − 𝑐) 1 2𝜋𝜎0 2 𝑒 (− |𝑖𝑘| 2 2𝜎0 2) + 𝑐 1 2𝜋𝜎1 2 𝑒 (− |𝑖𝑘| 2 2𝜎1 2) , 𝜎0 2 = 𝜎𝑤 2, 𝜎1 2 = 𝜎𝜉 2 𝐴 + 𝜎𝑤 2 Where c is the impulse noise index and is given by the multiplication of the average count of impulses per unit time and the average duration of the emmitted impulses enering the receiver [9]-[11]. In other words c is the probability of appearance of impulsive noise, a is the lowest value of interest and b is the highest value of interest. The probability density function (PDF) of impulsive noise is written as 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑐 𝑏 − 𝑎 + (1 − 𝑐)𝛿(𝑥) In this paper in order to test the propoesed SC-FDE system over different types of impulsive noise distribution and conditions, the following parameters are set to be as: a=-10, b=10 and three types of impulsive noise levels (weak, medium and high) c=0.001, c=0.003 and c=0.006 respectively. It is worth to mention here that (1) (2) (3) (4) JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 272 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. the system performance will be changed as these values of c changed, however, the chosen values are the most practical and real case. As the impulsive noise power is much more eminent than the average power of the thermal noise, the use of FFT in multicarrier modulation will average this high noise power among the all subcarriers spectrums which lead to whole system performance degradation. Consequently, a SC-FDE system is purported in this paper with effective interleaving technique to mitigate the ramifications effect of such interference on the system operation. 2. SC-FDE SYSTEM WITH THE IMPULSIVE NOISE CHANNEL Consider the SC-FDE system mode [12], which is shown in Figure 1. The input data are first mapped into a specific constellation and the ith time domain block of N-points incoming modulated data vector, which is chosen uniformly from QAM or PSK constellations. Finally, the input data is passing through a mapper to produce a digitally encoded symbols. In the paperwork, we will use BPSK phase shift keying and QAM. These mapped symbols are found in vectors, each of N symbols. It follows that, a cyclic prefix of length M=N/4 is added to each transmit symbol to make the vector This signal is then given through the PLC channel with multipath effect, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and driving noise 𝑤𝑘 (AWGN) and impulsive noise (𝜉𝑛). The received signal is then written as 𝑥𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛 = 0,1, … … . . (𝑁 + 𝑀 − 1) 𝑦𝑛 = 𝑥𝑛 ∗ 𝑔𝑛 + 𝑤𝑛 + 𝜉𝑛 Where, 𝑔𝑛 is the channel impulse response, 𝑤𝑛 is the AWGN and 𝜉𝑛 is the impulsive noise. Figure 1. Standard matrix-interleaved Multicarrier (MI-MC) system block diagram. (5) JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 273 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. Figure 2. Proposed Matrix-Interleaved SC-FDE system block diagram. On the receiver side, the cyclic prefix is first removed to cancel the effect of inter-symbol interference (ISI). Under the assumption of perfect frequency 𝑟 = 𝐹𝑌 Where 𝐹 is the discrete Fourier transform matrix and 𝑌 = [ 𝑦1 𝑦2 𝑦3 … … . . 𝑦𝑛−1] 𝑇 Thus, 𝑟𝑛 = 𝑆𝑛. 𝐺𝑛 + 𝑤𝑛. 𝜉𝑛 Where 𝑆𝑛 = ∑ 𝑦𝑚𝑒 −𝑗2𝜋𝑚𝑛 𝑁𝑁−1 𝑚=1 , is the Fourier transform of 𝑦𝑛 , 𝐺𝑛 is channel transfer function , 𝑤𝑛 and 𝜉𝑛 is Fourier transform of AWGN and impulsive noise respectively. Frequency domain zero forcing single tap equalizer is then performed to remove the effect of the channel 𝑟𝑛 𝑍𝐹 = 𝑆𝑛 + 𝑤𝑛 𝐺𝑛 + 𝜉𝑛 𝐺𝑛 Inverse DFT is then applied on (8) to produce �̂�𝑛 = 𝑥𝑛 + ∑ 𝑤𝑚 𝐺𝑚 𝑒 𝑗2𝜋𝑚𝑛 𝑁 𝑁 𝑚=0 + ∑ 𝜉𝑛 𝐺𝑛 𝑒 𝑗2𝜋𝑚𝑛 𝑁 𝑁 𝑚=0 (6) (7) (8) (9) JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 274 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. 2.1. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SC-FDE The total error signal is the difference between transmitted and receive signal 𝑒 = ( 𝑥𝑛 − �̂�𝑛) then, 𝑒 = ∑ 𝑤𝑚 𝐺𝑚 𝑒 𝑗2𝜋𝑚𝑛 𝑁𝑁 𝑚=0 + ∑ 𝜉𝑛 𝐺𝑛 𝑒 𝑗2𝜋𝑚𝑛 𝑁𝑁 𝑚=0 The signal –to-noise ratio (SNR) is 𝑆𝑁𝑅 = 𝑆𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 = 𝐸[𝑥𝑛. 𝑥𝑛 ∗ ] 𝐸[𝑒. 𝑒∗] = 𝛿𝑆 2 𝛿𝑛 2 ∑ 1 |𝐺𝑚| 2 + 𝛿𝜁 2 ∑ 1 |𝐺𝑚| 2 𝑁−1 𝑚=0 𝑁−1 𝑚=0 = 𝛿𝑆 2 (𝛿𝑛 2 + 𝛿𝜁 2) ∑ 1 |𝐺𝑚| 2 𝑁−1 𝑚=0 Where 𝛿𝑆 2 is the signal power, 𝛿𝑛 2 is the standard deviation of the AWGN (AWGN noise power), 𝛿𝜁 2 is the impulsive noise power. 2.2. NUMERICAL RESULTS To investigate the old and proposed systems under the AWGN and impulsive noise, Matlab (Monte Carlo) simulation is used to clear up the superiority of the time domain interleaved single carrier frequency domain equalizer (SC-FDE) over the interleaved multicarrier system. Number of subcarriers used in this simulation is 1024 with a 256 subcarriers are used as a guard interval to prevent the intersymbol interference (ISI). The simulation is run for different impulsive noise level scenarios to certain the validity of our proposed scheme over the conventional system. The BER performance of the proposed SC-FDE is introduced and compared with the conventional MC system over impulsive noise channel is shown in Figures 1 and 2 for the QPSK and 16-QAM modulation formats respectively. For fair comparison, time domain matrix interleaved is used in both proposed scheme and the classic MC system. It is clear from Figure 1 that, for QPSK data mapping, the proposed matrix interleaved MI- SC-FDE is superior the standard MI-MC system for different levels of probability of appearance of impulsive noise c=0.001, c=0.003 and c=0.006. We take these three values of c (weak, medium and high) impulsive noise to validate the proposed scheme performance under different types of operating conditions. It is also clear that unlike the proposed MI-SC-FDE system, the classic MI-MC system suffers from error floors for medium and high impulsive noise levels c=0.003 and c=0.006 at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR=8 dB) whereas our proposed scheme BER still decreases rapidly as SNR increases without any error floors for even medium and high impulsive noise levels. To further investigate the superiority of the proposed MI-SC-FDE scheme over the standard MI-MC system, 16-QAM data mapping is also taken into consideration and shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 shows the BER performance of the proposed MI-SC-FDE and compared it with the BER performance of the standard MI-MC system for different levels of impulsive noise and 16-QAM constellation. One can notice that the proposed scheme still better BER performance than the classic scheme. The classic MI-MC scheme still suffers from error floors at c=0.003 and c=0.006 at SNR=13 dB. However, the proposed MI-SC-FDE scheme still robust to impulsive noise and error floors even for high SNR and high impulsive noise levels. The superiority of the proposed scheme becomes more significant as the severity of impulsive noise increased. (10) JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 275 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. Figure 3. BER performance of the proposed MI-SC-FDE and the standard MI-MC systems in the case of QPSK data mapping and over impulsive noise channel. JOURNAL OF AL-QADISIYAH FOR ENGINEERING SCIENCE Vol.11, No. 2 ISSN: 1998-4456 Page 276 Copyright  2018 Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Enginnering Science. All rights reserved. Figure 4. BER performance of the proposed MI-SC-FDE and the standard MI-MC systems in the case of 16- QAM data mapping and over impulsive noise channel. 2.3. 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