Author : Dexu Lin
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ISBN 13 : 9780494398227
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis Variational Inference Methods for Signal Processing in Wireless Communications by : Dexu Lin
Download or read book Variational Inference Methods for Signal Processing in Wireless Communications written by Dexu Lin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transmission of information over a wireless medium often introduces additional unknown variables corrupting the primary signal of interest. These unknowns originate from different sources (e.g., channel distortions or inultiuser interference) and possess different characteristics (additive or multiplicative, static or time-varying). A consequence of this phenomenon is that the extra unknowns need to be taken into consideration at the receiver when detecting the desired signal. The factor graph depiction of this problem setting is straightforward. Yet performing exact inference on the graph to optimally remove the effects of distortion via direct belief propagation is often computationally prohibitive. This thesis aims to establish a new framework, based on variational inference, to guide the design of near-optimal algorithms for joint detection and estimation in such a scenario. The application of this framework in the OFDM area results in a novel detector with phase noise cancellation capability. The proposed algorithm generates near optimal soft estimates of the desired OFDM signal in the presence of unknown phase noise. To provide accurate channel information for this detector, we also propose an optimal (maximum a posteriori) joint estimator for the channel impulse response, carrier frequency offset amid phase noise. This implies that the frequency synchronization and channel estimation algorithms for OFDM can be derived from statistical estimation theory even in the presence of phase noise. This variational inference framework is also used to established a unified approach for studying joint detection and decoding in multiple-access and ISI channels. It produces low-complexity, near-optimal detector/estimator designs for turbo receivers, including the built-in capability to deal with channel uncertainty. Various existing turbo receivers can be seen as its special cases, leading to insights on how new improvements can be made.