| Title | The Impact of CFO on OFDM based Physical-layer Network Coding with QPSK Modulation |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Xie, L. F., Ho, I. W., Situ, Z., Li, P. |
| Conference Name | 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) |
| Keywords | BER, carrier frequency offset, CFO compensation, channel coding, Channel estimation, composability, Decoding, error statistics, ICI, intercarrier interference, low bit error rate, medium CFO levels, Metrics, modulation coding, network coding, network-coded information, OFDM, OFDM modulation, physical-layer network coding, pilot insertion, PNC, point-to-point transmissions, pubcrawl, QPSK modulation, quadrature phase shift keying, RA codes, relay networks (telecommunication), repeat-accumulate codes, resilience, Resiliency, signal detection, subsequent channel decoding, TWRC, wireless channels |
| Abstract | This paper studies Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) in a two-way relay channel (TWRC) operated based on OFDM and QPSK modulation but with the presence of carrier frequency offset (CFO). CFO, induced by node motion and/or oscillator mismatch, causes inter-carrier interference (ICI) that impairs received signals in PNC. Our ultimate goal is to empower the relay in TWRC to decode network-coded information of the end users at a low bit error rate (BER) under CFO, as it is impossible to eliminate the CFO of both end users. For that, we first put forth two signal detection and channel decoding schemes at the relay in PNC. For signal detection, both schemes exploit the signal structure introduced by ICI, but they aim for different output, thus differing in the subsequent channel decoding. We then consider CFO compensation that adjusts the CFO values of the end nodes simultaneously and find that an optimal choice is to yield opposite CFO values in PNC. Particularly, we reveal that pilot insertion could play an important role against the CFO effect, indicating that we may trade more pilots for not just a better channel estimation but also a lower BER at the relay in PNC. With our proposed measures, we conduct simulation using repeat-accumulate (RA) codes and QPSK modulation to show that PNC can achieve a BER at the relay comparable to that of point-to-point transmissions for low to medium CFO levels. |
| DOI | 10.1109/WCNC45663.2020.9120461 |
| Citation Key | xie_impact_2020 |
The Impact of CFO on OFDM based Physical-layer Network Coding with QPSK Modulation