4.3 Stochastic STF Channel Models A stochastic realization is used here to obtain a state space representation for the inphase and quadrature components [32].. 4.3 Stochastic STF Channe
Trang 2Equation (23) has three arbitrary parameters , ,n K, which can be adjusted such that the
approximate curve coincides with the actual curve at different points The reason for
presenting 4th order approximation of the DPSD is that we can compute explicit expressions
for the constants , ,n K as functions of specific points on the data-graphs of the DPSD
In fact, if the approximate density ( )S f coincides with the exact density ( ) S f at f and 0
max
f f , then the arbitrary parameters , ,n K are computed explicitly as
2 max
2 max
Figure 6 shows S f and its approximation S f via a 4th order even function In the next
section, the approximated DPSD is used to develop stochastic STF channel models
4.3 Stochastic STF Channel Models
A stochastic realization is used here to obtain a state space representation for the inphase
and quadrature components [32] The SDE, which corresponds to ( )H s in (23) is
2 ( ) 2 n ( ) n2 ( ) ( ), (0), (0) aregiven
where dW t( )t0 is a white-noise process Equation (25) can be rewritten in terms of
inphase and quadrature components as
where dW t I( )t0 and dW t Q( )t0 are two independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)
white Gaussian noises
-25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0
and quadrature components for the jth path as
, 2 ,
00
0
1 0
Q j Q
are independent standard
Brownian motions, which correspond to the inphase and quadrature components of the jth
path respectively, the parameters , ,n K are obtained from the approximation of the
Trang 3Equation (23) has three arbitrary parameters , ,n K, which can be adjusted such that the
approximate curve coincides with the actual curve at different points The reason for
presenting 4th order approximation of the DPSD is that we can compute explicit expressions
for the constants , ,n K as functions of specific points on the data-graphs of the DPSD
In fact, if the approximate density ( )S f coincides with the exact density ( ) S f at f and 0
max
f f , then the arbitrary parameters , ,n K are computed explicitly as
2 max
2 max
Figure 6 shows S f and its approximation S f via a 4th order even function In the next
section, the approximated DPSD is used to develop stochastic STF channel models
4.3 Stochastic STF Channel Models
A stochastic realization is used here to obtain a state space representation for the inphase
and quadrature components [32] The SDE, which corresponds to ( )H s in (23) is
2 ( ) 2 n ( ) n2 ( ) ( ), (0), (0) aregiven
where dW t( )t0 is a white-noise process Equation (25) can be rewritten in terms of
inphase and quadrature components as
where dW t I( )t0 and dW t Q( )t0 are two independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)
white Gaussian noises
-25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0
and quadrature components for the jth path as
, 2 ,
00
0
1 0
Q j Q
are independent standard
Brownian motions, which correspond to the inphase and quadrature components of the jth
path respectively, the parameters , ,n K are obtained from the approximation of the
Trang 4deterministic DPSD, and I
j
f t and Q
j
f t are arbitrary functions representing the LOS of
the inphase and quadrature components respectively, characterizing further dynamic
variations in the environment
Expression (27) for the jth path can be written in compact form as
W t W t I , Q t0 are independent standard Brownian motions which are independent of
the initial random variables X I 0 and X Q 0 , and f s f s I , Q ; 0 s t are random
processes representing the inphase and quadrature LOS components, respectively The
band-pass representation of the received signal corresponding to the jth path is given as
I I I cos c Q Q Q sin c l j ( )
y t C X t f t t C X t f t t s t v t
where ( )v t is the measurement noise As the DPSD varies from one instant to the next, the
channel parameters , ,n K also vary in time, and have to be estimated on-line from time
domain measurements Without loss of generality, we consider the case of flat fading, in
which the mobile-to-mobile channel has purely multiplicative effect on the signal and the
multipath components are not resolvable, and can be considered as a single path [2] The
frequency selective fading case can be handled by including multiple time-delayed echoes
In this case, the delay spread has to be estimated A sounding device is usually dedicated to
estimate the time delay of each discrete path such as Rake receiver [26] Following the state
space representation in (28) and the band pass representation of the received signal in (30),
the fading channel can be represented using a general stochastic state space representation
In this case, ( )y t represents the received signal measurements, X t is the state variable of
the inphase and quadrature components, and v t is the measurement noise
Time domain simulation of STF channels can be performed by passing two independent white noise processes through two identical filters, H s , obtained from the factorization of the deterministic DPSD, one for the inphase and the other for the quadrature component [4], and realized in their state-space form as described in (28) and (29)
Example 3: Consider a flat fading wireless channel with the following parameters:
4.4 Solution to the Stochastic State Space Model
The stochastic TV state space model described in (31) and (32) has a solution [32, 38]
Trang 5deterministic DPSD, and I
j
f t and Q
j
f t are arbitrary functions representing the LOS of
the inphase and quadrature components respectively, characterizing further dynamic
variations in the environment
Expression (27) for the jth path can be written in compact form as
W t W t I , Q t0 are independent standard Brownian motions which are independent of
the initial random variables X I 0 and X Q 0 , and f s f s I , Q ; 0 s t are random
processes representing the inphase and quadrature LOS components, respectively The
band-pass representation of the received signal corresponding to the jth path is given as
I I I cos c Q Q Q sin c l j ( )
y t C X t f t t C X t f t t s t v t
where ( )v t is the measurement noise As the DPSD varies from one instant to the next, the
channel parameters , ,n K also vary in time, and have to be estimated on-line from time
domain measurements Without loss of generality, we consider the case of flat fading, in
which the mobile-to-mobile channel has purely multiplicative effect on the signal and the
multipath components are not resolvable, and can be considered as a single path [2] The
frequency selective fading case can be handled by including multiple time-delayed echoes
In this case, the delay spread has to be estimated A sounding device is usually dedicated to
estimate the time delay of each discrete path such as Rake receiver [26] Following the state
space representation in (28) and the band pass representation of the received signal in (30),
the fading channel can be represented using a general stochastic state space representation
In this case, ( )y t represents the received signal measurements, X t is the state variable of
the inphase and quadrature components, and v t is the measurement noise
Time domain simulation of STF channels can be performed by passing two independent white noise processes through two identical filters, H s , obtained from the factorization of the deterministic DPSD, one for the inphase and the other for the quadrature component [4], and realized in their state-space form as described in (28) and (29)
Example 3: Consider a flat fading wireless channel with the following parameters:
4.4 Solution to the Stochastic State Space Model
The stochastic TV state space model described in (31) and (32) has a solution [32, 38]
Trang 60 0.05 0.1 -2
-1 0 1 2
In-phase
-2 -1 0 1 2
time [sec.]
-1 [Q(t
Fig 7 Inphase and quadrature components, attenuation coefficient, and phase angle of the
STF wireless channel in Example 3
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1 0
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
time [sec.]
Fig 9 Input signal, ( )s t , and the corresponding received signal, ( ) l y t , for flat slow fading
(top) and flat fast fading conditions (bottom)
Further computations show that the mean of X t is given by [32] L
Trang 70 0.05 0.1 -2
-1 0 1 2
In-phase
-2 -1 0 1 2
time [sec.]
-1 [Q(t
Fig 7 Inphase and quadrature components, attenuation coefficient, and phase angle of the
STF wireless channel in Example 3
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1 0
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
time [sec.]
Fig 9 Input signal, ( )s t , and the corresponding received signal, ( ) l y t , for flat slow fading
(top) and flat fast fading conditions (bottom)
Further computations show that the mean of X t is given by [32] L
Trang 80 0 0
It can be seen in (34) and (35) that the mean and variance of the inphase and quadrature
components are functions of time Note that the statistics of the inphase and quadrature
components, and therefore the statistics of the STF channel, are time varying Therefore,
these stochastic state space models reflect the TV characteristics of the STF channel
Following the same procedure in developing the STF channel models, the stochastic TV ad
hoc channel models are developed in the next section
5 Stochastic Ad Hoc Channel Modeling
5.1 The Deterministic DPSD of Ad Hoc Channels
Dependent on mobile speed, wavelength, and angle of incidence, the Doppler frequency
shifts on the multipath rays give rise to a DPSD The cellular DPSD for a received fading
carrier of frequency f c is given in (20) and can be described by [25]
1/
c c
where f is the maximum Doppler frequency of the mobile , p is the average power 1
received by an isotropic antenna, and G is the gain of the receiving antenna For a
mobile-to-mobile (or ad hoc) link, with f and 1 f as the sender and receiver’s maximum Doppler 2
frequencies, respectively, the degree of double mobility, denoted by is defined by
1 2 1 2
min f f, /max f f,
, so 0 1, where 1 corresponds to a full double
mobility and 0 to a single mobility like cellular link, implying that cellular channels are
a special case of mobile channels The corresponding deterministic
where K is the complete elliptic integral of the first kind, and f mmaxf f1 2, Figure 10
shows the deterministic mobile-to-mobile DPSDs for different values of α’s Thus, a
generalized DPSD has been found where the U-shaped spectrum of cellular channels is a special case
Here, we follow the same procedure in deriving the stochastic STF channel models in
Section 4 The deterministic ad hoc DPSD is first factorized into an approximate nth order
even transfer function, and then use a stochastic realization [32] to obtain a state space representation for inphase and quadrature components The complex cepstrum algorithm [36] is used to approximate the ad hoc DPSD and is discussed next
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 0
2 4 6 8
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0
1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 alpha = 0 alpha = 0.25, f2 = 4*f1
alpha = 0.5, f2 = 2*f1 alpha = 1Fig 10 Ad hoc deterministic DPSDs for different values of 's, with parameters 1
c
f f and pG
5.2 Approximating the Deterministic Ad Hoc DPSD
Since the ad hoc DPSD is more complicated than the cellular one, we propose to use a more complex and accurate approximation method: The complex cepstrum algorithm [36] It uses several measured points of the DPSD instead of just three points as in the simple method (described in Section 4.2) It can be explained briefly as follows: On a log-log scale, the magnitude data is interpolated linearly, with a very fine discretization Then, using the complex cepstrum algorithm [36], the phase, associated with a stable, minimum phase, real, rational transfer function with the same magnitude as the magnitude data is generated With the new phase data and the input magnitude data, a real rational transfer function can
be found by using the Gauss-Newton method for iterative search [35], which is used to
Trang 90 0
It can be seen in (34) and (35) that the mean and variance of the inphase and quadrature
components are functions of time Note that the statistics of the inphase and quadrature
components, and therefore the statistics of the STF channel, are time varying Therefore,
these stochastic state space models reflect the TV characteristics of the STF channel
Following the same procedure in developing the STF channel models, the stochastic TV ad
hoc channel models are developed in the next section
5 Stochastic Ad Hoc Channel Modeling
5.1 The Deterministic DPSD of Ad Hoc Channels
Dependent on mobile speed, wavelength, and angle of incidence, the Doppler frequency
shifts on the multipath rays give rise to a DPSD The cellular DPSD for a received fading
carrier of frequency f c is given in (20) and can be described by [25]
1/
c c
where f is the maximum Doppler frequency of the mobile , p is the average power 1
received by an isotropic antenna, and G is the gain of the receiving antenna For a
mobile-to-mobile (or ad hoc) link, with f and 1 f as the sender and receiver’s maximum Doppler 2
frequencies, respectively, the degree of double mobility, denoted by is defined by
1 2 1 2
min f f, /max f f,
, so 0 1, where 1 corresponds to a full double
mobility and 0 to a single mobility like cellular link, implying that cellular channels are
a special case of mobile channels The corresponding deterministic
where K is the complete elliptic integral of the first kind, and f mmaxf f1 2, Figure 10
shows the deterministic mobile-to-mobile DPSDs for different values of α’s Thus, a
generalized DPSD has been found where the U-shaped spectrum of cellular channels is a special case
Here, we follow the same procedure in deriving the stochastic STF channel models in
Section 4 The deterministic ad hoc DPSD is first factorized into an approximate nth order
even transfer function, and then use a stochastic realization [32] to obtain a state space representation for inphase and quadrature components The complex cepstrum algorithm [36] is used to approximate the ad hoc DPSD and is discussed next
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 0
2 4 6 8
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0
1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 alpha = 0 alpha = 0.25, f2 = 4*f1
alpha = 0.5, f2 = 2*f1 alpha = 1Fig 10 Ad hoc deterministic DPSDs for different values of 's, with parameters
1
c
f f and pG
5.2 Approximating the Deterministic Ad Hoc DPSD
Since the ad hoc DPSD is more complicated than the cellular one, we propose to use a more complex and accurate approximation method: The complex cepstrum algorithm [36] It uses several measured points of the DPSD instead of just three points as in the simple method (described in Section 4.2) It can be explained briefly as follows: On a log-log scale, the magnitude data is interpolated linearly, with a very fine discretization Then, using the complex cepstrum algorithm [36], the phase, associated with a stable, minimum phase, real, rational transfer function with the same magnitude as the magnitude data is generated With the new phase data and the input magnitude data, a real rational transfer function can
be found by using the Gauss-Newton method for iterative search [35], which is used to
Trang 10generate a stable, minimum phase, real rational transfer function, denoted by H s , to
identify the best model from the data of H f as
2 1
,
a b wt f H f H f (40) where
b b b , a a m1, ,a0, wt f is the weight function, and l is the number of
frequency points Several variants have been suggested in the literature, where the
weighting function gives less attention to high frequencies [35] This algorithm is based on
Levi [42] Figure 11 shows the DPSD, ( )S f , and its approximation ( ) S f via different orders
using complex cepstrum algorithm The higher the order of ( )S f the better the
approximation obtained It can be seen that approximation with a 4th order transfer function
gives a very good approximation
1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
Original S(f) Appr with order = 2 Appr with order = 4 Appr with order = 6 S(f)
Frequency (Hz)
alpha = 0.25
Fig 11 DPSD, ( )S f , and its approximations, ( ) S f , using complex cepstrum algorithm for
different orders of ( )S f
Figure 12(a) and 12(b) show the DPSD, ( )S f , and its approximation ( ) S f using the
complex cepstrum and simple approximation methods, respectively, for different values of
's
via 4th order even function It can be noticed that the former gives better approximation
than the latter; since it employs all measured points of the DPSD instead of just three points
in the simple method
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
alpha = 0.5
alpha = 0.33 alpha = 0.25 alpha = 0.2
(a)
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
alpha = 0.5
alpha = 0.33 alpha = 0.25 alpha = 0.2
(b) Fig 12 DPSD, S f , and its approximation, S f , via 4th order function for different α’s
using (a) the complex cepstrum, and (b) the simple approximation methods
Trang 11generate a stable, minimum phase, real rational transfer function, denoted by H s , to
identify the best model from the data of H f as
2 1
,
a b wt f H f H f (40) where
b b b , a a m1, ,a0, wt f is the weight function, and l is the number of
frequency points Several variants have been suggested in the literature, where the
weighting function gives less attention to high frequencies [35] This algorithm is based on
Levi [42] Figure 11 shows the DPSD, ( )S f , and its approximation ( ) S f via different orders
using complex cepstrum algorithm The higher the order of ( )S f the better the
approximation obtained It can be seen that approximation with a 4th order transfer function
gives a very good approximation
1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
Original S(f) Appr with order = 2
Appr with order = 4 Appr with order = 6
Figure 12(a) and 12(b) show the DPSD, ( )S f , and its approximation ( ) S f using the
complex cepstrum and simple approximation methods, respectively, for different values of
's
via 4th order even function It can be noticed that the former gives better approximation
than the latter; since it employs all measured points of the DPSD instead of just three points
in the simple method
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
alpha = 0.5
alpha = 0.33 alpha = 0.25 alpha = 0.2
(a)
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
alpha = 0.5
alpha = 0.33 alpha = 0.25 alpha = 0.2
(b) Fig 12 DPSD, S f , and its approximation, S f , via 4th order function for different α’s
using (a) the complex cepstrum, and (b) the simple approximation methods
Trang 125.3 Stochastic Ad Hoc Channel Models
The same procedure as in the STF cellular case is used to develop ad hoc channel models
The stochastic OCF is used to realize (41) for the inphase and quadrature components as [28]
are independent standard Brownian motions, which correspond to the inphase
and quadrature components of the jth path respectively, the parameters
a m 1, , ,a b0 m 1, ,b0 are obtained from the approximation of the ad hoc DPSD, and I
j
f t
and Q
j
f t are arbitrary functions representing the LOS of the inphase and quadrature
components respectively Equation (42) for the inphase and quadrature components of the
jth path can be described as in (28), and the solution of the ad hoc state space model in (42)
is similar to the one for STF model described in Section 4.4 The mean and variance of the ad
hoc inphase and quadrature components have the same form as the ones for the STF case in
(34) and (35), which show that the statistics are functions of time The general TV state space
representation for the ad hoc channel model is similar to the STF state space representation
in (31) and (32)
Example 4: Consider a mobile-to-mobile (ad hoc) channel with parameters
1 36km/hr (10m/s)
v and v 2 24km/hr(6.6m/s), in which 0.66 Figure 13 shows time
domain simulation of the inphase and quadrature components, and the attenuation
coefficient The inphase and quadrature components have been produced using (42) and
(43), while the received signal is reproduced using (30) In Figure 13 Gauss-Newton method
is used to approximate the deterministic DPSD with 4th order transfer function
-2 -1 0 1 2
Quadrature
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
Time (sec)
-30 -20 -10 0 10
r t I t Q t , for a mobile-to-mobile channel with 0.66 in Example 4
6 Link Performance for Cellular and Ad Hoc Channels
Now, we want to compare the performance of the stochastic mobile-to-mobile link in (42) with the cellular link We consider BPSK is the modulation technique and the carrier frequency is f c 900MHz We test 10000 frames of P = 100 bits each We assume mobile
nodes are vehicles, with the constraint that the average speed over the mobile nodes is 30 km/hr This implies v v1 260km/hr, thus for a mobile-to-mobile link with α = 0 we get
1 60km/hr
v and v 2 0 The cellular case is defined as the scenario where a link connects a mobile node with speed 30 km/hr to a permanently stationary node, which is the base station Thus, there is only one mobile node, and the constraint is satisfied We consider the NLOS case (f f I Q0), which represents an environment with large obstructions
The state space models developed in (27) and (42) are used for simulating the inphase and quadrature components for the cellular and ad hoc channels, respectively The complex cepstrum approximation method is used to approximate the ad hoc DPSD with a 4th order stable, minimum phase, real, and rational transfer function The received signal is reproduced using (30) Figure 14 shows the attenuation coefficient, r t I t Q t2 2 , for both the cellular case and the worst-case mobile-to-mobile case (1) It can be observed that a mobile-to-mobile link suffers from faster fading by noting the higher frequency components in the worst-case mobile-to-mobile link Also it can be noticed that deep fading (envelope less than –12 dB) on the mobile-to-mobile link occurs more frequently and less bursty (48 % of the time for the mobile-to-mobile link and 32 % for the cellular link) Therefore, the increased Doppler spread due to double mobility tends to smear the errors out, causing higher frame error rates
Trang 135.3 Stochastic Ad Hoc Channel Models
The same procedure as in the STF cellular case is used to develop ad hoc channel models
The stochastic OCF is used to realize (41) for the inphase and quadrature components as [28]
are independent standard Brownian motions, which correspond to the inphase
and quadrature components of the jth path respectively, the parameters
a m 1, , ,a b0 m 1, ,b0 are obtained from the approximation of the ad hoc DPSD, and I
j
f t
and Q
j
f t are arbitrary functions representing the LOS of the inphase and quadrature
components respectively Equation (42) for the inphase and quadrature components of the
jth path can be described as in (28), and the solution of the ad hoc state space model in (42)
is similar to the one for STF model described in Section 4.4 The mean and variance of the ad
hoc inphase and quadrature components have the same form as the ones for the STF case in
(34) and (35), which show that the statistics are functions of time The general TV state space
representation for the ad hoc channel model is similar to the STF state space representation
in (31) and (32)
Example 4: Consider a mobile-to-mobile (ad hoc) channel with parameters
1 36km/hr (10m/s)
v and v 2 24km/hr(6.6m/s), in which 0.66 Figure 13 shows time
domain simulation of the inphase and quadrature components, and the attenuation
coefficient The inphase and quadrature components have been produced using (42) and
(43), while the received signal is reproduced using (30) In Figure 13 Gauss-Newton method
is used to approximate the deterministic DPSD with 4th order transfer function
-2 -1 0 1 2
Quadrature
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5
Time (sec)
-30 -20 -10 0 10
r t I t Q t , for a mobile-to-mobile channel with 0.66 in Example 4
6 Link Performance for Cellular and Ad Hoc Channels
Now, we want to compare the performance of the stochastic mobile-to-mobile link in (42) with the cellular link We consider BPSK is the modulation technique and the carrier frequency is f c 900MHz We test 10000 frames of P = 100 bits each We assume mobile
nodes are vehicles, with the constraint that the average speed over the mobile nodes is 30 km/hr This implies v v1 260km/hr, thus for a mobile-to-mobile link with α = 0 we get
1 60km/hr
v and v 2 0 The cellular case is defined as the scenario where a link connects a mobile node with speed 30 km/hr to a permanently stationary node, which is the base station Thus, there is only one mobile node, and the constraint is satisfied We consider the NLOS case (f f I Q0), which represents an environment with large obstructions
The state space models developed in (27) and (42) are used for simulating the inphase and quadrature components for the cellular and ad hoc channels, respectively The complex cepstrum approximation method is used to approximate the ad hoc DPSD with a 4th order stable, minimum phase, real, and rational transfer function The received signal is reproduced using (30) Figure 14 shows the attenuation coefficient, r t I t Q t2 2 , for both the cellular case and the worst-case mobile-to-mobile case (1) It can be observed that a mobile-to-mobile link suffers from faster fading by noting the higher frequency components in the worst-case mobile-to-mobile link Also it can be noticed that deep fading (envelope less than –12 dB) on the mobile-to-mobile link occurs more frequently and less bursty (48 % of the time for the mobile-to-mobile link and 32 % for the cellular link) Therefore, the increased Doppler spread due to double mobility tends to smear the errors out, causing higher frame error rates
Trang 14Consider the data rate given by R bP T/ c5 Kbps which is chosen such that the coherence
time T c equals the time it takes to send exactly one frame of length P bits, a condition where
variation in Doppler spread greatly impacts the frame error rate (FER) Figure 15 shows the
link performance for 10000 frames of 100 bits each It is clear that the mobile-to-mobile link is
worse than the cellular link, but the performance gap decreases as 1 This agrees with the
main conclusion of [40], that an increase in degree of double mobility mitigates fading by
lowering the Doppler spread The gain in performance is nonlinear with , as the majority of
gain is from = 0 to = 0.5 Intuitively, it makes sense that link performance improves as
the degree of double mobility increases, since mobility in the network becomes distributed
uniformly over the nodes in a kind of equilibrium
-30 -20 -10 0
Fig 15 FER results for Rayleigh mobile-to-mobile link for different α’s and compared with
cellular link
7 Conclusion
In this chapter, stochastic models based on SDEs for LTF, STF, and ad hoc wireless channels are derived These models are useful in capturing nodes mobility and environmental changes in mobile wireless networks The SDE models described allow viewing the wireless channel as a dynamical system, which shows how the channel evolves in time and space These models take into consideration the statistical and time variations in wireless communication environments The dynamics are captured by a stochastic state space model, whose parameters are determined by approximating the deterministic DPSD Inphase and quadrature components of the channel and their statistics are derived from the proposed models The state space models have been used to verify the effect of fading on a transmitted signal in wireless fading networks In addition, since these models are represented in state space form, they allow well-developed tools of estimation and identification to be applied to this class of problems The advantage of using SDE methods is due to computational simplicity because estimation and identification algorithms can be performed recursively and in real time
8 Acknowledgments
This chapter has been co-authored by employees of UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S Department of Energy The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license
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Trang 15Consider the data rate given by R bP T/ c5 Kbps which is chosen such that the coherence
time T c equals the time it takes to send exactly one frame of length P bits, a condition where
variation in Doppler spread greatly impacts the frame error rate (FER) Figure 15 shows the
link performance for 10000 frames of 100 bits each It is clear that the mobile-to-mobile link is
worse than the cellular link, but the performance gap decreases as 1 This agrees with the
main conclusion of [40], that an increase in degree of double mobility mitigates fading by
lowering the Doppler spread The gain in performance is nonlinear with , as the majority of
gain is from = 0 to = 0.5 Intuitively, it makes sense that link performance improves as
the degree of double mobility increases, since mobility in the network becomes distributed
uniformly over the nodes in a kind of equilibrium
-30 -20 -10 0
alpha = 1 Cellular
Fig 15 FER results for Rayleigh mobile-to-mobile link for different α’s and compared with
cellular link
7 Conclusion
In this chapter, stochastic models based on SDEs for LTF, STF, and ad hoc wireless channels are derived These models are useful in capturing nodes mobility and environmental changes in mobile wireless networks The SDE models described allow viewing the wireless channel as a dynamical system, which shows how the channel evolves in time and space These models take into consideration the statistical and time variations in wireless communication environments The dynamics are captured by a stochastic state space model, whose parameters are determined by approximating the deterministic DPSD Inphase and quadrature components of the channel and their statistics are derived from the proposed models The state space models have been used to verify the effect of fading on a transmitted signal in wireless fading networks In addition, since these models are represented in state space form, they allow well-developed tools of estimation and identification to be applied to this class of problems The advantage of using SDE methods is due to computational simplicity because estimation and identification algorithms can be performed recursively and in real time
8 Acknowledgments
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on Vehicular Technology, vol 28, no 3, pp 182-203, 1979
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, vol 5, no 2, pp 128-137, Feb 1987
[13] M Gans, “A power-spectral theory of propagation in the mobile radio environment,”
IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, vol 21, no 1, pp 27-38, 1972
[14] A Duel-Hallen, S Hu and H Hallen, “Long-range prediction of fading signals,” IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine, pp 62-75, May 2000
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simulation,” IEEE Trans On Wireless Communication, vol 4, No 4, July 2005, pp
1650-1662
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for a Rayleigh fading channel model,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
vol 45, No 2, pp 353-357, May 1996
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channel,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 48, No 12, pp December 2000
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communication channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol 44, No 1 ,
pp 163-171, February 1995
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challenges,” Ad Hoc Networks, vol.1, no 1, 2003
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channel,” IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, vol 35, no 1, pp 2-7, Feb 1986
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Oct 2003
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mobile ad hoc networks,” Proceedings of the 2 nd ACM International Symposium on
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for modeling, estimation and identification of mobile-to-mobile communication
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estimation and identification of time-varying long-term fading channels,” Research Letters in Signal Processing, Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 17206, 5 pages, 2007
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37-44, 1959
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X San Liang
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Information flow and causality quantification in
discrete and continuous stochastic systems
X San Liang
China Institute for Advanced Study, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Hangzhou,
and National University of Defense Technology, Changsha,
P R China
1 Introduction
Information flow, or information transfer as referred in the literature, is a fundamental physics
concept that has applications in a wide variety of disciplines such as neuroscience (e.g., Pereda
et al., 2005), atmosphere-ocean science (Kleeman, 2002; 2007; Tribbia, 2005), nonlinear time
series analysis (e.g., Kantz & Schreiber, 2004; Abarbanel, 1996), economics, material science,
to name several In control theory, it helps to understand the information structure and
hence characterize the cause-effect notion of causality in nonsequential stochastic control
systems (e.g., Andersland & Teneketzis, 1992) Given the well-known importance, it has
been an active arena of research for several decades (e.g.,Kaneko, 1986; Vastano & Swinney,
1988; Rosenblum et al., 1996; Arnhold et al., 1999; Schreiber, 2000; Kaiser & Schreiber, 2002)
However, it was not until recently that the concept is formalized, on a rigorous mathematical
and physical footing In this chapter we will introduce the rigorous formalism initialized in
Liang & Kleeman (2005) and established henceforth; we will particularly focus on the part of
the studies by Liang (2008) and Liang & Kleeman (2007a,b) that is pertaining to the subjects
of this book For formalisms in a more generic setting or of broader interest the reader should
consult and cite the original papers
The concept of information flow/transfer was originally introduced to overcome the
short-coming of mutual information in reflecting the transfer asymmetry between the transmitter
and the recipient It is well known that mutual information tells the amount of information
exchanged (cf Cove & Thomas, 1991), but does not tell anything about the directionality of
the exchange This is the major thrust that motivates many studies in this field, among which
are Vastano & Swinney (1988) and Schreiber (2000) Another thrust, which is also related to
the above, is the concern over causality Traditionally, causality, such as the Granger causality
(Granger, 1969), is just a qualitative notion While it is useful in identifying the causal relation
between dynamical events, one would like to have a more accurate measure to quantify this
relation This would be of particular use in characterizing the intricate systems with two-way
coupled events, as then we will be able to weigh the relative importance of one event over
another Information flow is expected to function as this quantitative measure
17
Trang 20The third thrust is out of the consideration from general physics Information flow is
a physical concept seen everywhere in our daily life experiences The renowned baker
transformation (cf section 5 in this chapter), which mimics the kneading of a dough, is such
an example It has been argued intuitively that, as the transformation applies, information
flows continuingly from the stretching direction to the folding direction, while no transfer is
invoked the other way (e.g., Lasota & Mackey, 1994) Clearly the central issue here is how
much the information is transferred between the two directions
Historically information flow formalisms have been developed in different disciplines
(par-ticularly in neuroscience), usually in an empirical or half-empirical way within the context
of the problems in question These include the time-delayed information transfer (Vastano &
Swinney, 1988) and the more sophisticated transfer entropy associated with a Markov chain
(Schreiber, 2000) Others, though in different appearances, may nevertheless be viewed as the
varieties of these two types Recently, it was observed that even these two are essentially of
the same like, in that both deal with the evolution of marginal entropies (Liang & Kleeman,
2005; 2007a) With this observation, Liang & Kleeman realized that actually this important
concept can be rigorously formulated, and the corresponding formulas analytically derived
rather than empirically proposed The so-obtained transfer measure possesses nice
proper-ties as desired, and has been verified in different applications, with both benchmark systems
and real world problems The objective of this chapter is to give a concise introduction of
this formalism Coming up next is a setup of the mathematical framework, followed by two
sections (§3 and §4) where the transfer measures for different systems are derived In these
sections, one will also see a very neat law about entropy production [cf Eq (18) in §3.1.2],
paralleling the law of energy conservation, and the some properties of the resulting
trans-fer measures (§4.3) Section 5 gives two applications, one about the afore-mentioned baker
transformation, the other about a surprisingly interesting causality inference with two highly
correlated time series The final section (section 6) is a brief summary Through the chapter
only two-dimensional systems are considered; for high dimensional formalisms, see Liang &
Kleeman (2007)a,b As a convention in the literature, the terminologies “information flow”
and “information transfer” will be used interchangeably throughout
2 Mathematical formalism
Let Ω be the sample space and x∈Ω the vector of state variables For convenience, we follow
the convention of notation in the physics literature, where random variables and deterministic
variables are not distinguished (In probability theory, they are usually distinguished with
lower and upper cases like x and X.) Consider a stochastic process of x, which may take a
continuous time form{x(t), t ≥ 0 or a discrete time form{x(τ), τ} , with τ being positive
integers signifying discrete time steps Throughout this chapter, unless otherwise indicated,
we limit out discussion within two-dimensional (2D) systems x = (x1, x2)T ∈ Ω only The
stochastic dynamical systems we will be studying with are, in the discrete time case,
F the vector field, v the white noise, w a standard Wiener process, and B a 2×2 matrix
of the perturbation amplitude The sample space Ω is assumed to be a Cartesian product
Ω1×Ω2 We therefore just need to examine how information is transferred between the
two components, namely x1and x2, of the system in question Without loss of generality, it
suffices to consider only the information transferred from x2to x1, or T 2→1for short
Associated with each state x∈Ω is a joint probability density function
ρ=ρ(x) =ρ(x1, x2)∈ L1(Ω),and two marginal densities
As x evolves, the densities evolve subsequently Specifically, corresponding to (2) there is
a Fokker-Planck equation that governs the evolution of ρ; if x moves on according to (1),
the density is steered forward by the Frobenius-Perron operator (F-P operator henceforth).(Both the Fokker-Planck equation and the F-P operator will be introduced later.) Accordingly
the entropies H, H1, and H2 also change with time As reviewed in the introduction, theclassical empirical/half-empirical information flow/transfer formalisms, though appearing indifferent forms, all essentially deal with the evolution of the marginal entropy of the receiving
component, i.e., that of x1 if T 2→1is considered With this Liang & Kleeman (2005) notedthat, by carefully classifying the mechanisms that govern the marginal entropy evolution, theconcept of information transfer or information flow actually can be put on a rigorous footing
More specifically, the evolution of H1can be decomposed into two exclusive parts, according
to their driving mechanisms: one is from x2only, another with the effect from x2excluded
The former, written T 2→1 , is the very information flow or information transfer from x2to x1.Putting the latter asdH 1\2
dt for the continuous case, and ∆H 1\2for the discrete case, we thereforehave:
(1) For the discrete system (1), the information transferred from x2to x1is