Novel Cooperative Scheme Based on Joint Band Assignment and Power Allocation for a Coexisting Radar-Communications System

In this paper, we present a novel cooperative scheme of joint optimal resource allocation, such that the overall performance of the coexisting radar-communications (CRC) system can be improved. In our proposed scheme, target detection and multiuser communication are performed by radar and communication subsystems at the same time, as well as a control center, which is responsible for joint resource management. We aim to minimize the ISLR for target detection and maximize the sum-rate for communications simultaneously by jointly optimizing the band assignment and transmit power allocation. Since the resulting optimization problem involving two performance metrics and a binary constraint is a multiobjective nonconvex problem, a two-tier iterative decomposition (TT-ID) approach is devised to obtain the globally optimal solution. However, compared with the conventional radar signals, the autocorrelation function of the devised radar signal may still have relatively high sidelobes. In particular, when the data transmission becomes the primary purpose of the CRC system, the sidelobe performance gets worse. As a consequence, some weak targets are most likely overshadowed by the adjacent strong targets through the matched filtering at the radar receiver. To address this, a spectral estimation algorithm based on the Bayes Cauchy–Gaussian (Bayes–CG) model is employed to further reduce the range sidelobes of the matched filter output at the radar receiver according to the prior distribution of the desired autocorrelation. Finally, several numerical results are provided to show the merits of the proposed method.

A new look on CSI imperfection in downlink NOMA systems

Observing that cooperative scheme benefits to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, we focus on system performance analysis of downlink. However, spectrum efficiency is still high priority to be addressed in existing systems and hence this paper presents full-duplex enabling in NOMA systems. Other challenge needs be considered related to channel state information (CSI). In particular, we derive closedform expressions of outage probability for such NOMA systems under the presence of CSI imperfection. Furthermore, to fully exploit practical environment, we provide system model associated with Nakagami-m fading. The Monte-Carlo simulations are conducted to verify the exactness of considered systems.

Why Strict Compliance?

John Rawls defines ideal theory in terms of a strict compliance assumption. The standard interpretation of ideal theory is telic: the function of the strict compliance assumption is to help specify a realistic utopia as a telos for political decision making. The chapter defends an alternative, deontic interpretation of ideal theory, one based on the fundamental Rawlsian idea of society as a fair scheme of cooperation. It claims that the participants of a genuinely cooperative scheme are mutually accountable in that they have the standing to make demands of one another. It argues that the logic of these moral demands implies that the rules of any cooperative scheme must be justified on the basis of a strict compliance assumption. Since society as a whole constitutes a cooperative scheme in justice as fairness, the same conclusion holds of its principles of justice. The chapter also defends the possibility of a non-utopian ideal theory.

Two-Source Asymmetric Turbo-Coded Cooperative Spatial Modulation Scheme with Code Matched Interleaver

This paper proposes, for the first time, a two-source asymmetric turbo-coded-cooperative spatial modulation (SM) scheme over the slow Rayleigh fading channel. As in any coded cooperative communication, the interleaver plays a vital role in mitigating the harsh effect of the wireless channel. Therefore, the code matched interleaver (CMI) is effectively used in the proposed design. The simulated results reveal that the bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed coded cooperative communication system outperforms the asymmetric turbo-coded non-cooperative scheme under identical conditions. This prominent performance improvement has been made possible due to the joint asymmetric turbo decoding at the destination node. Furthermore, to check the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, we have also developed a two-source asymmetric turbo-coded cooperative scheme based on the vertical bell labs layered space-time (VBLAST), incorporating the CMI as the suitable benchmark. It is observed that the proposed scheme employing SM has a better BER performance than the VBLAST scheme under identical conditions.