On the use of spatial modulation in aeronautical communications

Bilel Raddadi (1) , Nathalie Thomas (1, 2) , Charly Poulliat (1, 2) , Marie-Laure Boucheret (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SC - Signal et Communications
2 Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse)

In this work, we apply Spatial Modulation (SM) to in the so-called spectrally shaped SC-OFDM (SS SC-OFDM) at the transmitter. The idea behind SS SC-OFDM lies in applying a frequency window between the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) in order to lower the side-lobes of the resulting time domain generated waveform. Thus, we can avoid the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem encountered in multicarrier systems. At the receiver, a reduced-rank (rr) Least Square (LS) channel estimation and a combining Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) equalization are used to retrieve the transmitted block of information bits, considering two flight scenarios for different environments.

Mots clés: Aeronautical communications

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Bilel Raddadi, Nathalie Thomas, Charly Poulliat, Marie-Laure Boucheret. On the use of spatial modulation in aeronautical communications. 12th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,Networking and Communications (WiMob 2016), Oct 2016, New York, United States. pp. 1-8. ⟨hal-01726416⟩