Title
MOCZ for Blind Short-Packet Communication: Practical Aspects
Abstract
We investigate practical aspects of a recently introduced blind (noncoherent) communication scheme, called modulation on conjugate-reciprocal zeros (MOCZ). MOCZ is suitable for a reliable transmission of sporadic and short-packets at ultra-low latency and high spectral efficiency via unknown multipath channels, which are assumed to be static over the receive duration of one packet. The information is modulated on the zeros of the transmitted discrete-time baseband signal's z- transform. Because of ubiquitous impairments between the transmitter and receiver clocks, a carrier frequency offset occurs after down-conversion to the baseband. This results in a common rotation of the zeros. To identify fractional rotations of the base angle in the zero-pattern, we propose an oversampled direct zero-testing decoder to identify the most likely one. Integer rotations correspond to cyclic shifts of the binary message, which we determine by cyclically permutable codes (CPC). Additionally, the embedding of CPCs into cyclic codes, enables additive error-correction which reduces the bit-error-rate tremendously. Furthermore, we exploit the trident structure in the signal's autocorrelation for an energy based detector to estimate timing offsets and the effective channel delay spread. We finally demonstrate how this joint data and channel estimation can be largely improved by receive antenna diversity at low SNR.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TWC.2020.3004588
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
BMOCZ,carrier-frequency offset,single-input multiple-output (SIMO),timing offset
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1536-1276
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Walk1407.77
Peter Jung2364.18
Babak Hassibi38737778.04
Hamid Jafarkhani47037695.30