In modern communication systems, it is a critical and challenging issue for existing carrier tracking techniques to achieve near-ideal carrier synchronization without the help of pilot signals in the case of symbol rate sampling and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To overcome this issue, this paper proposes an effective carrier frequency and phase offset tracking scheme which has a robust confluent synchronization architecture whose main components are a digital frequency-locked loop (FLL), a digital phase-locked loop (PLL), a modified symbol hard decision block and some sampling rate conversion blocks. As received signals are sampled at symbol baud rate, this carrier tracking scheme is still able to obtain precise estimated values of carrier synchronization parameters under the condition of very low SNRs. The performance of the proposed carrier synchronization scheme is also evaluated by using Monte-Carlo method. Simulation results confirm the feasibility of this carrier tracking scheme and demonstrate that it ensures that both the rate-3/4 irregular low-density parity-code (LDPC) coded system and the military voice transmission system utilizing the direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technique achieve satisfactory bit-error rate (BER) performance at correspondingly low SNRs.

This letter proposes a UWB signaling localization scheme for indoor multipath channel. It demonstrates that the proposed method does not require LOS path (LP) and is suitable for severe non line-of-sight (NLOS) condition. A low-complexity TOA estimation algorithm, the strongest path (SP) detection by convolution, is designed, which is easier to implement than the LP detection since it dispenses with the process of threshold setting. Experiments under NLOS channels in IEEE.802.15.4a are conducted and the localization influences due to the algorithm parameters are discussed. The results prove the feasibility of the proposed localization scheme under the indoor multipath NLOS environment.

A multiuser beamforming algorithm using codebook is proposed in this letter to reduce inter-user interference and improve the throughput of the downlink of multiuser MIMO systems. Basing on the minimal leakage criterion, we combine the codebook selection, limited feedforward and MMSE detection method in the new proposed algorithm. It not only improves the performance of systems, but also reduces the computational complexity at transmitter. Simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm has better performance than conventional beamforming methods.

Time-Division-Multiplexing (TDM) is usually aimed at digital signals, while Continuous Wave Time-Division- Multiplexing (i.e. CWTDM) presented in this paper mainly addresses the problem of multiple continuous signals to share a channel. According to the idea in Ref.[1], this paper proposes a novel method for implementing CWTDM, which can make multiple band-limited continuous signals time-division-multiplexed into one continuous signal without significantly expanding the frequency band. The new method has several important applications. In particular, it can be used to implement an on-board FDMA-CWTDM conversion to develop a new system of satellite communications with more efficient performance.

In precoded TDD MIMO systems, precoding is done based on the downlink CSI, which can be predicted according to the outdated uplink CSI. This letter proposes a double-scale channel prediction scheme where frame-scale Kalman filters and pilot-symbol-scale AR predictors jointly predict the needed downlink CSI.