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Effects of a Phase Rotation Scheme on the DTX Detection Performance for the E-UTRA Uplink ACK/NACK Signals

Seigo NAKAO, Tomohumi TAKATA, Daichi IMAMURA, Katsuhiko HIRAMATSU

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Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is employed for the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) downlink. The base station not only decodes the ACK/NACK signals from the user equipment (UE), but also detects a termination of the transmission (DTX) of the ACK/NACK signals caused by the mis-detection of the downlink control information (DCI) at the UE side. Since ACK/NACK signals from UEs are multiplexed by CDMA, there are sometimes severe inter-code interference (ICI) effects, which significantly degrade the performance of ACK/NACK signals. In order to mitigate such ICI effects, in [1],[2], we proposed a novel phase rotation scheme on the constellations of the uplink ACK/NACK signals, and confirmed the effects on the ACK/NACK bit error rate performance; however, the previous paper did not analyze the effects of the phase rotation on the DTX detection performance. Hence, in this paper, we further analyze the effects of the phase rotation for the ACK/NACK signals in conjunction with a new DTX detection scheme which utilizes equalizer outputs, and investigate the performance of the proposed scheme by means of computer simulations.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E94-B No.1 pp.262-272
Publication Date
2011/01/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E94.B.262
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Terrestrial Wireless Communication/Broadcasting Technologies

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