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The Bucs were scouting speed receivers like Arkansas' Jarius Wright at the East-West Shrine Game. Was Wright interviewed by the Bucs? What does he think of Josh Freeman? Find out what Wright had to say in this 2012 NFL Draft Q&A on PewterReport.com.
The Tampa Bay scouting staff spent the week in St. Petersburg evaluating the talent for Saturday's East-West Shrine Game, and the Bucs spent considerable time looking at some of the speed wide receivers during the practices. One of those players that the Bucs were targeting – and interviewed – was Arkansas' Jarius Wright, who finished his senior season with 66 catches for 1,117 yards and 12 touchdowns, and capped off his Razorbacks career with 168 receptions for 2,934 yards and 24 TDs.
In a 42-38 win over Texas A&M in 2011, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound Wright had a career day with 13 catches for 281 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 21.6 yards per catch. Wright, who is blessed with 4.34 speed and is currently slated to be a fourth-round pick, spoke with PewterReport.com during the week to discuss how the East-West Shrine practices were going, his thoughts on two of the 2012 NFL Draft's top cornerbacks and his thoughts on the Buccaneers.
Jarius, you capped off a great season with a TD in the Cotton Bowl against Kansas State in the Razorbacks' victory over the Wildcats. That had to be a great way to end your college career.
"Getting a chance to play in the Cotton Bowl, which is a great bowl game, was a real positive. Getting a victory in your last college game and going out in style was great. We also went out with 11 wins, which was the third time in school history that has been done at Arkansas. It was good to go out the way I did."
There's no shame in Arkansas only losing to Alabama and LSU this year, is there?
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Innovation Propensity in the EU Candidate Countries
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MIMO techniques in WiMAX and LTE: a feature overview
ABSTRACT IEEE 802.16m and 3GPP LTE-Advanced are the two evolving standards targeting 4G wireless systems. In both standards, multiple-input multiple-output antenna technologies play an essential role in meeting the 4G requirements. The application of MIMO technologies is one of the most crucial distinctions between 3G and 4G. It not only enhances the conventional point-to-point link, but also enables new types of links such as downlink multiuser MIMO. A large family of MIMO techniques has been developed for various links and with various amounts of available channel state information in both IEEE 802.16e/m and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced. In this article we provide a survey of the MIMO techniques in the two standards. The MIMO features of the two are compared, and the engineering considerations are depicted.
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The IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX Profile 1.0) and
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
(E-UTRA) Long Term Evolution (LTE)
(Releases 8 and 9) standards have been devel-
oped and are part of the IMT-2000 third gen-
eration (3G) technologies [1]. IEEE 802.16m
(WiMAX Profile 2.0) [2] and 3GPP E-UTRA
LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) (Release 10) [3] are
still being developed primarily to meet or
exceed the requirements of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) for IMT-
Advanced fourth generation (4G) technologies.
In this article we use 802.16m for IEEE
802.16m, LTE for 3GPP releases 8 and 9, LTE-
A for 3GPP release 10, and E-UTRA for
releases 8 to 10. With limited spectrum
resources, multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) techniques are paramount for achiev-
ing the minimum target cell spectral efficiency,
peak spectral efficiency, and cell edge user
spectral efficiency defined by the ITU [4].
This article provides an overview of the
design challenges and the specific MIMO solu-
tions developed in these standards, in terms of
MIMO configuration and reference signals (RSs)
along with enhancements of open-loop (OL) and
closed-loop (CL) MIMO operation. Key tech-
niques in MIMO downlink (DL) and the MIMO
system capabilities are summarized in Tables 1
and 2, respectively, and introduced in more
detail later in this article. Space-frequency block
coding (SFBC), frequency-switched transmit
diversity (FSTD), and cyclic delay diversity
(CDD) are OL transmit diversity techniques.
Multicell MIMO and uplink MIMO techniques
are defined in 802.16m and under discussion in
LTE-A. 3GPP release 8 features are supported
in 3GPP release 9, and all of them are supported
in 3GPP release 10.
802.16m and E-UTRA target MIMO schemes
for the same sets of antenna configurations: 2,
4, or 8 transmit antennas and a minimum of 2
receive antennas in the DL, and 1, 2, or 4
transmit antennas in the uplink with a mini-
mum of 2 receive antennas. Terminologies in
802.16m and E-UTRA are not matched, and
as such could be confusing to the reader.
Table 3 gives the equivalence between the ter-
minologies used in both standards. The
MIMO systems can be configured as single
user MIMO (SU-MIMO), multi-user MIMO
(MU-MIMO), and multicell MIMO; their DLs
are illustrated in Fig. 1.
SU-MIMO transmissions occur in time-frequen-
cy resources dedicated to a single-terminal
advanced mobile station/user equipment
(AMS/UE), and allow achieving the peak user
spectral efficiency. They encompass techniques
ranging from transmit diversity to spatial multi-
plexing and beamforming. These techniques are
supported in 802.16e/m and LTE, with a most
noticeable difference in the approach taken for
spatial multiplexing.
Spatial multiplexing (SM) is a recognized
technique for increasing the peak user through-
put by sending multiple spatial streams through
IEEE Communications Magazine • May 2010
IEEE 802.16m and 3GPP LTE-Advanced
are the two evolving standards targeting 4G
wireless systems. In both standards, multiple-
input multiple-output antenna technologies
play an essential role in meeting the 4G
requirements. The application of MIMO tech-
nologies is one of the most crucial distinctions
between 3G and 4G. It not only enhances the
conventional point-to-point link, but also
enables new types of links such as downlink
multiuser MIMO. A large family of MIMO
techniques has been developed for various
links and with various amounts of available
channel state information in both IEEE
802.16e/m and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced. In
this article we provide a survey of the MIMO
techniques in the two standards. The MIMO
features of the two are compared, and the
engineering considerations are depicted.
Qinghua Li and Guangjie Li, Intel
Wookbong Lee and Moon-il Lee, LG Electronics
David Mazzarese and Bruno Clerckx, Samsung
Zexian Li, Nokia
MIMO Techniques in WiMAX and LTE:
A Feature Overview
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multiple antennas, and separating these
streams at the receiver by spatial processing
[5]. The design of SM techniques in 802.16m
and LTE emphasizes trade-offs determined in
part by backward compatibility constraints and
different assumptions on advanced receiver
complexity. While a linear minimum mean
square error (LMMSE) receiver is the baseline
for performance evaluation, the design should
account for the availability of more complex
terminals as technology evolves. Design choices
for SM also have effects on forward error cor-
rection (FEC) encoding coupled with hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ), feedback
mechanisms, and DL control. One of the fun-
damental choices is the transmission of one or
multiple FEC codewords through multiple spa-
tial streams.
802.16m has evolved from VE transmission
adopted in the WiMAX profile Release 1.0.
Behind this choice is the assumption that
advanced receivers would be better implement-
ed with an optimal two-stream maximum likeli-
hood detector (MLD) than with a successive
interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) detec-
tor. This view was continued in 802.16m, rely-
ing on promising advances in near MLD
techniques such as QRM-MLD [6] or sphere
detectors [7] for more than two spatial streams.
The usage of VE also facilitates the design and
implementation of HARQ processes and
requires only a single report of channel quality
indicator (CQI) for all the multiplexed layers.
Uplink SU-MIMO in 802.16m follows the same
design as the DL.
On the other hand, LTE has opted for mul-
tiple codewords (MCW) on the DL, while
uplink SU-MIMO is still being discussed in
LTE-A. MCW allows link adaptation for each
FEC codeword in CL SU-MIMO. An MMSE-
SIC receiver may cope with the interference
between FEC codewords that are spatially
multiplexed. CL SU-MIMO with MCW
requires one CQI report and one HARQ pro-
cess for each FEC codeword. By contrast,
layer permutation at the transmitter in OL
SU-MIMO with MCW has the effect of aver-
aging the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) experi-
enced by the two codewords so that a single
CQI can be reported, although both code-
words still need separate HARQ processes.
Note that each FEC codeword in the layer
permutation experiences the same channel
quality as VE when an LMMSE receiver is
used. Therefore, the layer permutation in
MCW is equivalent to single codeword (SCW)
in some sense. Challenges for accurate model-
ing of the effective SNR per codeword at the
output of an MLD also played a role in the
decision to favor MCW with an LMMSE or
MMSE-SIC receiver in LTE. Extensive studies
during both standardization processes on SCW
vs. MCW taken as a part of the whole system
under various operation conditions have
emphasized the merits of each scheme and led
the two standards to develop in their own way.
Table 1. Key techniques in MIMO downlink.
Key downlink MIMO techniques802.16m LTELTE-A
Open-loop transmit diversitySFBC with precoder cycling SFBC, SFBC+FSTD Inherited from LTE
Open-loop spatial multiplexing
Single codeword with pre-
coder cycling
Multiple codewords with large
delay CDD
Inherited from LTE
Closed-loop spatial multiplexing
Advanced beamforming
and precoding
Codebook-based precoding, UE-
specific RS based beamforming
Advanced beamforming and
precoding (under development)
Multi-user MIMO
Closed-loop and open-loop
Closed-loop MU-MIMO
Closed-loop MU-MIMO (under
Table 2. MIMO capabilities.
Key downlink
Release 8Release 9 Release 10
SU-MIMOUp to 8 streamsUp to 4 streamsUp to 4 streamsUp to 8 streams
Up to 4 users (non-
unitary precoding)
Up to 2 users
(unitary precoding)
Up to 4 users (non-
unitary precoding)*
SU-MIMOUp to 4 streams 1 stream1 stream Up to 4 streams
MU-MIMOUp to 4 users Up to 8 users Up to 8 usersUnder development
*Release 8 unitary precoding for up to 2 users is still supported in Releases 9 and 10.
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MU-MIMO [8] has become the key technique to
fulfill IMT-Advanced requirements. MU-MIMO
allocates multiple users in one time-frequency
resource to exploit multi-user diversity in the
spatial domain, which results in significant gains
over SU-MIMO, especially in spatially correlat-
ed channels. In configurations such as DL 4 × 2
(four transmit antennas and two receive anten-
nas) and uplink 2 × 4, single-user transmission
only allows spatially multiplexing a maximum of
two streams. On the other hand, linear MU-
MIMO schemes allow sending as many as four
spatial streams from four transmit antennas, or
receiving as many as four spatial streams with
four receive antennas, by multiplexing four spa-
tial streams to or from multiple users. MU-
MIMO techniques provide large sector
throughputs in areas experiencing heavy data
The different nature of DL demodulation
pilots/reference signal (RS) has induced the use
of different precoding techniques in 802.16m
and E-UTRA. With non-precoded common RSs
in LTE, the enhanced NodeB (eNB) needs to
signal the index of the precoder to the terminal
via a DL control channel. This constrains the
precoder to belong to the codebook used to
report the precoding matrix indicator or pre-
ferred matrix index (PMI). Even though the
choice of the actual precoder eventually belongs
to the eNB, a simple way of building a precoder
is to form a matrix from orthogonal PMIs report-
ed by different users, which leads to unitary pre-
On the other hand, 802.16m, LTE release 9,
and LTE-A have chosen to use DL precoded
dedicated pilots (UE-specific RS) even for mul-
tiple streams per terminal so that the advanced
base station (ABS)/eNB can employ any pre-
coder as long as the same precoder is applied to
both RS and data symbols. Both linear and non-
linear MU-MIMO schemes [8] have been con-
sidered in the early phase of the two standards.
Nonlinear MU-MIMO with dirty paper coding
theoretically offers the best performance, but
there are many practical limitations to its imple-
mentation, so linear MU-MIMO has been adopt-
ed in both standards for its simplicity and good
performance. Zero-forcing MU-MIMO [9] is
one linear MU-MIMO technique commonly
assumed in both standards, where the precoding
matrix at the transmitter is not unitary. Non-uni-
tary precoding techniques offer significant per-
formance enhancements over unitary precoding,
especially in asymmetric antenna configurations
(e.g., DL 4 × 2). A scheduler selects several
users with good spatial separation and performs
pseudo inversion of the combined channel matrix
in order to obtain the precoding matrix. The
CQI reported by each user is then adjusted at
the ABS/eNB to fit the channel quality after pre-
coding. The rank-1 PMI that best approaches
the principal eigenvector of the channel matrix
and the corresponding CQI need to be reported
by the terminal.
When the terminal estimates the rank-1 PMI
and CQI, it does not know which other terminal
it will be paired with by the scheduler. In
802.16m the AMS estimates the rank-1 PMI and
CQI assuming that the paired AMS reports an
orthogonal vector. With this approach, inter-user
interference is somewhat taken into considera-
tion for MU-MIMO scheduling. From a differ-
ent perspective, LTE emphasizes the transparent
UE operation between SU-MIMO and MU-
MIMO in terms of CQI feedback, thereby adopt-
ing SU-MIMO feedback for MU-MIMO
In the DL 802.16m also introduced OL MU-
MIMO, where a unitary precoding matrix is pre-
set for each frequency-domain resource. Each
AMS selects the preferred stream (column of the
matrix) for each resource, and reports the corre-
sponding CQI. This technique shows promising
performance with limited feedback in uncorrelat-
ed and semi-correlated channels. It is suitable for
urban areas where user density is high and the
channel is typically non-line-of-sight.
For uplink MU-MIMO, both standards allow
multiple users to transmit simultaneously in the
same uplink resource. The ABS/eNB distinguish-
es the signals from these terminals through the
pilots/RSs allocated to each terminal, and sepa-
rates them with an advanced receiver, which can
be an MLD receiver in the 802.16m orthogonal
frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)
uplink, or a turbo MMSE receiver in the LTE
single-carrier FDMA uplink.
An RS, or pilot, is defined in 802.16m and E-
UTRA to allow measurements of the spatial
channel properties and facilitate coherent
Table 3. IEEE 802.16m and 3GPP LTE terminologies.
Advanced base station (ABS)Enhanced NodeB (eNB)
Advanced mobile station (AMS) User equipment (UE)
Transmit antennaAntenna port
Layer Codeword
Stream (i.e., spatial stream) Layer (i.e., spatial layer)
PilotReference signal (RS)
Preferred matrix index (PMI)Precoding matrix indicator (PMI)
Dedicated pilotsUE-specific reference signals
Vertical encoding (VE)Single codeword (SCW)
Multilayer encodingMultiple codewords (MCW)
Resource unit (RU)Resource block (RB)
Uplink collaborative spatial multiplexingUplink MU-MIMO
Uplink soundingSounding reference signal
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demodulation at the terminal. An RS can be a
dedicated RS (DRS), which is targeted for a
specific terminal, or a common RS (CRS), which
is shared among a group of terminals. The RS
can be further classified into precoded or non-
precoded RS. DRSs are transmitted via virtual
antenna ports with a spatial precoding weight to
exploit beamforming gain while keeping low RS
overhead when the number of virtual antenna
ports is smaller than the number of physical
antenna ports. CRSs are transmitted via physical
antenna ports without a spatial precoder to
allow for channel measurements of the non-pre-
coded MIMO channel.
A lot of commonalities exist in 802.16m and
E-UTRA in terms of RS usage on the uplink,
although exact details are different. For instance,
the sounding RS is employed as a non-precoded
DRS in both standards for the purpose of uplink
spatial channel adaptation, including beam selec-
tion and scheduling, as well as for measuring the
DL channel by exploiting channel reciprocity in
time-division duplex systems. In addition, a pre-
coded DRS is also employed for coherent
demodulation in uplink.
In contrast, different designs have been
adopted for the DL pilots. Non-precoded com-
mon pilots, or midamble, and precoded dedi-
cated pilots are both used in 802.16m for
channel measurements and coherent demodula-
tion supporting up to eight transmit antennas.
Although the midamble can be used for demod-
ulation in a specific transmission mode such as
OL SU-MIMO, it mainly provides fine channel
measurements with low pilot overhead because
it is transmitted in a wideband manner to
enable measurements of the whole frequency
band with a small duty cycle. In addition to the
midamble, precoded dedicated pilots up to
eight streams, which allow flexible beam gener-
ation at the ABS side, have been defined for
contiguous resource units (RUs) in 802.16m
irrespective of the transmission mode. For dis-
tributed RUs supporting only two streams,
common pilots precoded by predefined matri-
ces are utilized.
On the other hand, non-precoded CRSs
supporting up to four antenna ports have been
defined for channel measurements and coher-
ent demodulation purposes in LTE Release 8.
With the use of non-precoded CRS, the spatial
precoder used in the DL signal should be indi-
cated to a terminal in each transmission assign-
ment. LTE Release 8 also supports single-layer
beamforming using rank-1 precoded DRS in
addition to the CRS, which has been extended
to two UE-specific RSs to support dual-layer
beamforming in LTE Release 9, and for which
the spatial precoder does not need to be indi-
cated to the terminal. To further enhance the
peak and average throughputs, eight antenna
port transmissions supporting up to eight lay-
ers have been adopted in LTE-A. Precoded
DRSs supporting up to eight layers and non-
precoded CRSs (i.e., LTE-A channel state
information [CSI]-RS) with a low duty cycle
for eight antenna ports' measurement are uti-
lized on top of the LTE CRS, which are kept
in LTE-A for the continuing support of LTE
In general, OL techniques are designed for high
mobility or limited feedback capability. OL tech-
niques mainly provide robustness for the link
adaptation considering terminal mobility with
infrequent CSI feedback exploiting long-term
channel statistics rather than short-term fading
information. Therefore, CQI may represent
short-term or long-term channel information. As
a special case, opportunistic beamforming is also
classified as an OL technique since no informa-
tion relative to the spatial transmit weights is
reported, while short-term CQI is used for the
adaptation of modulation and coding rate. Two
different types of OL techniques have been con-
sidered, space-time coding and random beam-
forming, and these techniques are optimized
differently in each standard.
Transmit diversity techniques provide spatial
diversity gain, which translates into higher link
margin than single-transmit-antenna tech-
niques. For a configuration with two transmit
antennas, both standards have adopted the fre-
quency domain version of the Alamouti code
[10] as the basic transmit diversity MIMO
mode, where pairs of adjacent subcarriers are
coded together instead of two adjacent time
slots. Because fast changing channel in the
time domain would destroy the orthogonality
of the code, an SFBC outperforms an STBC in
high-speed scenarios. Application of the SFBC
with more than two transmit antennas necessi-
tates the application of a precoder to convert
four or eight physical antennas into two virtual
antennas. Both techniques adopted in 802.16m
and LTE limit the transmission of SFBC to a
pair of subcarriers while making effective use
of all spatial degrees of freedom over a set of
subcarriers in order to provide robustness
against spatial correlations in the channel. The
receiver can use the same decoding process
independent of the number of physical trans-
mit antennas.
Figure 1. MIMO configurations.
Joint scheduler
or processor
ABS/eNB1 ABS/eNB2
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The usages of the precoders in 802.16m and
LTE are slightly different, due to the difference
in the design of DL demodulation pilots, but
they target the same objective. While 802.16m
chose a combination of precoder cycling and
SFBC with precoded pilots, LTE opted for a
combination of FSTD and SFBC with non-pre-
coded CRS. The precoder cycling creates a fixed
set of two virtual antennas across all subcarriers
within an RU and changes the virtual antennas
by using different precoder weights across RUs,
while FSTD cycles transmissions over pairs of
transmit antennas across subcarriers within an
RU. These designs also incur different con-
straints on the channel estimation at the receiv-
er, with a trade-off between the reduced
overhead offered by precoded pilots in 802.16m
vs. the wider range of interpolation available in
the frequency domain with non-precoded pilots
for finer channel estimation in 3GPP LTE.
As described above, space-frequency codes
exploit spatial diversity so that the variance of
the CQI is reduced as the diversity order increas-
es, which allows for robust transmission with
infrequent CSI feedback. However, although the
robustness of space-frequency codes is superior
to other OL schemes, their limited design flexi-
bility led both standards to additionally employ
random beamforming. Random beamforming
artificially increases the channel selectivity by
changing beams within allocated time/frequency
resources, and strong FEC codes (e.g., turbo
codes) enjoy this artificial frequency diversity
Precoder cycling, in which predefined pre-
coders are cyclically allocated to a group of con-
tiguous subcarriers, is utilized in both standards
as a random beamforming technique. The prede-
fined set of precoders is selected from the pre-
coding codebook as a subset, which has a good
Chordal distance property so that diversity order
can be maximized. Precoder cycling is used for
providing beam diversity gain and beam selec-
tion gain in 802.16m. To obtain the beam diver-
sity gain, resources are distributed within a wide
frequency band where predefined precoders in
each localized frequency band form different
beams; hence, the aggregated resources at the
receiver may enjoy the beam diversity gain. To
enable the beam selection gain, on the other
hand, a localized resource is allocated to a ter-
minal based on the CQI feedback for its pre-
ferred subbands. Since the predefined precoders
are cyclically changed according to the subbands,
opportunistic beamforming gain can be achieved
by allocating the preferred subbands as reported
by a terminal. Since non-precoded CRSs are
employed in LTE, the predefined precoders can
be changed every few subcarriers within each
RB so that the beam diversity gains are fully
exploited even in a single RB allocation. Layer
permutation is performed along with precoder
cycling in E-UTRA to further increase diversity
gain from virtual antennas with MCW transmis-
sions. The combination of precoder cycling and
layer permutation is called large-delay CDD and
was adopted as an OL SM technique in E-
CL-MIMO exploits CSI at the transmitter
(CSIT) for increasing coverage or throughput. In
CL-MIMO the transmitter acquires the CSI
from feedback or channel sounding, and then
forms a beamforming or precoding matrix. The
major challenges lie in efficiently obtaining the
CSI. For accurate CSIT, frequent update is
required for mobile terminals. However, over-
head and delay limit CSIT accuracy. First, the
frame structure inherently sets a delay between
the channel measurement and the actual beam-
forming transmission. Any channel variation dur-
ing the delay degrades the performance. Second,
the overhead for acquiring CSIT becomes bur-
densome as the number of reporting terminals
and mobility increase. On one hand, the CSI of
multiple terminals is collected, but only a few
favorable terminals are scheduled for transmis-
sion. Unfortunately, this selection gain increases
logarithmically with the number of reporting ter-
minals. On the other hand, the feedback/sound-
ing overhead increases linearly with the number
of reporting terminals. Therefore, efficient feed-
back/sounding techniques are essential.
Feedback is required when channel reciprocity is
unavailable (e.g., in frequency-division duplex
systems). The major challenge lies in how to
report the preferred beamforming matrix (direc-
tions), which is used for the transmitter to com-
pute the actual precoder over a limited feedback
bandwidth. For overhead reduction, the whole
beamforming matrix is quantized by a matrix or
vector codebook. The index of the selected quan-
tization codeword (the PMI defined in Table 3)
is fed back. An L bit codebook consists of 2L
codewords, where L is the required number of
bits for indexing each codeword. In this section
the term codeword means the quantization code-
word in the quantization codebook. In the DL,
after measuring the channel, the terminal search-
es for the best codeword in the codebook for
optimizing the performance and reports the PMI
to the ABS/eNB. After receiving the PMI, the
ABS/eNB looks up the codeword and computes a
precoder. Three feedback types are devised,
called base codebook, adaptive (or transformed)
codebook, and differential codebook, respectively.
The base codebook has the least signaling over-
head, and the other two have better performance
with additional signaling overhead.
The engineering considerations of the base
codebook design comprise performance gain,
overhead, robustness, complexity, and power
amplifier imbalance. First, 802.16m defines 3-bit
for 2-transmit antennas (2-Tx) as well as 4-bit
and 6-bit feedbacks for 4-transmit antennas (4-
Tx), while LTE defines 2-bit and 4-bit feedbacks
for 2-Tx and 4-Tx, respectively. Besides the pre-
ferred beamforming matrix, an indication of the
preferred number of spatial streams is also
defined. In addition, 802.16m has 4-bit feedback
for 8-transmit antennas (8-Tx) and an enhanced
6-bit feedback for 4-Tx. Second, codewords with
a rotated block diagonal structure are explicitly
employed in 802.16m and LTE for dual-pole
antennas. Third, base codebooks can be dynami-
CL-MIMO exploits
CSI at the transmitter
(CSIT) for increasing
coverage or
throughput. In
CL-MIMO, the
transmitter acquires
the CSI from
feedback or channel
sounding, and then
forms a beamform-
ing or precoding
matrix. The major
challenges lie in
efficiently obtaining
the CSI.
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cally generated from a few parameters for reduc-
ing storage complexity. In addition, the code-
word entries of all LTE base codebooks and
most of the 802.16m codebooks are selected
from quaternary phase shift keying (QPSK) and
8-PSK constellations for reducing the storage
requirement and computational complexity. Fur-
thermore, the high-rank codewords with more
columns include the low rank codewords with a
few columns as a subset. This reduces the com-
plexity of searching for the best number of spa-
tial streams. Finally, each LTE codeword and
most of the 802.16m codewords load transmis-
sion power evenly on each antenna for lowering
the power amplifier cost.
Since the optimal codebook varies with the
deployment scenario, adaptive codebook is
defined in 802.16m. The adaptive codebook
changes its codeword distribution according to
long-term channel statistics captured in the
transmit covariance matrix, which characterizes
the spatial correlations across transit-side anten-
nas. Using that matrix, each vector codeword of
the rank-1 base codebook is linearly transformed
and normalized for generating a codeword in the
adaptive codebook. Effectively, more codewords
are steered around the directions where the
ideal beamforming direction likely appears. As a
result, the overall quantization error is reduced.
This gain increases with antenna correlation,
which increases as the antenna spacing and the
angle spread of departing signals at the
ABS/eNB decrease. Since MU-MIMO has high-
er gains in highly correlated channels, the adap-
tive codebook is most beneficial for MU-MIMO.
Antenna configurations, inaccurately calibrated
transceiver chains, and propagation channel
properties are inherently captured in the mea-
sured covariance matrix, making the adaptive
codebook robust in a wide range of scenarios.
The adaptive codebook, however, requires addi-
tional signaling and feedback overhead for
reporting the covariance matrix that is needed
once for the whole frequency band and for a
period greater than 20 ms.
For overhead reduction, the correlation
between consecutive beamforming reports is also
exploited by differential codebooks in 802.16m.
Instead of depicting the preferred beamforming
matrices in full, each differential feedback only
specifies the incremental change between the
current and previous matrices. Because the
change is usually within a small range, fewer
codewords are needed to cover the small range
than the whole beamforming space covered by
the base codebook. The reduction of codebook
size not only saves feedback overhead but also
reduces the quantization complexity. 2-bit, 4-bit,
and 4-bit codebooks are defined in 802.16m for
2-Tx, 4-Tx, and 8-Tx, respectively. The down side
of differential codebook is the error propagation
effect. That is, once an error occurs, that error
corrupts the subsequent feedback reports until
the differential process is reset.
In time-division duplex systems, the transmitter
can learn about the DL channel from sounding
on the uplink channel by exploiting the
reciprocity of the propagation channel. To
achieve full reciprocity, calibration of the
transceiver RF chains is needed at the
ABS/eNB. Both 802.16m and LTE provide
sounding mechanisms for estimating the uplink
channel on a subband or wideband scale. In
802.16m, the uplink sounding channel is inher-
ited from 802.16e with some enhancements. In
LTE the ABS/eNB assigns different training
sequences to multiple terminals for sharing the
same training resources simultaneously. Finally,
channel estimation error due to noise and inter-
cell interference limits the performance of
uplink sounding.
Long term beamforming applies a rough pre-
coder for the whole frequency band and over a
period of several frames. This reduces the densi-
ty of feedback and sounding multiple times. The
rough beamforming direction corresponds to a
dominant multipath component. Furthermore, in
line-of-sight scenarios with closely spaced anten-
nas, the beam pattern is wide in space, and thus
allows the beam to cover a high-speed terminal
for several time frames. Both 802.16m and LTE
support PMI feedback for long-term beamform-
ing. In addition, 802.16m also allows using the
reported transmit covariance matrix to derive
the precoder.
In this article we have reviewed the MIMO tech-
niques adopted or under development in IEEE
802.16m and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced. We
have emphasized the design trade-offs consid-
ered during both standardization processes and
outlined some of the implementation challenges.
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in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, Col-
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wireless research group of Intel Corporation, Santa Clara,
California. His research interests are in the areas of beam-
forming, relay, 60 GHz, ultra-wideband, interference miti-
gation, multi-user detection, and channel modeling. He has
coauthored more than 100 issued/pending patents mainly
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ford University and Eurecom Institute, France. He is
currently with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technolo-
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has been contributing to 3GPP LTE/LTE-A and IEEE
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You know, there are this blogs with fantastic not pixeled titles of every posting. The fonts look so smoothly and the pages so professional because of this.
I have on question: How can you make automatically generated post titles, which are not a normal text - you can mark - but instead is a title generated as picture?
If you don't know what i mean, here are example pages.
I have seen this on several pages. Just look at the titles of the posting of this sites.
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Both of those sites use Cufon for the styled title. You can also research @font-face. For more info check out Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits
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Cufon is okay, but it's less modern and relies on JavaScript. The new @font-family protocols are a better alternative. (And I love Cufon!)
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I never actually used Cufon. I just hit "insect element" to see how these sites did it. Is there any benefit to using Cufon over @font-face or was it the way to embed fonts before mainstream browser support came available?
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I shoot a d800. when I want to use the mirror lock up feature on the gigapan, do I set the camera to mirror lock up also, or does the gigapan command on the menu screen take care of this??
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Although I use canon I found that I needed to set mirror lockup on both the gigapan and my camera, I also found that if you use live view then mirror lockup did not operate properly even if you had it set on camera and gigapan.
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Pete – Alan is correct. (I use a D800e) You need to set the camera to ML mode. The Imager sends two shutter pulses to the camera – the first locks up the mirror and the second fires the shutter.
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Thanks guys for your reply. When you shoot with mirror up, how long do you set the interval between shots?
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I usually use no more than .75s of lockup time, to overcome "mirror slap" vibration. I use pre-trigger delay to let the lens settle (and let the camera finish writing to the card, if necessary).That said, there's no reason that you couldn't use lockup time for both and dispense with the pre trigger delay, though.
As for anti-shake, prior to starting the pano I'd focus on my subject, turn on live view and magnify it to see if you see any residual movement with the camera still. If so it might be worth trying the anti shake, but if not definitely leave it off.
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Brighton actress attacked during 'crucifixion' of Jesus (From The Argus)
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Brighton actress attacked during 'crucifixion' of Jesus
4:30pm Wednesday 3rd April 2013 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter
A beard-wearing woman was attacked as she crucified Jesus.
The crime of Passion took place as the woman played a priest during the open air retelling of the Easter story.
Jeanie Civil's attacker ripped her beard from her face and punched her during a performance of The Passion of Christ in Brighton on Easter Sunday
He yelled "Shame on you!" before Mrs Civil's fellow cast members, dressed as soldiers, held him back.
He was bundled into a police car.
About 1,000 people were watching Mrs Civil playing Joseph Caiaphas in the grounds of St Peter's Church when the man jumped up and attacked.
Yesterday Mrs Civil said: "He was hooded. He leapt up and punched me.
"He then pulled my beard from my face. It really hurt and it was very shocking."
Mrs Civil – a psychologist, psychotherapist and author – said she wondered if the man was an ardent Christian who disliked her character's actions towards the saviour.
In the New Testament, Caiaphas was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest who is said to have organised the plot to kill Jesus.
According to the Gospel, Caiaphas was the major antagonist of Jesus and was involved in the trial of Jesus.
Mrs Civil, who is in her 70s and from Ovingdean, said: "I was walking down the side.
"He jumped up and hit me. I had to stop him hitting me again.
"He might be an ardent Christian, or anti-Jewish
"If he has mental health problems then I really hope he gets support."
She said she carried on acting but had to hold her beard to her face.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "A man was arrested on suspicion of assault at around 4pm on Sunday.
"The assault took place during a performance outside St Peter's Church in York Place, Brighton, on a female member of the cast.
"A 59-year-old Brighton man was arrested on suspicion of assault by beating and has been bailed until May 1, pending further enquiries."
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4:50pm Wed 3 Apr 13
Plunge says...
5:11pm Wed 3 Apr 13
mickage says...
Anyone who believes any religious nonsense of any kind requires mental health support.........
5:16pm Wed 3 Apr 13
Andy R says...
Another headline for the collection.....
6:00pm Wed 3 Apr 13
fred clause says...
6:01pm Wed 3 Apr 13
NickBtn says...
It looks like their performance was far too real for this member of the audience. Hope that Mrs Civil recovers from her uncivil attack
6:35pm Wed 3 Apr 13
AmboGuy says...
6:36pm Wed 3 Apr 13
Dealing with idiots says...
6:57pm Wed 3 Apr 13
medianscore says...
7:28pm Wed 3 Apr 13
mimseycal says...
medianscore wrote:Nah ... he was just a very naughty boy!
Was he a People's Front of Judea member? Splitters!
7:43pm Wed 3 Apr 13
Dealing with idiots says...
8:25pm Wed 3 Apr 13
PorkBoat says...
2:53am Thu 4 Apr 13
JoeBlow says...
mickage wrote:Yeah, and if you're lucky, you might be able to get treatment for your bigotry too.
"If he has mental health problems then I really hope he gets support."
Anyone who believes any religious nonsense of any kind requires mental health support.........
9:14am Thu 4 Apr 13
Bradley79 says...
9:46am Thu 4 Apr 13
ThinkBrighton says...
Bearded lady at the royal pav, it should have been at the Dyke
11:37am Thu 4 Apr 13
John Steed says...
12:57pm Thu 4 Apr 13
hubby says...
Welease Woger!
10:56am Fri 5 Apr 13
Dealing with idiots says...
8:05pm Sat 6 Apr 13
ghost bus driver says...
9:51pm Sat 6 Apr 13
SmileyD says...
9:47pm Mon 8 Apr 13
Dealing with idiots says...
9:15am Mon 29 Apr 13
ThinkBrighton says...
10:38am Mon 29 Apr 13
Sarah Booker Lewis says...
ThinkBrighton wrote:Note it was published on April 3, approximately four weeks ago.
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