Yang Rifei, Bai Yong, Hu Zhuhua
School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2025 Sep 8;25(17):5596. doi: 10.3390/s25175596.
This paper proposes a novel wideband high-frequency (HF) communication system supporting video transmission based on non-contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (NC-OFDM) and probabilistic shaping (PS). The HF spectrum is currently very crowded; to find a free continuous frequency band around 500 KHz for video transmission is almost impossible. So this paper investigates how to exploit spectrum holes in the HF band with NC-OFDM technology. We propose a transmission scheme over a wideband HF channel modeled by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) channel model with valid bandwidth up to 1 MHz. In order to improve the reliability of proposed scheme, this paper further investigates the probabilistic shaping-based coding modulation. Simulation results show that the designed wideband HF NC-OFDM communication system can meet the data rate required for video transmission. In addition, the probabilistic shaping-based coding modulation provides a significant performance improvement over uncoded systems and the probabilistic shaping offers an extra 0.6 dB shaping gain in the wideband HF channel compared to equal probability constellation systems.
本文提出了一种基于非连续正交频分复用(NC-OFDM)和概率整形(PS)的新型宽带高频(HF)通信系统,用于支持视频传输。目前HF频谱非常拥挤,要在500 KHz附近找到一个用于视频传输的空闲连续频段几乎是不可能的。因此,本文研究了如何利用NC-OFDM技术来利用HF频段中的频谱空洞。我们提出了一种在由电信科学研究所(ITS)信道模型建模的宽带HF信道上的传输方案,其有效带宽高达1 MHz。为了提高所提方案的可靠性,本文进一步研究了基于概率整形的编码调制。仿真结果表明,所设计的宽带HF NC-OFDM通信系统能够满足视频传输所需的数据速率。此外,与未编码系统相比,基于概率整形的编码调制显著提高了性能,并且与等概率星座系统相比,概率整形在宽带HF信道中提供了额外0.6 dB的整形增益。