SYMMETRICAL HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE (SHDSL)

CHANNEL MODELLING

ROHISHAM BIN RAMLAN

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

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SYMMETRICAL HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE (SHDSL) CHANNEL MODELLING

ROHISHAM BIN RAMLAN

This Report Is Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for The Bachelor

Degree of Electronic Engineering (Wireless Electronic)

Fakulti Kejuteraan Elektronik dan Kejuteraan Komputer

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

JUNE 2016

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BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS LAPORAN

UNIVERSTI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK DAN KEJURUTERAAN KOMPUTER

BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS LAPORAN

PROJEK SARJANA MUDA II

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Sesi Pengajian

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RAHSIA RASMI 1972)

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“I hereby declare that the work in this project is my own except for summaries and quotations which have been duly acknowledge.”

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“I acknowledge that I have read this report and in my opinion this report is sufficient in term of scope and quality for the award of Bachelor of Electronic

Engineering (Wireless Communication) with Honours.”

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Untuk Mak dan Bapak yang tersayang

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, praise to Allah SWT, Most Merciful for His guidance and blessing.

Lots of thanks to my beloved parents Dr. Ramlan Bin Mohamed A.M.N and Rosimah

Binti Sukur, who’s given constant support and love I have relied throughout my time

at university. Their unflinching courage and conviction will always inspire me. I hope

that I can continue in my own way the noble mission to which they gave their lives. I

dedicate this work to my family.

I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my supervisor Dr.

Mohd Azlishah Bin Othman and my co-supervisor Profesor Madya Dr. Mohamad

Zoinol Abidin Bin Abd Aziz. His wide knowledge and his logical way of thinking

have been of great help for me. Furthermore, he always helps and guides me in

fulfilling and understands the task to be done. I also would like to express gratitude to

Team TM R&D, En. Mohd Shahril Izuan Bin Mohd Zin and Profesor Madya

Muhammad Syahrir Bin Johal for helping me to complete this study.

Finally, I would like express appreciation to my adoptive mother and my

special friend who always encourage and keep pushing me to my limit for completing

this study. Special thanks also to all my friends for their cooperation and support.

Thank you very much from bottom of my heart.

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ABSTRACT

Symmetrical high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) is a data

communication technology for equal transmits and receive data rate over the copper

telephone lines. Difference from other DSL technologies, SHDSL uses multi-level

pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) together with trellis coding. It is much faster than

a conventional voiceband modem that can provide nowadays. In this study the speed

of the SHDSL system was evaluated and estimated by observing the Bit Error Rate

(BER) during simulation process. Simulation of SHDSL single line base band and

transceiver was conducted by given the information to the system including a

transmitter, a receiver and a channel model. This simulation, perform a certain state of

trellis code and using a certain rate convolution with corresponding of Viterbi

algorithm at the receiver part. In the channel part, the calculation of signal-to-ratio

(SNR) was performed and this includes the insertion loss in the channel, Far-end

crosstalk (FEXT) and Near-end crosstalk (NEXT), and Power Spectral Density (PSD).

All this is referred to the standard ITU-T G.991.2. For the result of this study, the BER

achieve is 10-6 with transmitted bits of 106 bits. The BER achieved is based on the

calculated SNR and the value of SNR to get BER 10-6 is around 37dB. It is assuming

that the BER can be achieve 10-7 by transmit 109 of bits. By performing this simulation

with the result stated, the SHDSL can be estimate its speed.

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ABSTRAK

Simetri kelajuan tinggi talian pelanggan digital (SHDSL) adalah teknologi

komunikasi data untuk memancar sama dan menerima kadar data melalui talian telefon

tembaga. Perbezaan daripada teknologi DSL lain, SHDSL menggunakan pelbagai

peringkat modulasi nadi amplitud (PAM) bersama-sama dengan trellis pengkodan. Ia

adalah lebih cepat daripada modem jalur suara konvensional yang boleh memberikan

masa kini. Dalam kajian ini kelajuan sistem SHDSL itu dinilai dan dianggarkan

dengan memerhatikan Kadar Bit Error (BER) semasa proses simulasi. Simulasi band

asas SHDSL baris dan transceiver dikendalikan diberikan maklumat untuk sistem

termasuk sebuah pemancar, penerima dan model saluran. Simulasi ini, melaksanakan

keadaan tertentu kod jari-jari dan menggunakan kekusutan kadar tertentu dengan

sepadan algoritma Viterbi di bahagian penerima. Dalam bahagian saluran, pengiraan

isyarat kepada nisbah (SNR) telah dilaksanakan dan ini termasuk kehilangan sisipan

dalam saluran, Far-end crosstalk (FEXT) dan Near-end crosstalk (NEXT), dan kuasa

spektral Ketumpatan (PSD). Semua ini disebut standard ITU-T G.991.2 itu. Untuk

hasil daripada kajian ini, BER mencapai adalah 10-6 dengan bit dihantar 106 bit. The

BER dicapai adalah berdasarkan SNR dikira dan nilai SNR untuk mendapatkan BER

10-6 adalah sekitar 37dB. Ia menganggap bahawa BER boleh mencapai 10-7 oleh

penghantar 109 bit. Dengan melakukan simulasi ini dengan keputusan yang

dinyatakan, SHDSL boleh menjadi menganggarkan kelajuannya.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

TITLE PAGE

PROJECT TITLE i

DECLARATION REPORT ii

DECLARATION iii

SUPERVISOR DECLARATION iv

DEDICATION v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT vi

ABSTRACT vii

ABSTRAK viii

TABLE OF CONTENT ix

LIST OF TABLE xii

LIST OF FIGURE xiii

ABBREVIATIONS xv

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Project Overview 1

1.2 Problem Statement 3

1.3 Objectives 3

1.4 Scope of work 3

1.5 Project Significance 4

LITERRATURE REVIEW 5

2.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) 5

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2.2 Overview on Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Technology 6

2.3 Overview of SHDSL System Performance 7

2.4 SHDSL Transceiver 8 2.4.1 Scrambler 8 2.4.2 TCM Encoder 9 2.4.3 Mapper 13 2.4.4 Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder 13 2.4.5 Decision Feedback Equalizer 14 2.4.6 Demapper 15 2.4.7 Viterbi 15 2.4.8 Descrambler 16

2.5 Design of G.SHDSL Signal Reconfigurable System Based on FPGA 16

2.6 Data Error in ADSL and SHDSL Systems due to Impulse Noise 17

METHODOLOGY 19

3.1 Introduction 19

3.2 Software implementation 22

3.3 SHDSL System Development 22

3.4 Transmitter 22 3.4.1. Bit Generator 22 3.4.2. Scrambler 23 3.4.3. Trellis @ Convolution Encoder 24 3.4.4. Mapper 25 3.4.5. Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder (THP) 26

3.5 Spectral Shaper 27

3.6 Receiver 30 3.6.1 Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) 30 3.6.2 Demapper 30 3.6.3 Viterbi 30 3.6.4 Descrambler 31

3.7 Compare BER 31

3.8 Parameters of the simulation 32

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 33

4.1 Output On Each Block Diagram of SHDSL system 33

4.2 FEXT 36

4.3 NEXT 37

4.4 PSD 38

4.5 Probability of Error 39

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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 42

5.1 Conclusion 42

5.2 Suggestion 43

REFERENCES 44

APPENDIX A 46

APPENDIX B 48

APPENDIX C 49

APPENDIX D 50

APPENDIX E 51

APPENDIX F 53

APPENDIX G 54

APPENDIX H 55

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LIST OF TABLE

1.1 DSL Technology version since 1999 to 2005 2

2.1 List of Convolution encoder Polynomial 12

3.1 Mapping 32-PAM 24

3.2 PSD Parameter 26

4.1 Simulation result of SHDSL system SNR 37

4.2 Simulation result of SHDSL system BER 38

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LIST OF FIGURE

Title Page

2.1 Typical Realization of an SHDSL System 7

2.2

Block diagram of an SHDSL transceiver. TX data (transmit

data); RX data (receive data); AFE (analog front end); DFE

(Decision Feedback Equalizer); FFE (Feed Forward Equalizer)

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2.3 Transmitter operations in data mode 10

2.4 Block diagram of TCM encoder 11

2.5 Block Diagram of Convolution Encoder 12

2.6 4-PAM Mapping. Im (imaginary); Re (real) 14

2.7 Structure of decision feedback equalizer (DFE) system 15

2.8

G.SHDSL link model. PMD (Physical Medium Dependent);

SRU (SHDSL Regenerator Unit); STU-R (SHDSL Transceiver

Unit Remote-End); STU-C (SHDSL Transceiver Unit Central

Office)

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3.1 Flow Chart of Project 19

3.2 SHDSL Block Diagram. TCM (Trellis-Coded Modulation); AFE

(Analog Front End); DFE (Decision Feedback Equalizer) 20

3.3 Transmitter of SHDSL. TCM (Trellis-Coded Modulation) 21

3.4 Scrambler Circuit 22

3.5 Convolution Encoder (rate 1/2, K=5) 23

3.6 Receiver of SHDSL System. DFE (Decision Feedback

Equalizer) 28

4.1 (a) The Generated Data; (b) The Scrambled Data 30

4.2 (a) Data Arrange in Series Form; (b) Data Arrange in Parallel

Form 31

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4.3 (a) 4 row of bits; (b) 5 row of bits 32

4.4 (a) Parallel bits; (b) Data in symbol in 32-PAM 32

4.5 Tomlinson Harashima Precoder Output 33

4.6 FEXT interference of SHDSL. Each line representation of the

length of cables of copper wires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8km). 34

4.7

Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT) of SHDSL. The line represents of

the number of users in the SHDSL system. (2, 10, 20, 30, 50 and

100 users).

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4.8 PSD of SHDSL. The line represents the payload of the SHDSL

system. (192, 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1536, 2048 and 2304 kbit/s) 36

4.9

Probability of Error simulation vs Theory. The first line (above)

represent the theory part and the second line represent simulation

part (below).

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ABBREVIATIONS

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AFE Analog Front End

BER Bit Error Rate

DFE Decision Feedback Equalizer

DMT Discrete Multitoned Transmission

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSP Digital Signal Processor

FEXT Far-end Crosstalk

FFE Feed Forward Equalizer

FFT Fast Fourier Transform

FIR Finite Impulse Response

FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array

HDSL High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Line

IL Insertion Loss

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ITU-T International Telecommunication Union Standardization

LMS Least Mean Squares

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MIMO Multi Input Multi Output

MIPS Million Instruction Per Second

NEXT Near-end Crosstalk

PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation

PBO Power Backoff

PDR Payload Data Rate

PMD Physical Medium Dependent

POTS Plain Old Service

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

RX Receive

SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

SHDSL Symmetric High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line

SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio

STU SHDSL Transceiver Unit

STU-C STU at the Central Office

STU-R STU at the Remote End

SRU SHDSL Regenerator Unit

TCM Trellis Coded Modulation

TCPAM Trellis Coded Pulse Amplitude Modulation

THP Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder

TM Telecom Malaysia

TM R&D Telecom Malaysia Research and Development

TX Transmit

VDSL Very-High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Line

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Project Overview

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a broadband high-speed internet technology

that brings high-bandwidth information to homes and offices over ordinary copper

telephones lines analog form and back to digital form. Digital data is transmitted

directly to the computer, as is, exploiting the maximum bandwidth and the wide range

of unused frequencies available in the existing copper wire of telephone networks for

high-speed broadband communication. Moreover, the signal can also be separated if

one chooses, so that some of the bandwidth is used to transmit an analog signal for

simultaneously using the telephone line for voice.

DSL can achieve higher data-transfer-rates than dail-up modems by utilizing

more of the available bandwidth in a local loop. The old telephone service only makes

use very limited amount of the lower frequencies. But the bandwidth of the old

telephone service is enough for transmitting reasonable-quality analog voice.

Although the service is enough for transmitting reasonable-quality of data but it is

unable to transmit high-speed data. Most DSL technology sent their digital signals

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over twisted-copper telephone lines (local loop) using amplitude-modulated analog

tones. This technique is referred to as discrete multitoned transmission (DMT). Today,

there are many type of DSL technology as shown in Table 1.

Table 1.1: DSL Technology version since 1999 to 2005

Family ITU Name Ratified Maximum Speed Capability

ADSL G.992.1 G.dmt 1999 7 Mbps down, 800 kbps up

ADSL2 G.992.3 G.dmt.bis 2002 8 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up

ADSL2plus G.992.5 ADSLplus 2003 24 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up

ADSL2-RE G.992.3 Reach Extended

2003 8 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up

SHDSL (update 2003)

G.991.2 G.SHDSL 2003 5.6 Mbps up/down

VDSL G.993.1 Very-high-data-rate DSL

2004 55 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up

VDSL2 – 12 MHz long reach

G.993.2 Very-high-data-rate DSL 2

2005 55 Mbps down 30 Mbps up

VDSL2 – 30 MHz short reach

G.993.2 Very-high-data-rate DSL 2

2005 100 Mbps up/down

SHDSL is the first standardized multi-bit-rate symmetric DSL for data rates

between 192kbit/s up to 2312kbit/s. A state-level trellis coded PAM line code is used

for this technology. At present, SHDSL system uses PAM modulation and trellis coded

modulation and is hence more spectral efficient than HDSL. It uses two-way baseband

transmission and will cause NEXT and FEXT interference to other system. The

specification is given in ITU-T Recommendation G.991.2 [1].

When compared to other symmetric transport technologies such as SDSL and

HDSL, SHDSL boasts approximately 30 percent greater reach. A good example is that

the highest bit rate defined in the standard (2.3 Mbps) is supported at loop length up

to 2.3 kilometers.

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1.2 Problem Statement

In SHDSL, FEXT and NEXT is the interference happen when the signal travel

in both directions. The impact of the special correlation characteristic of these noises

impacts the performance of SHDSL when a cable or binder is used in a MIMO

configuration. MIMO configurations involve the combined or joint processing of more

than one, single, twisted pair loop. Even though SHDSL can support at high data rate,

there is still possibility that the BER of the system is high.

1.3 Objectives

To complete this project, there are several objectives need to achieve. The

objectives of this study are:

I. To design and develop channel model for SHDSL in MATLAB for MIMO

system based on TCPAM.

II. To propose and develop a noise cancellation technique for FEXT and NEXT.

III. To introduced modelling and performance study of SHDSL using TM copper

cable data (insertion loss, FEXT and NEXT).

1.4 Scope of work

The scope of the study is designing a channeling model for SHDSL system. The

design of SHDSL system will be use MATLAB software. From the simulation result

the data generated (data transmit) will be compare with the receive data and the BER

will be monitor. If the result did not get as mentioned, the MATLAB coding need to

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be troubleshoot and identify the bug in the coding thus insert the new coding. The flow

for work are as follows:

1. Develop and design channel model in MATLAB programming for MIMO

system based on Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) and Pulse Amplitude

Modulation (PAM) to predict achievable bit rate performance. The design of

the system is followed on the block diagram and the specification is followed

ITU-T G.991.2 standard.

2. Development of workable noise cancellation technique FEXT and NEXT

model for the SHDSL. The specification is followed ITU-T G.991.2 standard.

3. Performance study and modeling of SHDSL based on TM copper cable (IL,

FEXT and NEXT), thus calculate the SNR. The SNR specification is followed

ITU-T G.991.2 standard.

4. Run the simulation and display the result BER and SNR.

5. Report writing and result dissemination.

1.5 Project Significance

At the end of this project I will be able to understand the basic knowledge and

information on whole process of research methodology by completing the SHDSL

project. The understanding about principle and how the system works including the

components and materials involve can be achieved in the progress during this project.

CHAPTER 2

LITERRATURE REVIEW

2.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

There are many advances in symmetric DSL technology since its first develop

and introduce in the early 90’s. The technology opened a new dimension of

communication technology that recognizing bandwidth on the local copper loops are

not limited by the application, voice or Plain Old Service (POTS). The combination of

new line code and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) techniques can provide greater

bandwidth. Line codes, when combined with other techniques will reduce power,

achieve longer reach, improve performance and encode more data within the spectrum

of frequency. This new line codes technology was called as Trellis Coded PAM

(TCPAM). The amount of usable bandwidth available over a loop is dependent on a

number of factors, including loop length, impedance, signal power, frequency and line

coding techniques. The higher the frequency, the greater the attenuation, and the

smaller the signal becomes when it is received at the far end. The strength of the

received signal decreasing as the frequency increases.

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There are two general categories of DSL which are symmetric and asymmetric.

Symmetric DSL provides the same service bit-rate in both upstream and downstream

directions. While asymmetric DSL (ADSL) provides more downstream bit-rate (from

the network to the user) than upstream bit-rate. To date, SHDSL represents the best of

several symmetric DSL technologies employs trellis-coded pulse-amplitude

modulation (TCPAM) providing greater reach, spectral compatibility, low power and

application flexibility.

2.2 Overview on Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Technology Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) uses existing twisted pair

telephone lines to create access paths for high-speed data communications and

transmits at speeds up to 8.1 Mbps to a subscriber. This exciting technology is in the

process of overcoming the technology limits of the public telephone network by

enabling the delivery of high-speed Internet access to the vast majority of subscribers’

homes at a very affordable cost.

Delivery of ADSL services requires a single copper pair configuration of a

standard voice circuit with an ADSL modem at each end of the line, creating three

information channels – a high speed downstream channel, a medium speed upstream

channel, and a plain old telephone service (POTS) channel for voice. Data rates depend

on several factors including the length of the copper wire, the wire gauge, presence of

bridged taps, and cross-coupled interference. The line performance increases as the

line length is reduced, wire gauge increases, bridge taps are eliminated and cross-

coupled interference is reduced. The modem located at the subscriber’s premises is

called an ADSL transceiver unit-remote (ATU-R), and the modem at the central office

is called an ADSL transceiver unit-central office (ATU-C). The ATU-Cs take the form

of circuit cards mounted in the digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM). A

residential or business subscriber connects their PC and modem to a RJ-11 telephone

outlet on the wall. The existing house wiring usually carries the ADSL signal to the

NID located on the customer’s premises.

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2.3 Overview of SHDSL System Performance

SHDSL is a flexible multi-bit-rate system, which support symmetric user data

rates from 192 kbit/s to 2312 kbit/s. SHDSL is a guaranteed service, in which that

the system technology must deliver a certain data rate in order to achieve 10-7 bit

error at certain distance under worse case noise condition. The line code use for

SHDSL is 16-level trellis coded baseband PAM, which also use for HDSL2. The use

of convolution encoders is to increase loop performance give a major impact from

earlier technology that use the same baseband PAM such as ISDN or HDSL, which

use uncoded 4-level PAM. For the convolution rate, rate-1/2 code rate is used. Three

information bits are mapped onto a 16-level PAM symbol and since the latency

requirements do not allow use outer feed-forward encoders, trellis coders with large

numbers of states are used to provide the necessary coding gain. For example, trellis

code with 128 states provides 4.6 dB effective coding gain; 256 states provide 4.9

dB, and 512 states provide 5.1 dB coding gain [2].

In this study, show a general structure of SHDSL or HDSL transceiver. The

main difference of SHDSL and HDSL is the additional of trellis encoder and decoder

and the use of Tomlinson precoding. Figure 1 shows the block diagram of typical

realization of an SHDSL system.

Figure 2.1: Typical Realization of an SHDSL System