88 research outputs found
Intersymbol and Intercarrier Interference in OFDM Transmissions through Highly Dispersive Channels
This work quantifies, for the first time, intersymbol and intercarrier
interferences induced by very dispersive channels in OFDM systems. The
resulting achievable data rate for \wam{suboptimal} OFDM transmissions is
derived based on the computation of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio for
arbitrary length finite duration channel impulse responses. Simulation results
point to significant differences between data rates obtained via conventional
formulations, for which interferences are supposed to be limited to two or
three blocks, versus the data rates considering the actual channel dispersion
Intersymbol and Intercarrier Interference in OFDM Systems: Unified Formulation and Analysis
A unified matrix formulation is presented for the analysis of intersymbol and
intercarrier interference in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
systems. The proposed formulation relies on six parameters and allows studying
various schemes, including those with windowing in the transmitter and/or in
the receiver (called windowed OFDM systems), which may add cyclic suffix and/or
cyclic prefix (CP), besides the conventional CP-OFDM. The proposed framework
encompasses seven different OFDM systems. It considers the overlap-and-add
procedure performed in the transmitter of windowed OFDM systems, being jointly
formulated with the channel convolution. The intersymbol and intercarrier
interference, caused when the order of the channel impulse response is higher
than the number of CP samples, is characterized. A new equivalent channel
matrix that is useful for calculating both the received signal and the
interference power is defined and characterized. Unlike previous works, this
new channel matrix has no restrictions on the length of the channel impulse
response, which means that the study is not constrained to the particular case
of two or three data blocks interfering in the received signal. Theoretical
expressions for the powers of three different kinds of interference are
derived. These expressions allow calculating the
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, useful for computing the data rate of
each OFDM system. The proposed formulation is applied to realistic examples,
showing its effectiveness through comparisons based on numerical performance
assessments of the considered OFDM systems
Analysis performance of wavelet OFDM in mobility platforms
Wavelet orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the medium access techniques recommended by the IEEE 1901 working group for broadband communications over electrical networks, and is under consideration for IoT applications. This standard provides a flexible architecture supporting integrated access, smart grid, building, in-home, and mobility platform (vehicle) applications. Wavelet OFDM is a filter bank multicarrier system based on the extended lapped transform, in which the transmitting and receiving filters are obtained from a waveform provided by the standard. In this paper, we explore system performance when other waveforms are employed, studying the trade-off between stopband attenuation and transition band width. Furthermore, an alternative and more efficient way of obtaining the theoretical expressions of the achievable data rate is shown, assuming realistic power line communication noise other than additive white Gaussian noise. To demonstrate the capabilities of wavelet OFDM, the results of simulation of the symbol error rate and the data rate in several systems in platform scenarios (in-vehicle and in-aircraft) are shown.Comunidad de MadridUniversidad de Alcal
Channel Estimation in OFDM systems
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) provides an effective and low complexity means of eliminating intersymbol interference for transmission over frequency selective fading channels. This technique has received a lot of interest in mobile communication research as the radio channel is usually frequency selective and time variant. In OFDM system, modulation may be coherent or differential. Channel state information (CSI) is required for the OFDM receiver to perform coherent detection or diversity combining, if multiple transmit and receive antennas are deployed. In practice, CSI can be reliably estimated at the receiver by transmitting pilots along with data symbols. Pilot symbol assisted channel estimation is especially attractive for wireless links, where the channel is time-varying. When using differential modulation there is no need for a channel estimate but its performance is inferior to coherent system.In this thesis we investigate and compare various efficient pilot based channel estimation schemes for OFDM systems. The channel estimation can be performed by either inserting pilot tones into all subcarriers of OFDM symbols with a specific period or inserting pilot tones into each OFDM symbol. In this present study, two major types of pilot arrangement such as blocktype and comb-type pilot have been focused employing Least Square Error (LSE) and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) channel estimators. Block type pilot sub-carriers is especially suitable for slow-fading radio channels whereas comb type pilots provide better resistance to fast fading channels. Also comb type pilot arrangement is sensitive to frequency selectivity when comparing to block type arrangement. The channel estimation algorithm based on comb type pilots is divided into pilot signal estimation and channel interpolation. The pilot signal estimation is based on LSE and MMSE criteria, together with channel interpolation using linear interpolation and spline cubic interpolation. The symbol error rate (SER) performances of
OFDM system for both block type and comb type pilot subcarriers are presented in the thesis
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