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On Time-Variant Distortions in Multicarrier Transmission with Application to Frequency Offsets and Phase Noise
Phase noise and frequency offsets are due to their time-variant behavior one
of the most limiting disturbances in practical OFDM designs and therefore
intensively studied by many authors. In this paper we present a generalized
framework for the prediction of uncoded system performance in the presence of
time-variant distortions including the transmitter and receiver pulse shapes as
well as the channel. Therefore, unlike existing studies, our approach can be
employed for more general multicarrier schemes. To show the usefulness of our
approach, we apply the results to OFDM in the context of frequency offset and
Wiener phase noise, yielding improved bounds on the uncoded performance. In
particular, we obtain exact formulas for the averaged performance in AWGN and
time-invariant multipath channels.Comment: 10 pages (twocolumn), 5 figure
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