Adaptive Pulse Shaping and Equalization for OFDM in Time-Frequency Doubly Selective Channels

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system has been widely used for the high speed digital communication area and it is very promising for the next generation communication standard because of high data rate capability. However, OFDM system has inherent serious problem of high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) that makes the OFDM signal be distorted in the nonlinear HPA (high power amplifier). In this paper, CI (carrier interferometry)-OFDM system is considered to overcome this problem and is newly analyzed in the selective fading and narrow-band interference channel. CI-OFDM system distributes each parallel data to all sub-carriers in differently phase-rotated form. So, PAPR becomes lowered and it shows the frequency diversity effects. BER (bit error rate) performance is analyzed in the selective fading and narrow-band interference environment. From the simulation results, it is confirmed that CI-OFDM system calms down the high PAPR problem and CI-OFDM system is more robust than the ordinary OFDM system in the selective fading and narrow-band interference channel.

Conventional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system utilizes cyclic prefix (CP) to remove the channel-induced inter-symbol interference (ISI) at the cost of lower spectral efficiency. In this paper, a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) based equalizer for ISI suppression is proposed for uplink multi-antenna OFDM systems without CP. Based on the block representation of the CP-free OFDM system, there is a natural formulation of the ISI suppression problem under the GSC framework. By further exploiting the signal and ISI signature matrix structures, a computationally efficient partially adaptive (PA) implementation of the GSC-based equalizer is proposed for complexity reduction. The proposed scheme can be extended for the design of a pre-equalizer, which pre-suppresses the ISI and realizes CP-free downlink transmission to ease the computational burden of the mobile unit (MU). Simulation results show that the proposed GSC-based solutions yield equalization performances almost identical to that obtained by the conventional CP-based OFDM systems and are highly resistant to the increase in channel delay spread.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a very attractive technique for high data rate transmission with good bandwidth efficiency. OFDM system utilize the cyclic prefix (CP) to mitigate the effect of inter symbol interference (ISI) produced by the multipath effect of wireless channel. The CP insertion only mitigates the effect of inter block interference of OFDM symbols, whereas the intra block interference remain present in the OFDM symbol. The intra block OFDM symbol interference degrades the error performance of the OFDM system. In order to improve the error performance of the OFDM system forward error correction scheme can be utilized. Many FEC schemes for single carrier and multicarrier systems have been proposed in the literature. Convolution and LDPC codes are two popular coding schemes for FEC. In this paper we have considered Convolution and LDPC codes for improving the error performance of OFDM system. The BER performance of convolution ally coded a LDPC coded OFDM is evaluated for various code rates in AWGN and fading channel. We have also compared the performance of coded OFDM system with an OFDM system without FEC.

Frequency offset (FO) introduces severe inter-symbol and inter-carrier interferences which will degrade the performances of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system more adversely. To reduce the effect of CFO, an estimation algorithm has been proposed in this work which uses a turbo coding at the precoding section and Space time block coding techniques (alamouti code) for transmitting data. The turbo codes solve dilemma of structure and randomness through concatenation and interleaving and it will reduce bit error rate (BER) by error detection and error correction process. A fading channel has been modeled for evaluating the performance of the algorithm. Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation is used for the estimation that does take conditional probability into account. The offset estimation in OFDM is done by best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) principle yet it has disadvantages that it is already sub optimal in nature and it is applicable only for linear observation models. So, ML technique is an alternative estimation criterion that can use as starting point of most of the statistical estimation and for nonlinear observations. The proposed system has improved BER while other methods supports BER of 25-30 dB and the proposed system shows improvement in spectral efficiency as well as the Power spectral density.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the promising contendents in the race of very high data rate delivery, for 4G wireless systems. The conventional OFDM systems, so far deployed make use of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) as their basic building block. Besides the numerous advantages, the restriction over the data rate imposed by the FFT in the form of cyclic prefix may be intolerable for the next generation OFDM systems. So, researches are on the way to replace FFT with a more suitable transform which is redundant free. DWT OFDM is one such system in which FFT in the conventional OFDM is replaced with Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Using simulations, already it has been established that in ideal conditions, the performance of DWT OFDM is better than that of FFT OFDM. As phase noise can be considered as the major RF impairment and one of the leading performance limiting factors of the wireless systems, this paper analyses the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the DWT OFDM in presence of phase noise. BER performances of both DWT OFDM and FFT OFDM are analysed and compared in presence of phase noise. For this, Matlab Simulink model have been developed for both types of OFDM, and simulation is carried over in presence of phase noise for different modulation schemes. In all cases the BER performances of DWT OFDM is found to be fairly ahead that of FFT OFDM.

In this paper, an integrated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is developed to improve Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of communication systems in order to meet the requirements of advanced communication systems like long term evaluation advanced (LTE –A). The proposed OFDM system consists of channel estimation using comb type pilot arrangement and convolution encoder with the best known Coding Bounds and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) decoder. Using pilot symbols, the channel quality is estimated. The BER performance of OFDM system is improved using pilot carriers, channel estimation schemes and MAP decoder at the best known coding bounds. The system performance is analyzed with recursive systematic and non-systematic convolution codes, ML and MAP decoders. From the results, it is evident that the proposed OFDM system with channel estimation and MAP decoder at the best known coding bounds improves the system performance significantly.

Adaptive coded modulation (ACM) is a key technique to increase spectral as well as power efficiency for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In this paper, an efficient rate adaptive low density parity check (LDPC) coded modulation (RALCM) algorithm is proposed, which maximizes the payload rate for OFDM systems under the constraint of the given transmit power and the target bit error rate (BER). Taking advantage of the two dimensional look up table for the signal to noise ratio (SNR) thresholds, the RALCM algorithm assigns different combinations of the LDPC code rates and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulations for subcarriers according to the channel frequency response (CFR). Both theoretical analysis and computer simulation show that the proposed algorithm not only efficiently improves the payload rate of the LDPC coded OFDM system over frequency selective fading channels, but also inherently reduces the computational complexity of the system optimization.

Multi carrier modulation is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), dividing the large band spectrum into small (narrow) band spectrum.OFDM offers flexibility in adaptation to time varying channel condition by adopting the parameters at each subcarrier accurately.Due to the multipath effect the OFDM system suffers Inter Symbol Interference (ISI).ISI can be reduced by introducing the guard band (cyclic prefix).Time-varying channel estimation is an important activity in next generation wireless communication.Channel estimation is required mainly for the significant signal processing operation in multiple input multiple output MIMO-OFDM systems.In this project DFT -based channel estimation based on block type arrangement is implemented in MAT Lab.The bit error rate (BER) of DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform)based channel estimation is less than the BER of LS (Least Square) and MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) based channel estimation with same signal to noise ratio (SNR).

Performance of both orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single carrier (SC) systems suffers from a carrier frequency offset (CFO) due to Doppler effect and the carrier instability between the transmitter and the receiver. We investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance degradation of OFDM and SC systems due to the frequency offset in an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel as well as multipath Rayleigh fading channels. We consider three effects to the BER degradation, i.e., phase shift, useful power decrease and intercarrier interference (ICI). We also derive the approximate expressions of BER under binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and quaternary phase shift keying (QPSK) for both OFDM and SC systems in the presence of CFO. In general, SC is more robust to CFO in the AVVGN channel than OFDM in terms of BER, while both of them suffer similarly from CFO in the multipath Rayleigh fading channels assuming the the same CFO.

This paper presents the joint maximum likelihood (ML) time and frequency offset estimator exploiting antenna diversity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Redundant information contained within the cyclic prefix (CP) is used and furthermore, we propose a new correlation coefficient for ML estimation and can obtain diversity gain from several received antenna signals. The method is efficient in an environment having a low signal to noise ratio (SNR) and multipath channel by combining the received signals from antennas in an OFDM system. In this paper we demonstrate an example of ML estimation from two received antenna signal.

The nonlinearity of high power amplifiers (HPAs) exhibits amplitude and phase distortions, which cause loss of orthogonality among the subcarriers in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, and hence, inter-carrier interference (ICI) is introduced in the transmitted signal. The ICI power is proportional to the amplitude of the signal at the amplifier input and it may cause a considerable bit error rate (BER) degradation. Due to the ICI is a random process and has unknown distribution function, it is difficult to evaluate the theoretical BER when the ICI is taken into account. This paper evaluates the BER analytically using sequence development approach (SDA) for OFDM systems perturbed by the HPA. In comparison to the state-of-the-art technique, the evaluation of the BER using this approach achieves superior approximation at the expense of additional computational complexity.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a advance bandwidth efficient digital modulation technique highly adopted for the broadband wireless services because it gives high performance in the multipath fading environments. It is very robust against narrowband interference, but it is not totally free from drawbacks. There are timing and frequency synchronization error for which this technique is very sensitive. These errors are quite detrimental to the mutual orthogonality among the subcarriers which is main condition of the OFDM technique. If it is not resolved properly, it creates inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-channel interference (ICI). ISI and ICI increase the Bit Error Rate (BER) and creates packet loss in the transmission. Means, OFDM System has no proper use without precise synchronization technique to assure reasonable system performance. This paper provides an overview on the causes and the effects of these synchronization errors. It focuses on various symbol timing and carrier frequency acquisition schemes including coarse and fine synchronization techniques, using cyclic prefix or training symbols. It has also discussed the attention to implement different standards in the same wireless device using common frequency synchronization structure.

In this paper, we consider out-of-band radiations caused by high sidelobes in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Suppression of sidelobes in OFDM system allows higher spectral efficiency and less interference with existing legacy systems in OFDM based overlay system. We combine different sidelobe suppression techniques to suppress the sidelobes in OFDM system. The multiple-choice sequence (MCS) is combined with cancellation carriers (CCs) and also MCS is combined with subcarrier weighting (SW) technique. MCS is applied prior to CCs or SW techniques. Simulation results show that combining MCS with CCs and MCS with SW techniques the sidelobes in OFDM system can be significantly reduced, which allow a successful co-existance between OFDM overlay system and an existing legacy system.

In this paper, we analyze the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of Golden coded Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system over Rician multipath fading channel. We also compare the performance of the MIMO-OFDM system using Golden code in Rayleigh and Rician multipath fading channels. We discuss the effects of the presence of line-of-sight (LoS) component in the multipath fading environment which renders the improvement in the overall performance of the Golden coded MIMO-OFDM. This paper discusses the performance of Golden codes in a frequency selective Rician fading channel. To deal with the frequency selective fading channel, we use the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation. The BER performance of the Golden coded MIMO-OFDM system under several propagation conditions has been evaluated. Keywords—MIMO, OFDM, Golden STBC, Rayleigh fading, Rician fading.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems work well if the subcarriers are orthogonal to each other. However, the orthogonality among subcarriers may not exist and result in inter-carrier interference (ICI) at the receiver. This may cause by residual carrier frequency offset, time variations due to Doppler shift or phase noise. Further developing the parallel cancellation (PC) scheme to mitigate the ICI of OFDM systems, we expand this OFDM symbol-based PC scheme into a space-frequency (SF) coded system. This new simple space- frequency parallel cancellation (SFPC) scheme is a technique that combines the SF and PC schemes together. Computer simulations indicate that OFDM systems using the SFPC scheme outperform the regular PC and SF systems in slow and fast frequency selective fading channels, specifically at a high signal-noise-ratio (SNR). Furthermore, the error floor of the SFPC-OFDM system is significantly lower than that of the PC and SF systems without increasing computational load. Additionally, the SFPC scheme is a simple multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) system.