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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Bit Error Rate Analysis of OFDM/TDM with Frequency-Domain Equalization

Haris GACANIN, Shinsuke TAKAOKA, Fumiyuki ADACHI

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For alleviating the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the OFDM combined with time division multiplexing (TDM) using frequency-domain equalization (FDE) was proposed. In this paper, the theoretical bit error rate (BER) analysis of the OFDM/TDM in a frequency-selective fading channel is presented. The conditional BER expression is derived, based on a Gaussian approximation of the inter-symbol interference (ISI) arising from channel frequency-selectivity, for the given set of channel gains. Various FDE techniques as in multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), i.e., zero forcing (ZF), maximum ratio combining (MRC) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) criteria are considered. The average BER performance is evaluated by Monte-Carlo numerical computation method using the derived conditional BER expression.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.2 pp.509-517
Publication Date
2006/02/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.2.509
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Wireless Communication Technologies

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