Advances in single carrier block modulation with frequency domain processing

Yeheskel Bar-Ness,David D Falconer,Naofal Al Dhahir,Fumiyuki Adachi,Hikmet Sari

doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2012-85

Abstract

This special issue focuses on single carrier block modulation (SC-BM) with frequency domain processing. This class of modulation and multiple access schemes complements the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and its variations. For example, LTE (the long term evolution of the 3GPP standard), and LTE-Advanced, employ OFDMA in the downlink (base stations to mobiles) and SC-FDMA, a version of SC-BM in the uplink (mobiles to base stations). The main reason for adapting the technology of SC-FDMA for uplink LTE is the fact that OFDMA has high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which is a disadvantage for mobile devices that are limited by power availability. Besides its advantage of low PAPR, SC-BM technology has a similar performance/complexity to that of OFDMA, and simple frequency domain equalization methods for combating dispersive channels.

Highlights

Domain Spreading and Code Multiplexing”, Nagatomi, Kawai, and Higuchi [2] propose a reduced-complexity maximum likelihood signal detection method for MIMO-OFDM systems with frequency-domain spreading and code multiplexing. They show how to exploit signal orthogonalization based on QR decomposition of the product of the channel and spreading code matrices in the frequency domain to obtain significant complexity reductions
The paper “Novel Techniques of Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization for Optical Wireless Communications” by Acolaste, Bar-Ness, and Wilson [5] investigates the application of single-carrier frequencydomain equalization to diffuse optical wireless communications and demonstrates its advantages over OFDM in terms of reduced PAPR and improved error rate in the presence of LED nonlinearity
In the paper “Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for IFDMA in Case of Channels with Large Delay Spreads”, Sohl and Klein [6] propose a subspace-based channel estimation algorithm which can cope with large delay spreads

Summary

Introduction

Domain Spreading and Code Multiplexing”, Nagatomi, Kawai, and Higuchi [2] propose a reduced-complexity maximum likelihood signal detection method for MIMO-OFDM systems with frequency-domain spreading and code multiplexing. They show how to exploit signal orthogonalization based on QR decomposition of the product of the channel and spreading code matrices in the frequency domain to obtain significant complexity reductions.

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