Minimizing the Error Vector Magnitude With Constrained Cubic Metric and Spectral Sidelobe in NC-OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a minimized error vector magnitude (M-EVM) scheme to simultaneously reduce the cubic metric (CM) and spectral sidelobe in noncontiguous orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (NC-OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) systems by modifying the constellations on the secondary user (SU) subcarriers and adding canceling symbols on the primary user (PU) subcarriers. The proposed M-EVM scheme formulates an optimization problem, which minimizes the EVM with constraints of the CM and spectral sidelobe. Furthermore, we propose an iterative approximation algorithm to solve the optimization problem. Simulation results show that the M-EVM scheme offers significant reductions of the CM and spectral sidelobe.