Performance Of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Research Articles

QR-based Channel Estimation for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems

Channel estimation is the key technology for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which has direct impact on the performance of OFDM. In this paper, we present a novel QR-based algorithm to update the channel impulse response(CIR) for DFT-based channel estimation. The discrete Fourier transform(DFT) estimation reduces the noise power that exists outside of the CIR part, because the estimated CIR from LS has most of its power concentrated on the first L samples. To reduce the noise power that exists inside of the first L samples, the CIR is further processed by QR decomposition in proposed algorithm. The simulation results show that the bit-error-rate(BER) of our estimator has reduced significantly compared with the conventional DFT-based channel estimator and LS-linear estimation.

A New Approach to Enhance Performance of OFDM using BCH and Newly Designed Filter

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier communication technique and it has capability to rise above the frequency-selective fading problem, which is common in wireless broadband communications. This has made it popular since last few years. The OFDM system suffers from a number of drawbacks such as the high peak-toaverage power ratio (PAPR). Many PAPR reduction techniques used either destroy the system performance, which is the clipping technique or increases the overall complexity of the system, such as the selective mapping (SLM). In this paper a unique approach has been proposed to obtain a new code from the existing codes in order to reduce the bit error rate (BER), to mitigate the gap between the performance and Shannon limit while the bounded peak average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM symbol is guaranteed. A new code based on the BCH with a Barthannwin Wave Filter has been proposed to achieve the desired results. General Terms BCH with Barthannwin Wave Filter

Non-iterative Bit Loading Algorithm for OFDM in Independent and Correlated fading

This paper will focus on improving the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in Rayleigh fading environments. The proposed technique will use a previously published method that has been shown to improve OFDM performance in independent fading, based on ordered sub-carrier selection. Then, a simple non-iterative method for finding the optimal bit-loading allocation was proposed. It was also based on ordered sub-carrier selection. We compared both of these algorithms to an optimal bit-loading solution to determine their effectiveness in a correlated fading environment. The correlated fading was simulated using the JTC channel models. Our intent was not to create an optimal solution, but to create a low complexity solution that can be used in a wireless environment in which the channel conditions change rapidly and that require a simple algorithm for fast bit loading.

Theoretical analysis of BER performance of nonlinearly amplified FBMC/OQAM and OFDM signals

In this paper, we introduce an analytical study of the impact of high-power amplifier (HPA) nonlinear distortion (NLD) on the bit error rate (BER) of multicarrier techniques. Two schemes of multicarrier modulations are considered in this work: the classical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and the filter bank-based multicarrier using offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC/OQAM), including different HPA models. According to Bussgang’s theorem, the in-band NLD is modeled as a complex gain in addition to an independent noise term for a Gaussian input signal. The BER performance of OFDM and FBMC/OQAM modulations, transmitting over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh fading channels, is theoretically investigated and compared to simulation results. For simple HPA models, such as the soft envelope limiter, it is easy to compute the BER theoretical expression. However, for other HPA models or for real measured HPA, BER derivation is generally intractable. In this paper, we propose a general method based on a polynomial fitting of the HPA characteristics and we give theoretical expressions for the BER for any HPA model.

ICI Reduction using Quadrature Kalman Filter for OFDM System

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a technology for high data rate broadband wireless communication system. It provides high spectral efficiency. The main limitation which degrades the performance of OFDM is inter-carrier interference (ICI), which is caused by Doppler frequency offset and transceiver local oscillator frequency offset. To mitigate ICI effect, a new method of ICI reduction using quadrature Kalman filter (QKF) is proposed and investigated. In this paper, we compared proposed method with pulse shaping and self-cancellation methods of ICI reduction for different digital modulation scheme. For simulation purpose AWGN channel is considered and results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing ICI reduction methods.

A dual protection scheme for impulsive noise suppression in OFDM systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) can be susceptible to impulsive noise arising from numerous sources in a noisy communications environment. Conventional Reed–Solomon (RS) codes are particularly useful for burst-error corrections and have been employed in OFDM systems to manage impulsive noise. The performance gains, however, have been somewhat limited given the sensitivity to other noise types typically present in a noisy channel. In this regard, a novel scheme utilizing a time-domain pre-processing mean filter in combination with RS coding is proposed for impulsive noise suppression in OFDM systems. This scheme is split into two stages. In the first stage, a proposed mean filter effectively detects and removes the impulsive noise using the measured statistics of the impulsive noise. In contrast to a conventional blanking type filter, the traditional mean replacement value is replaced by a composite comparison value (CCV). This principle creates a more accurate estimate of the original OFDM signal after impulsive noise removal. The residual impulsive noise is then managed by a RS decoder in the second stage. Our results show that this dual faceted approach improves OFDM performance when compared to filtering and coding techniques alone.

웨이블릿 OFDM 시스템과 FD-OFDM 시스템 성능 비교 분석

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 및 FD-OFDM(Frequency Diversity OFDM) 시스템과 일반 OFDM 시스템의 성능을 비교 분석 한다. 푸리에 변환에 기반하는 일반 OFDM방식과는 달리 웨이블릿 OFDM 방식은 웨이블릿 변환을 사용하며, CDM (Code Division Multiplexing)과 OFDM의 중간적인 특성을 통해 심볼간 간섭을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있으며 채널간 간섭 역시 최소화 할 수 있다. FD-OFDM 방식의 경우, 각 병렬 브랜치에 입력된 심볼들이 직교 시퀀스로 곱해진 뒤 모든 부반송파에 분배되고, 각 부반송파는 주어진 프레임에서 각 병렬 브랜치의 심볼 조각들의 합의형태로 이루어진 정보를 전달한다. FD-OFDM의 한 부반송파 내에 포함된 모든 심볼들은 직교 시퀀스에 의해 구별되며, 간섭에 강하며 주파수 다이버시티 특성을 가진다는 장점을 지닌다. 협대역 간섭과 하모닉 잡음 환경에서 BER (Bit Error Rate) 성능을 통해 시스템 간 성능 비교 분석을 진행하였으며, 이를 통해 웨이블릿 OFDM과 FD-OFDM의 성능이 일반 OFDM보다 간섭에 대해 강건하고 특히 하모닉 노이즈 환경에서는 웨이블릿 OFDM이 가장 강건한 특성을 보이는 것을 알 수 있다.

Statistical Distribution of EVM Measurements for Direct-Modulation Radio-Over-Fiber Links Transporting OFDM Signals

The effect of distortion on the error vector magnitude (EVM) performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals with different numbers of subcarriers and the connection to the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of such signals is investigated. A low-cost and low-complexity directly modulated radio-over-fiber link is used in experiments as an example of a link limited by distortion. Statistical distributions of the EVM over a large number of transmitted OFDM frames are gained from experimental measurements and analyses of idealized processes. The measurement results show that as the number of subcarriers is reduced, the distribution means are more affected by extreme values. This effect results in mean EVMs for signals with different numbers of subcarriers that are not dependent in the expected way on the statistical PAPR of the transmitted OFDM signals. Instead, it is shown that in regions of moderate distortion, the median of the EVM is more closely related to the statistical PAPR and to the required back-off for signals with different numbers of subcarriers.

Computational Performances of OFDM Using Different FFT Algorithms

In this paper, an intuitive comparison of the computational performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system has been made in terms of complex calculations required using different Fourier transform techniques. The different transform techniques are introduced such as discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and various types of fast Fourier transform (FFT) as 2-radix FFT, 4-radix FFT etc. and the very recent very fast Fourier transform (VFFT). With intuitive mathematical analysis, it has been shown that with the reduced complexity that VFFT can offer, OFDM performance can be greatly improved in terms of calculations needed.

HERMITIAN SYMMETRY BASED FIBER NON-LINEARITY COMPENSATION IN OPTICAL OFDM NETWORKS

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technique which is now used in most new and emerging broadband wired and wireless communication systems such as standard 802.11a/b/g/n, Digital Video Broad casting Television (DVB-TV), and Long Term Evolution (LTE) in the next mobile generation, due to its capacity in solving the problems of Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) caused by the effects of the dispersive channel. Very recently researches focus on applying OFDM technology in optical fiber communication systems. Optical OFDM is well suited for high speed transmission systems with high spectral efficiency and attracted significant attention from the optical communication community. One of the major issues that degrade the performance of optical OFDM networks is its fiber non-linearity. Fiber non-linearities represent the fundamental limiting mechanisms to the amount of data that can be transmitted on a single optical fiber. Non-linear effects arise as optical fiber data rates, transmission lengths, number of wavelengths, and optical power level increases. Therefore, the effect of non-linearity in high data rate optical networks needs to be controlled to enhance link performances. In this paper, a nonlinearity compensation technique (Hermitian Symmetry) is implemented to improve the performance of OFDM based optical networks. This would provide high spectral efficiency, low ISI and very good Bit Error Rate (BER) performances without increasing the complexity of the network. The optical OFDM transmission system with fiber non-linearity compensation is simulated using Virtual Photonics Integrated (VPI) software.

On Performance of Vector OFDM With Linear Receivers

Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for single transmit antenna systems is a general transmission scheme, where OFDM and Single-Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization (SC-FDE) can be treated as two special/extreme cases. Due to its flexibility, it has drawn more and more attention recently. So far, all the studies about Vector OFDM assume the Maximum Likelihood (ML) receiver. In this paper, we investigate the performance of Vector OFDM with linear receivers, i.e., the Zero-Forcing (ZF) and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) receivers. We first show that the detection SNR gap between the MMSE and ZF receivers increases with both channel SNR and the vector blocks (VB) size defined in Vector OFDM. Then, it is proved that for both ZF and MMSE receivers, all the transmitted symbols have equal performance. This is different from the Vector OFDM with ML receiver, where different VBs may have different coding gain, and thus may have different performances. We analyze the diversity order for Vector OFDM with MMSE receiver, and show that, regardless of the Vector OFDM symbol length <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">N</i> , the diversity order can be represented as min{[ <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">M</i> 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-R</sup> ], <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">D</i> }+1, where <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">M</i> is the VB size, <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</i> is the spectrum efficiency in bits/symbol, and <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">D</i> is the maximum delay of the multipath channel. For Vector OFDM with ZF receiver, we show that the diversity order equals 1 and the performance is the same as the conventional OFDM at high SNR.

Wavelength Division-adaptive Interference Cancellation Applied in OFDM Visible Light Communication Systems

This paper studies the performance degradation caused by optical Doppler shift in light-emitting diode-based visible light communication systems, which integrate orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Through theoretical analysis and computer simulations, we can observe that frequency offset plays a significant role in the OFDM performance deterioration due to inter-carrier interference (ICI) and common phase error (CPE). Therefore, a scheme to correct the frequency offset by using wavelength division-adaptive interference cancellation (WD-AIC) was proposed. The main approach is to assign an estimated sub-carrier after every two adjacent sub-carriers to reduce the negative effects of both ICI and CPE. Finally, the simulation results declare that our proposed WD-AIC is indeed effective against the high degree of frequency offset.

간섭제거 및 송신 다이버시티 기법을 적용한 OFDM 시스템에 대한 성능개선

시간 선택 페이딩 채널 환경에서 STBC(Space Time Block Code)를 사용하는 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템의 성능은 시간에 따라 심볼이 변하지 않을 경우, 두 심볼이 서로 간섭이 생기지 않기 때문에 다이버시티 이득을 얻는다. 그러나 시간에 따라 심볼이 변하게 되면, 두 심볼이 서로 간섭을 주기 때문에 MRRC(Maximal Ratio Receiver Combining)에 해당되는 다이버시티 이득이 생기지 않는다. 두 심볼이 서로 간섭을 줄 경우에도 성능 열화가 되지 않도록 성능 개선이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 시간 선택 페이딩 채널 환경에서 STBC를 사용하는 OFDM 시스템의 성능 개선을 위해 간섭 제거기를 적용하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 도플러 주파수가 100 Hz의 경우에 10-3 BER(Bit Error Rate)에서 Eb/No가 6dB 이상 성능 개선이 되고, 500 Hz의 경우에 같은 BER에서 Eb/No가 20dB 이상 성능 개선이 됨을 알 수 있었다. Using OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) provides the same diversity order as MRRC(Maximal Ratio Receiver Combining). It is assumed that fading channel is constant across two consecutive symbols. Unfortunately, when the channel condition is changed for the two consecutive symbols, the OFDM using STBC(Space Time Block Code) does not offer good performance due to the large doppler shift. In this paper, we have proposed a performance enhancement scheme for OFDM using STBC over time-selective fading channel. Simulation results for various doppler shift rates are presented to robust system performance of OFDM due to using our proposed scheme over time-selective fading channel.

A Novel Filter-Bank Multicarrier Scheme to Mitigate the Intrinsic Interference: Application to MIMO Systems

Filter-bank multicarrier (FBMC) transmission system was proposed as an alternative approach to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system since it has a higher spectral efficiency. One of the characteristics of FBMC is that the demodulated transmitted symbols are accompanied by interference terms caused by the neighboring transmitted data in time-frequency domain. The presence of this interference is an issue for some multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) schemes and until today their combination with FBMC remains an open problem. We can cite, among these techniques, the Alamouti scheme and the maximum likelihood detection (MLD) with spatial multiplexing (SM). In this paper, we shall propose a new FBMC scheme and transmission strategy in order to avoid this interference term. This proposed scheme (called FFT-FBMC) transforms the FBMC system into an equivalent system formulated as OFDM regardless of some residual interference. Thus, any OFDM transmission technique can be performed straightforwardly to the proposed FBMC scheme with a corresponding complexity growth compared to the classical FBMC. First, we will develop the FFT-FBMC in the case of single-input single-output (SISO) configuration. Then, we extend its application to SM-MIMO configuration with MLD and Alamouti coding scheme. Simulation results show that FFT-FBMC can almost reach the OFDM performance, but it remains slightly outperformed by OFDM.

On transmission performance of OFDM-based schemes using MMSE-FDE in a frequency-selective fading channel

There has been greatly increasing interest in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for broadband wireless transmission due to its robustness against multipath fading. However, OFDM signals have high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), and thus, a power amplifier must be operated with a large input power backoff (IBO). Recently, OFDM combined with time division multiplexing (OFDM/TDM) using minimum mean square error-frequency domain equalization (MMSE-FDE) has been presented to reduce the PAPR, while improving the bit error rate (BER) performance of conventional OFDM. In this article, by extensive computer simulation, we present a comprehensive performance comparison of OFDM-based schemes in a nonlinear and frequency-selective fading channel. We discuss about the transmission performance of OFDM-based schemes with respect to the transmit peak-power, the achievable capacity, the BER performance, and the signal bandwidth. Our results show that OFDM/TDM using MMSE-FDE achieves a lower peak-power and capacity than conventional OFDM, which means significant reduction of amplifier transmit-power backoff, but with a slight decrease in signal bandwidth occupancy.

PAPR Reduction Using Huffman Coding Combined with Selective Interleaver for OFDM Transmitter

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique is becoming the chosen modulation technique for wireless communications. OFDM can provide large data rates with sufficient robustness to radio channel impairments. There are two main drawbacks with OFDM, the peak to average power ratio and its sensitivity to frequency errors. The signal peak to average power ratio reduction solution play an important role to improve performance of OFDM that peak occurs after symbols fed to FFT to produce time domain signal, adding signals up coherently. In This paper we proposes technique to reduce the PAPR using Huffman coding combined with selective interleaver as distortion less scrambling technique. We utilize the amount saved in the total bit rate by the Huffman coding to send the information of the selected interleaver and encoding table for accurate decoding at the receiver without reducing the effective throughput. Performed computer simulations have shown that the proposed scheme outperform the performance of most of the recent PAPR reduction techniques in most cases. By using this method 2.63 dB PAPR reduction is achieved.

Channel Estimation and Interference Cancellation for OFDM Systems Based on Total Least Squares Solution

In this paper, we study the effects of interference to channel estimation and present an iterative total least-squares algorithm for channel estimation by using the conjugate gradient method in time-varying multipath fading channels. The Doppler shift of fast-fading channels will generate inter-carrier interference (ICI), hence, degrade the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Furthermore, when the length of channel impulse response (CIR) overstep the duration of cyclic prefix (CP), which will cause inter-symbol interference (ISI) and degrade system performance severely. Conventional channel estimation and equalization schemes, if applied to this case of insufficient CP, suffer significant performance degradation. By ISI and ICI analysis, an Interference elimination technique is proposed for channel estimation. After analyzing perturbation of least squares problems, we present total least-squares (TLS) scheme to eliminate the ICI, ISI and noise. We present a short theoretical overview of the TLS problem. In our estimation, residual ISI and ICI are not being handled as a noise. Since the introduction of interference, the operation of matrix becomes perplexed. We implement the Conjugate gradient total least-squares method. Simulation results confirm the performance of Conjugate gradient total least-squares method and our theoretical analysis.

Edge Windowing for OFDM Based Systems

In this letter, we propose a new windowing method for efficient spectral shaping in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based systems. Unlike the conventional windowing techniques where the same windowing is used for all the subcarriers within an OFDM symbol, in the proposed approach, windowing is heavily applied to the subcarriers located at the edges of the band; shorter windowing sizes are used for the inner subcarriers compared to edge subcarriers. Instead of introducing additional windowing interval, in the proposed approach, the windowing time is stolen from the cyclic extension size. Therefore, with the proposed approach, sidelobe suppression is achieved while maintaining the spectral efficiency. The proposed technique brings about a new degree of freedom in achieving spectrally efficient sidelobe suppression and introducing controllable inter-carrier-interference (ICI) and inter-symbol-interference (ISI). This degree of freedom can be exploited with subcarrier based adaptive approaches like adaptive modulation, power control, and scheduling to improve the capacity and performance of OFDM based wireless communication systems.

Clipping Distortion Performance of Nonsquare $M$-QAM OFDM Systems on Nonlinear Time-Variant Channels

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems usually make use of a set of square M quadrature-amplitude modulation ( M-QAM) constellations to obtain a good tradeoff between throughput and symbol-error robustness. However, the switch to the next constellation increases the number of bits per modulation symbol by two. The introduction of nonsquare M -QAM constellations in such systems brings extra advantages such as smoother transition among bit rates and a reduction of the peak-to-average ratio of the OFDM signal. Therefore, this paper unfolds analytical expressions to evaluate the symbol-error performance of nonsquare M-QAM OFDM on nonlinear time-variant additive white Gaussian noise channels, taking clipping distortion into account. Cross and overlaid M-QAM are considered. Analytical performances are evaluated and compared with computational simulations, which show good agreement.

적응 등화기를 이용한 적응 OFDM 시스템 성능분석

본 논문에서 OFDM 시스템의 성능분석을 Matlab 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. 적응 OFDM 시스템에 채널 추정 알고리즘을 적용하고 멀티미디어 무선통신 다중경로 페이딩 채널환경에서 시스템에 미치는 영향을 분석하고 추정된 결과를 이용하여 적응 등화기를 적용한 적응 OFDM 시스템의 성능을 BER을 통하여 분석하였다. 분석결과, 채널상태에 따라 가변을 취하는 적응변조 OFDM 시스템의 경우 일반적인 시스템에 비해 (BER=<TEX>$10^{-1}$</TEX>)를 기준으로 약 7dB 성능의 이득이 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 고속 멀티미디어 무선통신 채널환경에서 효율적인 전송을 위해 제안한 적응 시스템이 효율적임을 확인 하였다. In this paper, the performance of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) was assessed by using computer simulations performed using Matlab. We analyzed channel estimation algorithm for adaptive modulation techniques and effect of system using designed simulator in Multimedia wireless communication multipath fading channel environment. Also, we analyzed performance of adaptive OFDM systems that apply adaptive equalizer using guided result through BER. In result, in case of adaptive modulation OFDM systems that modulation mode changes according to channel state, we knew that adaptive modulation OFDM systems have gains of about 7dB performance than general system (BER=<TEX>$10^{-1}$</TEX>). Thus we know that adaptive OFDM propose systems is required for efficient transmission in the high speed Multimedia wireless communication channel environment.