Block-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing in Multi-Path Fading Channel

Autor: Ryohei Kimura, Akiyoshi Monma, Mitsuru Uesugi, Jinsong Duan
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Wireless Personal Communications. 38:27-42
ISSN: 1572-834X
0929-6212
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-006-9026-9
Popis: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is robust against multi-path interference due to using a lot of low symbol rate sub-carriers. In order to mitigate the degradation due to multi-path interference, guard time interval (GI) is inserted into each OFDM symbol. However, redundant allocation to GI leads to loss of effective transmission power. We propose the Block-OFDM which can reduce the GI overhead ratio per frame compared with conventional OFDM. In Block-OFDM system frequency domain equalization (FDE) is carried out in order to remove multi-path interference. We evaluated Block-OFDM performance in a frequency selective fading channel and compared with that of conventional OFDM.
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