Reduced complexity equalizers for zero-padded OFDM transmissions

B. Muquet, M. De Courville, G. B. Giannakis, Z. Wang, P. Duhamel

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Abstract

The widespread application of OFDM for local area mobile wireless broadband systems is strongly motivated by the simple equalization it affords. OFDM's bottleneck of channel-dependent performance was only previously addressed by replacing the cyclic prefix (CP) with trailing zeros (TZ). Such zero-padded OFDM transmissions enable FIR channel-irrespective symbol recovery which results in significant BER gains. The price paid is increased receiver complexity compared to the classical CP-OFDM. To reduce complexity, this paper proposes two novel equalizers for TZ-OFDM. One is based on an overlap and add approach and exhibits exactly the same performance and complexity as CP-OFDM. The second offers BER performance close to the TZ-OFDM MMSE equalizer and incurs a moderate complexity increase. An extension of an existing CP-OFDM pilot-based channel estimation method is also derived for the proposed equalization schemes. Simulations are conducted in a realistic HiperLAN/2 scenario comparing the various OFDM transceivers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCommunicationsSensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2973-2976
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)0780362934
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2000
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2000 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: Jun 5 2000Jun 9 2000

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume5
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2000
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period6/5/006/9/00

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