{"title":"The impact of FFT size on the performance of a combined OFDM-equalization radio modem","authors":"S. Armour, A. Nix, D. Bull","doi":"10.1109/VETECF.1999.801545","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Conventional OFDM systems employ a guard interval to combat delay spread distortion of transmitted data. This reduces the efficiency of the OFDM transmission. A combined OFDM-equalization transmission strategy is presented in this paper. This strategy employs an adaptive equalizer to combat delay spread distortion instead of a guard interval. This facilitates the use of very short guard intervals and thus the efficiency of the OFDM transmission is improved. This paper presents the combined OFDM-equalization techique and demonstrates the efficiency improvement that it offers over conventional OFDM. The performance of the pre-FFT equalizer is sensitive to time variation of the mobile radio channel's impulse response. Software simulation is employed to analyze this sensitivity and a relationship is determined between performance and FFT size. The results are considered in the context of application to existing and future mobile radio systems.","PeriodicalId":355729,"journal":{"name":"Gateway to 21st Century Communications Village. VTC 1999-Fall. IEEE VTS 50th Vehicular Technology Conference (Cat. No.99CH36324)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Gateway to 21st Century Communications Village. VTC 1999-Fall. IEEE VTS 50th Vehicular Technology Conference (Cat. No.99CH36324)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.1999.801545","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Conventional OFDM systems employ a guard interval to combat delay spread distortion of transmitted data. This reduces the efficiency of the OFDM transmission. A combined OFDM-equalization transmission strategy is presented in this paper. This strategy employs an adaptive equalizer to combat delay spread distortion instead of a guard interval. This facilitates the use of very short guard intervals and thus the efficiency of the OFDM transmission is improved. This paper presents the combined OFDM-equalization techique and demonstrates the efficiency improvement that it offers over conventional OFDM. The performance of the pre-FFT equalizer is sensitive to time variation of the mobile radio channel's impulse response. Software simulation is employed to analyze this sensitivity and a relationship is determined between performance and FFT size. The results are considered in the context of application to existing and future mobile radio systems.