Performance Analysis of DFT-OFDM, DCT-OFDM, and DWT-OFDM Systems in AWGN Channel

Abstract

In this paper, the bit error rate (BER) performance of conventional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) - OFDM system is compared with discrete wavelet transform (DWT)-OFDM system and discrete cosine transform (DCT)-OFDM system in an AWGN environment. Several wavelets such as Haar, Daubechie and Symlet are considered. We give the performance with two modulation format such as BPSK and QPSK. Simulation results show that Haar wavelet based scheme yields the lowest average bit error probability and the performance of DFT-OFDM and DWT (Haar)-OFDM with QPSK is better than BPSK modulation format.