Practical subchannel power controlled OFDM system under time-varying multipath channel

Abstract

We evaluate the BER performance of the subchannel power controlled OFDM system considering more practical cases including the limitation in word length in subchannel power control tap-weights and the time-varying multipath channel. According to simulation results, the total required number of bits is 5 for the optimal subchannel power control and the main source of the performance degradation of the subchannel power controlled OFDM system is the time-varying multipath channel.