Cyclic prefixed single carrier and multicarrier transmission: bit rate comparison

Author

Louveaux, J. ; Vandendorpe, L. ; Sartenaer, T.

Author_Institution

Commun. & Remote Sensing Lab., Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Volume

7

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

182

Abstract

We consider cyclic prefixed single carrier and adaptive multicarrier transmission over a frequency selective channel. We compare the achievable bit rate for a target bit error rate. We analytically prove that the bit rate achieved with multicarrier transmission with adaptive modulation is always higher than that obtained with single carrier transmission when a one-tap frequency domain equalizer is used. We also show that the same adaptively loaded multicarrier scheme reaches the performance of single carrier transmission with a block decision-feedback equalizer.

Keywords

adaptive modulation; equalisers; telecommunication channels; achievable bit rate; adaptive modulation; adaptive multicarrier transmission; adaptively loaded multicarrier scheme; bit rate comparison; block decision-feedback equalizer; cyclic prefixed multicarrier transmission; cyclic prefixed single carrier transmission; frequency selective channel; multicarrier modulation; one-tap frequency domain equalizer; single carrier transmission performance; Bit error rate; Bit rate; Convolution; Decision feedback equalizers; Discrete Fourier transforms; Dispersion; Filters; Frequency domain analysis; OFDM modulation; Peak to average power ratio;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2003.811202

Filename

1195504