Intercarrier Interference Immune Single Carrier OFDM via Magnitude Shift Keying Modulation

SC-OFDM (single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) has demonstrated excellent performance in multipath fading channels with very low peak to average power ratio (PAPR). Similar to other multi-carrier transmission technologies such as MC-CDMA and OFDM, SC-OFDM also suffers significant performance degradation to inter-carrier interference (ICI) when there is a frequency offset between the transmitter and receiver or in a high mobility environment. In this paper, we analyze the effect of ICI on SC-OFDM system and propose a novel modulation scheme called Magnitude Shift Keying (MSK) for SC-OFDM system. The MSK modulation provides SC-OFDM system immunity to ICI and significantly outperforms SC-OFDM system and OFDM system with Phase Shift Keying (PSK) modulations in severe ICI environment. Simulation results over AWGN channel and multi-path fading channels with different ICI confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system.