SC-FDMA performance over Ricean channel

Author

Gangane, J.R. ; Aguayo-Torres, M.C. ; Sánchez-Sánchez, J.J. ; Fernández-Plazaola, U.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ing. de Comun., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the 3GPP upcoming technology for wireless communications. LTE makes use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM) for downlink and Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) for uplink transmission. SC-FDMA can be seen as a precoded version of OFDM which reduces the amplifier battery consumption at the user equipment. It is known that SC-FDMA BER behavior for Rayleigh channel is worse than that of OFDM mainly due to possibility of deep fading. However the existence of line of sight (LOS) greatly changes the fading behavior. This paper investigates the influence of the LOS on the SC-FDMA performance. Specifically the BER performance of SC-FDMA & OFDMA for different Rice factor K is studied.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; error statistics; frequency division multiple access; 3GPP; Long Term Evolution; Rayleigh channel; Rice factor K; Ricean channel; SC-FDMA; amplifier battery; bit error rate; deep fading; line of sight; orthogonal frequency division multiple access; single carrier frequency division multiple access; user equipment; wireless communications; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Coherence; Delay; Noise; OFDM; Rayleigh channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband and Biomedical Communications (IB2Com), 2011 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0768-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IB2Com.2011.6217898

Filename

6217898