A low-complexity multicarrier scheme with LDPC coding for mobile-to-mobile environment

In this paper, we consider a mobile ad-hoc radio network in an urban area. The propagation environment between two endpoints can be modeled by a double-Rayleigh fading multipath channel. Such a mobile scenario justifies the use of filter bank based multicarrier (FBMC) transmission systems. This technique generalizes traditional cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CP-OFDM), allowing the design of non-rectangular pulse shape filters. We show that this approach leads to a better interference mitigation in time-variant channels. We restrict our study to short filters and single-tap per sub-channel equalization in order to preserve a low-complexity transmultiplexer. In this study, we compare FBMC with short filters to CP-OFDM in terms of coded bit-error-rate performances, using a realistic mobile-to-mobile channel model.