Feasibility of NC-OFDM transmission in dynamic spectrum access networks

Author

Yuan, Zhou ; Pagadarai, Srikanth ; Wyglinski, Alexander M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., Worcester, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a feasibility analysis of non-contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (NC-OFDM) transceivers based on different operating configurations. The selection of these configurations conform to the constraints defined by the spectral masks of the Federal Communications Commission´s (FCC), such as out-of-band radiation. Actual spectrum measurement data collected from several bands including the paging and digital TV bands are considered and several parameters, such as the number of subcarriers, or the power spectrum density (PSD) of the NC-OFDM waveform are modified in order to study the viability of this transmission technique in actual licensed spectrum. Due to the bursty nature of the paging band, an analysis of the interference caused by the changing number of subcarriers is also provided.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; radio access networks; radio spectrum management; transceivers; Federal Communications Commission spectral masks; dynamic spectrum access networks; noncontiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transceivers; noncontiguous-OFDM transmission; out-of-band radiation; spectrum measurement data; Density measurement; Digital TV; FCC; Interference; Laboratories; OFDM; Power measurement; Technological innovation; Transceivers; White spaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5238-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5239-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379824

Filename

5379824