• DocumentCode
    3397549
  • Title

    Performance evaluation of differential modulation in LTE — Downlink

  • Author

    Hofer, Marco ; Simko, Michal ; Schwarz, Stefan ; Rupp, Markus

  • Author_Institution
    FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    7-9 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    179
  • Lastpage
    182
  • Abstract
    This paper evaluates the performance of differential modulation applied to the 3GPP UMTS Long Term Evolution downlink. With differential modulation, reference symbols for channel estimation are no longer necessary, thus increasing the potential maximum spectral efficiency. We present two basic modulation schemes and compare their performance to the coherent detection employed in Long Term Evolution downlink transmissions. The focus specifically lies on single input single output transmissions in single user scenarios.
  • Keywords
    3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; OFDM modulation; radio links; signal detection; 3GPP UMTS; LTE; Long Term Evolution downlink; differential modulation; maximum spectral efficiency; performance evaluation; single input single output transmission; Channel estimation; Correlation; Downlink; Frequency modulation; OFDM; Time-frequency analysis; Differential Modulation; LTE; SISO;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2013 20th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bucharest
  • ISSN
    2157-8672
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0941-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWSSIP.2013.6623483
  • Filename
    6623483